Tech Journal
This shelf tracks the engineering side of the archive: tools, interfaces, product behavior, operational edges, and the small system details that tend to compound.
Shelf access
- Open the full archive shelf: Tech journal shelf
- Move to Field Notes for broader fragments and non-engineering topics.
- Move to Mechanical Watch for the flagship interactive on the simulation-heavy side of the technical writing.
Recent log entries
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Jun 18, 2026- DeepSeek V4 - CSA and HCA attention for 1M context at 75% cheaper -
Jun 18, 2026- GLM-5.2 becomes the new open-weights leader -
Jun 18, 2026- Adam - open source text-to-CAD -
Jun 18, 2026- Lore - Epic open source next-gen VCS -
Jun 18, 2026- Tesco moving 40k workloads off VMware after Broadcom price hikes -
Jan 25, 2026- Structured incident packets automate postmortem drafting - An engineering note on turning incident evidence into a faster drafting surface. -
Jan 22, 2026- Replay aware canary analysis compares policy outcomes - A quick read on canary analysis when the real risk is hidden policy drift. -
Jan 19, 2026- Runtime entitlement snapshots speed breach containment - Tracks the operational edge of preserving access state at the moment a system starts failing. -
Jan 16, 2026- Policy diff graph tests catch chained regressions - A tooling fragment on graph diffs as a better pre-merge lens for governance systems. -
Sep 20, 2025- Memory tombstone indexes verify deletion propagation across caches - A systems note on deletion guarantees in layered memory and cache workflows.
Reading posture
- Follow recurring system patterns rather than individual tools.
- Look for interface decisions, failure points, and workflow leverage.
- Use the archive like an engineering logbook.