Yearly Archives: 2026
I Have a Particular Set of Agent Skills
How modular “skills” are transforming AI coding agents in Cursor, Claude Code, Grok Build, Codex, and OpenCode
If you’ve spent any time with modern AI coding tools, you’ve probably felt the struggle I have to get consistency and quality from the agent. The more you try to make the AI...
OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF: The Observability Standard That Won Hearts and...
TL;DR OpenTelemetry (OTel) just hit CNCF graduation, cementing its place as the de facto, vendor-neutral standard for collecting metrics, logs, and traces. After seven years of community grinding, it’s production-ready, wildly adopted, and perfectly timed for the AI + cloud-native complexity explosion.
I’ve spent years in the trenches watching observability...
Schematik Raises $4.6M Pre-Seed to Turn Plain English Into Working Hardware
TL;DR - Schematik is a super cool AI platform that lowers barriers for makers, hobbyists, and kids building with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.
I was very excited to see Schematik hit the news this week. Schematik is an AI tool that generates complete hardware projects from natural language descriptions....