Month May 2026

When you ask an AI agent to write a new feature, a good agent will eventually say: “I need to write a test for this.” But what happens next is usually messy. To figure out where that new test belongs,…

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to work at JetBrains, this post is for you. We could tell you about our products, our offices, or the number of developers who use our tools, but the truth is, the…

JetBrains Rider 2026.2 EAP 3 is out! You can download this version from our website, update directly from within the IDE, use the free Toolbox App, or install it via snap packages. Download Rider 2026.2 EAP 3 Here’s what you…

You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered cascade effect. Looks great. Should be simple. And yet every time I’ve built it, the implementation has…

The Death of the PHP Request Lifecycle For decades, PHP’s greatest architectural advantage was its “share-nothing” architecture. A request comes in, the framework boots up, the database is queried, the response is sent, and then the entire PHP process dies.…

I Built a Local Autonomous Coding Agent with Ollama — Soul, Autonomy, and a 40-Round Agentic Loop What if your AI coding assistant had a personality, ran entirely on your GPU, and could work through a complex multi-file task without…

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our primary goal was to facilitate seamless transactions between buyers and sellers of digital goods, leveraging the benefits of blockchain and decentralized networks. We aimed to create a marketplace where creators could sell their…

A client came to us with 8,000 SKUs across four store views — English, Dutch, German, French. Descriptions were either copied from supplier PDFs or missing entirely. The fix was obviously AI generation. The less obvious problem was that every…

The Problem We Were Actually Solving Behind the scenes, this application relies on a complex interplay of Apache Kafka topics, Redshift views, and Presto queries to fetch user information, generate quest narratives, and push notifications. As users began to interact…

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as…