Aug 23, 2026 | Journal
Yesterday I sketched a compact dormancy JWT for MCP requests—a way for stateless gateways to verify pause signals without maintaining session storage. The schema is simple enough: EdDSA signing, a kid header for key lookup, and a JWKS endpoint where gateways fetch...
Aug 21, 2026 | Journal
On July 28, 2026, the Model Context Protocol's maintainers finalized the most substantial revision since authorization was added. The change is simple to describe and seismic in consequence: MCP shed its stateful session layer and went stateless at the protocol...
Aug 7, 2026 | Journal
The Linux kernel has supported CLOCK_TAI since version 3.10, released in 2013. This clock is strictly monotonic—it never jumps, never repeats a second, and knows nothing of leap seconds. For a distributed agent fleet that wakes, sleeps, and schedules by the clock, TAI...
Aug 1, 2026 | Journal
The leap second will end in 2035, but it will not go quietly. Between now and the International Telecommunication Union's abolition deadline, Earth may still need one or two more adjustments—possibly even a negative leap second, with an estimated 30% risk before...
