2026
Articles and demos from 2026, by month.
February
HTML is all you need
Why plans and documentation written with AI work better as HTML than as Markdown.
15 February 2026April
A scalable real-time signal system in PHP and Node.js
A method for scalable real-time signalling in PHP and Node.js.
21 April 2026July
A globally standard stylesheet
One stylesheet for plain, standards compliant HTML, instead of a sea of divs and classes.
15 July 2026August
A clock on a round ESP32 display
There's never been a better time to turn an interesting piece of hardware into something useful or fun.
20 August 2026Real-time ray tracing on a round ESP32 display
A real-time ray tracer for the round AMOLED, kept interactive by tracing at low resolution and only refining the pixels that matter.
24 August 2026Emulating a round-screen ESP32 board
An emulator for the board that runs the real firmware binary, down to how pixels reach the screen.
27 August 2026September
Gamehoster
A self-hosted engine for real-time multiplayer games, where a game is a folder of small snippets.
3 September 2026Asteroids
A real-time multiplayer game with up to 50 players in each arena.
13 September 2026Making faces
Generating faces from seeds, so that every character can be a different person.
24 September 2026Key Hunt
A real-time multiplayer game with up to 32 players in each arena.
27 September 2026October
Maintaining a PHP framework for 25 years
From copy-pasted code in a web design company to a modular monolith, one version at a time.
7 October 2026Customising AI output by owning the denoising steps
Replacing, extending and holding images and video together by running every denoising step yourself.
20 October 2026Building tools in bulk
Making a whole set of little tools at once with AI agents, instead of one at a time.
21 October 2026Static site hosting with Sitehoster
A folder named after a domain becomes an HTTPS site on your own server.
24 October 2026Too much code to read
Managing AI agents when they write more code than you can read.
26 October 2026My AI workflow in 2026
Coming to trust AI agents with real work, with a few hiccups along the way.
28 October 2026Clients bearing AI gifts
Clients increasingly arrive with something they've already built with AI coding agents.
30 October 2026