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.

HIMANSHU LOHANI

Apr 16

Why I Built a SQLite Brain for AI Coding (and How It Saves 70-90% Tokens)

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Apr 16

The Technical Side of Self-Hosted Bookmark Managers (Without the Headache)

#opensource #privacy #tooling

4 min read

Apr 16

CodeZero is 30x times faster than n8n

#nocode #backend #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Artem KK

Apr 16

Why Book Translation Needs a Second Pass

#llm #ai #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Apr 29

LocalSend: lo instalé en todo mi stack y reemplazó AirDrop, pero hay un tradeoff que nadie menciona

#spanish #espanol #linux #opensource

9 min read

Metra

Apr 16

The Most Wildfire-Prone Zip Codes in America — What USFS Data Shows

#data #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Apr 16

Drop-in AI Chat for Any Website — No Framework Required

#ai #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Apr 29

LocalSend: I installed it across my entire stack and it replaced AirDrop, but there's a tradeoff nobody mentions

#english #linux #opensource #privacidad

8 min read

Pawan Singh Kapkoti

Apr 15

OpsMind: On-Prem AI for Manufacturing — No Cloud, No API Keys, No Budget

#python #ai #opensource #manufacuring

3 min read

Apr 16

AI Agents Are Failing Because of This?

#ai #llm #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

CIPRIAN STEFAN PLESCA

Apr 20

Sovereign AI Infrastructure

#programming #productivity #security #opensource

4 min read

Soumyadeep Mahapatra

Apr 15

Architectural drift with Agentic coding. Here's what I built to fix it.

#claude #opensource #architecture #devtools

4 min read

Apr 15

How to Set Up a Free Coding Agent on Your Machine in 10 Minutes

#ai #opencode #ollama #opensource

5 min read

Gemma 4 Challenge: Write about Gemma 4 Submission

Muhammad Yasin Khan

May 8

🔬 AI for Scientific Discovery in the Real World: What Gemma 4 Changes (The Moment AI Leaves the Chat Window)

#devchallenge #ai #opensource #gemma

3 min read

Halfblood Prince

Apr 15

I Almost Installed a Malicious Python Package: So, I Built trustcheck

#python #security #opensource #devtool

3 min read

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