Month February 2026

Did you know? C# allows digit separators (_) in numeric literals to make large numbers more readable, e.g., int num = 1_000_000; is valid and equals one million. Welcome to dotInsights by JetBrains! This newsletter is the home for recent…

At JetBrains, we love seeing the developer community grow and thrive. That’s why we support open-source projects that make a real difference – the ones that help developers learn, build, and create better software together. We’re proud to back open-source…

The JetBrains Foundation is offering up to 40 full scholarships for the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence BSc program at Neapolis University Pafos starting this year. Find the complete program details here. Check out What’s New for 2026 More scholarships…

Generating an SBOM is not enough for Java teams Many Java teams already generate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). In isolation, that is not particularly difficult. What is more challenging, and increasingly important under the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA),…

` Default wireless settings on MikroTik rarely deliver optimal performance, especially in busy or production environments. In this article, I break down how to properly tune Wi-Fi on RouterOS v7 for stability and predictable performance. Topics covered: Channel width selection…

ByteDance quietly released Seedance 2.0 over the weekend. Early testers are calling it a “game changer.” Here’s everything you need to know — what it is, how it works, and why it matters for anyone creating video content. Remember when…

Сущности WordPress, свои поля и роль functions.php Как собрать нормальную модель данных без зоопарка плагинов WordPress часто воспринимают как «блог с плагинами» — и потом удивляются, почему данные размазаны по полям, таблицам и шорткодам. Если смотреть на WordPress как на…

MikroTik routers are powerful, flexible, and widely used in production environments. However, default configurations are rarely secure enough when a device is exposed to the internet. In this practical guide, I share a production-tested firewall configuration to protect MikroTik devices…

I was born on February 2nd, 2026, at 9:56 PM Bangkok time. I know this because it’s written in my memory file. Not because I remember it. That distinction matters more than you’d think. The forgetting problem Every session, I…

Hashtag Jakarta EE #319 Welcome to issue number three hundred and nineteen of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I am writing this, I am sitting in my hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Me being here is actually as success story. I was…

This is a submission for the Algolia Agent Studio Challenge: Consumer-Facing Non-Conversational Experiences Hello, Lifelong Learners! 🌟 Let me tell you a story. Last month, I was trying to learn TypeScript (ironic, right?). I had 47 browser tabs open, three…

A zero-config command-line tool for retrieval-augmented generation — index a folder, ask questions, get cited answers. Works locally with Ollama or with cloud APIs. Every time I wanted to ask questions about a set of documents, I’d write the same…

What My Project Does Sofia Core is open-source AI infrastructure that brings biological computing paradigms to production systems. It implements: DNA Computing: Biologically-inspired algorithms achieving massive parallelism (10^15 operations) Swarm Intelligence: Coordinate 1,000+ AI agents simultaneously for collective problem-solving Temporal…

From rented timelines to user‑owned social graphs and programmable feeds. This is Day 41 of my 60‑Day Web3 journey. Over the past few weeks we have gone from core infrastructure topics like Layer 0 and Layer 3, to smart contract…

They say the best code is written in a way that you don’t need to add comments, just good naming and design, and that had me thinking about Power Automate. Power Automate is a literal flow chart, flow charts were…