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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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Nik L. for SuprSend

Jun 23 '24

React App Inbox with 0 Notification Costs.

#react #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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Nick Taylor for OpenSauced

Jun 17 '24

Valibot: A New Approach to Data Validation in JavaScript

#javascript #typescript #webdev #opensource

4 min read

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Mohammed Samgan Khan

Jun 23 '24

How to Contribute to Laravel: A Step-by-Step Guide

#laravel #opensource

2 min read

Dmitry Daw

Jun 22 '24

How to fix a segfault in Ruby

#ruby #gdb #opensource #rails

4 min read

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Bobur Umurzokov

Jun 22 '24

Data Synchronization in Microservices with PostgreSQL, Debezium, and NATS: A Practical Guide

#programming #tutorial #microservices #opensource

6 min read

Jun 22 '24

Setting Up Listmonk: An Open-Source Newsletter Mailing System

#newsletter #opensource #go #mailing

2 min read

Cassidy Williams

Jul 2 '24

The Productivity apps I use in 2024

#productivity #applications #todo #opensource

6 min read

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Priyanshu Verma

Jun 22 '24

Showcase Your Achievements Securely with CertiFolio 🚀

#webdev #programming #certification #opensource

2 min read

Ytalo

Jun 22 '24

Developing for Scale and Quality with AI - Micro-Models

#ai #chatgpt #openai #opensource

2 min read

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Jun 11 '24

A primer on open-source intelligence for bug bounty hunting in Grafana

#opensource #buildinpublic #security #osint

10 min read

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pouchlabs

Jun 22 '24

introducing pouchrealtor blazing fast socket.io alternative pure websockets

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

1 min read

Aadesh Kulkarni

Jun 17 '24

Do you have an open-source project ?

#opensource #webdev #beginners #javascript

1 min read

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Jun 21 '24

shadcn-ui/ui codebase analysis: How is “Blocks” page built — Part 5

#javascript #nextjs #opensource #shadcnui

6 min read

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Justin Young for Excalibur

Jun 20 '24

Cellular Automata

#gamedev #typescript #tutorial #opensource

11 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for Taipy

Jun 18 '24

25 funded projects you can contribute in open source

#discuss #opensource #programming #webdev

16 min read

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