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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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EMQ Technologies for EMQ Technologies

Jun 24 '22

How to Use MQTT in the React Native Project

#mqtt #reactnative #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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Jun 24 '22

A set of modern Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes

#kubernetes #monitoring #devops #opensource

1 min read

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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen for The Transient Thoughts of a Restless Mind

Jun 23 '22

Recovering intentionally destroyed open-source repositories

#opensource #git #github

1 min read

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adriens for opt-nc

Jun 23 '22

🗠 Waiting time in OPT-NC agencies... on Rapidapi.com

#tutorial #api #docker #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for With Luos, each node can access the position of another node

Emanuel Allely for Luos

Jun 23 '22

With Luos, each node can access the position of another node

#embedded #luos #opensource #devtool

1 min read

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Shamanth Shetty for Kern AI

Jun 23 '22

AutoML-docker has been launched

#programming #tutorial #opensource #github

1 min read

Cover image for How To Build Your Own Keyword Tool With Google Ads API & C#

Hasan Aboul Hasan

Jun 22 '22

How To Build Your Own Keyword Tool With Google Ads API & C#

#csharp #opensource #dotnet #googleapi

5 min read

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adriens for opt-nc

Jun 21 '22

🎀 Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released

#news #java #springboot #opensource

2 min read

Sebastian Ljungman for Eyevinn Video Dev-Team Blog

Jun 22 '22

End-to-end testing with our Chaos Stream Proxy

#testing #tutorial #javascript #opensource

5 min read

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Sm0ke

Jun 22 '22

Soft UI Dashboard - Dark Mode Support (free sample)

#webdev #dashboards #darkmode #opensource

3 min read

Curious Paul for Appsmith

Jun 22 '22

Build a Product Review Tool For Telegram Bot Using Appsmith

#serverless #programming #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Cover image for Introducing CodeGuard: The open-source tool to obfuscate your JavaScript or Python code

OmarDev100

Jun 22 '22

Introducing CodeGuard: The open-source tool to obfuscate your JavaScript or Python code

#javascript #webdev #python #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for React Horizon UI - Open-Source Full-Stack Starter

Sm0ke

Jun 18 '22

React Horizon UI - Open-Source Full-Stack Starter

#react #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Kevin Lin for Dendron Inc

Jun 21 '22

Dendron 100

#pkm #opensource #devjournal #vscode

4 min read

Cover image for Announcing NgRx v14: Action Groups, ComponentStore Lifecycle Hooks, ESLint package, Revamped NgRx Component, and more!

Brandon Roberts for NgRx

Jun 20 '22

Announcing NgRx v14: Action Groups, ComponentStore Lifecycle Hooks, ESLint package, Revamped NgRx Component, and more!

#angular #ngrx #opensource #webdev

7 min read

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