Journal
May 15, 2026
Account Abstraction Explained: The Rise of Smart Wallets in 2026
EIP-4337 shipped four years ago and spent three of them as a technology in search of a use case. That's changing. Passkey signing, gasless transactions, and session keys are starting to show up in products people actually use.
May 6, 2026
AI Model Deployment Challenges in 2026: Why Small Language Models Are Winning
Explore AI model deployment challenges in 2026 and why small language models (3B–8B parameters) are winning in production. Learn cost optimization strategies, deployment patterns, and when to choose SLMs over frontier APIs.
Apr 28, 2026
Claude Code vs Cursor in 2026: Which AI Coding Assistant Is Better for Developers?
Compare Claude Code vs Cursor in 2026. Explore coding performance, context handling, pricing, and real-world use cases to choose the best AI coding assistant.
Apr 19, 2026
Claude vs Copilot in 2026: Which AI Coding Assistant Wins for Developers
Compare Claude vs Copilot in 2026. Explore coding performance, context handling, pricing, and real-world use cases to choose the best AI coding assistant.
Apr 12, 2026
Most teams don't need Kubernetes
The default infrastructure choice for a five-engineer team should not be the same as the default for Google. The operational tax of Kubernetes is real, and for most teams a single VM with Docker Compose is the boring, correct answer.
Apr 4, 2026
RAG in 2026: what actually changed
Long-context models did not kill retrieval. They moved the line: what to retrieve, when to retrieve, and what the model should do with the chunks it gets. Here's the current map.