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.

s3atoshi_leading_ai

Apr 3

AI Will Fundamentally Reshape How Advertising Works. Here's the Structural Analysis.

#ai #advertising #opensource #aistrategy

4 min read

abdelali Selouani

Mar 28

Show DEV: PressArk - Talk to Your WordPress Site Instead of Clicking Through It

#showdev #wordpress #ai #opensource

2 min read

Mar 31

Why I split my AI coding workflow into Director and Coder

#ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Vladimir Desyatov

Apr 3

AisthOS: What if your OS compiled UP instead of down?

#ai #opensource #privacy #edgeai

4 min read

Mar 30

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Sruthi a

Mar 30

I Built a Zero-Config Secret Manager in Rust Because .env Files Are Security Theater

#security #devops #opensource #rust

2 min read

Jonah Reed

Mar 30

I Built an AI Agent That Thinks in Notion (And Can Give His Brain a Makeover)

#showdev #notionmcpchallenge #ai #opensource

7 min read

Apr 3

OpenClaw SaaS vs Self-Hosting: Which One Should You Choose in 2026?

#ai #webdev #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Buffer Overflow

Apr 3

We Built Domain-Specific Compression for Messages. Here's What We Learned.

#compression #algorithms #opensource #performance

2 min read

jidonglab

Mar 31

learn-claude-code: 12 Sessions From a While Loop to Multi-Agent Teams, Zero Frameworks

#ai #agents #python #opensource

2 min read

Deb

Apr 3

I Built a Free Web Tool to Debug Azure Service Bus DLQs Without the 2 AM Headache

#azure #devops #opensource #tooling

2 min read

Bonnie for CrossPostr

Apr 2

Implementing Automatic LLM Provider Fallback In AI Agents Using an LLM Gateway (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini & Bifrost)

#webdev #programming #tutorial #opensource

10 min read

FeDEX

Apr 3

"Please perform a comprehensive security audit" - and why it doesn't work

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

15 min read

Ray

Mar 30

The Hidden Costs of Paper Trading: What 6 Weeks of Data Showed

#python #algotrading #fintech #opensource

2 min read

Yu Han

Mar 29

SJF4J vs Jayway JsonPath: Up to 7x Faster in Java Benchmarks

#java #json #performance #opensource

3 min read

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