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October 22, 2026

Your Jira cycle time counts the night. How to see it in working hours

Jira's Control Chart measures cycle time on a 24-hour clock, so every night counts as work. Here is how to see the gap on your…

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October 15, 2026

How many hours did your team log last month? Why Jira’s JQL total is the wrong number

A JQL search for last month's worklogs returns whole work items, and their Time Spent adds up every hour ever logged on them. Here is…

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September 29, 2026

Who Connected an AI Tool to Your Jira? Your Audit Log Already Knows

Connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your Jira and Confluence is allowed by default and needs no admin approval. One audit log filter, free on every…

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September 25, 2026

Confluence Public Links: The Audit Nobody Told You To Run

Sites created or migrated to Confluence Cloud on or after 16 October 2023 arrived with public links allowed in every space. A public link overrides…

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August 20, 2026

Jira Formula Fields: What Shipped, Where It Stops, and Why You Don’t Have It Yet

Jira's first genuinely new field type in years closed a request from 2015. Free on every Cloud edition, 51 functions, two limits Atlassian states outright,…

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July 30, 2026

Confluence Content Audit: 10 Queries, All From Atlassian’s Own Documentation

Confluence has no stale-content report and no orphaned-pages screen since 7.0. Here are 10 queries that find deletable pages and measure attachment version bloat —…

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July 23, 2026

Imagine Building a Diagram Just by Describing It

AWS diagrams take about an hour by hand. About five minutes with AI — the math, the sources, and where we are honestly estimating.

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Robotic arms generate a fast stream of pull requests on conveyor belts, piling up at a review checkpoint where a single human reviewer inspects them with a magnifying glass

July 7, 2026

AI Writes Half Your Code Now. So Why Are Your Pull Requests Slower?

AI-authored code crossed 50% in 2026 and code review became the bottleneck: developers feel 20% faster but ship 19% slower, and 61% of AI pull…

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May 27, 2026

We shipped Diagram.now — a Confluence-native diagram editor with 1,200+ shapes

Imports from Gliffy, Lucidchart, Visio, and Mermaid. Real-time editing. Runs entirely on Atlassian Forge.

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May 13, 2026

Your Jira Board Generates Dozens of Updates Every Day. Almost None of Them Need Your Attention.

Jira sends every event as an interchangeable notification. The per-event model fails at scale. DaySignal is a daily digest that does the triage before the…

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