Weeknotes: May 16–22, 2026

We’re shifting from a jam-packed spring into the lazy days of summer, though there’s nothing actually lazy about them. Shipped I voted in the statewide primaries this week. There were plenty of state and local races on the ballot, and I did my part to push the best candidates through to the next round. It was a good week for LocallyGrown.net. I shipped a range of improvements, from small conveniences for the market managers to performance work on the webhooks that handle email provider callbacks. The one I’m proudest of is a roughly 20x speedup on the page that lists all the products, which is the heart of the whole system. It was already fast, at least as quick as any typical e-commerce platform, but now it loads instantly. It got so fast that it exposed some infrastructure that’s normally invisible at slower speeds, so I got to clean that up too. At work I’ve been laying the groundwork to take all the great work my team did before I arrived and apply it to other new systems on the…