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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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Sep 19 '24

How to Publish a Golang Package

#go #cli #opensource #programming

3 min read

Sep 22 '24

Crypt::OpenSSL::PKCS12 1.92 released to CPAN

#opensource #perl #release #openssl

1 min read

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Sep 17 '24

A Kubernetes Setup Speedrun 🏃💨

#kubernetes #tutorial #opensource #beginners

6 min read

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Aug 19 '24

ZemProfiles - v2.0.1 (Prerelease)

#webdev #astro #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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Francesco Ciulla

Sep 22 '24

Environment Variables in Rust

#programming #opensource #rust #beginners

3 min read

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Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Oct 7 '24

How to make your Express app 9x faster (and type-safe)

#javascript #typescript #node #opensource

16 min read

Sep 22 '24

Building RustyNum: a NumPy Alternative with Rust and Python

#rust #python #opensource

2 min read

Mohith93

Aug 19 '24

For those using Reverse ETL, which tools do you prefer (Census, Hightouch, Grouparoo, etc.) and why?

#opensource #ruby #github #datascience

1 min read

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Aug 19 '24

AIM Weekly 19 August 2024

#milvus #opensource #vectordatabase #genai

8 min read

Aug 19 '24

I want to create a menubar setup page in EDK2

#edk #opensource #uefi #hii

1 min read

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Sep 12 '24

10 Developer Tools to Improve Your Daily Life as a Developer

#opensource #programming #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Thomas van Dongen

Sep 22 '24

Model2Vec: Making Sentence Transformers 500x faster on CPU, and 15x smaller

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #datascience

2 min read

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Nick Taylor for OpenSauced

Sep 20 '24

Introducing the OpenSauced Pizza GitHub Action: Automate Your Repository Management

#github #githubaction #automation #opensource

3 min read

IAM VAAR

Sep 22 '24

I built my first OpenSource project

#opensource #webdev #nextjs #react

1 min read

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Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Sep 21 '24

Is Next.js the Next Evolution or Just a Passing Trend? A Dora Metrics Case Study

#nextjs #javascript #opensource #devops

7 min read

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