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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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Nov 9

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#devchallenge #presagechallenge #opensource #typescript

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Nov 9

The model card is the model: a 3.7 KB PDF that classifies SMS

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Nov 10

Hybrid signatures have a trap: one valid half is not enough

#security #cryptography #opensource #ai

4 min read

Nov 9

Stop scrolling agent replies

#ai #productivity #opensource #devtools

6 min read

Opsnode Infrastructure

Nov 9

My Solana buy bot doubled every buy amount. Here's the post-mortem.

#solana #python #opensource #postmortem

5 min read

Shivrajsinh Zala

Nov 10

Stopwatch: How I Built a Sub-Second Transit Schedule Lookup for 123 Systems from Open GTFS Data

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Jennifer Evangelista

Nov 9

The ghost refused to leave my ghost app: building Witching Hour with TabPFN and Gemma

#mlhacks #ai #opensource #machinelearning

9 min read

Nov 9

Introducing Vectro: SQL and dataframes on every core, in JavaScript

#javascript #webassembly #node #opensource

3 min read

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Nov 10

AI-hallucinated packages, Nov 2–8, 2026: 180 new names

#security #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Art

Nov 9

42 Years in IT, One Scripting Language, and a CMS in Production

#programming #compiler #showcase #opensource

4 min read

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Nov 10

Which sites is this email registered on? A silent lookup you can call from code

#osint #security #api #opensource

2 min read

mycute

Nov 9

Behavioral thermodynamics: a LoRA behavior melts at 3.5x its RMS noise

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Nov 9

Dynoxide 1.6.0 release notes

#dynamodb #rust #opensource #testing

3 min read

mycute

Nov 9

Model symbiogenesis: the 200-row illusion and the 4-bit survivor

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #opensource

3 min read

mycute

Nov 9

AI in a MIDI file: the model is the notes

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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