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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.

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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

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Apr 5

Gemma 4 Complete Guide: Architecture, Models, and Deployment in 2026

#ai #gemma #opensource #machinelearning

4 min read

Seryl Lns

Apr 9

Building a Rails Engine #16 --Publishing to RubyGems & Retrospective

#rails #ruby #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Mar 11

TaskBridge Is the npm for Agent Skills

#ai #agents #npm #opensource

2 min read

Aayush kumarsingh

Apr 9

I built an open-source LLM eval platform with a ReAct agent that diagnoses quality regressions

#python #rag #opensource #llm

3 min read

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Mar 6

How to Build Loan Disbursement, Interest, and Repayments with Blnk

#fintech #opensource #ledger #payments

7 min read

Etop - Essien Emmanuella Ubokabasi for Blnk Finance

Mar 6

How to Build a Reward System for an eCommerce Platform using Blnk

#ledger #fintech #opensource #backend

5 min read

Delafosse Olivier

Mar 6

I benchmarked 24 local LLM models for OpenClaw agent tool calling on RTX 3090

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

4 min read

Anjan

Mar 7

Self-Hosted Error Tracking for Rails 8.1 + SolidQueue: A Complete Setup Guide

#webdev #ruby #rails #opensource

6 min read

vamshidhar reddy

Apr 6

I built a linter that proves 74% of your AGENTS.md is wasting your AI agent's time

#discuss #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Mar 6

I Built a TypeScript SDK for an AI Video Platform in 30 Minutes

#typescript #sdk #ai #opensource

2 min read

Jovan Marinovic

Mar 6

I built a TypeScript multi-agent orchestrator that prevents race conditions in AI swarms — here's how it works

#showdev #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Mar 6

I Built a Tool That Generates AI Coding Context for Every Tool — From One Scan

#python #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

neuzhou

Apr 9

I Read Every Line of Milla Jovovich's MemPalace — 7,600 Lines of Python, 30K Stars

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Valentin Monteiro

Apr 8

Claude Mythos Finds Bugs Like a Senior Dev Finds Excuses to Skip Standup

#security #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

7 min read

Mar 6

Adding Solana Payments to ElizaOS: What I Learned About SSRF, Floating-Point, and IPv6

#solana #ai #opensource #typescript

4 min read

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