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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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Jeet

Apr 7 '24

my first 100 stars on the GitHub repo

#github #opensource #go #sideprojects

2 min read

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Apr 8 '24

NixOs - Your portable dev enviroment

#tooling #opensource #unix

3 min read

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Amnish Singh Arora

Apr 8 '24

Adding a Code Editor to your React App

#webdev #react #opensource #javascript

3 min read

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Jeffrey Yu

Apr 6 '24

5 Simple Steps to Start Contributing to Open Source

#opensource #tutorial #github #beginners

4 min read

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Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Apr 4 '24

Sloan's Inbox: Any advice for calming an opinionated contributor? 😬

#discuss #opensource #maintainer

1 min read

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Bap

Apr 5 '24

8 developer tools to watch in 2024

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

5 min read

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Jake Page for Distr

Apr 4 '24

Why contributor guidelines matter.

#opensource #beginners #tutorial #github

5 min read

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Apr 7 '24

Simplifying Markdown: A Beginner's Guide to Easy Writing

#opensource #writing

2 min read

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Apr 6 '24

Clawject: Simplifying Dependency Injection in TypeScript

#typescript #node #opensource #solidprinciples

4 min read

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Apr 4 '24

macOS vs Ubuntu: GitHub Actions Runners

#opensource #githubactions #github #os

2 min read

Apr 5 '24

Show Feed to ChatCraft users

#opensource #ai #feed #cloudflarechallenge

2 min read

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Meteor Software for Meteor

Apr 5 '24

What's New at Meteor: Beta Releases, Community Tutorials, and More

#webdev #opensource #meteor #community

2 min read

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Ankur Tyagi for AgentCloud

Apr 5 '24

Agent Cloud vs CrewAI

#webdev #opensource #openai #rag

7 min read

Cover image for 🔐 Lucia Auth: A Flexible Open Source Authentication Library for the JavaScript Ecosystem! 🔐

Asm Raihan

Apr 5 '24

🔐 Lucia Auth: A Flexible Open Source Authentication Library for the JavaScript Ecosystem! 🔐

#webdev #opensource #luciaauth #security

2 min read

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Jake Page for Distr

Apr 2 '24

I built a top-tier Discord server for Open Source.

#productivity #opensource #tutorial #beginners

8 min read

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