As part of ongoing maintenance, we are unbundling and deprecating low-usage plugins starting with PyCharm 2026.2. This includes support for Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, and Google Colab, among others. A more focused set of bundled Read more…
Michael explains why exit() can make parallel test workers crash without useful diagnostics, and why verbose flags do not help when the process dies outside PHPUnit’s control. The fix is simple: throw an exception instead, Read more…
Posted by Toni Heidenreich, Software Engineer, Android Media3 1.11 is out. Powering the vast majority of top Android media apps, this release brings new features, bug fixes, and improvements across playback, editing, and UI components. Read more…
Sebastian explains why Amp became his default coding harness, and why user experience now matters more to him than model churn. He also shares the AGENTS.md tweaks that reduced overzealous verification during day-to-day coding. Read Read more…
A practical walkthrough for running Claude Code inside Docker’s new sbx sandbox, with a custom PHP setup and extra tools for open source work. Benjamin also explains why sandboxing AI coding agents is the sensible Read more…
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations We released the official Android Skills in April, and the response surpassed all our expectations. In this blog post, I’ll address some of the feedback Read more…
Brent surveys the most notable additions coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, the new polling API, readonly property defaults, and several smaller improvements and deprecations. Read more
Ankur Sethi argues that manually retyping LLM-generated code is a practical way to avoid cognitive debt. It slows you down, but helps you understand the code, catch bad suggestions, and keep a strong mental model Read more…
An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior Read more…
This is a guest post from Naa Ashiorkor, a data scientist and tech community builder. Building intelligent systems that can see, hear, understand language, and make decisions was previously the domain of specialized researchers with Read more…