Looking Ahead to '26

Another year winding down.  Another year ahead.  So what will 2026 look like?

Some familiar things.  FIRST robotics build season commences shortly.  That tends to keep me busy and out of trouble until early April.  I'll do what I can to be of help to the local team, and will be volunteering at a couple of events.

I'll be back at Vindolanda in May.  

And there will be plenty of "up north" time.  Continuous grand kid sporting events.  And much to do on the Hunting Land.  Clearing brush, improving the garage, planting more feed plots.  Pulling off lots of ticks!

And what about writing?

I've been scribbling away at Detritus of Empire since 2011.  As of  late 2025 I'm approaching 3,000 posts.  The world of the internet has greatly changed since I started.  I caught the tail end of "blogging", where one's individual musings would be out there for people to follow regularly or to find accidentally.  This has become an outmoded concept.  I grudgingly added links to Facebook for most of my posts.  Probably that's how most non-bot entities find me.  But Facebook has been sinking into the swamp of AI slop and crude content for years now.

So where do people go for "content"?  Honestly I'm not sure.  Platforms arrive, attain success, get bogged down and commercialized, then fade away.  The "arc" from clever start up to pop up ads for toenail fungus cures is very short.

Maybe Substack, if that has not gone south by the time I get around to it.