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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

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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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Aug 7

I measured 10,716 broken things and nobody paid me a dollar. Here is the number I should have measured first.

#mcp #ai #opensource #career

3 min read

Aug 25

✨ So... real tests of the local Qwen 3.8 27B model

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Benjamin Kniffler

Aug 2

Offline reads are easy. Durable offline writes are the hard part.

#webdev #database #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Aug 2

WebMask: 43+ OWASP-aligned website checks with a React UI

#opensource #security #node #webdev

1 min read

Aug 25

I deleted my own optimization because the benchmark said it was 2.1x slower

#python #performance #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Aug 7

I Built FreeTV Garden: A Browser-Based Live TV Platform with 1000+ Channels

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Yong Yu

Sep 5

resume-mcp: grounding agents in public resume.json over MCP

#mcp #agents #python #opensource

2 min read

NCMV

Sep 5

CASTLE – A modern C++ template library for safety-critical embedded systems

#cpp #automotive #opensource

1 min read

Sep 5

How to Use GitHub Codespaces in Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, and Other VS Code Forks

#vscode #github #cursor #opensource

6 min read

Aug 2

Building ReproSpec: Portable Evidence Bundles and Offline Replay for Node.js

#javascript #testing #docker #opensource

4 min read

Sep 5

Mistral Small 3.2 Lands With Sharper Function Calling and a 128K Context Window

#ai #llm #opensource

4 min read

Christoph Baier

Aug 2

Why Is Self-Hosting Still So Hard?

#opensource #docker #linux

3 min read

Yash Arya

Sep 5

Why I Decided to Build My Own Programming Language at 14 (And What I've Learned So Far)

#python #beginners #opensource #programming

3 min read

Sep 5

I Got Tired of Paying for 3 SaaS Tools to Optimize One Website — So I Built Plyxo

#opensource #ai #seo #webdev

4 min read

Aug 2

Seeking 20 TestFlight beta testers — MarkdownVault (local encrypted web-to-Markdown on iOS)

#ios #swift #opensource #testflight

1 min read

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