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.

I'm Phuc

Mar 26

I built my own icon platform after getting frustrated with FontAwesome — here's how each feature came to life

#webdev #react #frontend #opensource

3 min read

Dom

Feb 20

How mcpwall Maps to the OWASP MCP Top 10

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

5 min read

AgentKit

Mar 26

accessiBe Alternatives That Actually Fix Your Website (Not Just Overlay It)

#a11y #webdev #opensource #beginners

9 min read

Felipe Castillo

Mar 27

I built an open source developer hub to showcase projects and profiles – looking for feedback

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

Mar 5

Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: February 26 – March 5, 2026

#news #data #dataengineering #opensource

6 min read

Mar 24

Stop letting your AI repeat mistakes: I built an open-source MCP observability dashboard (React 19 + ECharts) 🚀

#opensource #react #ai #webdev

2 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Hermes memory: five layers, one learning loop

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

9 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Workspace as sandbox: a simpler model for agent isolation

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

8 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Less code, more skills

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

5 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Tool permissions and the bash bypass problem

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

11 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Plans vs tasks: how AI agents think before they act

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

9 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

How AI agents remember: a survey of persistent memory

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

10 min read

Mar 15

How Agent Commerce Actually Works: x402, SKILL.md, and the $0.01 Transaction

#ai #webdev #web3 #opensource

8 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

How AI frameworks control model thinking

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

10 min read

clearloop for CrabTalk

Mar 15

Async compaction: the race conditions nobody talks about

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

8 min read

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