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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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Mahiro Hirakawa

Sep 1

The only way our GitHub Action went green was when the verifier was missing

#github #cicd #opensource #devops

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Pijar Sukma Adiluhung

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#opensource #npm #javascript #typescript

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Tom

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LocalStack vs Spinifex: the Right Tool for Dev, the Right Tool for Production

#aws #devops #testing #opensource

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Mu'il Dev

Sep 1

GitHub Trending Digest — 2026-09-01

#github #trending #opensource #teknologi

3 min read

Sep 1

Building a PDF Table Extractor with FastAPI, pdfplumber and Tesseract OCR

#python #fastapi #ocr #opensource

3 min read

Mahiro Hirakawa

Aug 31

The enum had six reasons and the code needed a seventh

#rust #testing #opensource #ai

4 min read

Aug 31

How I Fixed Flutter Web’s Annoying Page Reload Problem

#webdev #flutter #dart #opensource

3 min read

Sep 1

GrapheneOS vs Stock Android: Privacy, Security and Control

#android #privacy #security #opensource

7 min read

Mahiro Hirakawa

Aug 31

The same wrong number was in six files and I still don't know where it came from

#testing #opensource #productivity #devops

4 min read

Aurelio Nakamura

Aug 31

How I made SQL run inside a single, offline HTML file (no WASM)

#javascript #sql #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Sep 1

GLM-5.3 Costs ~1/40 of Claude Opus: What It Does to Your API Bill

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

5 min read

Lexio

Aug 31

We Open-Sourced Our French Vehicle Tax Calculators (TVS, Avantage en Nature, and More)

#saas #opensource

2 min read

Jalal khan

Aug 31

Merge PDFs in the browser with JavaScript (no uploads, no server)

#javascript #webdev #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Aug 31

Case Study: Scaling Smart Teleassistance Voice Routing with Edge Compute and Zero-Cold-Start Cascades

#devops #opensource #cloud #sre

3 min read

Aug 31

Archify: A Verifiable Architecture Diagramming Skill for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #programming

2 min read

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