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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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Carrie

Sep 20 '24

How to Configure Custom HTTPS Certificates on SafeLine WAF

#webdev #opensource

1 min read

keploy

Aug 17 '24

Understanding Automated Regression Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

#productivity #opensource #aws #node

5 min read

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Sep 19 '24

Introducing FastSchema: A Powerful, Go-Based Web Framework & Headless CMS

#go #webdev #opensource

5 min read

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Jing for Chat2DB

Sep 20 '24

Chat2DB: Data Analysis Without Writing SQL Code

#sql #database #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Chen Debra

Sep 20 '24

Source Code Analysis of Apache SeaTunnel Zeta Engine (Part 3): Server-Side Task Submission

#apacheseatunnel #programming #javascript #opensource

26 min read

Lulu

Aug 30 '24

Discover What's New in SafeLine 6.8.0

#cybersecurity #devops #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Sep 19 '24

Learn New Things Everyday: First Pull Request

#opensource #java #rust

3 min read

Chris Gradwohl for AWS Community Builders

Sep 19 '24

Straight Forward Tofu

#aws #opensource #infrastructureascode #beginners

9 min read

Palomino for Logto

Sep 19 '24

5 go-to-market lessons I learned from driving a developer-led growth product

#webdev #opensource #identity #marketing

6 min read

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Sep 19 '24

10 Developer Tools to Improve Your Daily Life as a Developer: Part 2.

#opensource #programming #webdev #productivity

2 min read

Dan Barr for Stacklok

Sep 19 '24

Flexible policy enforcement with Minder profile selectors

#news #security #opensource

1 min read

Aug 30 '24

🚀 Introducing SpotAPI: A Python Library for Effortless Spotify Integration 🚀

#opensource #python #spotify #api

2 min read

Mohamed Ashmawy

Sep 19 '24

🚀 Introducing NeonBlue.Expressions – A C# Expression Evaluation Library for Developers!

#csharp #dotnet #expression #opensource

1 min read

Rahul K M for Requestly

Sep 19 '24

Top 10 Chrome extensions for Web Developers in 2024

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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Yuri for Supabase

Sep 18 '24

Supabase Launch Week 12 Hackathon

#webdev #programming #opensource #hackathon

3 min read

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