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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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Jun 27 '24

ezpkg.io - Collection of packages to make writing Go code easier

#go #opensource #coding #collection

6 min read

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Jun 27 '24

PHP Version of console.log() for Laravel

#laravel #opensource #php #github

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Jun 27 '24

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#javascript #nextjs #opensource #shadcnui

3 min read

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Shivam Chhuneja for Middleware

Jun 24 '24

12 Open Source tools that Developers would give up Pizza for👋🍕

#tooling #webdev #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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Jun 27 '24

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#javascript #nextjs #opensource #shadcnui

3 min read

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Kais Radwan ❄️

May 24 '24

The Missing Piece Your AI-Powered App Needs!

#ai #opensource #programming #javascript

3 min read

Jun 27 '24

How to Handle BufferExhaustedException in Kafka

#opensource #kafka

3 min read

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BekahHW for OpenSauced

Jun 26 '24

From Vite’s Popularity to Selenium’s Legacy: What Defines Open Source Success?

#opensource #javascript #community

6 min read

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Jun 27 '24

How to Search Like a Pro in Answer

#opensource #productivity

2 min read

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Jonathan VUILLEMIN

Jun 26 '24

How we're trying to make our PHP devs efficient also with Golang

#go #php #opensource #backend

2 min read

Jun 26 '24

Release 0.9.0 of Ebirah

#perl #docker #release #opensource

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Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Jun 19 '24

7 Open Source Projects You Should Know - JavaScript Edition ✔️

#opensource #github #javascript #programming

3 min read

Ytalo

Jun 26 '24

Micro Models - How to Build Using This Concept

#ai #openai #opensource #chatgpt

3 min read

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Antonio

Jun 25 '24

Mistakes we all make in FOSS

#discuss #opensource #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Palomino for Logto

Jun 26 '24

Why single sign-on (SSO) is better

#webdev #security #opensource #identity

5 min read

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