Field Notes
Field Notes
Engineering case studies behind the tools I build: the decisions, the limits, and the evidence behind each one.
September 06, 2026
The cache that never hit once
I shipped Origin Trace, came back a month later to measure it, and found the demo broken. The culprit was not Wikipedia. It was the layer I had written to make it fast.
September 05, 2026
Lucid: engineering applied to auditing document clarity
How I turned ABNT NBR ISO 24495-1 recommendations into traceable checks, regression tests, and suggestions that keep the decision human.