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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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The visualization and analysis of git commit statistics for IT team leaders.

#git #management #opensource #productivity

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#webdev #database #opensource #postgres

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How to Contribute to Open Source: A Developer’s Roadmap 🚀

#opensource #tutorial #developer #networking

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Jul 27 '24

SAAS boilerplates ERA of $$$

#saas #frontend #backend #opensource

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Tony-Rome

Jul 16 '24

Tips for popularising an open source project?

#discuss #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

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ktmouk

Jul 26 '24

9 Tips for Building a Secure Web Application with tRPC, Next.js, Prisma, Turbo, and NextAuth

#nextjs #webdev #javascript #opensource

8 min read

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UNRAVELING THE SECRETS OF THE ICONIC IRIS DATASET

#beginners #datascience #javascript #opensource

2 min read

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Using a custom backend server with Next.js in a monorepo.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #nextjs

3 min read

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Revolutionize IT Inventory Management with Our Advanced Inventory System

#inventory #opensource #aspnet #angular

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Oluwatobi

Jul 26 '24

Contributing to Open-Source Projects on GitHub: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Adding to Existing Code

#git #github #vscode #opensource

2 min read

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Chiemezuo

Jul 26 '24

GSoC Week 8

#opensource #gsoc #googlesummerofcode #wagtail

5 min read

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Omotoso Abosede Racheal

Jul 26 '24

Conditional Types in TypeScript.

#beginners #react #opensource #typescript

5 min read

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Jul 26 '24

Introducing GPUStack: An open-source GPU cluster manager for running LLMs

#news #ai #opensource #genai

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Lulu

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Why SafeLine is better than traditional WAF?

#waf #cybersecurity #firewall #opensource

4 min read

BekahHW

Jul 25 '24

How do you balance showing your understanding of tech with showing you can apply your skills?

#discuss #opensource #career

1 min read

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