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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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v. Splicer

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Less Noise, More Labs: How I Actually Learned RF Hacking This Year

#programming #opensource #security #software

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How a Friend's Frustration Turned Into a Chrome Extension

#discuss #productivity #ai #opensource

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React Hook Form and custom styling focus

Artemy

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I shipped my first npm package with AI — and it's already in production

#ai #react #javascript #opensource

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Billy

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A free proxy list that's actually checked (HTTP/SOCKS4/SOCKS5, updated every 30 min)

#proxy #python #webscraping #opensource

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Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: June 4 to June 11, 2026

#news #database #dataengineering #opensource

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MCP Servers for BI Tools: Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode (2026)

#dataengineering #ai #opensource #mcp

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May 31

Building a Micro-SaaS Empire: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating and Monetizing Open-Source Developer Tools

#microsaas #opensource #developertools #monetization

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Jun 22

I built a GitLab flow that tells you what a diff actually means

#gitlab #opensource #ai #devtools

3 min read

AlexTDev

May 30

I built Snipworth a Chrome extension to turn code into shareable images — and keep them for later

#showdev #webdev #opensource #programming

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Harsh

Jul 4

Built a free alternative to iLovePDF/SmallPDF that never uploads your documents. 60 tools, open source.

#showdev #opensource #privacy #productivity

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Jun 4

Building a SaaS engine in public: shipping the billing seam, not billing

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

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Trix Cyrus

Jul 3

Waymap v7.2.1: Thread-Safe Results, Hardened Security, and a Dozen Bug Fixes

#cybersecurity #python #opensource #webdev

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May 31

Why We Bet on MCP (And What We're Still Figuring Out)

#dataengineering #ai #opensource #mcp

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May 31

Copilots, Agents, and Swarms: A Decision Framework for Data Teams

#dataengineering #ai #opensource #mcp

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Gabriel Bachmann

Jun 4

I built a place to find open source that actually deserves attention

#showdev #opensource #github #webdev

1 min read

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