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Field notes

Archived notes on architecture, blockchain, and the craft of shipping, alongside later accounts of the work. Read the thinking behind the work, then explore the interactive Lab to try the concepts yourself.

Productivity · 12 Feb 2025

Automate Formatting of Code with Prettier and Husky

A 2025 guide to Prettier and Husky for consistent formatting and commit hooks, preserved with its original setup instructions.

Blockchain · Retrospective

Understanding DAOs — Governance You Can Read Off the Chain

A retrospective on Trivechain’s masternode-governed treasury: participation, vote weighting and the limits of executable rules.

Blockchain · Retrospective

Storing a Minister's Declarations on Trivechain

A retrospective on a 2019 Trivechain demonstration recording public declarations, with the limits of its security and adoption.

Blockchain · 11 Aug 2019

Endless Potential of Blockchain Technology

A 2019 blockchain essay, with a dated correction on permanence, transaction timestamps, privacy and randomness.

Blockchain · Retrospective

TriveAsset — Tokenizing Assets on Trivechain

A retrospective on TriveAsset: UTXO asset ownership, transaction data and tokenisation tradeoffs in the Trivechain work.

Architecture · 18 Apr 2018

Blazing Fast Serverless Site

A 2018 field note on this site’s managed infrastructure, architecture and performance measurements from that period.

Productivity · 07 Apr 2018

Maximizing my productivity while on the go

A 2018 developer workflow using a tablet as a second screen while travelling. Product details describe the setup at that time.

Productivity · 31 Mar 2018

365 Days of Procrastination

A 2018 personal note on rebuilding this website, finding time to write, and moving from study into building.