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.

Mar 4

Meet WatchClaw: One Command to Harden a Linux Server

#security #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

Tsunamayo

Mar 1

I built a desktop app that orchestrates Claude, GPT, Gemini and local Ollama in a 3-phase pipeline

#showdev #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 5

I Built an AI That Turns Raw Gameplay into TikTok, YouTube, and Trailer Clips — Automatically

#ai #python #gaming #opensource

3 min read

Francesco Gabrieli

Mar 1

Spectra: automate personal finance from bank CSV/PDF exports (Python)

#python #opensource #automation #sideprojects

1 min read

Mar 1

Self-Hosted AI on Linux: A DevOps Home Lab Guide

#devops #ai #linux #opensource

5 min read

Raj Gupta

Mar 1

Building a Real-Time Multimodal AI Communication Coach

#webdev #ai #python #opensource

19 min read

Valerii Vainkop

Mar 1

Vibe Coding Is Having Its Maker Movement Moment

#devops #agenteng #ai #opensource

6 min read

Eray Gündoğmuş

Mar 1

Stop Managing Translations in JSON Files — There's a Better Way

#javascript #nextjs #react #opensource

5 min read

Mirko Dimartino

Mar 5

Stop Writing Raw Regex in Java

#java #programming #opensource #regex

2 min read

Paduma

Mar 5

Day 2: I Didn't Write Any Code Today (And That's the Point)

#ai #opensource #productivity #learning

3 min read

Mar 5

After Building So Many WordPress Plugins, I Made WPPF

#wordpress #php #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Mar 1

800 Malicious Plugins, 40K Exposed Instances: The OpenClaw Security Reckoning

#security #ai #opensource #cybersecurity

6 min read

Mar 2

VS Code Weekly: The Browser Just Joined Your Agent Team

#devex #ai #opensource #vscode

4 min read

Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Shekade

Mar 1

How I Built a Centralized Monitoring System for 600–700 Servers — Using Open Source Tools

#aws #devops #monitoring #opensource

3 min read

WonderLab

Mar 1

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 2): Remotion - Create Videos Programmatically with React

#opensource #ai

7 min read

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