Month February 2026

Why = doesn’t actually copy your data in Python. Timothy stared at his screen, his face pale. “Margaret? I think I just accidentally deleted half the database.” Margaret wheeled her chair over immediately, her voice calm. “Don’t panic. Tell me…

AI copilots are rapidly becoming the primary interface for modern applications. Frameworks like CopilotKit make it easier to build production-grade, AI-powered assistants without manually handling raw LLM interactions or complex prompt pipelines. In this guide, you’ll learn how to connect…

When building an e-commerce application, categories look simple at first — until your product count grows and business asks for: sub-categories nested menus breadcrumbs SEO-friendly URLs easy reordering This README explains a scalable, production-ready category design used in real-world systems,…

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the AI explosion? This expert has done the heavy lifting, spending three years testing tools daily to find the real workhorses for productivity and creativity, going beyond just ChatGPT. This guide is your cheat sheet…

Qodana is a static code analysis tool that brings code inspections and quick-fixes from JetBrains IDEs to the realm of continuous integration. It can be run in the cloud, executed from a Docker container, integrated into CI/CD pipelines, or invoked…

AI agents are being shipped to production faster than most integration layers were designed to handle. When workflows start breaking, it is usually not the model that is causing the trouble. It is authentication edge cases, permission boundaries, API limits,…

February is a strange little month. Short, quiet, and typically uneventful. There are fewer distractions and fewer launches, which makes it the ideal time to slow down and take a look at what is actually driving the tech world at…

Recently, news from Postman has caused quite a stir in the developer community. According to their official blog and emails sent to users, Postman’s pricing and product plans are undergoing a major overhaul effective March 1, 2026. The most critical…

If you have ever tested a location feature in New York City, you know the moment. Your pin looks fine in Brooklyn. Your ETA is steady on a wide avenue. Then you get into Midtown, or you duck into the…

Last month, I went down a rabbit hole: I implemented six classic sorting algorithms from scratch in pure Python (Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Merge, Quick, Heap) and benchmarked them properly on CPython. I expected the usual Big-O story. What I got…

Why senior engineers need visibility, not vanity There’s a phase in almost every engineering career where growth slows — not technically, but professionally. You’re shipping solid systems. You’re mentoring others. You’re solving harder, more ambiguous problems. Yet opportunities don’t scale…

In the last few years, vibe coding has taken center stage by changing who can build software, but not what it takes to build it well. It is a development style defined by natural language prompts, rapid iteration, and an…

Today, we’re introducing the JetBrains Console, which provides enhanced AI management and analytics for organizations, including new capabilities to manage, observe, and control AI usage and costs across teams. AI is no longer an experiment for most development teams. It’s…

Starting from version 2026.1, IntelliJ-based IDEs will run natively on Wayland in supported desktop configurations. This follows Wayland’s ascendance to the position of primary display server across contemporary Linux distributions. By making this change in our EAP releases first, we…

FOSDEM’26 FOSDEM is a very special kind of event, and the 2006 edition was no exception. It is organised at a university campus, it is free for attendees, and there is a massive amount of exhibitors that are involved in…