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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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jin

Nov 5 '24

I made a Dependency Graph Library for JavaScript & TypeScript

#opensource #javascript #typescript #programming

2 min read

as-jackson

Nov 5 '24

A Comparative Analysis between RK3588 and RK3576 Chips: Unveiling the Technological Distinctions

#opensource #linux

6 min read

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Agnilonda PAKOU

Oct 31 '24

Agnilonda's Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey as Maintainer with helloWorld 🚀

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Oct 31 '24

Custom AWS Cloud Platforms

#aws #kubernetes #opensource #devops

8 min read

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Nov 4 '24

Building a Redis Clone: A Deep Dive into In-Memory Data Storage

#opensource #redis #go #rust

3 min read

Ken Yip

Nov 4 '24

Crafting a Scalable Node.js API: Insights from My RealWorld Project with Express, Knex, and AWS CDK

#cdk #typescript #node #opensource

5 min read

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Deeksha

Oct 31 '24

My First Hacktoberfest: I Finally Took the Plunge!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Manish Kr Prasad

Oct 24 '24

"Rate Limiting, Simplified": My Journey with Unkey, the Open-Source API Management Platform

#ratelimiting #opensource #typescript #webdev

2 min read

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Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Nov 2 '24

How did a dumbo become an Open-Source contributor 🪔

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

6 min read

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Install Docker Desktop on Ubuntu

#docker #opensource #devops #ubuntu

4 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What is a Reverse Proxy

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

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Shree4226

Oct 31 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: Growth, Collaboration, and New Beginnings 🌱

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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KISHORE K

Oct 30 '24

My Hacktoberfest 2024 Journey: A Reflection on Contributor Experience

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

2 min read

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

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AIM Weekly for 04Nov2024

#opensource #vectordatabase #llm #rag

5 min read

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Akarshan Kapoor

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#linux #opensource #gsoc24

4 min read

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