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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- August 5, 2026
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local-first
Local tools and publishing systems designed for control, durability, and fast iteration before anything moves to the public web.
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Dispatches from the Argument FactoryThis project began as a joke about making Sam Altman and Dario Amodei fight as badly coordinated robot boxers, but it quickly turned into something much more serious: an experiment in open models, local AI, comparative retrieval, and…
5 min
07
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
05
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