An almanac is a compendium of useful information: astronomical data, forecasts, recipes, articles on current topics, folklore. When I was growing up on a farm in West Virginia, the farmer's almanac was always lying around. These are mine.
Number One
Almanac
for the Year 2026
being the second after Leap Year
Containing the Tools of the Trade, the Infrastructure of the Sciences, & sundry Writings
Agentic tools
- felt — searchable, connected Markdown notes that keep decisions and context across agent sessions.
- Shuttle — agent orchestration across machines and HPC centres, with written tasks and a board for following the work.
- hark — live meeting transcription with speaker labels, written to a file an agent can follow.
Science infrastructure
- UNIONS production dashboard — live progress of DR6 full-footprint shape-catalogue production.
- ShapePipe & sp_validation — contributions to CosmoStat's galaxy-shape measurement and weak-lensing catalogue validation pipelines.
- UNIONS B-mode validation paper — also published reproducibly as a MySTRA report.
Writing
- Science & AI — what happens when machine scientific output exceeds human verification, with an interactive graph of epistemic claims.