Two kinds of writing. Notes from real projects — what broke, what the constraint actually was, what we would do differently. And what is changing in AI and the wider industry, read for its engineering consequence rather than summarised as news.
The European Accessibility Act reaches any business selling digital services to EU consumers, wherever it is headquartered. It has applied since June 2025, and 2026 is the first full year of supervision.
Read →With windows at one to ten million tokens, dropping the whole corpus in looks simpler than building retrieval. The cost difference is roughly three orders of magnitude.
Read →Only 13% of organisations have post-quantum cryptography in production and 60% have not meaningfully begun. The threat model is not a future computer — it is a recording made today.
Read →86% of CIOs plan to repatriate something, about 20% of workloads have moved back, and cloud spending still grew over 20%. Those are not contradictory once you stop treating it as one decision.
Read →In one controlled trial developers were 19% slower with AI tools while believing they were 20% faster. The gap between those two numbers is the whole management problem.
Read →Entry-level developer hiring is down 67% since 2022, and AI is best at exactly the tasks that used to be a junior's training ground. Nobody has explained where the next seniors come from.
Read →Anthropic gave the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation, and the n×m integration problem became n+m. The governance move mattered more than the protocol design.
Read →Estimates of 2026 hyperscaler infrastructure spending run from $660bn to $800bn. Whether that is reckless depends entirely on which revenue you count, and serious analysts do not agree.
Read →OWASP still puts prompt injection behind most agentic failures in production, and adaptive attacks defeat essentially every published defence. That is a design constraint, not a bug queue.
Read →Cross-platform portability shipped, enterprise deployment hit 87%, and the remaining problem turned out to be where you put the enrolment prompt.
Read →At 55.6% developer adoption and with vector search moving into core, Postgres is now the default answer. Defaults deserve more scrutiny than challengers, not less.
Read →Zero-click searches reached 68% in early 2026 and publisher referrals from Google fell 38% year on year. Writing for clicks is now writing for a channel that is closing.
Read →On domain-specific tasks, small models running locally now outperform frontier models in the cloud. For anywhere with unreliable connectivity, that is not a benchmark result.
Read →Baseline collapsed browser support into a single label. Most front-end codebases are still carrying workarounds for problems that were fixed years ago.
Read →Red Sea cable cuts slowed cloud services across Asia and the Middle East. If your architecture assumes the network is a utility, it is assuming something about ships.
Read →The EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligation starts on 11 September 2026. It applies to products you shipped years ago, and you cannot comply without knowing what is inside them.
Read →Teams are spending $40,000–120,000 a month on observability, sometimes more than on compute. The fix is mostly deciding what not to keep.
Read →Cold starts of 1–5 milliseconds, roughly 95% of native performance, and a W3C standard. The interesting part is that almost none of this is happening in a browser.
Read →Inference prices fell roughly 70–85% in two years. Every design compromise made to save tokens is now a constraint you are paying for without the reason.
Read →Redis relicensed three times. HashiCorp moved five products to BSL. The licence you built on is a property of who controls the copyright, and that is knowable in advance.
Read →The open-weight models are genuinely good now. The savings argument for running them yourself is weaker than it looks, and it turns on one number most teams never measure.
Read →From 2 August the EU began enforcing its AI rules. The transparency duties apply to where your output lands, not where your company is registered.
Read →For two years the constraint on AI capacity was silicon. It is now the interconnection queue, and that changes which regions you can build in.
Read →A cache library nobody installs on purpose reached two billion monthly installs with a credential stealer attached. The lesson is about transitive trust, not about npm.
Read →ChittoWeb turns a sentence into a published website. Generating the page is the easy part. Everything that makes it survive the second edit is not.
Read →Most e-commerce tutorials assume the card clears before you ship. In Nepal it usually does not. That one assumption changes the whole system.
Read →A resort in far-western Nepal needed one system for reservations, housekeeping, restaurant and billing. The hard constraints had nothing to do with software.
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