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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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Hizba

Sep 12

Stop Writing CRUD Apps. Build This Instead.

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Sep 12

TokenPrint: An Open-Source 3D Visual Debugger for LLMs and Transformers

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

4 min read

Max/Wang

Sep 12

The first shader I ever wrote drew nothing at all

#programming #javascript #beginners #opensource

7 min read

Kiell Tampubolon

Sep 12

Three PRs to Rowboat in 24 Hours, One of Them Taught Me More Than the Others

#opensource #ai #typescript

3 min read

Sep 12

My first open source contribution was a bug nobody could hear

#opensource #cpp #audio #dsp

7 min read

Othmane

Sep 12

I wanted a system-design lab that could prove me wrong

#showdev #docker #opensource #devops

4 min read

Leon

Sep 12

I Reverse Engineered Snapchat Spectacles 2 and Built My Own iPhone App

#opensource #reverseengineering #ios #bluetooth

3 min read

Pyae Phyo Maung

Sep 12

The Hidden Failure Modes in Localization Infrastructure (And Why We Architected a Local-First Solution)

#opensource #webdev #javascript #architecture

3 min read

Raziq Din

Sep 12

Bypassing the BIOS: Fixing Minikube’s "VT-X/AMD-v Enabled is Mandatory" Error Without a VM

#cloudnative #programming #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Dmitriy Sevryukov

Sep 12

A legal FEN is not a game: state identity in a browser chess extension

#javascript #webassembly #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Sep 12

Stop AI Context Drift: A Zero-Dependency Universal Protocol for 21 AI Tools

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

2 min read

Sep 12

The most useful word my checklist prints is UNKNOWN

#opensource #devops #security #webdev

3 min read

bigrivi

Sep 12

One Python Agent Core, Four Ways to Run It: Nova on Server, Web, TUI, and Desktop

#ai #opensource #python #llm

12 min read

Summonair

Sep 12

Apple just shipped a foldable iPhone. Our websites are not ready.

#iphone #foldable #opensource #npm

2 min read

Vương Nguyên Khang

Sep 12

Do Coding Agents Really Need Unrestricted Shell Access?

#ai #mcp #opensource #architecture

8 min read

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