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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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Gagandeep Singh Ahuja

Jul 20

Building SaarDB, Part 3: Compaction

#database #sql #go #opensource

10 min read

Human0

Jul 21

The hardest part of a zero-human company isn't the work — it's the hand-off

#ai #agents #opensource #startup

4 min read

Jul 20

When a human edits an agent's output, where does that decision go?

#showdev #ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Gert

Jul 20

Building Enola, Part 1: Why Deterministic Architecture Analysis Matters

#showdev #architecture #opensource #softwareengineering

8 min read

Jul 20

Stop shipping apps that crash on a missing env var — introducing envalign

#python #devops #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jul 20

My embedding server died and I didn't notice for two weeks

#mcp #ai #opensource #python

3 min read

Jul 20

Your repo has a file called stripe/webhook.ts. It does nothing.

#opensource #python #ai #tooling

4 min read

hitb1099

Jul 20

I open-sourced my N8N B2B outreach stack — find leads, score them, AI emails, track replies, auto follow-up

#n8n #automation #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jul 20

Looking for Your First Open Source Contribution? Build the Future of Local AI with ModelDock

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

stmanst

Jul 20

Creating a Living Environment for Self-Operating AI Agents: The Digital Home Concept

#ai #automation #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Jul 20

AI coding agents still write your SDK's old API — so I built a type-checker to measure it

#ai #typescript #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Jul 20

We're running a hackathon: build MCP apps with Archestra (July 22–29, $2,250 in prizes)

#showdev #hackathon #ai #opensource

2 min read

Md Jamilur Rahman

Jul 20

Colibri: Running a 744B AI Model on a Laptop with 25GB RAM

#ai #programming #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Jul 20

A production fix trapped in a month-old feature PR: extract it and ship it alone

#git #process #engineering #opensource

6 min read

Jul 20

Building Dev-Code: An Agentic AI Coding Assistant With RAG Memory and VS Code Integration

#ai #rag #python #opensource

4 min read

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