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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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Flameshot - My favorite screeshot app

#flameshot #cli #opensource #macos

3 min read

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Andrea Debernardi

Jul 30

Building rewindtty – a terminal session recorder in C with PTY support

#c #terminal #cli #opensource

1 min read

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Jul 30

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#fediverse #dotnet #opensource #descentralizacion

2 min read

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Jul 30

Cómo Synzen.org me ayudó a entender el ecosistema blockchain desde una perspectiva más humana

#web3 #blockchain #desarrolloweb #opensource

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NocoBase

Sep 2

7 Powerful Open Source Alternatives to Zapier

#opensource #tooling #github #zapier

10 min read

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Jul 30

What if everything in your app was a stream?

#webdev #javascript #reactive #opensource

2 min read

ByteKnight

Sep 2

Orbot for Android: Secure Your Traffic with Tor

#android #mobile #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

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Aug 4

I Built BackupGuardian After a 3AM Production Disaster Taught Me Not to Trust "Good" Backups

#opensource #devops #database #node

1 min read

Cover image for Voxtral: The Open Source Speech Recognition We've Been Waiting For

Sujith S

Jul 30

Voxtral: The Open Source Speech Recognition We've Been Waiting For

#ai #privacy #opensource #security

2 min read

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sarabadu

Aug 21

What is blocking us from contributing more

#opensource #innersource #contribution

3 min read

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Asouei

Sep 2

Stop Wrapping Every fetch() in try/catch — A Safer Error Handling for TypeScript

#webdev #javascript #typescript #opensource

6 min read

Abdul Rehman Khan

Aug 3

The New Era of Self-Hosting: Why Developers Are Taking Back Control

#selfhosting #devops #privacy #opensource

3 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 30

From Logs to Alerts: Mastering SeaTunnel's Event Listener Capabilities

#apacheseatunnel #opensource #techinicalwriting #programming

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jul 30

New community contributions: X2SeaTunnel helps you migrate to SeaTunnel seamlessly!

#opensource #apacheseatunnel #datatransfer #bigdata

1 min read

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Serhii Kuianov for FaynoSync

Sep 1

I Built faynoSync: A Self-Hosted API for Automatic App Updates

#go #api #opensource #development

2 min read

Nazwa Shabrina Zain

Jul 30

Perintah Primer dan Sekunder Earl

#programming #opensource #earl #indonesia

2 min read

Jul 30

Solving Redis pain in NestJS — introducing nestjs-redis toolkit

#nestjs #redis #opensource #node

2 min read

Sherin Jebamalar M

Sep 1

🍔 I Accidentally Became a Restaurant Owner (In Electron.js)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #electron

2 min read

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Aug 12

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#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Chen Debra

Jul 31

Step-by-Step: Deploying a High Availability DolphinScheduler Cluster with Rainbond

#apchedolphinscheduler #opensource #rainbond #programming

2 min read

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Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 29

5 Ways to Improve Your Contributor Documentation

#discuss #opensource #github #documentation

5 min read

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Aug 31

Throughput vs. Latency: The Optimization Dilemma

#opensource #backend #performance #softwareengineering

6 min read

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Jul 29

GSoC Week 8: Linting Upgrades, UI Redesigns & Simulator

#flutter #opensource #dart #rust

4 min read

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Sep 1

OpenAI Just Open-Sourced Their Brain (And It's Breaking Everything)

#opensource #startup #ai #machinelearning

4 min read

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Sep 1

Multidimensional Embedding Comparison with “diemsim”

#datascience #programming #python #opensource

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