Back to M2DE Issue No. 2 · April 2026 · Perranporth

THE PERRANPORTH
DISPATCH

Things I've written. Or will write. Eventually.

Family

Mister Circus

13 April 2026 · By Marco Mark

Otto Mark of Grevenbroich-Kapellen. Master logistics coordinator. They called him Mister Circus. The story of one family at the heart of the German circus golden age.

Reflection

The Engineer That Was

13 March 2026 · By Marco Mark

A year without writing code. How everything changed, and how quickly it started feeling normal.

Opinion

Fight the Framework

11 March 2026 · By Marco Mark

Full-stack frameworks blur client and server. AI loves that about as much as it loves implicit conventions. Time to fight.

Opinion

2026: The Year of CLI Tools

6 March 2026 · By Marco Mark

The terminal is making a comeback. AI figured out what developers always knew — the command line is the most powerful runtime you've got.