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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.

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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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nop33.eth

Dec 20 '24

Looking for (React) open-source contributors to reward

#react #typescript #opensource #frontend

1 min read

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Dec 31 '24

Ghostty for Ubuntu

#ubuntu #linux #opensource #programming

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Dec 31 '24

Custom schema specific Supabase Client Component clients in Grida Form workspace

#opensource #nextjs #supabase #grida

3 min read

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Dec 28 '24

✨Open-Source Hidden Gems v2🤯

#webdev #productivity #opensource #programming

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Akash Jana

Dec 27 '24

Conquering the Setup Loop with Daytona

#daytona #nextjs #opensource #productivity

5 min read

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Dec 13 '24

How These Free Open Source Projects Can Jumpstart Your Career (No Experience? No Problem!)

#opensource #beginners #webdev #ai

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Okay, Seriously, Mockingbird + Git is a Game Changer (and I Made a Video About It!) 🚀

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

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Roobia

Dec 30 '24

Top Open-Source Coding LLMs Revolutionizing Development

#development #coding #opensource #llm

3 min read

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Supercharge Your Project Documentation: Introducing project-readme-gen – An AI-Powered README Generator

#readmegenerator #automation #documentation #opensource

2 min read

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Building Multi-Cloud Applications: Challenges and Best Practices

#cloudcomputing #cloud #devops #opensource

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Lymah

Dec 29 '24

Week 5 Recap of #100DaysOfCode

#100daysofcode #buildinpublic #softwaredevelopment #opensource

3 min read

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angDecoder

Dec 29 '24

CHAPTER 1 : Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications

#systemdesign #programming #development #opensource

4 min read

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Indie Maker Fox

Dec 29 '24

The Open Source Directory Boilerplate

#opensource #nextjs #sanity #boilerplate

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Juraj for Cyclops UI

Dec 19 '24

DevOps vs Platform Engineering

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #beginners

4 min read

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Dec 28 '24

Google Summer of Code: Getting Selected, My Time, My Experience, My Journey.

#webdev #googlesummerofcode #opensource #tutorial

8 min read

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