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Apple didn't announce the M5 Pro at WWDC, and the M4 Pro Mac Mini industry shortage isn't going anywhere either. Neither should affect your CI. Apple pulled the base model from its store and discontinued the 32GB config. What's still available ships in weeks with some configs months out. Resellers are asking $979 for $599 machines and Tim Cook confirmed the constraints will last several more months.

Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help you follow execution order, understand dependencies, and identify performance bottlenecks faster, even in complex applications.

A 3D mesh for an elevator button with millions of triangles was added to a AAA game. No one flagged it. Nothing caught it. By the time anyone noticed the effect on performance, the artist had moved on, the asset was buried under dependencies, and the team was three months from shipping.

When product teams discuss integrations in real estate software, the conversation usually stays technical: API endpoints, data normalisation, build timelines. Those questions matter — but they miss the more important one: what is this integration actually worth? Integrations with multiple listing service (MLS) feeds, property management systems (PMS), and CRM platforms are strategic product decisions.

From booking flows to subscription screens, formatting dates correctly is a core requirement in almost every Android app. In this post we’ll show you how to master the specific Android date format, understand its unique features and avoid common formatting pitfalls.

Last year, Nathan Hillyer's iOS platform engineering team at ForeFlight had self-hosted Mac hardware in their office, two engineers keeping them alive, and a codebase with over 2 million lines of Objective-C, Swift, and C++. Every Xcode update was a fire drill. Every capacity spike during a merge meant somebody was physically racking hardware in the Austin office. ForeFlight didn't want a new CI system. They wanted to stop being a data centre.

There is a shift happening in a previously quiet corner of the open source community. You may have experienced this in your own Android builds with an HTTP 429 ("Too Many Requests") error during dependency resolution from Maven Central. Over a period of a few days in late April to early May 2026, a subset of Bitrise users experienced these errors. Here's what happened, what we did about it, and what it means for you.

You're mid-conversation with an AI support agent. You've explained the problem, the agent is halfway through a response, and the connection drops. When you reconnect, the response is gone. You type the same question again. The agent asks the same clarifying questions again. Three minutes of context, gone. Not because the model forgot it, but because the delivery layer stored nothing.