Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...