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Table of Contents
1. current focus
- 2026-09 bac and P-99
- 2026-09 building the display sink
- 2026-09 rolling claude code upgrades from a running session
- 2026-09 claude code in a bastille jail on freebsd 15.1
- 2026-09 forgetting and attribution
- 2026-09 five boundaries, four isolations
- 2026-09 shipping the model
- 2026-07 logic for programmers tools
- 2026-07 muse spark 1.1 read as agent loops
- 2026-07 grinding a PRD until it breaks
- 2026-07 refinement loop across heterogeneous systems
- 2026-06 code-search and code-graph MCP servers on FreeBSD
- 2026-06 type systems, one tool four ways
- 2026-06 annotation systems
- 2026-06 arithmetic by HTTP redirect, proved to halt
- 2026-06 property-testing the crowsnest client
- 2026-06 choreographic prompting
- 2026-06 pbt shrink discipline
- 2026-06 shared repl as gossip protocol
- 2026-05 pocket-es
- 2026-05 agent memory architectures
- 2026-05 repl-driven compliance pipeline
- 2026-05 repl-driven flight tracking
- 2026-05 the cljs shared-core port, four rounds
- 2026-05 trust boundaries as a typed category
- 2026-04 goldberry frontend invariants
- 2026-04 claude code workshop
- 2026-04 cli coding agents Q2 2026
- 2026-04 qwen3.6 and the kv cache constraint
- 2026-04 cloudflare agents week 2026
- 2026-04 claude code features Q2
- 2026-02 agent isolation with freebsd jails
- 2026-01 elenctic vibe code review
- 2026-01 claude code + ollama
- 2026-01 freebsd 15.0 upgrade
- 2026-01 agentic workflow with claude code
- 2026-01 agentic systems 2026
- 2026-01 lean4 on freebsd 15.0
- 2026-01 tla+ system design
2. past
2.1. 2025
- 2025-12 ads-b flight tracking
- 2025-12 unix v4 (games)
- 2025-12 agent token exchange
- 2025-12 beads/bd
- 2025-11 multi-agent frameworks
- 2025-10 pulumi idp
- 2025-10 go agentic workshop
- 2025-09 terminal ai agents
- 2025-09 rust
- 2025-07 wave client for emacs
- 2025-05 local-first software
2.2. 2024
- 2024-12 agentic systems q4
- 2024-10 mcp research
- 2024-09 repolens
- 2024-09 harvard cs50 ai
- 2024-08 structured output
- 2024-08 aif-c01
- 2024-07 apl
- 2024-06 software umwelt
- 2024-04 advanced python
- 2024-03 tla+ system design
2.3. 2023
- 2023-11 openai models
- 2023-11 interlisp
- 2023-10 fine-tuning
- 2023-10 summarizing agents
- 2023-06 local-first
2.4. 2020–2022
- 2022-07 systems design
- 2022-03 api federation
- 2021-12 software design and architecture
- 2021-08 katas
- 2021-07 kubeflow
- 2021-05 terraform patterns
- 2021-04 dynamodb
- 2021-03 libpython-clj2
- 2021-02 machine learning design patterns
- 2020-12 domain-driven design
- 2020-07 graphql
- 2020-07 icfp 2020
- 2020-06 scheme
- 2020-06 jq
- 2020-03 ci/cd
- 2020-01 lambda and terraform
2.5. 2016–2019
- 2019-12 clojure+graphql
- 2019-06 technology radar
- 2019-06 reagent cookbook
- 2019-04 model interpretability and fairness
- 2019-04 deeplens
- 2019-02 machine learning pipelines
- 2019-01 sklearn
- 2018-09 reagent ui components
- 2018-03 design driven apis
- 2017-06 reagent tooling
- 2016-12 clojure/conj and clojure.spec
- 2016-11 dataLayer schema
- 2016-10 identity and lending with blockchain
- 2016-10 blockchain border bank
- 2016-09 stochastic
- 2016-06 fe design and tooling
- 2016-02 rust
2.6. 2009–2015
- 2016-01 project gamr
- 2015-12 json-api
- 2015-09 food ontology
- 2015-06 video conferencing
- 2015-05 collaboration scoring and dashboard
- 2015-06 polymer
- 2015-02 patent disclosure
- 2014-04 linked resources favicon.ico requests
- 2013-06 gpg public key for clojars
- 2013-02 delayed load and facebook review
- 2012-12 scrubby
- 2012-12 hashcode
- 2012-11 javascript ast statistics
- 2012-11 grunt release with git-flow and puppet
- 2012-10 800 trackers by top sites (original)
- 2012-09 cors
- 2012-07 promises and animation
- 2012-06 try/catch/finally
- 2012-05 security enforcing javascript
- 2012-05 iframe accessibility
- 2012-04 global execution context
- 2011-12 app cache expiration
- 2011-09 chrome ide
- 2011-07 social sharing +1, gigya, sharethis, addthis widget comparison
- 2011-07 facebook javascript sdk oauth update
- 2011-03 window.history.pushstate
- 2010-12 facebook friends shared interests
- 2010-11 below the fold analytics
- 2010-11 linkedin javascript api
- 2010-10 jqtouch theming for m.wal.sh
- 2010-10 facebook seattle office opening party shared interests procedure
- 2010-09 encode fonts in css data uris
- 2010-06 login form + heavy content
- 2010-04 page speed vs. yslow!
- 2009-12 @anywhere api review
- 2009-11 a/b test (ga)
- 2009-10 open graph fb:like
- 2009-09 open graph social widgets
- 2006-06 poll UI / UX anti-patterns
- 2009-11 a/b test (ga)
- 2009-10 open graph fb:like and publishing
- 2009-09 open graph social widgets and fbml poc
- 2006-06 poll UI / UX anti-patterns and click tracking
3. events
Upcoming: PLDI (Jun 15) · FLOC (Jul 13) · LICS (Jul 20) · GopherCon (Aug 3) · Hot Chips (Aug 23) · ICFP (Aug 24) · SPLASH (Oct). Full list to
- (racketcon) (Brown, 2020, Providence, Northwestern, UW Seattle, UMass Boston)
- advent of code (2021 (virtual))
- ai impact tour – san francisco (2024)
- agents of impact (2026 boston) — aws + dynatrace; bedrock and agentcore labs, agent orchestration and governance
- anthropic partner series (2026 webinar) — will larson on roadmapping by open decisions rather than dates
- aws infrastructure day (2024)
- aws innovate 2019: ai edition
- babashka (2023 berlin, 2026 amsterdam)
- beam summit (2023 nyc)
- berklee aims (2026 boston) — ai music summit, generative music, holly herndon keynote
- boston intersystems developers (2026 cambridge) — ai meetup & mixer; intersystems iris, clinical-ai privacy
- bugbash (2026 dc) — antithesis, software correctness, DST, formal methods
- clojure/conj & clojure/west (2012+, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2024)
- computefest 2019: interpretability and fairness
- def con (18+, 19, 21, 27, 32)
- djangocon europe (2020)
- dutch clojure days (2026 amsterdam)
- els (2026 kraków) — european lisp symposium, MOP, codegen, CL implementations
- emacsconf (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- gdg (yeoman / grunt / bower)
- git merge (2026 lisbon) — git + jujutsu, gitbutler/openai/gitlab, version control for agentic dev
- github copilot dev days (2026 boston) — AICamp, agent harness surface, CLI tooling
- goatmire elixir & nervesconf eu (2026 varberg) — nerves 2.0, atomvm, formal verification for iot alerting
- google developers ai/ml devfest (2020 (virtual))
- google i/o (2010, 2012)
- healthcare nlp summit (2024 (virtual))
- hot chips (2026 palo alto) — HC38, high-performance chips, CPU/GPU/memory architecture
- icfp (2026 indianapolis) — miniKanren workshop, relational programming
- ignite (2009, #46 (2024))
- juliacon (2017)
- latch-up (2024 boston)
- barbara grosz lecture (2026 harvard) — jon kleinberg on world models and the mismatch that sets people up to fail
- libreplanet (2014, 2016, 2024)
- llvm developers (2020 (virtual))
- nescala (2023 (virtual))
- odsc east (2019)
- pycon (2024 (virtual))
- pytorch conference (2025, 2026 san jose) — agentic AI, RL post-training, ExecuTorch
- re:invent (2020 (virtual))
- rustconf (2016, 2019, 2025, 2026 montréal) — tenth anniversary; std-library proofs, BorrowSanitizer, gccrs on the kernel
- smallcon (2024 (virtual))
- pldi (2026 boulder) — PAgE agentic engineering workshop, egraphs, Nitro isolation
- popl (2025 denver)
- splash (2011, 2013, 2020 (virtual), 2023, 2024, 2026 oakland)
- strange loop (2023 st louis)
- tsconf (2019, 2020, 2021)
- velocity (2011)
- vivatech (2018, 2024 paris)
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