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

THE PERRANPORTH
DISPATCH

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

Opinion

Spaghettification

18 June 2026 · By Marco Mark

A black hole is any gap in what your AI agent can see or verify. Fall into one and it improvises, hallucinates, or just makes things up. How to spot them and code around them.

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.