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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.

submission guidelines

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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Tib

Jan 4 '25

Habemus Perl Logo!

#news #perl #logo #opensource

1 min read

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Ui-Forest

Jan 4 '25

Introducing My UI Components & Templates App: Feedback Wanted! 🚀

#webdev #react #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Jan 4 '25

Getting Started with Git and GitHub: A Beginner's Guide

#git #github #beginners #opensource

8 min read

Dec 1 '24

contribute to open source

#opensource #wecoded

1 min read

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Ohad Ronen

Dec 1 '24

Why should we make our development tool open-source?

#ama #testing #opensource

1 min read

Peter Wan

Dec 1 '24

Continuous contributions

#javascript #extensions #github #opensource

2 min read

Jan 4 '25

Gitmoji uses unbuild to bundle its package

#opensource #unbuild #gitmoji #bundle

3 min read

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Jan 13 '25

Tsing font:A Cool style font

#design #css #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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Aidan Do

Jan 4 '25

Building a Coding Agent from Scratch with Llama 70B: Lessons Learned

#ai #learning #llm #opensource

3 min read

Jan 4 '25

Manage duplicates in your Bitwarden Vault with Python

#bitwarden #python #opensource

1 min read

Niko Sagiadinos

Jan 29 '25

SpicyCamCast: Lightweight Camera and Screencast Integration for JavaScript

#webcam #screencast #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jordan Townsend

Nov 30 '24

Universal Scripting Language: An Interpreter for 466+ Languages in One Place

#productivity #programming #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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Jan 3 '25

Self-hosting a Platform As A Service on a single EC2 instance with coolify

#aws #cloud #devops #opensource

1 min read

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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Jan 3 '25

GitHub Unwrapped 2024: recap 🧢

#github #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

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Elufioye Gboyega michael

Jan 3 '25

What is Observability?

#opensource #metrics #prometheus #observability

3 min read

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