Month February 2026

Java primitives and instanceof: Why the rule is changing For decades, Java has drawn a clear distinction between primitive types and reference types, with each category following its own rules in the language. One of those rules was simple: instanceof applies…

Blooming flowers, longer days, milder temperatures — with March just around the corner, the world is slowly but surely awakening from its winter slumber, fueling us with fresh energy. And even if spring is far away in your part of…

FreeBSD’s hardware support has always been its awkward footnote. The OS is rock-solid for servers. ZFS, jails, network performance — all excellent. But consumer laptops? That’s where things get messy. Broadcom WiFi chips, in particular, have been a pain point…

🚀 Stop Guessing Which LLM Runs on Your Machine — Meet llmfit Running Large Language Models locally sounds exciting… until reality hits: Model too large ❌ VRAM insufficient ❌ RAM crashes ❌ Inference painfully slow ❌ Most developers waste hours…

The Economics of Calculator Content: How Free Tools Drive Organic Traffic When most content strategists talk about “SEO,” they’re thinking blogs. 1500-word guides, expert roundups, topical clusters. These are solid, but they’re also commoditized. Everyone writes them. Calculator content is…

TLDR: made a visual cli-tool called Recomposable to tackle this issue. If you use Claude Code with git worktrees, you probably have multiple branches of the same repository checked out simultaneously. Claude works in one worktree, you review in another.…

Hi there, my fellow people on the internet. Hope you’re doing well and your codebase isn’t on fire (yet). So here’s the thing. Over the past year I’ve been watching something unfold that genuinely worries me. Everyone and their dog…

Private Channels With the exception of channels created to discuss security issues while they are in quarantine, we provide no private channels for open source projects. This means that we do not provide private mailing lists (or any other private…

We’ve been passionate about design & UX for years. We’ve published articles on design systems and usability, inclusive design and product design, UX research and enterprise UX. Now it’s time to bring it all together: In-person. In a new location.…

Developing an AI chat service is easy, but making it production-grade is where the real work is and where things get serious. FastAPI helps you with the tools you need to build a backend that is fast, predictable, and ready…

I’ve spent the last month cold-prospecting nail salons and barbers in Częstochowa. 100+ businesses researched. Maybe 15 have proper websites. The rest? Booksy profiles and Instagram accounts. That’s it. When I started building an AI system to find these businesses,…

If you’re building or scaling a learning management system, you’ve probably seen this: exam week arrives, thousands of students upload assignments at once, and the system starts to slow down or crash. Video processing delays document uploads. A failed virus…

Software is undergoing its biggest architectural shift since the rise of cloud computing. Instead of applications that simply respond to user input, we are now entering an era where software can operate independently. These systems are known as autonomous AI…

This is the second part in a series that dives into how and why we’re redesigning TeamCity. In Part One, we shared navigational and admin changes. In Part Two, we’ll dive deeper into the сreation flow redesign. We’ll also introduce…

🌏 DuckDB Labs is hosting DuckCon #7 in Singapore on 2026-05-05. Visit the event page, sign up and submit your proposal! 🗳️