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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 16

My OSS Projects: Mages

#dotnet #opensource #csharp #compiling

9 min read

Sep 16

R4B1T_H0LE: DESCENT

#webdev #frontend #opensource #devjournal

10 min read

Vlad B.

Sep 17

What If Your Terminal Had an Infinite Canvas? Meet Fuse.

#opensource #macos #rust #productivity

4 min read

Sep 17

An Open Redirect Guard That Rebuilt What It Rejected

#security #node #javascript #opensource

6 min read

rebornace

Sep 17

Building a Lightweight AI Agent in Go: Baize's Architecture and Trade-offs

#ai #agents #go #opensource

6 min read

shubhamkumbhalkar

Sep 17

4 Agent Skills for backend engineers: design review, zero-downtime migration, production GenAI, forecasting

#ai #opensource #architecture #llm

2 min read

Sep 16

An Outbox for 3 Million Events a Day on Azure SQL: the Engineering Behind It

#programming #opensource #java #architecture

14 min read

Walden Wu

Sep 17

I scanned 14 MCP servers on my laptop, then compiled a least-privilege policy from what my agent actually did

#security #ai #opensource #mcp

2 min read

Feng Yu

Sep 17

The Twenty-Day Window: Pricing the Policy Residual

#ai #python #opensource #quantative

5 min read

Sep 17

An AI Agent Can Edit Products. Can You Control the Whole Task?

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

6 min read

Dongsheng

Sep 17

codsh 0.23.0 — Mission Contract: `/ship` that won't silently drift

#deepseek #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Sep 16

Deprecating My Symfony Profiler MCP Bundle: Right About the Problem, Half-Wrong About the Solution

#php #ai #opensource #webdev

7 min read

Sep 16

Putting Apple's Virtualization framework under a Flutter app

#flutter #macos #swift #opensource

4 min read

Sep 17

A student eyeballed 102 F-Droid apps for LLM slop. The method is the story.

#ai #llm #opensource

2 min read

Sep 17

Efficient and Effective XML Processing in Java

#programming #opensource #architecture #java

6 min read

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