Field Notes
Our perpetual process
of experimentation.
Experiments, half-built ideas, and things we’ve gotten curious about. Less essay, more margin note.
- OCT 2026
Native Apps with Claude
We built Phloat, a photo app, natively on iOS and Android in a fraction of the time it used to take. Real Swift, real Kotlin, a pivot that took as long as deciding to make it, and the judgment that still decides everything.
ai · mobile
- AUG 2026
Observation Synthesis
A prototype observation platform for Avalanche.org that reads a winter's worth of scattered field reports alongside the published forecast and puts what matters most in front of a forecaster first. Hono on Workers, Postgres, and a streaming synthesis from Claude.
ai · experiments
- JUN 2026
Magic Mirror
A custom installation that captures live footage through GoPros and throws a transformed version of it onto a wall-sized screen. Built on a custom OpenCV pipeline, running in real time at 30fps.
experiments · vision
- APR 2026
Do More With Less
When the cost of building software drops by an order of magnitude, that value has to land somewhere — and the smartest buyers capture it early. A note on the new math of software, and the judgment that still decides everything.
ai · perspective