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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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Juan Camilo Auriti

Nov 8

I run 16 CLI commands, 47 content checks, and 27 AI crawler tests. Here's which ones actually matter

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Nov 8

AutoGen and AI Frontiers: research, reorgs and maintenance

#ai #opensource #machinelearning

8 min read

TimofeUS

Nov 8

Building a free AI UI builder on Cloudflare: what small models taught me

#webdev #ai #opensource #javascript

3 min read

Low-level keyboard hooks bypass shell reservations

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Nov 7

Windows won't let you own Win+Shift+S. So I hooked the keyboard in Python.

#python #pyqt #opensource #windows

4 min read

Nov 8

I'm Building a Fictional API Just to Document It!

#productivity #opensource #api #sass

1 min read

Carla

Nov 8

My first month of hackathons: 4 local AI projects, 4 lessons

#hacktoberfest #ai #gemma #opensource

4 min read

Nov 8

I built a log compressor you can grep without decompressing

#rust #opensource #cli #devops

4 min read

Md. Mahmudul Hoque

Nov 8

Why TCP/IP Fails in Deep Space (And How I Built an Autonomous Interplanetary Laser Mesh in the Browser)

#ai #opensource #networking #webdev

4 min read

Fast Data

Nov 8

I counted every server in the official MCP Registry: 59,603 entries, and October alone added 16,282

#ai #mcp #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Nov 8

7 multistream chat tools compared, every cell sourced to their own docs

#showdev #obs #streaming #opensource

4 min read

Asuran

Nov 8

I fact-checked a blockchain's docs. 4 claims fail, 54 can't be checked, and one won't sit still.

#blockchain #opensource #testing #ai

7 min read

Mulher Amparada

Nov 8

Como criei um sistema de SOS e Botão de Pânico com IA aos 15 anos (e sem cursos formais)

#ai #beginners #opensource #programming

3 min read

Suseendaran Nair

Nov 8

An email told my AI support agent to refund $900. Here's the guardrail that said no.

#ai #agents #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Nov 8

Stop being polite to my broken code. Roast it and give me the git patch.

#python #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Likhith.R

Nov 8

My Incident Agent Forgot Every Outage Until I Gave It Hindsight

#ai #python #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

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