scalable cadence outlasts inspiration

the plan

calendar

one publish a week, fifty-two for 2026. courses where the topic earns the depth; articles for the rest. past entries link to live content. future entries are subject to the experiment.

  1. 21 done
  2. w22 current
  3. 30 planned
  4. 11 courses
  5. 41 articles

January 2026

  1. w01 05 Jan article /meta training as a way to learn
  2. w02 12 Jan course /ai agentcore launch
  3. w03 19 Jan article /ai what claude code's hooks taught me about agent design
  4. w04 26 Jan article /craft typescript types as documentation

February 2026

  1. w05 02 Feb article /scale pre-mortems beat post-mortems
  2. w06 09 Feb article /ai prompt caching costs less than you think
  3. w07 16 Feb course /scale team topologies launch
  4. w08 23 Feb article /ai structured outputs: claude vs openai

March 2026

  1. w09 02 Mar article /craft git bisect: the bug-finder you forgot
  2. w10 09 Mar article /ai tool use error handling patterns in typescript
  3. w11 16 Mar article /scale the senior ic who isn't a lead
  4. w12 23 Mar course /ai agentic patterns launch
  5. w13 30 Mar article /craft illegal states unrepresentable

April 2026

  1. w14 06 Apr article /ai eval-driven prompt iteration
  2. w15 13 Apr article /craft the editor as a force multiplier
  3. w16 20 Apr article /scale the production readiness review
  4. w17 27 Apr course /ai claude agent sdk launch

May 2026

  1. w18 04 May article /craft template literal types, in practice
  2. w19 11 May article /scale meaningful reporting
  3. w20 18 May article /ai spec-kit, in practice
  4. w21 25 May article /craft shipping an oauth-protected mcp server

June 2026

  1. w22 01 Jun course /craft ts types in anger launch
  2. w23 08 Jun article /scale spent the week debugging a kid's school project instead
  3. w24 15 Jun article /ai wrote it on the train, autocorrect ate the punchline
  4. w25 22 Jun article /craft promised the family no laptops on saturday, lost saturday
  5. w26 29 Jun course /scale sat down to write at 5am, a kid joined me at 5:02

July 2026

  1. w27 06 Jul article /ai accidentally pushed to main, accidentally on a friday
  2. w28 13 Jul article /craft kept a tab open for three days, never actually opened it
  3. w29 20 Jul article /ai one of the kids learned to spell regression before i did
  4. w30 27 Jul course /ai lost the draft to a node_modules incident, no questions

August 2026

  1. w31 03 Aug article /craft promised this one would be short, wrote 2400 words, can't post
  2. w32 10 Aug article /scale forgot what i meant to write, didn't write it down, here we are
  3. w33 17 Aug article /ai drafted in a notes app that doesn't sync, somehow
  4. w34 24 Aug article /craft tried voice memos, mostly recorded the dishwasher
  5. w35 31 Aug course /scale couldn't find a tone that wasn't smug, kept rewriting

September 2026

  1. w36 07 Sept article /ai the dayjob shipped a thing, i had to actually work this week
  2. w37 14 Sept article /craft opened the editor seven times, closed it seven times
  3. w38 21 Sept article /ai a kid asked what eval means, lost the thread for two hours
  4. w39 28 Sept course /craft sat down to write, wife asked is it monday already

October 2026

  1. w40 05 Oct article /scale let the topic go stale, three other people published it first
  2. w41 12 Oct article /ai kept procrastinating with a side branch, now it's a project
  3. w42 19 Oct article /craft the cat sat on the keyboard, autocomplete did the rest
  4. w43 26 Oct course /ai wrote it, hated it, wrote it again, hated that too

November 2026

  1. w44 02 Nov article /craft built a feature flag for the writing slot, missed the writing slot
  2. w45 09 Nov article /scale tried to outsource it to claude, claude tried to outsource it back
  3. w46 16 Nov article /ai the older kids debated my premise for forty minutes, lost the slot
  4. w47 23 Nov article /craft published a draft as final, took it down, blamed dns
  5. w48 30 Nov course /scale booked a meeting at the writing time, eight weeks running

December 2026

  1. w49 07 Dec article /ai youngest unplugged the router during autosave, of course
  2. w50 14 Dec article /craft wrote it on a saturday, sounded like a saturday, deleted it
  3. w51 21 Dec article /ai tried to publish from my phone, clipboard had something else in it
  4. w52 28 Dec article /meta fell asleep mid-sentence, woke up to a paragraph of g's
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