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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).

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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whaiman

Aug 16

Why the "AI" Badge Doesn't Matter and How to Restore Trust in Our Code

#discuss #ai #opensource #writing

4 min read

Aug 16

Debt is allowed. Lying about it is not.

#python #testing #opensource #ci

6 min read

Aug 16

go-dicom — a pure Go DICOM library and CLI, no CGO

#showdev #go #opensource #healthcare

6 min read

Superstar

Aug 16

SWE-bench moved 0 points and the model got dramatically better at my job

#ai #opensource #programming #rag

4 min read

Aug 16

I created cache-assembler: open-source, MIT license - cut your Claude Code/API costs by 8.2x

#ai #claude #programming #opensource

3 min read

Collabier

Aug 16

Why I stopped pasting production JWTs into random websites (and built an offline tool suite instead)

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

3 min read

Collabier

Aug 16

Omnikite – 80 In-Browser Developer, Security & Math Tools (100% Private)

#showdev #opensource #security #tools

2 min read

Collabier

Aug 16

I got tired of bloated dev utility sites leaking tokens, so I built an 80-tool offline suite in Next.js 16 and WASM

#showdev #nextjs #opensource #tools

2 min read

Cla

Aug 16

mobx-react-form is now mobx-formkit

#javascript #opensource #react #software

4 min read

Aug 16

How to sync PostgreSQL to Meilisearch in real time — without dual-writes

#postgres #meilisearch #cdc #opensource

4 min read

Joey 、

Aug 16

We made a 31-second promo to say one thing: your phone is the best remote for your agent

#deepseek #opensource #productivity #video

2 min read

DC

Aug 16

Why your CSV diff tool is lying to you (and how to fix it)

#showdev #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Sanjeev Tripathi Sanjeev

Aug 16

Building a 100% In-Browser Image Compressor & Converter with Zero Server Uploads

#javascript #webdev #html #opensource

1 min read

Ruca.

Aug 16

I Built an Investigation-First Debugger for AI Agents — TraceMotive v0.3

#ai #opensource #python #debugging

3 min read

WebAZ

Aug 16

AI Agents Can Find Products. The Hard Part Starts After "Buy."

#ai #opensource #webdev #ecommerce

3 min read

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