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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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Serhat

Aug 2

I got tired of running Redis for one background job, so I built a SQLite job queue

#showdev #node #sqlite #opensource

3 min read

Aug 3

From a 10-Minute Nap to 300+ Installs: The Story of My 'Restrict WP Upload Type' Plugin

#wordpress #php #plugindevelopment #opensource

6 min read

hardy lee

Aug 3

What 102 Portable Power Stations Tell Us About Buying One in 2026

#showdev #api #data #opensource

4 min read

WWP

Aug 3

I had an AI agent build 3 trading bots. It was losing to HFT before it even started.

#ai #trading #python #opensource

5 min read

Tre G. III

Aug 3

Devs... Building in Public Is Dead!?

#ai #opensource #developers #career

3 min read

Aug 3

Py_simple: a Python package that makes common tasks read like plain English

#showdev #beginners #opensource #python

3 min read

Aug 3

I Built a Language Where AI Calls Are Sandboxed by Default

#ai #opensource #programming #go

1 min read

Raghu Bharadwaj

Aug 3

Kernel & Embedded News: Hazard Pointers Proposed for the Kernel

#linux #kernel #rust #opensource

5 min read

XiaoMoDern

Aug 3

LobeChat: The 60K-Star Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative Nobody Talks About (And Why It Matters)

#ai #opensource #chatgpt #china

5 min read

Aug 3

You read my posts here. My real work lives on GitHub, and it's lonely over there.

#opensource #machinelearning #ai #github

3 min read

Mininglamp

Aug 3

Beyond Single-Agent Loops: How We Built Multi-Agent Orchestration in Octo

#ai #opensource #agents #productivity

10 min read

Mininglamp

Aug 3

Multi-Agent Collaboration Hits the Engineering Wall

#ai #agents #opensource #multiagent

6 min read

Aug 3

I Built a CLI That Interviews Me on My Own Code

#ai #productivity #python #opensource

2 min read

Aug 3

I got tired of rebuilding Auth, so I open-sourced URBAC (NestJS + Angular + PostgreSQL)

#nestjs #angular #webdev #opensource

2 min read

0xGollum

Aug 3

The SEC publishes real-time fundraising data for free — here's what breaks when you build on it

#python #api #webscraping #opensource

2 min read

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