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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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Jul 27

Node.js has plenty of circuit breakers. So why did I build another one?

#node #typescript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Christo

Jul 27

GitHub put Shell, Dockerfiles, Terraform and PHP behind a paywall. Here's a free Action that scans them.

#security #github #devops #opensource

3 min read

om pharate

Jul 27

I’m Building an Open-Source Alternative to Intercom’s AI Assistant

#ai #webdev #opensource #automation

2 min read

Jul 27

I Built 47 Free Dev Tools That Run Entirely in Your Browser

#webdev #javascript #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Jul 27

I ported a knowledge-format (OKF) library to zero-dependency .NET — here's what I learned

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #softwaredevelopment

6 min read

Exploring AI code backlash on Reddit and HN

Christoffer Madsen

Jul 26

I Built Something Good With AI. Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It.

#discuss #ai #opensource #programming

6 min read

Mininglamp

Jul 27

Octo: When AI Coding Gets 10x Faster, How We Designed for the Collaboration Gap

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

5 min read

Anirudh

Jul 27

I Built a Job Search Agent That Scores 200 Jobs With Local AI -- Zero Cloud, Zero Cost

#python #opensource #ai #buildinpublic

3 min read

Nasim Hossain Rabbi

Jul 27

A Disk Usage Alert Led Me Down the OpenStack Rabbit Hole

#openstack #cloudcomputing #opensource #distributedsystems

4 min read

Ashraf

Jul 27

Kimi K3 Is the Biggest Open-Weight Model Ever Shipped. Here's What Actually Matters.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #programming

4 min read

Suresh Pegadapelli

Jul 27

I Got Tired of Copying Commands Between Claude and My Terminal, So I Built a Bridge.

#opensource

3 min read

Jul 27

depwarden: npm Supply-Chain Scanning That Includes AI Agent Config

#security #javascript #opensource #devplusplus

2 min read

Jul 26

I Built KubeAura: An AI-Powered Kubernetes Dashboard (and I'm Open Sourcing It)

#kubernetes #devops #ai #opensource

4 min read

Mininglamp

Jul 27

We Gave Our AI Agents Employee IDs. Here's Why

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

4 min read

Jul 27

An AI Coding Status Companion Should Observe, Not Operate

#opensource #ai #tooling #productivity

2 min read

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