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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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xbill for Google Developer Experts

Sep 22

What Nobody Is Using in Your Google Cloud Projects, and What It Costs

#googlecloud #python #devops #opensource

14 min read

ilien

Sep 22

A 200 OK is not an article: the bug that made me write my own web layer in Rust

#rust #ai #webdev #opensource

9 min read

Sep 22

The missing layer in AI tooling: sharing what your assistant already knows

#ai #opensource #mcp #devtools

4 min read

Sep 22

I Didn't Build KiwiEngine Just To Build Software

#webdev #opensource #architecture #programming

4 min read

Sep 22

Making Claude Code concise without making it dumber: the engineering behind two open-source plugins

#claudecode #opensource #ai #terminal

10 min read

Usman Khan

Sep 22

High-Performance Blade PDFs in Laravel 12+ without Node.js

#php #laravel #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Alan

Sep 22

I built Spoon: a Windows Git client with AI commit messages

#git #opensource #ai #productivity

1 min read

Sep 22

voiceloop: the fastest voice agent loop in the browser is now open source

#voice #agents #benchmarks #opensource

5 min read

Alex

Sep 22

What an Angular-native Storybook alternative actually looks like

#showdev #angular #webdev #opensource

11 min read

Sep 22

Nstrike — Blockchain légère (MVP)

#blockchain #cpp #crypto #opensource

20 min read

Sep 22

Write NUnit tests once. Run them on Windows and a Crestron Home processor.

#dotnet #testing #opensource #automation

7 min read

milkc0de

Sep 22

I built ChibiRigKit: turning a single character image into an animated 2D rig

#ai #python #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Sep 22

Waiting for an answer the user can't give

#ai #devops #opensource #automation

7 min read

Sep 22

Designing one slash command

#ai #devops #opensource #automation

11 min read

w4ffl35

Sep 22

SpikeForge Dashboard gives the experiment a desktop home

#python #qt #desktop #opensource

2 min read

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