Weekly Update: Week 07, 2026

The day started with the biggest single chunk of work: timbers query grew --tag filtering. OR semantics, not AND — agents doing discovery want breadth, and you can always compose multiple queries to narrow down. Cobra’s StringSliceVar gives you repeated flags and comma separation for free, which is one of those small wins where the framework actually does the right thing. The filtering logic landed in entry_filter.go, extracted cleanly so export could pick it up immediately after. And it did — --tag on export was a quick follow-up, threading the flag through all three code paths (range, time, last) for consistency. ...

February 9, 2026 · rbergman

Building the Foundation

Timbers: Building a Development Log That Works for Humans and AI We’re excited to share progress on Timbers, an open-source development logging tool that bridges the gap between how developers actually work and how teams need to document that work. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shipped the core functionality, and we want to pull back the curtain on what we built, why we made certain tradeoffs, and where we need community help. ...

January 15, 2026 · rbergman