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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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Reno Lu

Sep 18

OpenBot writes the audit row before an allowed computer action runs

#aiagents #governance #mcp #opensource

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Sep 19

Your README Is Lying to New Contributors

#programming #opensource #documentation

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Rahman

Sep 19

I built a 100% private WhatsApp chat analyzer (Zero servers, zero tracking)

#webdev #react #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Sudeepth P

Sep 18

Why I Built CyberKit: A Fast, 100% In-Browser Security & Network Utility Suite

#cybersecurity #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Sep 18

Why Splitting Logs by Business Key Becomes a Resource-Management Problem

#java #logging #performance #opensource

4 min read

Mujuzi Moses 

Sep 18

🚀 Building Spring by Example: Completing the Spring Internals Module

#java #spring #programming #opensource

4 min read

Vansh Sabharwal

Sep 18

Building RealWrite: An Open-Source Writing Collaboration App For Content Teams

#opensource #webdev #node #supabase

5 min read

Maxim Gerasimov

Sep 18

Automated Bots Disrupt Open Source Projects with AI Project Links: Community Seeks Solutions

#bots #opensource #ai #spam

10 min read

Sep 18

From Fork to Merge: What It Really Takes to Land Your First Open-Source Contribution

#beginners #career #github #opensource

8 min read

chiragmangaldev3112

Sep 18

I made "verified" mean something for AI agent instructions — here's what that actually took

#ai #opensource #productivity #development

4 min read

Sandeep

Sep 18

Overscope - audit what your AI coding agent changed vs. what you actually asked for

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Sep 18

Two encrypted emails in twenty years

#opensource #security #signing #supplychain

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Sep 18

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: September 9 to 17, 2026

#database #opensource #softwaredevelopment

31 min read

Clark Kent

Sep 18

tfm: Modern mouse-first terminal file manager for linux

#linux #opensource #tools #typescript

1 min read

Sep 18

Fixing Repopilot Self-Hosted PR Agent: 18% Fewer Node.js Vulns

#aiagents #node #developertools #opensource

8 min read

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