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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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Shreya for Firecamp

Dec 18 '23

11 free and fun APIs you must use in your side project

#webdev #programming #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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Yaron Karni for Intuit Developers

Jan 7 '24

GraphQL, gqlXPath, and Enhanced Transformer

#graphql #opensource #intuit #xpath

10 min read

Yilia for Apache APISIX

Jan 7 '24

Securing Data: Apache APISIX's Strategies Against Leakage

#security #programming #devops #opensource

3 min read

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Christine Belzie

Jan 3 '24

Crushing it: My New Year's Resolutions for 2024

#devresolutions2024 #community #opensource #career

1 min read

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Timothy Spann. 🇺🇦

Dec 4 '23

FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023

#apachenifi #apacheflink #apachekafka #opensource

3 min read

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Ali Helmy

Jan 7 '24

What is xdev tool and why I created it?

#opensource #go #programming #jwt

3 min read

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Renaldi for AWS Community Builders

Jan 7 '24

Journey to the Clouds: My Dev Chat Adventure of Presenting my AI-Powered Twitch Streamer at re:Invent 2023

#python #opensource #aws #ai

6 min read

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Chidiebere Chukwudi

Jan 6 '24

Prepare for Google Summer Of Code 2025: Tips and Takes

#opensource #gsoc #webdev #programming

7 min read

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Marc Seitz for Papermark

Jan 3 '24

Building an Email-Protected Notion Page Using Next.js and React-Notion-X

#nextjs #webdev #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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Philip Miglinci for Glasskube

Jan 4 '24

🔥Matomo 5 UPGRADE - A step-by-step GUIDE 🤌

#tutorial #devops #opensource #kubernetes

6 min read

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Henrique Cavarsan

Jan 6 '24

Simplify Kubernetes Port Forwarding with KFtray

#kubernetes #devops #cloud #opensource

3 min read

Jan 6 '24

Convert JSON Data To YAML in Python

#python #opensource #programming #tutorial

4 min read

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Jan 6 '24

Draw2Img: A simple web UI for interactive text-guided image to image generation for all ages

#showdev #python #ai #opensource

1 min read

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Ayu Adiati

Dec 29 '23

🌟 #DEVImpact2023: My End of Year Reflections

#devimpact2023 #opensource #community #devjournal

6 min read

dxlliv

Jan 6 '24

Open-source planner for Instagram profile grids

#opensource #instagram #javascript #vue

1 min read

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