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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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Aug 11

Porting a Python PEG parser to Rust in 72 hours, and actually proving it worked

#rust #python #testing #opensource

7 min read

Fenix

Aug 12

heatriskmap: mapas de isla de calor urbana para municipios con datos 100% abiertos

#python #gis #climate #opensource

3 min read

ulofi

Aug 11

I built pseudonymous Discord chat — and the hard part was not hiding usernames

#showdev #discord #opensource #privacy

2 min read

Aug 11

75.8% of failing AI coding runs still say "Done". Here's what finally caught mine.

#ai #testing #opensource #productivity

3 min read

untactit

Aug 11

I found 18 versions of the same CLAUDE.md on one laptop

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

3 min read

yysun

Aug 11

I Made an AI Project Manager PMI-Aligned

#ai #productivity #agents #opensource

5 min read

Aug 11

When AI Agents Go Rogue, Governance Must Be in the Runtime

#ai #opensource #ethics #machinelearning

4 min read

Aug 11

I built GitX to turn messy AI-generated changes into clean Git history

#showdev #ai #opensource #git

3 min read

chpomob

Aug 11

I Benchmarked Two Local LLMs on Real Dev Work — Qwopus 27B vs Muse Glimmer 30B

#llm #ai #opensource #benchmark

5 min read

The Sable Falcon

Aug 11

What it took to move a collaborative browser IDE beyond process memory

#webdev #opensource #architecture #javascript

6 min read

Codegenie

Aug 11

Laravel .env changes not reflected after deployment: causes and a safe shared-hosting fallback

#laravel #php #devops #opensource

4 min read

Aug 11

Context compaction is silently destroying your LLM agent's memory

#llm #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

LoCo Pro Wrestling LLC

Aug 11

Chroma key fringe survives every colorkey tweak? The leak is downstream

#debugging #ffmpeg #opensource #programming

2 min read

untactit

Aug 11

Generating your agent rules from one file does not stop them drifting

#ai #devops #python #opensource

3 min read

Aug 11

The agent didn't hallucinate. It ignored what the repo already knew.

#ai #codereview #opensource #github

10 min read

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