Look who just arrived. And I'll make them talk with IDEs soon!!
Jakub Chrzanowski
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🥑 Lead Developer Advocate @JetBrains.com for IntelliJ Platform 🧩 Helps make JetBrains products extensible 🛠️ Builds useful stuff 🦬 Suffers from yak shaving
What if IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm could gray out unused object properties in JavaScript/TypeScript? Useful? Annoying? Surprisingly handy? Thinking about shipping this inspection — and maybe live-streaming how it’s built. Would you use it?
I made a purchase 🫣 something's about to be cooked, live 🤓
OK, that’s really cool - Spotify introduced DJ X, your AI assistant for composing a playlist that you’re going to listen to in the current session. It behaves also like a radio presenter, describing what you just discovered and what’s up next. Spotify, good job on that!
IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.17.0 IS SHIPPED 🚢 56 days since the last one, and this release packs improved plugin verifier handling, new split-mode and RemDev goodies, IntelliJ Platform 262 updates, and a solid batch of fixes. Changelog: github.com/JetBrains/in...
A blog post about open-sourcing the LSP API in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is live! 🧠 😮 Plot twist: the work is also planned for 2026.1.4 stable, so Android Studio support may arrive earlier than 2026.2. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202...
Open-Sourcing the LSP Client API in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 - The JetBrains Blog
Language Server Protocol (LSP) solves a real problem: before, each IDE or editor had to implement support for a specific language separately. A language server puts that work in one place and exposes
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Custom splash screen?!? Hacking JetBrains IDEs right now We always wanted to set our own splash screen for JetBrains IDEs! www.youtube.com/@hszanowski
Too many moving parts in modular @intellijidea.com plugins? New video: building a plugin with content modules using the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin. Covers optional content modules and demos CSS PSI, available for free starting in 2026.1. youtu.be/7fEdrktCYDo
Gradle Setup Powering Multi-module IntelliJ Plugins
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Unpopular opinion: you should exercise at least as often as you use AI.
I made a macOS screensaver inspired by JetBrains CAI's Noise Terrain animation. 🎉 It started as a web-based animation from Computational Arts Initiative team, translated cleanly into Kotlin Compose, then became a real screensaver using @zsmb.co's ScreenSaver project. 🔥 Download: jb.gg/screensaver
I made a macOS screensaver inspired by JetBrains CAI's Noise Terrain animation. 🎉 It started as a web-based animation from Computational Arts Initiative team, translated cleanly into Kotlin Compose, then became a real screensaver using @zsmb.co's ScreenSaver project. 🔥 Download: jb.gg/screensaver
Stop asking users to paste tokens into plugin settings! I recorded a video about adding OAuth2 login to JetBrains IDE plugins: browser login, IDE callback, PKCE, PasswordSafe, and GitHub API calls 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8k...
Stop Pasting Tokens: OAuth2 for JetBrains IDE Plugins
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Boosting this because feedback from developers who rely on accessibility features day to day is really important here. What works well in your IDE today? What still gets in the way?
JetBrains Platform@platform.jetbrains.com · 3mo agoAccessibility work in JetBrains IDEs continues in 2026: Windows Magnifier support, improved keyboard access to more IDE areas, and Orca support starting with 2026.2. If these features are part of your daily dev workflow, we’d value your feedback: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202...
I moved into the attic, finally, which is still pretty raw. Today, I received four parcels with audio/video equipment from JetBrains, where I work. 📦📦📦📦 Let's unbox them together and give some cardboard boxes to the cat 😼 www.twitch.tv/hszanowski/ www.youtube.com/@hszanowski x.com/hszanowski
Jakub Chrzanowski
🥑 Lead Developer Advocate @JetBrains for IntelliJ Platform 🧩 Helps make JetBrains products extensible 🛠️ Builds useful stuff 🦬 Suffers from yak shaving
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Android Studio finally gets embedded browser power 🚀 This is a big unlock for all Android developers and plugin authors! Embedded web browser (JCEF) in Android Studio just got a lot more real 👉 tool windows, auth flows, onboarding, browser-powered plugin UX. platform.jetbrains.com/t/experiment...
Experimental JCEF Web Browser API support for Android Studio
We’re excited to announce that the JCEF (Java Chromium Embedded Framework) web browser API is now experimentally available for Android Studio — a capability previously limited to other JetBrains IDEs....
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Android Studio finally gets embedded browser power 🚀 This is a big unlock for all Android developers and plugin authors! Embedded web browser (JCEF) in Android Studio just got a lot more real 👉 tool windows, auth flows, onboarding, browser-powered plugin UX. platform.jetbrains.com/t/experiment...
Experimental JCEF Web Browser API support for Android Studio
We’re excited to announce that the JCEF (Java Chromium Embedded Framework) web browser API is now experimentally available for Android Studio — a capability previously limited to other JetBrains IDEs....
platform.jetbrains.com
If you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, open this before making another icon manually. It collects practical icon generators for: 👉 IntelliJ-style letter icons 👉 icon modifiers 👉 badge composition for SVGs Useful, specific, and easy to apply 👇 platform.jetbrains.com/t/icons-icon...
Icons! Icons Everywhere
You all probably know about This where you can get nice icons for your plugins. Composing New Icons Based on Letters But today I want to highlight an awesome website by @dseptimus . It produces cu...
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The IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template 2.5.0 is now published. But what's going on?? 😱 jb.gg/plugin-templ...
Many developers care deeply about IDE performance, so we turned an internal post by Konstantin Nisht into a public one. It covers the architecture behind UI freezes in IntelliJ-based IDEs, what it took to move more work off the UI thread, and the results so far. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/202...
The Road to Responsive IntelliJ-Based IDEs | The JetBrains Platform Blog
Fixing the freezes: We tackled 25 years of architectural debt in IntelliJ IDEs to move heavy work off the UI thread. Experience a snappier IDE now!
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I created a free plugin for JetBrains IDEs — get it now! Got to IntelliJ IDEA 👉 ⚙️ Settings 👉 Plugin 👉 Search for "Sticky Project View" Comment if you like it! ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/L81XK...
Sticky Project View for JetBrains IDEs #programming #coding #plugins #jetbrains #intellij #code
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AI is going just fine... Even my kids aren't that stubborn!
We (together with the cat) are streaming!
Jakub Chrzanowski@chrzanowski.info · 4mo agoIntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.14.0 is not a casual upgrade. I’m live tonight at 9 PM CEST / 3 PM EDT on Twitch, X, and YouTube to break down the release, the breaking changes, and the features that matter. I’ll also update the Plugin Template to see what the new setup really looks like.
IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.14.0 is not a casual upgrade. I’m live tonight at 9 PM CEST / 3 PM EDT on Twitch, X, and YouTube to break down the release, the breaking changes, and the features that matter. I’ll also update the Plugin Template to see what the new setup really looks like.
As you probably noticed, I have been live-streaming content around what I do at @JetBrains I now consider setting up a fixed schedule! Habits FTW Question about timing — which works better? 1️⃣ 2:00 PM CEST → 8:00 AM EDT 2️⃣ 9:00 PM CEST → 3:00 PM EDT
I'm (a)live! IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.14.0 is (almost) here! And I'm reviewing the build scripts for third-party JetBrains IDE plugins. How good are they? Join me now 👇 👉 Twitch: twitch.tv/hszanowski 👉 YouTube: youtube.com/@hszanowski 👉 X: x.com/hszanowski
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JetBrains IDEs plugins — build scripts review, part 2 👨💻
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Tomorrow 2PM CEST (8AM EST), I'll live-stream and pick up the build scripts review of plugins for JetBrains IDEs plugins you sent me — the second batch 🎉 You should join me also because we're introducing some cool stuff to the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin! See you on Twitch/X/YouTube!
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📺 STREAMING NOW! 📺 Plugin development for JetBrains IDEs — sending code snippets to the API Today I'm developing a plugin for JetBrains IDEs to send selected code snippets to the SnipsCo.com API using Kotlin, Ktor, a secret API key, ... Join me live to see how this goes! Links below 👇
