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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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Sep 14

I Found Two Bugs in a Hackathon's Judging Tool. Neither Explained Why I Lost.

#ai #hackathon #opensource #debugging

4 min read

Niko Sagiadinos

Sep 14

Nine Years of Almost: My Raspberry Pi Love and Hate Journey

#raspberrypi #linux #opensource #qt

8 min read

Sep 14

Shift Left Code Review: How Qodo Turns Your Coding Agent Into Its Own First Reviewer

#ai #productivity #devops #opensource

10 min read

Janz

Sep 14

I labeled 558 AGENTS.md files. Here's what they say — and what almost nobody writes down

#ai #agents #opensource #data

4 min read

Christian Anderson

Sep 14

CeX offered £136 cash for my £30 Pi case. It was quoting a different product.

#showdev #python #api #opensource

5 min read

Kiita

Sep 14

Six Bugs That Taught Me How to Build an AI Agent That Doesn't Fall Over

#ai #python #opensource #devops

3 min read

Joel Gomes

Sep 14

5 ways your ML model's score is lying to you

#machinelearning #python #datascience #opensource

3 min read

Sep 14

Agent orchestrators and agent coordinators are not the same layer

#ai #devtools #opensource #git

6 min read

ArcticFoxz

Sep 14

A redactor that only spoke English, and the test that would have caught it

#security #python #testing #opensource

3 min read

Erlangga Satria

Sep 14

Reactivity Without the Framework: How to Get React-Like Behavior in a Single HTML File

#showdev #opensource #frontend #vanilla

5 min read

Yuval Abu

Sep 14

We built a prize draw engine where you never have to trust us. Here is how

#cryptography #security #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Vasanth K

Sep 14

AlertSpot: An open-source, battery-friendly transit alarm for Android

#showdev #android #kotlin #opensource

2 min read

JJ657

Sep 14

Making UltraRAG retrieval cheaper with stable prompt prefixes

#python #ai #datascience #opensource

3 min read

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Sep 14

I Built an All-in-One Browser Toolkit — File Viewer, Converter & P2P Share in 3 Files, No Backend

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Ross Peili for ARPA Hellenic Logical Systems

Sep 14

Agents can strip web pages, build slide decks, and run UK registry lookups across turns — Skillware 0.5.5

#ai #python #agentskills #opensource

3 min read

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