SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 9, 2026 — OpenAI adds speed capabilities; Functionalize’s new MCP server; Lower SMB pricing for Java SE Universal Subscription

This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

After upgrading macOS, Flutter release builds stopped at 3 points (Rosetta, Java, Crashlytics) [Personal Development]

A story about how Flutter release builds stopped at 3 points after I upgraded macOSHello. I am a solo developer building smartphone apps with Flutter.This time, it's a story about trouble that ...
The Tech Edvocate

100 Best IDEs

Spread the loveWhen it comes to software development, choosing the right Integrated Development Environment (IDE) can make or ...
The Tech Edvocate

100 Best Code Editors

Spread the loveChoosing the right code editor can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. With so many options out ...

What does it mean to put yourself in someone else's shoes? A story about remembering my own past debugging

If it isn't communicated, it won't move. Before that While writing my previous post, 'Human relationships are like ...
MarkTechPost

Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day

Meta open-sources Rebalancer, the Apache 2.0 C++ solver behind 40 million daily assignment problems across its global infrastructure.
How-To Geek

Writing bad code made me twice as productive—but it came with a catch

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...
InfoWorld

JDK 27: The quiet before the storm

JDK 27 brought mostly incremental changes to preview features. JDK 28 will bring the really big news — the first real ...