Week 21 of 2026
Table of Contents
1. Summary
137 commits across May 19-23. Three major threads: visual consistency (diagrams + design system), bot governance (bot contract), and flight tracking narrative restructure.
2. Diagrams and Visual System
- Standardized all 85+ dot files to canonical Tailwind pastel palette
- Created 36 new diagrams across 16 research pages
- Converted 12 mermaid blocks to graphviz dot (agentic-systems-q4-2024)
- Published diagram style guide, dataviz style guide, design system
- Greyscale 728x90 banners site-wide (22 pages)
- Matplotlib example plots for dataviz guide (bar, line, scatter, heatmap, gnuplot)
3. Design System
- Wordmark CSS component (wal.sh with accent dot)
- Sticky full-width frosted header
- Eyebrow breadcrumbs (monospace uppercase with blue dot)
- File modification date in breadcrumb line
- Section numbering enabled globally
- Section dividers between h2 headings
- ToC rendered as white card
- Heading anchor # with copy-to-clipboard
- Color swatches JS for inline hex codes
- Tracking pixel (t.gif) for engagement events
4. Bot Governance
- Published bot contract page (Walsh-Research v2026.1)
- UA:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Walsh-Research/1.0; +https://wal.sh/bot/) - Machine-readable blocklist at /.well-known/walsh-research/blocklist.json
- JSON Schema for blocklist validation
- Compliance spec with pre-request gate and backoff diagrams
- Bot attestation research (four-tier framework from access-log study)
- Dogfood test page blocked by robots.txt
- /blocklist skill for adding domains
- Amazonbot Crawl-delay: 60, Bytespider: 30 in robots.txt
5. Flight Tracking
- Restructured as thesis → contracts → case studies
- Split case studies into includes/ (composable org pattern)
- Added January winter storm and March 16 peak stubs
- ATCSCC advisory dataset expanded to 503 days (Jan 2025 — May 2026)
- Gnuplot rolling 30-day mean chart with anomaly detection
- FAA ground stop cascade timeline (167 advisories on May 19)
- Removed fixtures-first section (mocking isn't novel)
- Removed web log signals section (moved to private gist)
6. Events
- GopherCon 2026 Seattle (70 sessions, agentic Go workshops)
- Tech Week Boston 2026 (a16z AI+Infra track)
- Semantic Layer Summit 2026
- Paris TypeScript #47 with SVG diagrams
7. Research
- Agent memory systems (JITIR vs field)
- EDA + actor model 2026 update (Pekko, Durable Objects, Orleans)
- GraphQL enriched (413 → 1578 lines)
- Graphviz deep dive (DOT grammar, wisent parser, ob-dot)
- Org-mode include patterns documented
- 289 synthetic placeholder beads cleaned up
8. Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Commits | 137 |
| New diagrams | 36 |
| Beads closed | 306 |
| Smoke test | 57 pass, 0 fail |
| Pages with dates | all |
| Bot policy | v2026.1 |