Skip to content

Forem

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.

Sashank Bhamidi

Oct 11 '25

How I Built a Self-Merging PR System for Git-Gang

#opensource #automation #devops #githubactions

3 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 12 '25

Beyond Ethics Washing: Certifiably Fair AI with Knowledge-Driven Transformation by Arvind Sundararajan

#ai #ethics #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Why I Built Things-Kit: A Spring Boot Alternative for Go

Avicienna Ulhaq

Oct 6 '25

Why I Built Things-Kit: A Spring Boot Alternative for Go

#showdev #go #microservices #opensource

7 min read

Sep 9 '25

Why JSON Mode Fails (and How to Fix It)

#openai #opensource #python #llm

2 min read

Cover image for Stop Wasting Time on Backend Boilerplate: Meet create-node-spark

Sep 9 '25

Stop Wasting Time on Backend Boilerplate: Meet create-node-spark

#opensource #npm #node

1 min read

Hacktoberfest: Contribution Chronicles

Anderson Yu-Hong Cai

Oct 13 '25

PR-03 at Hacktoberfest: Implementing a Credit Card Validator for Terraform Provider

#hacktoberfest #opensource #terraform #go

2 min read

Oct 12 '25

Fast, Declarative Open Graph Image Generation in Python

#python #webdev #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Sep 9 '25

Introducing react-night-toggle - A Simple Dark/Light Mode Switch for React

#react #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Sreenath

Sep 9 '25

I Finally Stopped Alt-Tabbing to ChatGPT While Coding

#ai #productivity #terminal #opensource

7 min read

Cover image for 🧠 Want to write about AI in Testing? Join AI & QA Leaders!

Daria Tsion for AI and QA Leaders

Oct 11 '25

🧠 Want to write about AI in Testing? Join AI & QA Leaders!

#qa #ai #automation #opensource

1 min read

Sep 22 '25

Apache Iceberg Dev List Digest (Sept 15–19, 2025)

#dataengineering #data #opensource #learning

3 min read

Arvind SundaraRajan

Oct 12 '25

Quantum LEGO: Building a Universal Quantum Benchmarking Platform

#quantumcomputing #benchmarking #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Cover image for Pyscn: The Code Quality Analyzer for Vibe Coders

Oct 12 '25

Pyscn: The Code Quality Analyzer for Vibe Coders

#python #cli #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Médéric Hurier (Fmind)

Feb 6

Combo-Banana: Building Custom Image Workflows in Record Time

#artificialintelligen #opensource #python #generativeaitools

5 min read

Oct 11 '25

End-to-end testing of Gen AI Apps

#ai #testing #llm #opensource

6 min read

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