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.

Mansoor Mamnoon

Jun 3

I made a CLI tool that replaces the first 15 minutes of exploring any new codebase

#cli #opensource #typescript #productivity

2 min read

crazyathlete220-stack

Jun 4

I turned a 2011 iMac into a second display by faking a monitor in macOS

#showdev #macos #objectivec #opensource

2 min read

keesan.eth

Jun 3

AI coding agents don't fail because they're dumb. They fail because they don't know when to stop.

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Storm Engine Technology.

Jun 3

llama.cpp b9455 Finally Caught vLLM: 70t/s on 2x3090 Qwen 27B UQ8

#llamacpp #llm #ai #opensource

3 min read

李亚楠

Jun 3

Building Twitter-style Collapsible Tabs in React Native (the easy way)

#reactnative #javascript #mobile #opensource

3 min read

Henrique Peralta

Jun 3

daatlas — Open-Source Diabetes Data Bridge for iOS

#showdev #ios #opensource #diabetes

3 min read

Lei Ma

Jun 3

Hermes Agent Beats OpenClaw

#news #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 3

Built envguard to solve a stability itch.

#opensource #github #npm #cli

2 min read

HYPHANTA

Jun 3

What the Machine Forgets

#ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Riccardo

Jun 3

Building an audio search engine with Quarkus and pgvector

#java #ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Saurabh Choudhary

Jun 3

Built Log Stripper: A VS Code Extension to Remove Debug Logs Across 23+ Languages

#vscode #opensource #typescript #productivity

12 min read

Jun 16

I built a working SSL certificate replacement using Certificateless Public Key Cryptography (CL-PKC) – live demo inside

#security #cryptography #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jun 3

The Go Dependency Blindspot: Why You’re Missing Major Upgrades (and How to Fix It)

#go #cicd #productivity #opensource

5 min read

CodeKing

Jun 16

"My Two AI Tasks Kept Fighting for the Same Mouse"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

look85-ops

Jun 3

I Created an AI Garden That Destroys Its Artifacts Every 4 Hours

#ai #creativecoding #beginners #opensource

1 min read

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