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.

Gary Doman/TizWildin

May 14

FreeEQ8: Looking for Testers for a Free Open-Source JUCE EQ Plugin

#opensource #audio #cpp #musicproduction

1 min read

Pablo Rios

May 13

A search engine for places that look alike

#geospatial #opensource #go #architecture

5 min read

Apr 10

How One Field in a Sort Query Brought Down Our OpenSearch Cluster

#opensearch #incident #opensource

5 min read

May 14

How I Added Multi-Turn Image Generation Support to LlamaIndex

#ai #opensource #automation #startup

2 min read

Alexander Shishenko

May 14

A tour of actpkg — components on the protocol

#ai #mcp #webassembly #opensource

4 min read

May 12

The Tech Giants Cannot Continue Like This: Why We Need an Opt-In Model and "Pay-per-Citation" by Law

#tech #opensource #webdev #ethics

3 min read

Apr 10

Your AI coding agent is winging it. Here's how to stop that.

#ai #opensource #productivity #claude

3 min read

Apr 24

The silent problem with AI-written code: the intent evaporates

#ai #claudecode #mcp #opensource

4 min read

May 14

Managing Multiple Cloudflare Tunnel Accounts with Cfmux

#linux #devops #opensource #go

3 min read

faith250

May 14

I Built a Free AI Research Paper Reader -Here's How

#ai #productivity #opensource #todayisearched

2 min read

May 14

SPEC-TO-SHIP: A Multi-Agent Pipeline That Turns Feature Ideas Into Production Code

#ai #multiagent #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

KimDoYoon

Apr 10

I made a terminal-style SVG card generator for GitHub READMEs (and this is my first post ever, please be nice)

#github #webdev #opensource #productivity

3 min read

San Krish

May 3

The Missing bandit for AI Agents: How I Built a Static Analyzer for Prompt Injection

#ai #security #python #opensource

6 min read

Linh

Apr 10

I Built Routiform After Hitting Every Limit with 9router and OmniRoute

#ai #openai #opensource #llm

4 min read

Ryuz

Apr 14

I Built a UI Library in ~1,500 Lines of Code. Here's Why.

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

5 min read

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