Month March 2026

Last week marked the fruition of almost a year of hard work by the entire PyCharm team. On March 4th, 2026, we hosted Python Unplugged on PyTV, our first-ever community conference featuring a 90s music-inspired online conference for the Python…

JavaLand 2026 JavaLand 2026 was finally back in the theme park after the last two year’s disaster at a car racing track. And this was good. Europa Park is different from Phantasialand, but has the same kitchy, German way of…

Devnexus 2026 I can’t believe this was the ninth time I was a speaker at Devnexus. The last couple of years, we have sponsored and had a dedicated Jakarta EE track and the entire team present, so it was a…

When I first started building websites, rounded corners required five background images, one for each corner, one for the body, and a prayer that the client wouldn’t ask for a different radius. Then the border-radius property landed, and the entire…

Living on a fixed income and getting charged over draft fees is a real kick in the pants! I can’t seem to understand all my auto-pays and recurring bills with a pen and paper. So I set out to build…

The Problem I was migrating my community platform. Sounds simple, right? Just change a link. But I had a “small” detail: 1,000+ articles with hardcoded CTAs in the HTML pointing to the old community URL. Why hardcoded? Because I’m obsessive…

A developer copies a code example from your API docs. Changes the account ID. Updates the amount. Hits send. The money moves. To the wrong account. Using a deprecated endpoint your docs still show as valid. In a social media…

A story about how I built my portfolio and what went through my mind while building it Hello, World! Here’s my first ever blog. I wanted to talk a bit about my portfolio, how I built it, why I made…

If you are a developer, you are probably well aware of all the AI goodness that has been happening. I won’t bore you with the hyperbole. My weapon of choice is Codex. Other AI coding tools are available, but debating…

AI is reshaping how software is built, tested, and taught. In AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE), that transformation is engineered on purpose. A research partnership with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), AI4SE brings together leading labs, industry-grade tools, and…