Field Notes is an ongoing technical journal documenting work at the intersection of creative technology applications, scientific communication, media systems, AI workflows, and digital infrastructure.
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- July 18, 2026
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applied-ai
Applied AI in the messy middle: assistants, pipelines, production systems, evaluation problems, and human decisions around when models are actually useful.
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OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav —an application that was already built, deployed,…
4 min
10
Expertise Without PermissionA working-class reflection on AI, expertise, and gatekeeping. The piece argues that expertise is real, but access to it has always been shaped by class, credentials, and permission. AI disrupts that arrangement by letting more people…
9 min
09
A Machine for Cross-Examining My GreedSignal Desk is a local AI-powered investment research desk I built precisely because I don’t know enough about investing to trust my own instincts. It turns scattered curiosity about AI companies, infrastructure, robotics, sensors,…
6 min
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The Ghost SwitcherPart three closes the series by moving from prototype to stakes: a real venue-network failure in London where the remote producer was disconnected, the stream dropped, and the online audience was left staring into the void. From that…
10 min
06
The Show Has a SpinePart two follows the project from portable livestream workflow into live system architecture, opening with a makeshift hotel-room lab in Killarney where OBS, ATEM control, testing sources, and early automation experiments began…
9 min
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Notes on the Yellow PelicanPart one of this three-part series traces Autonomous Producer back to its practical origin: portable livestream kits built as conferences returned in person while online access remained essential. What began as yellow cases, hand-cut…
7 min
04
Rebuilding My Portfolio With AI, Static HTML, and Stubborn TasteThe original version of my portfolio was built in 2021 from downloaded themes, hand-edited HTML, layered CSS overrides, and an unreasonable number of animated GIFs. The visual identity still felt right, but the underlying structure…
10 min