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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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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Jul 25

I'm a Dev Who Barely Knows the Kernel. Here's How I'm Learning How to Track a Packet with pwru

#debugging #linux #networking #opensource

8 min read

v. Splicer

Jul 25

Bare Metal and Neural Nets: Crafting a Purpose-Driven AI Cyberdeck

#programming #opensource #cybersecurity #software

8 min read

Dipankar Sarkar

Jul 25

Two coding agents editing the same issue, no merge conflict. Here is how git refs make that work

#rust #ai #agents #opensource

5 min read

Jul 25

Building my first MCP server: Spain's weather API and its two-step catch

#mcp #typescript #ai #opensource

4 min read

Danilo

Jul 24

I turned a photo of my handwriting into a real font, then open-sourced the whole pipeline

#showdev #opensource #javascript #ai

4 min read

jamilxt

Jul 26

Open-Weight AI Is Having Its Kubernetes Moment — And Developers Need to Pay Attention

#ai #kubernetes #llm #opensource

8 min read

Eshan Das

Jul 26

Observability should be a `git diff`, not a weekend: instrumenting an AI app with one command using SigNoz

#agents #ai #monitoring #opensource

6 min read

Pavel Bashkardin

Jul 25

Single-file INI editor for .NET that preserves formatting by editing the original text

#dotnet #csharp #programming #opensource

2 min read

King Wan

Jul 25

Building a desktop client for an AI coding agent

#rust #tauri #ai #opensource

9 min read

Ankit

Jul 25

Why I built a Trust Control Plane for AI instead of another cost router

#ai #opensource #go

2 min read

AS

Jul 25

Kmemo: a semantic cache for LLM calls that refuses to serve you the wrong answer

#kotlin #ai #llm #opensource

4 min read

gleb

Jul 25

I built shared-element transitions for React Router — here’s how they work

#webdev #opensource #react #animation

4 min read

Zabdiel RC

Jul 25

I built an ML tool to catch technical debt. It immediately learned the wrong lesson.

#showdev #opensource #python #machinelearning

4 min read

Jul 25

A Weekly AI Coding Report Is an Activity Ledger, Not a Productivity Score

#ai #analytics #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jul 25

An AI Coding Cost Tracker Needs a Measurement Contract

#opensource #ai #programming #productivity

3 min read

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