The 2026 web platform baseline
Container queries, :has(), view transitions, popover, anchor positioning. The polyfill era is over for real this time.
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older dispatches from the README archive.
On-call is a design problem
If your rotation is painful, that's information about your architecture, not about your people's resilience.
Small models ate the middle
The capability floor rose faster than the ceiling. Most production inference no longer touches a frontier model.
Documentation is a product and you should staff it like one
Every team says docs matter. Almost none of them assign an owner, a budget, or a metric.
Every company is briefly a model company
The fine-tuning wave, the RAG wave, and the agent wave all followed the same arc. Here's where the value actually settled.
Type systems and the cost of being right
Every type system decision is a trade between what you can prove and what you can express. Here's how to think about where to sit.
The EU AI Act's August deadline
High-risk obligations arrive this summer. If you ship into Europe, the classification work should already be done.
What happened to microservices
The pendulum swung back and the useful part is the specific reasons, not the vibe.
Prompt injection is SQL injection without the fix
The analogy is exact except for the part that matters: there is no parameterized query for natural language.
SQLite in the browser and the end of the API round trip
A real relational database in WebAssembly with durable storage. What it makes possible and what it breaks.
Streaming an Olympics: the hardest scaling problem nobody discusses
Synchronized global demand, hard latency requirements, and no option to shed load. A look at how it actually works.
Go and the case for boring
A language that ships small releases, breaks nothing, and refuses features. Its detractors and its users are describing the same thing.
The dependency budget
Treat added dependencies like added latency: a number you spend deliberately, with a ceiling nobody may exceed quietly.
How to read a benchmark
A short guide to the specific ways performance numbers lie, from someone who has published misleading ones.
Virtual threads, two years on
Java's concurrency change looked incremental and turned out to reshape how services get written. A field report.
Your monitoring is measuring the wrong nines
Availability percentages are a compliance artifact. Here's what to measure if you want to know whether users are having a bad time.
The component model and the plugin problem
WebAssembly's most important feature isn't running fast in a browser. It's letting you run someone else's code safely.
Local-first is finally practical
CRDTs got good, sync engines got boring, and the offline-capable app stopped being a research project.
Rust's eleventh year and the shape of a finished language
Six-week releases, no breakage, and a backlog that is finally shorter than it was. What's left is the hard part.
The electricity bill arrives
Datacenter power demand is showing up in residential rates, and the regulatory fight is now the main constraint on compute supply.