The Elyra blog

Ctrl+G in Elyra – when your TUI meets your favorite editor

You're sitting in Elyra, mid-conversation with the model. You need to explain something a little complicated – maybe paste in a stack trace, sketch out an architecture, or just write a prompt that needs more than a line or two to land properly.

Four releases, one day, a lot of small joys

There's something satisfying about a cluster of small releases. No grand reveal, no version bump that demands a blog post all its own — just steady improvements, each one earning its keep. Elyra shipped v0.5.5 through v0.5.8 in a single day, and the changes range from invisible plumbing to features you'll actually type out loud.

Three New Themes, Because Your Terminal Deserves Better

You spend a lot of time looking at your terminal. Probably more than you'd like to admit. So it feels a little silly that for most of us, the answer to "how should this look?" has been the same dark-on-darker default for years.

Scaffolding with the Real Thing: Laravel Starter Kits in Elyra

There's a familiar little ritual at the start of every Laravel project. You run laravel new, pick a starter kit, brew a coffee — and then spend the next hour squinting at unfamiliar files, trying to work out how the thing actually fits together.

Splitting the Work: How Subagents Let You Think in Roles

Most conversations with an AI coding assistant are just that — one long conversation. You describe what you need, the agent pokes around in your files, writes a bit of code, and you both move on with your day. For small tasks, that's perfectly fine. But once a job starts pulling in several concerns at once — is it correct, is it secure, are there tests, does it fit the architecture?

A Quieter Way to Build Slides: Anna.js and the Elyra Extension

Why Shift+Enter Doesn't Always Work (and Three Ways to Fix It)

You're typing into a TUI. You want a newline, not a submit, so you reach for Shift+Enter — and the thing submits anyway. You frown, try again a little slower. Same result. Eventually you start questioning your life choices.

Elyra: A Coding Agent That Lives Where You Actually Work

There's a particular kind of pleasure in discovering a tool that doesn't try to be the center of your universe. No splash screen. No onboarding wizard with seven slides. No friendly little robot asking if you'd like to "upgrade to Pro" before you've even finished your coffee. Just a binary that does the thing, gets out of the way, and lets you keep typing.