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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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Jul 17

I Had a GBNF Grammar File and Nowhere to Point It. So I Added Support for It.

#llm #gbnf #opensource #typescript

4 min read

אחיה כהן

Jul 17

I filed a critical bug against my own tool. Then I read the code — and my own root cause was wrong.

#programming #javascript #opensource #ai

6 min read

Jul 17

A Valid Codex Token Event Can Still Be a Duplicate

#opensource #devtools #software #openai

2 min read

Jai Thakur

Jul 17

I tried to build a DNA-inspired database. I accidentally made a Postgres index checker.

#postgres #opensource #database #tooling

4 min read

박준현

Jul 17

AI Memory OSS를 프롬프트가 아니라 백엔드 시스템으로 읽는 10가지 질문

#ai #backend #architecture #opensource

3 min read

vbilopav

Jul 17

I Spent Two Years Deleting My Backend. This Is What's Left

#showdev #postgres #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Ai tools overview

Jul 17

How to Summarize PDFs Locally with Open-Source LLMs (No API, No Data Leaving Your Machine)

#ai #tutorial #python #opensource

4 min read

jaryn

Jul 17

Kimi K3's 2.8T Parameters Are Not a Self-Hosting Plan—Use This Readiness Gate

#ai #security #opensource #devops

3 min read

Jul 17

The Updater Was Present. The Release Feed Was Empty.

#opensource #devtools #software #tooling

2 min read

Nishino

Jul 17

Solid Queue has no alerting, so I built QueuePulse

#showdev #rails #ruby #opensource

2 min read

Self-Correcting Systems

Jul 17

Silence Has a Shape Now

#ai #opensource #security #devops

7 min read

fang xia

Jul 17

我为什么开始用 Beancount

#fintech #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

oleg-vdv

Jul 17

The post-quantum deadlines are closer than your roadmap thinks — so I built a CBOM scanner

#security #opensource #node #cryptography

3 min read

nyxun123

Jul 17

Designing a No-Tracking Mixing Calculator for Product-Specific Ratios

#webdev #javascript #opensource #testing

4 min read

Jul 17

Introducing Kivex: A Production-Ready Multi-Platform Icon Ecosystem

#opensource #webdev #javascript #typescript

2 min read

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