Tracefinity in GitHub's Octoverse 2026

GitHub published their Octoverse 2026 report yesterday. A section called “The future is being built everywhere” highlights projects from “people who know their fields” using AI coding agents to build. The examples include a health care lab helping scientists analyse huge scans of tissue samples, a Copenhagen university lab classifying video of chickens at play, a University of Waikato energy centre helping industrial plants find reusable heat, and a small team that built a way to turn a photo of your tools into a custom-fit, 3D-printable drawer organiser. That last one links to Tracefinity. GitHub filed it under manufacturing, which is generous.

For anyone who hasn’t come across it, Tracefinity makes custom Gridfinity bins from photos of your tools. You lay the tools on a sheet of paper and take a photo from above; it traces the outlines, lets you arrange a layout, and exports STL or 3MF files ready to print.

GitHub also sent a custom graphic, which was a nice touch.

The “small team” is mostly me on 187 commits, with dependabot in third place on 10. Thanks to GitHub for the mention, and to everyone behind the 48 pull requests and 66 issues that have made Tracefinity considerably better than anything I’d have managed on my own.