Field notes
Notes from the
edge of the network
Short write-ups on building for low-bandwidth environments — the design decisions, the mistakes, and what breaks when the users are 600 km away. Written slowly, from experience.
01 · July 2026 · Form design
Designing forms for connections that drop
What happens to a person's work when the link disappears halfway through? Default to normal, one read one write, and treat the network as your least reliable user.
Read the note → 02 · July 2026 · Data modellingModelling data nobody agrees on
Nine units, nine spellings of the same field office. On reference tables as negotiations, and why the location list is the real project.
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03 · Planned · Support
What breaks when the users are 600 km away
Remote support without site visits: what you can fix over a bad link, what you can't, and what that means for how you build in the first place.
Coming