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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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Nov 19 '24

Launching Vratix - open source Node.js API modules

#showdev #backend #opensource #node

1 min read

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Henrique Sagara

Nov 19 '24

Collaborating to Slack as an Open-Source Developer

#opensource #python #slack #slackapi

3 min read

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Nov 19 '24

Docker Commands - Part 2

#docker #devops #opensource #cloud

7 min read

Carrie

Nov 19 '24

SafeLine WAF Waiting Room: The Terminator of HTTP Flood DDoS Attack

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

4 min read

ShGI

Nov 19 '24

Chnp-cli: Code Highlight and Print tool

#javascript #opensource #coding

3 min read

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Nov 18 '24

Stop Writing Boilerplate! Build Node.js APIs in Seconds [2024 Guide]

#opensource #typescript #backend #node

2 min read

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Nov 19 '24

[ROAST] Launching on DevHunt Doesn't Work? Here's What I Found!

#devhunt #opensource #marketing #githunt

4 min read

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Nov 19 '24

Pourquoi Cursor révolutionne l'expérience des développeurs

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

3 min read

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Ritabrata Maiti

Nov 19 '24

AnyModal: Train Multimodal LLMs in PyTorch

#opensource #llm #ai #multimodal

3 min read

Nov 19 '24

What do 200 electrocuted monks have to do with Redis 8, the fastest Redis ever?

#redis #database #opensource #computerscience

4 min read

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Nov 19 '24

Set-up ladybird in mac

#opensource #webdev #beginners #web

3 min read

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Nov 8 '24

Building and deploying a smart contract with OpenZepplin and Solidity in less than 10 minutes

#web3 #opensource #javascript #tutorial

5 min read

Unicorn Developer

Nov 19 '24

Debugging bugs in x64dbg debugger. Step out to GUI

#cpp #programming #opensource

9 min read

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Nov 19 '24

Sakura Boot: Reduce boilerplate, save time, build backends faster with Spring Boot

#opensource #java #spring #webdev

2 min read

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Oct 16 '24

Making a captivating personal homepage, the good, the bad & the ugly (mostly ugly)

#webdev #javascript #beginners #opensource

4 min read

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