What Enterprise Consulting Taught Me About Building Products
15 years of enterprise Java consulting at large enterprise clients showed me what developers actually need from their IDEs - and how far the tooling falls …
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News and articles from ilscipio - e-commerce, web development and digitalization.
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One Grammar Engine Behind Our Language Plugins
How I built a shared PSI framework that makes adding a new JetBrains language plugin much faster.
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What Maintaining 22 Plugins Involves
The real time and effort behind maintaining 22 JetBrains plugins - compatibility updates, marketplace reviews and support.
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Freemarker vs Thymeleaf - Which Template Engine in 2026
An honest comparison of Freemarker and Thymeleaf for Java web projects in 2026 - syntax, IDE support, Spring integration, and when to pick which.
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Jenni Built a Knitting App
Yarn Squirrel is an iOS app for knitters and crocheters to organize patterns, track yarn, and count stitches - built by Jenni Brehm.
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How to Add a Custom Language to Your JetBrains IDE
A practical walkthrough of building JetBrains language support - from BNF grammar to code completion - based on building 22 plugins.
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We Rebuilt ilscipio.com From Scratch with Kronk and Hugo
We replaced WordPress with Kronk CMS running Hugo underneath, halved the page weight and brought CLS down to zero.
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Local AI vs. Cloud APIs - When Each One Makes Sense
I run both local models and cloud APIs for different tasks. When to use which, and why most teams overthink this.
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So I Accidentally Built 22 JetBrains Plugins
It started with a Freemarker plugin. Then 21 more happened. The marketplace, the API, what worked, what did not.
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I Got Tired of Dragging Text Boxes, So I Built a Slide Language
Slaide turns one plain-text file into a web deck, a PDF and a PowerPoint. Open source, works from the command line, and AI agents can write it.
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