Week 02 of 2026
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Week 02 of 2026 (2026-01-06 to 2026-01-12) weekly
Site Updates
Conference Documentation Sprint
Created 23 new conference event pages covering historical attendance:
- RacketCon: 2020 (virtual), 2022 (Brown), 2023 (Northwestern), 2024 (UW), 2025 (UMass Boston)
- EmacsConf: 2021, 2023
- DEFCON 18: Barnaby Jack's famous ATM jackpotting talk
- AWS: re:Invent 2020, Innovate 2019 AI
- TypeScript: TSConf 2020, 2021
- VivaTech: 2018, 2024 Paris
- FSF: LibrePlanet 2014, 2016, 2024
- Other: BEAM Summit 2023, Latch-Up 2024, PyCon US 2024, NEScala 2023, LLVM Dev 2020, Healthcare NLP Summit 2024, Google DevFest AI/ML 2020, AI Impact Tour SF 2024
Research Additions
- TLA+ System Design - Comprehensive 1,100+ line guide covering formal specification, model checking, Raft/2PC patterns, industry usage at Amazon/Microsoft
- Lean 4.23.0 on FreeBSD 14.3 - Setup guide documenting procfs requirement
- Wave Client for Emacs - Revival of 2009 Google Wave Protocol client (32/32 tests passing)
- 20 historical research topic scaffolds added
Research Updates
- ML Design Patterns - Added LLM/MLOps patterns (RAG, fine-tuning, feature stores)
- libpython-clj2 - Modern ML library integration examples
- Web Trackers - Updated with modern privacy context (GDPR, fingerprinting)
Infrastructure
- Makefile:
publishnow auto-deploys version.json - Fixed org-mode code literal formatting (
~~wrapping) - Removed external gist references from event files
Development Tools tools
beads/bd
Closed 16 conference documentation beads. Current stats:
- Total: 101 issues
- Open: 44
- Closed: 57
- Ready to work: 44
Multi-Agent Workflow
Used parallel subagents for conference research:
- 6 agents creating event files concurrently
- 3 agents updating research topics
- Average completion: 2-3 minutes per agent batch
Log Analysis ops
Production access log patterns (524 requests sampled):
- Bot traffic: 78% (Amazonbot, SemrushBot, Bingbot, ChatGPT-User)
- Top content: local-first, openai-models, unix-v4, agentic-workflow
- Peak hours: 12-13 UTC (morning EST)
- ChatGPT-User: 26 requests indexing the site
Reading and Research research
- TLA+ and formal methods (Leslie Lamport's work)
- Google Wave Protocol (2009 federation architecture)
- FreeBSD procfs for application compatibility
- Conference video archives (YouTube playlists, archive.org)