Q3 2026, in one page
A statutory clock started, two languages shipped on schedule, and the quarter's real subject was the boring parts of the craft.
#retrospective
10 pieces tagged retrospective,
from December 9, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
Two hundred pieces in
What writing in public taught me about engineering, what I was most wrong about, and why the archive is the point.
Two years of agentic coding: what stuck
The workflows that survived contact with real work, the ones that did not, and what the whole thing actually changed.
Half of 2026, in one page
Six months of regulation, agent tooling that mostly did not fix the bottleneck, and a web platform that quietly finished.
Q1 2026, in one page
Regulatory deadlines, a linker change, and a quarter where the interesting news was mostly infrastructure.
Five things that will actually change in 2026
Not predictions about model capability. Predictions about what your Tuesday looks like.
2025, in order
The year in one page: what happened, what mattered, and the three things that will still matter in 2030.
What I got wrong in 2025
Six predictions from twelve months of writing, graded honestly. Three were wrong.
The open weights year
Twelve months that took open models from interesting to unavoidable, and where the gap actually sits.
Log4Shell, four years on
The industry built SBOM tooling, VEX, and a lot of dashboards. Here's what actually changed and what didn't.