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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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Dec 25 '24

What does Supabase use for its Authentication?

#opensource #typescript #npm #supabase

4 min read

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Nov 21 '24

ContextCheck: An open-source framework for testing and evaluating LLMs, RAGs, Chatbots

#showdev #github #opensource #llm

1 min read

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Dan Shalev for FalkorDB

Dec 25 '24

⚡ The ONE Integration Every AI Architect Needs to Know About!

#programming #ai #opensource #rag

1 min read

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Azis Alvriyanto

Dec 25 '24

🚀 Go-QRIS: Revolutionizing QRIS Transactions with Dynamic QR Codes 💳

#go #qris #payment #opensource

5 min read

Nov 21 '24

A Little Bit of a Disaster, A Lot of Motivation: Building a CLI Secret Manager

#development #php #laravel #opensource

2 min read

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Dec 23 '24

The Best Copy Paste Libraries for Your TypeScript Projects

#webdev #javascript #opensource #programming

3 min read

Nov 20 '24

Trying to do Larger contributions to Open Source

#webdev #opensource #coding #beginners

2 min read

Peter Wan

Nov 21 '24

Working on a browser extension

#javascript #browser #opensource #extensions

2 min read

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Dec 24 '24

Open Source: The Easy Way, How not to break the Internet (Yet)😁

#opensource #programming #beginners #github

3 min read

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Fadi

Dec 24 '24

Managing Database Migrations for Multiple Services in a Monorepo with Alembic

#webdev #tutorial #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Dec 13 '24

Short appreciation for dev tools

#tooling #zed #vscode #opensource

2 min read

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omar-steam

Dec 24 '24

Create Your Own Personalised AWS Learning Experience with Streamlit

#aws #opensource #datascience #python

3 min read

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Daniel J. Saldaña

Nov 24 '24

Goliat Shield: Your first line of defense

#opensource #terraform #development #iac

2 min read

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Fadi

Dec 24 '24

Managing Database Migrations for Multiple Services in a Monorepo with Alembic

#webdev #tutorial #productivity #opensource

4 min read

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Leapcell

Dec 23 '24

Deep Dive into Microsoft MarkItDown

#webdev #python #markdown #opensource

4 min read

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