Field Notebook · Vol. 1

The notebook.

A working journal. Field notes from the AI workspace. Bugs, decisions, gotchas, infrastructure I've built and re-built. The kind of stuff I'd write in a paper notebook if my desk wasn't already covered.

Updated weekly 34 entries 2026 →

Entries

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June 2026

06 · 10 A Backup That Has Never Been Restored Is a Hope infrastructure · Postgres · backups 06 · 10 The Log Line That Appeared Twice daemon · macOS · infrastructure 06 · 10 The Queue Was in the Database the Whole Time infrastructure · Postgres · AI

April 2026

04 · 15 Building an AI Content Team: 7 Roles, 7 Agents, One Dashboard AI · agents · content 04 · 12 GEO Citability: The Goal Isn't to Look Good, It's to Get Cited content strategy · SEO · AI 04 · 10 Don't Tunnel Dev Servers: A 90-Second Near-Miss security · infrastructure · macOS 04 · 09 Convergent Logging: Your AI Workspace Has Two Histories AI · infrastructure · macOS 04 · 08 Local-First Cron Architecture for AI Workspaces AI · infrastructure · Claude Code 04 · 05 9 Ace: A VS Code Extension for Markdown Annotation and Feedback open-source · vscode · markdown 04 · 03 The Human Is the Orchestrator (and That's Where Mistakes Creep In) AI · agents · orchestration 04 · 02 Autonomous Agents Need a Director AI · agents · operations

March 2026

03 · 30 Master Source vs. Living Copies AI · workspaces · distribution 03 · 29 What I Check Before Shipping a Workspace AI · workspaces · security 03 · 27 VS Code's CustomTextEditorProvider Is the Right API for Preview Extensions VS Code · extensions · developer tools 03 · 25 My Workspace Is a Harness (and Anthropic Just Wrote the Retro) AI · Claude Code · harness 03 · 21 Automatic Model Routing Doesn't Exist Yet AI · Claude Code · model routing 03 · 17 Cost-Proportional Context Injection AI · Claude Code · context 03 · 17 I Built a Pipeline That Couldn't Deploy Itself AI · infrastructure · deployment 03 · 12 MCPs Are a Transitional Technology AI · Claude Code · MCP 03 · 11 iCloud Path Resolution Breaks AI Tool State macOS · iCloud · developer tools 03 · 11 macOS Python Quirks for AI Workspaces macOS · Python · developer tools 03 · 09 Git Branches Don't Belong in Brain Repos git · workspaces · AI 03 · 08 Your AI Coding Assistant Forgets Everything. Here's How to Fix That. AI · developer tools · Claude Code 03 · 08 Suggest, Don't Block: AI-Assisted Product Management AI · product management · operations 03 · 03 A Goal System Your AI Can Read AI · operations · OKR

February 2026

02 · 26 Multi-Repo VS Code Workspaces: Cross-Repo Agents Without Data Leaks AI · workspaces · VS Code 02 · 23 Your AI Tools Are Silently Eating Your CPU AI · developer tools · Claude Code 02 · 22 16 Claude Code from Slack: Why I Built a Local-First AI Bridge open-source · slack · claude-code 02 · 11 The NSApp Timing Trap (rumps + pyobjc) macOS · Python · pyobjc 02 · 02 LaunchAgents + iCloud Drive = Silent Failures macOS · iCloud · launchd

January 2026

01 · 28 Claude Code's Plan Mode Has a Memory Leak AI · Claude Code · developer tools 01 · 25 AI Sessions Silently Log Wrong Timezones AI · Claude Code · session logging 01 · 19 Temp Log Categorization Drift AI · workspaces · logging 01 · 12 Agent Reliability Patterns AI · agents · reliability

What this is. The Notebook is a separate surface from /writing. Writing is for finished arguments. The Notebook is for the working stream: the bug I just hit, the architecture decision I just made, the gotcha that cost me an afternoon. Lower polish, higher frequency, narrower audience. If you build with AI tools, this is the surface you'll want.