Skip to content

DEV Community

Open Source

May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

submission guidelines

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).

about #opensource

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

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.

May 7

Hooks vs Pipelines: Why I Stopped Injecting Logic and Started Designing Flow

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

May 7

Your Blockchain Can't Tell What's an AI

#ai #rust #blockchain #opensource

5 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 14

Declarative validation: keep bad data out of your database

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

Tarun N

Apr 14

I Built an LLM Orchestration API That Actually Handles Human-in-Loop — Here's How

#ai #webdev #opensource #api

6 min read

KitKeen

Apr 18

Using Dictionary<string, MccCategory> for MCC lookups? You're paying for it on every transaction.

#dotnet #opensource #fintech #performance

4 min read

Temitope

May 7

The Death of the "Black Box": Why the Future of AI is Modular

#ai #architecture #python #opensource

2 min read

Chiradeep Chhaya

Apr 14

OIDC SSH Login for Linux, Without the Gateway

#security #linux #opensource #rust

3 min read

Apr 14

Your AI agent does not need a bigger context window

#python #ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

May 7

Introducing MarwaPHP: An AI-Native PHP Framework for Modern Web Applications

#ai #programming #webdev #opensource

3 min read

r57zone

Apr 14

Lite Catalog – Windows app catalog with silent install and old versions

#windows #opensource #productivity #tools

1 min read

Lyra

Apr 14

Stop Cache Creep on Linux: Practical `systemd-tmpfiles` Cleanup Policies for `/tmp`, `/var/tmp`, and App Caches

#linux #systemd #opensource #devops

7 min read

Kenny

Apr 14

Reports of RAG's death have been greatly exaggerated

#rag #ai #opensource

5 min read

Doug Trier

Apr 14

New Build & Enterprise workflows - Trier OS

#webdev #testing #opensource #productivity

1 min read

OpenClaw Challenge Submission 🦞

AGP Marka

Apr 27

ClawReflex: Building a Self-Healing Immune System for Autonomous Agents

#devchallenge #openclawchallenge #ai #opensource

2 min read

Hauke J.

Apr 14

Writing a Rust Driver for the Sensirion SEN5x Air Quality Sensor

#rust #programming #opensource #iot

6 min read

👋 Sign in for the ability to sort posts by relevant, latest, or top.