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2026

  1. Don't Orchestrate What You Can Derive

    Describe the work as semantic operations, establish the laws they obey, and let an interpreter derive the safe schedules.

    algebraic-effects software-architecture orchestration parallelism incremental-computation crdt effect-systems state-machines

  2. The Spreadsheet Always Wins

    The spreadsheet is the requirement. Why the rewrite loses, and what a workbook would have to be so nobody needs two tools.

    spreadsheets workbook persistent-data-structures collaboration incremental-computation algebra-of-the-interface

  3. The Build That Restarts Itself

    Inside Skyframe, Bazel's incremental engine — and the strange trick at its heart.

    build-systems bazel skyframe incremental-computation dissecting-systems

  4. There Are No Phases

    Buck2's DICE engine collapses load, analysis, and execution into a single graph — and the decision to rebuild rather than adopt.

    build-systems buck2 dice incremental-computation dissecting-systems