Category: Software


  • Hello Dev.to community! My name is EmberNoGlow, and I’m thrilled to introduce my tool for Godot 4: the Procedural Terrain Generator. This generator allows you to easily create procedural landscapes using MeshInstance3D and heightmaps. What’s especially cool is that generation is available both directly in the editor and during runtime! ❔ Why a Procedural Terrain…

  • Level Up Your JavaScript – Detect Smells & Write Clean Code

    We just posted course on freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to transform messy, hard-to-maintain JavaScript code into clean, readable, and professional-quality code that scales. This course was developed by Tapas Adhikary. He’ll help you understand what Code Smell is, why it matters, and how to refactor step-by-step using proven clean code principles,…

  • From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation

    This article is a sponsored by Cloudways If you build or manage websites for a living, you know the feeling. Your day is a constant juggle; one moment you’re fine-tuning a design, the next you’re troubleshooting a slow server or a mysterious error. Daily management of a complex web of plugins, integrations, and performance tools…

  • How I Built a 100% Offline “Second Brain” for Engineering Docs using Docker & Llama 3 (No OpenAI)

    Stop sending your sensitive datasheets to the cloud. Here is how I deployed a private, enterprise-grade RAG system. As a Senior Automation Engineer, I deal with hundreds of technical documents every month — datasheets, schematics, internal protocols, and legacy codebases. We all know the power of LLMs like GPT-4. Being able to ask, “What is…

  • There are years that whisper change, and years that thunder it. 2025 was the latter—a year when the future stopped feeling like a distant promise and started feeling like the ground beneath our feet. As I write this in late 2025, I’m struck by how dramatically the landscape has shifted, not through a single revolutionary…

  • How to Build a Portfolio Website Using Figma and AI Tools – A Guide for Developers

    Ever since my article on How to Become a Full Stack Developer and Get a Job in 2025 went viral, I’ve received countless DMs, emails, and even WhatsApp messages from readers. People have been asking about everything from learning to code and mastering system design to web design and how AI fits into modern development.…

  • How to Add Real-Time Web Search to Your LLM Using Tavily

    Large language models are smart. But they are not always well-informed. They can write code, summarize books, and explain complex topics, but they struggle with real-time facts. Their knowledge ends at their training cutoff, which means they can’t tell you what happened last week or even last year. That’s where web search comes in. By…

  • Huzzah, ADMIN magazine is celebrating a milestone anniversary… 15 years. Back in 2010, ADMIN was dreamed up as a publication with a focus on system administration. Now, 15 years later, it’s still going strong. In this era of all-digital publishing, that is a major accomplishment. To give you some perspective, in the first issue of…

  • Before you touch a line of code. Checklist: Can you describe the problem in one sentence? Have you talked to real humans with this problem? Are they already solving it with Excel / Notion / duct tape? Would they pay for a better solution? If yes → continue. If no → stop coding. 🧪 Step…

  • Highlights from Git 2.52

    The open source Git project just released Git 2.52 with features and bug fixes from over 94 contributors, 33 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.51 was released. To celebrate this most recent release, here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features…