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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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John McBride for OpenSauced

May 22

Understanding the Lottery Factor

#opensource #github

6 min read

Emmett McFarlane

May 22

Web Extraction with Vision-LLMs: SQL-Ready Data From Any URL with GPT-4o

#webdev #chatgpt #python #opensource

4 min read

May 22

Find out how the Ora package is used to show a CLI spinner in shadcn-ui/ui source code.

#javascript #opensource #shadcnui #nextjs

2 min read

May 22

Password Managers - The Future of Logins.

#security #opensource #cybersecurity #learning

2 min read

Cristian Zapata

May 22

Portable configurations with dotfiles and GNU Stow 🐧

#linux #git #systems #opensource

4 min read

May 22

Understanding Python Bytecode and the Virtual Machine for Better Development

#python #programming #productivity #opensource

7 min read

May 22

What’s in a name? Making Sense of Apache Kafka’s auto.offset.reset

#kafka #opensource #backend #programming

5 min read

May 22

Dr. House — AI Diagnostician in your phone. Passing the Startup Torch to Capable Hands

#startup #opensource #mobile #ai

3 min read