The crawler tolls, one year on
Default blocking and pay-per-crawl changed who can read the web. An assessment of what actually happened.
tech, developers, and the code underneath
5 pieces tagged review,
from January 15, 2026 to July 1, 2026.
Default blocking and pay-per-crawl changed who can read the web. An assessment of what actually happened.
Running many coding agents at once works better than expected on one axis and worse on every other. What actually happens.
It shipped, it works, most of the web uses it, and almost nobody understands what changed. A practical review.
Java's concurrency change looked incremental and turned out to reshape how services get written. A field report.
The biggest storage-layer change in years is in production now. Here's what it actually did to real workloads.