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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 5

Kept Getting Strange GitHub Followers. So I Measured Them

#github #security #osint #opensource

10 min read

Sanskriti Harmukh for Vultr

Sep 3

Installing GPT4All, an Open-Source Chatbot Application for Running LLMs

#llm #ai #opensource #chatbot

9 min read

ujja

Sep 5

🚨📢Launching Docgrity 🚀: Documentation integrity for you, your team, and your agent friends. 🤖

#showdev #ai #documentation #opensource

3 min read

Onur Cinar

Sep 5

Stop Hand-Rolling Validation in Go — Meet Checker

#showdev #go #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Pawapon Thammalangka

Sep 5

Designing Type-Safe Multi-Calendar Primitives in TypeScript Without 'any'

#typescript #javascript #webdev #opensource

7 min read

John Cheng

Sep 5

Fighting Wildfires with IoT and AI: A Father-Son Open Source Mission

#opensource #iot #ai #hardware

4 min read

aman kumar chaursiya

Sep 5

We killed nock with 500 lines of Python stdlib — and still recorded the OpenAI API

#python #testing #hackathon #opensource

6 min read

Hachiman

Sep 5

I benchmarked my own AI coding skill across 424 runs. It failed.

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

6 min read

buhuipao

Sep 5

Reaching your own LAN without port forwarding, public URLs, or a VPN concentrator

#rust #networking #selfhosted #opensource

4 min read

Sep 5

I built a simple Markdown system that helped me waste way fewer tokens

#ai #programming #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Nathan C.

Sep 5

Ollama's -cloud suffix isn't a label, it's a silent instruction. I bypassed it.

#ai #ollama #llm #opensource

5 min read

Ishank Choudhary

Sep 5

Unlock Free Instagram Automation: My Deep Dive into OpenReply

#instagram #opensource #nextjs #webdev

9 min read

Jackson

Sep 5

I open-sourced the internet speed data collected by my speed-test site

#opensource #opendata #data

2 min read

Sergei Strebulaev

Sep 5

Building a Terraform Provider for Paddle Billing: Why Real-Sandbox Testing Matters

#terraform #testing #api #opensource

3 min read

ke jia

Sep 5

I Spent a Weekend Reading Git Internals. Here's the Tool That Came Out of It

#git #javascript #cli #opensource

10 min read

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