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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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Thomas Bnt

Jan 7

2025, me voilà ! 🥳

#devchallenge #newyearchallenge #career #opensource

2 min read

Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Jan 7

How to Build a Real-Time Dashboard with Encore.ts and React

#javascript #tutorial #react #opensource

17 min read

Trix Cyrus

Jan 8

DorkHub Update: New Dork Categories Now Available!

#news #github #opensource #learning

2 min read

Nick K

Jan 8

Accurate Hallucination Detection With NER

#discuss #opensource #startup #ai

3 min read

Jan 8

“Defu” usage in unbuild source code.

#opensource #json #unbuild

3 min read

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 7

Automating Release Note Content for Multiple Platforms with AI Agents in KaibanJS

#javascript #ai #contentwriting #opensource

4 min read

Jan 7

Been thinking to create a Text-to-Video Ai

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Jan 7

When Winston with MySQL or CloudWatch Go Wrong: Node.js

#node #opensource #devchallenge #tutorial

2 min read

Jan 7

Leveling Up in Git and GitHub: A Guide to Remotes, Pull Requests, and Beyond

#git #github #beginners #opensource

6 min read

Jan 7

“Jiti” usage in Docusaurus source code.

#opensource #node #docusaurus

4 min read

Jan 7

Linux/Unix login overview and a bit of clever tricks with "history"

#linux #unix #beginners #opensource

1 min read

charles Maddock

Jan 7

How to Build AI Agents That Can Use Any Website

#ai #webdev #python #opensource

4 min read

Mudunuri bhaskara karthikeya varma

Jan 7

Enhance Your Web Projects with Sphere Animations Using EldoraUI 🚀

#opensource #webdev #typescript #programming

2 min read

karan der

Jan 7

Code Editor Wars: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Developers

#ai #webdev