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The simplest tools are often the most useful, and debugging is a prime example of this. There are many advanced debugging techniques, and while they all have their use cases, println debugging is still the #1 choice, whether you’re doing it manually or with the help of coding agents. Inserting a println statement to …
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Where time actually goes in design-to-code Every design implementation starts the same way: find the Figma tab, find the right frame, screenshot it, paste it somewhere, switch back to the terminal. By the time you write the first line of code, you’ve already done five minutes of busywork, and you’ll do it again when …
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Join us on August 25 at 4:00 pm UTC for a free online event for Go developers, where we will discuss Go 1.27. Instead of reading the release notes on your own, we’d like to invite you to experience the release together with the community. Welcome to The Blue Gopher! For one evening, The Blue […] Link to article: …
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July gave the tech world plenty to talk about, from fresh releases and useful tutorials to Kotlin updates, AI experiments, and new ideas across the wider ecosystem. We packed the best of it into one issue, so you can skip scrolling and get straight to the good stuff. To top it all off, Donald Raab […] Link to article: …
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Drew Penrod is an experienced fullstack engineer at a company that makes phones designed for kids using Samsung Galaxy hardware running custom software. He and his team develop and maintain an Android-based platform that gives parents control over apps, contacts, screen time, messaging, and browsing through a web-based …
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Did you know? Ever wondered why C# uses the semicolon to terminate a statement? Obviously it comes from the C/C++ heritage it shares with other languages like Java, but where did C get it from? That would be Algol, where the semicolon was used to separate statements. But why the semicolon? In natural language grammar, …
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It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software. As agents take on more and more of the implementation work, developers spend less and less time manually editing code. For this manual work, they might only need a basic, narrow set of features that IDEs provide, like navigating to …
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Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by building a Kotlin Multiplatform app and competing for the Ship …
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Let’s talk about the elephant in every data scientist’s room (or in this case, the panda). You’ve probably touched pandas before, even if nobody introduced you two properly. Ever opened a CSV file in Python and tried to make sense of it? Sorted a column, dropped some junk rows, and prayed a merge would work? […] Link …
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Over the past six months at JetBrains, our AI development expenses have increased roughly 10x. When the costs started rising, of course we noticed – and realized that we simply didn’t know how to control them systematically. We didn’t know because our developers don’t just use the AI tools we build. They decide for …
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Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, that idea is closer to the App Store than you think. Join the Shipaton The Ship …
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