Matt Ellis

JetBrains Sponsors Godot at Platinum Level – GameFromScratch.com The Godot foundation now has another platinum level backer, developer tool, language and IDE maker, JetBrains, creators of the Rider IDE.

The #GodotEngine just got a major new supporter...

@jetbrains.com - one of the biggest creator of developer software, including Rider, the #gamedev IDE. Excellent news!

gamefromscratch.com/jetbrains-sp...

JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding Tools vendor targets 'creators who've never coded' but devs will be wary IDE and developer tools vendor JetBrains has released a private preview of Kineto, an AI-driven no-code platform for creators and small businesses.…

JetBrains previews Kineto for vibe no-coding

Oh, we need to tempt you to convert then! Come on over to the Rider side!

Rider also supports GDScript! Not just C#. And you can also build and debug the C++ engine, too. All the languages!

Check it out! JetBrains and Godot
🎮🕹️🥳

Big news! Really exciting that @jetbrains.com is sponsoring Godot. It’s a great, open source, community driven engine. And of course, if you want to check it out, make sure you’re using @jetbrains-rider.bsky.social with it 😉

🎉 IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 is out!
It brings powerful updates to help you stay productive, write better code, and adopt the latest tech with confidence.

Discover what’s new: www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/

And because I'll never stop recommending it, 'Children of Men' is on BBC2 at 22.00, tonight. It really is a work of art.

PSA:

cursor is mouse

caret is keyboard

Say goodbye to cloud-only code completion (and hello to so much more).

We’ve just released Mellum-all — a general-purpose code completion model that supports every major programming language and runs entirely on your machine.

Learn more: jb.gg/dmuavo

Yeah, this and Killer of Killers or whatever it’s called. And there’s another new one coming. Feel like I’m missing out

To help reduce the number of UI freezes caused by Resharper, I built an internal tool to measure UI responsiveness.
Here, you can see the improvement between the current 2025.1 version (on the left) and the upcoming 2025.2 version (on the right) with out-of-process enabled.

Glorious

Not quite the movie I had in mind

Making kids laugh can sometimes be difficult but when you get it just right it’s a brilliant thing!

I feel like I need to do some catchup in the Alien and Predator universes

"We have just folded space from Legoland. Many playsets in Legoland. New playsets. Better than those at Playmobil."

you know what is a truly underrated spielberg? TINTIN. it's basically a young indiana jones movie and it rocks

It's like a warm hug. That crackling voice, the crackling bassoon, like listening to crackling vinyl in front of a crackling coal fire. Cracking.

You can do reword in Rider too, if that’s where your code is. Right click reword.

On the stage at Trilith shooting the barrel roll through the mountains. All the plates were shot previously in Svalbard. 7.26.24

Apollo 11 in Real Time A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

Time for this absolute immense bit of work again. Click on the "now" option and ride it down.
apolloinrealtime.org/11/

Junie comes to GitHub – async development unlocked! 😎
Meet Junie, the AI coding agent by JetBrains… now on GitHub!

✅ Delegate multiple tasks
✅ Fix bugs without opening an IDE
✅ Collaborate with your team

All without leaving GitHub.
The waitlist is now open!

Join the waitlist! jb.gg/obmpuw

LSP API available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2025.2 without paid subscription Starting with version 2025.2, the LSP API will be fully available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, regardless of whether a user has a paid license or no license at all. See the blog post: IntelliJ IDEA Mov...

Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, the LSP API is available in Ultimate, even without a paid subscription. Use it for plugin development or integrating LSP-based tools.

Learn more:
platform.jetbrains.com/t/lsp-api-av...

Devs was a fantastic series, beautiful shot and soundtracked too. Seek it out if you haven’t already seen it. Might be time for a rewatch too

IntelliJ IDEA Moves to the Unified Distribution | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog We are excited to announce the next step for IntelliJ IDEA: we are moving to a single, unified distribution. And yes, before you ask, our commitment to open source remains as strong as ever. There

🚀 Get ready for a smoother workflow and even greater productivity with IntelliJ IDEA!

Starting with 2025.3, we are moving to a unified distribution to deliver a seamless, powerful development experience right at your fingertips.

Check out our blog post 👇
blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2025/07...

CFP closes super soon! Get submitting those gamedev talks, folks. Share now, while there's still time! ⏰

Cc @garthgilmour.bsky.social

I dunno. But I’ll have a pint of whatever you’ve been having