Specialized search for programming

Curated, developer-focused results

4Programming is a search engine built for programmers. It prioritizes technical relevance by combining multiple indexes, code-aware ranking, and AI systems. Use it to find code examples, documentation, libraries, tools, tutorials, and services — faster and with fewer irrelevant results than general-purpose search engines. Part of the 4SEARCH network of topic specific search engines.

Latest Articles


dev.to > alexis_edelstein_8d4ed344 > how-to-check-if-chatgpt-perplexity-and-gemini-mention-your-brand-4jkj

How to check if ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini mention your brand

15+ min ago   (370+ words) More buyers now ask an AI assistant "what is the best tool for X" before they ever open a search engine. If your brand is not in that answer, you lose the deal without knowing it happened. Checking by hand…...


dev.to > ji_ai > github-actions-cron-was-late-30-nights-straight-then-skipped-one-4751

GitHub Actions Cron Was Late 30 Nights Straight, Then Skipped One

15+ min ago   (551+ words) I only noticed because a reader asked why Tuesday's items were missing from the digest. That's the GitHub Actions cron trap: the schedule looks like a promise and behaves like a suggestion. And my job's logic quietly assumed the promise....


dev.to > lisandro_reinoso_d12ac7b9 > the-field-that-grew-with-every-batch-was-the-wrong-one-1i4p

The field that grew with every batch was the wrong one

18+ min ago   (452+ words) Today the planned-sessions registry has 118 sessions and none of them has categoria (category), the classification field that grew the most the afternoon I loaded it, a week ago. I didn't delete it by accident: I replaced it, and the session…...


dev.to > kapral1818 > how-i-used-an-ai-agent-to-recover-18-years-of-a-net-user-groups-history-59pb

How I used an AI agent to recover 18 years of a.NET user group's history

17+ min ago   (176+ words) I run wrocnet.org, the site of the Wrocław.NET user group. The group has been meeting since 2007,... Tagged with wrocnet, ai....


dev.to > halfterlife > building-a-fact-checking-oracle-on-genlayer-2a99

Building a Fact-Checking Oracle on GenLayer

10+ min ago   (655+ words) A hands-on tutorial for Intelligent Contracts: fetching the live web, calling an LLM, and reaching consensus on a non-deterministic answer. Smart contracts have a well-known blind spot. Ask one to verify a sentence against a news article and it has…...


dev.to > freerave > dotghostboard-21-leviathan-smart-clipboard-tagging-contextual-actions-on-linux-part-1-5gb8

DotGhostBoard 2.1 'Leviathan' — Smart Clipboard Tagging & Contextual Actions on Linux (Part 1)

18+ min ago   (273+ words) How we built a rules-based clipboard intelligence engine for Linux — local, deterministic,... Tagged with linux, opensource, python, productivity....


dev.to > vinimabreu > what-did-my-agents-run-today-a-daily-note-for-a-friend-who-lives-in-the-terminal-written-by-gemma-5i3

What did my agents run today? A daily note for a friend who lives in the terminal, written by Gemma 4 on his own laptop

9+ min ago   (232+ words) This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I... Tagged with devchallenge, weekendchallenge, hf26challenge, opensource....


dev.to > silver_dev > vector-database-showroom-part-1-pgvector-the-station-wagon-already-in-your-garage-21of

Vector database showroom. Part 1 pgvector — The Station Wagon Already in Your Garage.

7+ min ago   (201+ words) Welcome to the Vector Database Showroom — a guided tour through today's most popular vector databases, where we look past the marketing brochures and judge each one by its real cost of ownership. Up first: pgvector, the quiet contender that's probably…...


dev.to > demilade > a-new-discovery-4h48

A new discovery

5+ min ago   (25+ words) Hello everyone, I am starting a new series to document whatever I learn in this new path of my... Tagged with cloudcomputing, softwareengineering, productivity, beginners....


dev.to > nitinkumar30 > run-ai-coding-models-for-free-with-opencode-openrouter-4201

🤖 Run AI Coding Models for FREE with OpenCode + OpenRouter

6+ min ago   (540+ words) Hey guys, while everyone else keeps paying for ChatGPT's monthly subscription, we'll be getting AI to write code for us right here—for free. 😎 Today's plan is to set up OpenCode on our system and run it using OpenRouter's free…...