Sitemap - 2026 - Signals from Our Futures Past

Approved by Management #26-07

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AI-Driven API Design goes on the road

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Three Things I’ve Learned About Software

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AI Like Us

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The Ship of Theseus and behavior drift

Practice Makes Progress

A long-lost meditative art

Writing is thinking (and grading is, too)

The cost of always having the answer

Going Beyond the Hyperlink

The AI Great Leap Forward (a warning)

Factories and Frontiers

A useful definition at the right time

The keyboard was never the bottleneck

The Next Big Thing Is Small (Redux)

The Whitworth layer

Weizenbaum’s Four Warnings for the AI Era

The Clever Hans Effect

Signal ping : Skill still sets the ceiling

Reading Naisbitt’s Megatrends again

Why I keep talking about affordances

Why API Stories Come Before the Spec

Shortwave: AI fatigue and the long middle of adoption

Signal ping : Schools have seen this movie before

Hypermedia is the missing control surface for AI

Shortwave: Human-centered AI is not a new idea

Signal ping : Repair before reinvention

Interoperability, not integration

Shortwave: When institutions stop thinking for themselves

Signal ping : Demand is easier to promise than to sustain

The flashlight, the forest, and the API

Shortwave: They Just Don’t Work (Yet)

Signal ping: Coordination fails before systems do

Lowering the cost of exploration in API design

Shortwave: Connecting people with machines

Signal ping : Code is easy; ownership is not

Don’t design workflows, discover them

Intelligence without a witness

Signal ping : Automation was never the point

Before the curtain rises

The architecture of digital possibility

Signal ping : AI keeps rediscovering its past

A short review of 2025