OSTechNix, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Unix Timestamps: A Practical Guide for Developers
A practical guide to Unix timestamps: units, conversions, time zones, and avoiding precision, leap-second and Year 2038 bugs.
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Vol 343 · Issue 3
Developer — Archive · Vol 343 Issue 3
14 articles that week
OSTechNix, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Linux System Clock Explained: NTP, Drift and Monotonic Time
Why Linux clocks drift and jump, how NTP keeps them honest, and why elapsed time needs a monotonic clock rather than wall-clock time.
more → TechnologyAdvice, Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Jira vs Confluence: What's the Difference and Which Should You Use in 2026
Video explainer: Jira manages tasks, bugs and sprints, while Confluence is the place for documentation, notes and requirements.
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Techstrong.ai, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
The State of PyTorch 2026
At PyTorch Conference, TorchTPU and TorchNeuron extend PyTorch to non-NVIDIA chips as the project strains under its own growth.
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InfoQ, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Study Finds AI-Generated Code Fails to Boost Productivity Due to Downstream Bottlenecks
A Harvard study of 700+ firms finds AI agents lift code volume about 30% but resolved work only 12%, as review becomes the bottleneck.
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The New Stack, Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
Google and AWS Open New Paths for PyTorch Beyond NVIDIA
Google's TorchTPU and AWS's TorchNeuron bring native PyTorch to TPUs and Trainium, though top performance still takes work.
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Open Source For You, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Why It's Time to Replace Turbo C/C++ With Modern FOSS Tools
Schools still teach on 1991's Turbo C++ under DOSBox; GCC with Code::Blocks is a free, standards-compliant replacement.
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The Register, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
The Spec Is the New Code, So Brush Up on Your Prose, Says Kaseya CTO
Kaseya's CTO says AI agents rewrote a storage layer in six weeks, and clear specifications and domain knowledge now matter most.
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InfoQ, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Distributed Spring Batch Without a Message Broker
How to scale Spring Batch across a small cluster using the existing relational database for coordination instead of Kafka or RabbitMQ.
more → LeadDev, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Engineers Lose 17+ Days a Year to AI Rework
An ActiveState survey finds AI coding gains are offset by rework costing at least 139 hours per engineer per year.
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Dark Reading, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
Close Identity Gaps in Software Development Before Unleashing AI
A Dark Reading roundtable says CISOs should fix non-human identity visibility in the SDLC first, then use AI to cut testing and patch costs.
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LeadDev, Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
AI Buries Engineering Teams in Security Fixes
AI is now finding real vulnerabilities at high volume, leaving engineering teams overwhelmed by valid fixes rather than fake reports.
more → LeadDev, Monday, October 19th, 2026
The End of Stack Overflow as You Know It
Stack Overflow's own 2026 survey shows developers visiting less because of AI, as the company pivots to enterprise, hiring and data licensing.
more → InfoQ, Monday, October 19th, 2026
From Microservices to Agents: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems
Agentic AI shifts distributed systems from orchestrating services to orchestrating runtime decisions, which brings new failure modes.
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