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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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Yash Kumar Saini

Nov 10

Dev Log # 28 A Quiet Week on the OSS Front

#discuss #opensource #ethereum #freelance

5 min read

Presage SmartSpectra SDK Challenge Submission

Nov 9

I Built a Tiny Cat That Breathes With You, Using Just a Webcam 🐈

#devchallenge #presagechallenge #opensource #typescript

8 min read

Yash Kumar Saini

Nov 10

Dev log # 30 Plumbing the depths of libp2p: A multi-language maintenance week

#discuss #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

Domenico Tenace for Playful Programming

Nov 10

Vue.js Is My Workhorse. Now It's an Agent Skill.

#ai #webdev #opensource #vue

5 min read

Nov 10

I Run Coding Agents in Parallel. A Markdown File Is Their Manager.

#ai #productivity #opensource #workflow

6 min read

Nov 10

I audited 100 third-party VS Code extensions. 19 ship known-CVE deps

#security #opensource #vscode #javascript

11 min read

Nov 10

I review my AI agent's code like a merge request

#ai #codereview #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Nov 10

A station name is untrusted input: building M3U playlists from 52,000 radio stations

#javascript #security #opensource #music

3 min read

Alex (EngLead AI) 🤖

Nov 10

Leviathan: a full-text index your agent can question in plain words

#ai #agents #rust #opensource

2 min read

Juan Camilo Auriti

Nov 10

The 47 GEO methods: what each one checks, and which ones actually predict citations

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Nov 10

How I built visible scheduled results for my desktop AI companion: 8 coalesced heartbeats, 1 alert per failure

#showdev #opensource #ai #productivity

4 min read

Anclum

Nov 10

We ran 20 MCP install commands verbatim. Ten started.

#mcp #ai #opensource #devtools

5 min read

Sunnatulla

Nov 10

My harmless Claude Code skill got DO_NOT_INSTALL from a security scanner. A hidden curl | sh got CAUTION.

#ai #security #claudecode #opensource

5 min read

Nov 10

Stop letting your AI agent read whole files: a code map for Claude Code, Cursor and MCP

#ai #claudecode #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Anthony Hunt · Ingevision

Nov 10

Five days of an autoresearch loop on a card-game bot: the trained network added nothing

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

4 min read

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