Field Notes

Field Notes

The archive, 2024 to January 2026.

Two years of weekly notes, kept at their addresses. The current notes are on the front page.

Archive
All Good Things
January 7, 2026
How to Kill an Eel
December 31, 2025
A Time of Gifts
December 24, 2025
My Last Ever To-Do List
December 17, 2025
High Profile
December 10, 2025
Strike While the Oven is Hot
December 3, 2025
Just Keep Baking
November 25, 2025
When I Paint My Masterpiece
November 18, 2025
LLM to GTD
November 11, 2025
Decision Analysis Service Launch
November 4, 2025
AI Saved My Mom $2,400/Year on her Verizon Bills
October 30, 2025
Built a Better Mousetrap
October 22, 2025
Killer App
October 15, 2025
Oh. This Changes Everything.
October 8, 2025
The Poetry Industrial Complex
October 1, 2025
I'm Kinda a Big Deal
September 24, 2025
Ivan's AI Assistant Here
September 17, 2025
A Plague on Both Your OSes
September 10, 2025
Those Dam Machines
September 3, 2025
Snailed It
August 27, 2025
Alien Intelligence
August 20, 2025
Shark Strong
August 13, 2025
Walrussian
August 6, 2025
I'm Walking Here
July 30, 2025
Convention City Magnet Program
July 23, 2025
With AI We're All Citizen Developers
July 16, 2025
Vibe Ops
July 9, 2025
The Seattle AI Crowd
July 2, 2025
Goodbye Power Platform
June 26, 2025
The Runny Egg Problem
June 18, 2025
MVP
June 11, 2025
The Mullet Method
June 4, 2025
Hallucinations Are Irrational
May 27, 2025
Monkey See Monkey Do
May 21, 2025
Hives
May 14, 2025
Speed Humps
May 7, 2025
Hitting Paydirt
April 30, 2025
Whale's-Eye View
April 23, 2025
Breaking Down Silos: The Monorepo Approach for Solo Founders
April 16, 2025
Using GitHub Copilot for Metadata Extraction and Documentation of Power Platform Solutions
April 9, 2025
Fast Food: How I got a 20x speed boost on a Power Automate flow
April 2, 2025
Skunk Works
March 26, 2025
Now's the Time: Open-Source Power Platform
March 19, 2025
Stripes
March 12, 2025
Using Flask and Power Automate to Host a Web Page/Web Application
March 5, 2025
Mountaineering
February 26, 2025
I Don't Belong Here
February 19, 2025
From Low Code to Slow Code: How I learned TDD from LFL
February 12, 2025
Automating Document Summarization with Power Automate Desktop and PowerShell
February 5, 2025
Elevator Pitch
January 29, 2025
Much ADO: Trying Azure DevOps for Power Platform Solution Migration
January 22, 2025
Project Grasshopper: DIY Pipelines with PowerShell and PAC CLI
January 15, 2025
10 Lessons Learned About DevOps in Power Platform
January 8, 2025
Re: Solutions
January 1, 2025
Happy Holidays!
December 25, 2024
Pennies from Redmond
December 18, 2024
Three Stories from Convention City Seattle
December 11, 2024
Three-Ring Circus
December 4, 2024
Follow the Beat: A Rhythmic Approach to Networking
November 27, 2024
Ignition Successful
November 20, 2024
Let\'s Make Some Cards!
November 13, 2024
Checking out the other team
November 6, 2024
The Human Touch: Can DMOs Outperform AI in Travel Planning?
October 30, 2024
This is the best time to start a business
October 23, 2024
Let's make plans
October 16, 2024
Rhino Mode: Charging into DevOps with GitHub Copilot
October 9, 2024
Automating Metadata Generation with Power Automate and GPT
October 2, 2024
Spike IKE
September 24, 2024
Community
September 17, 2024
Collect, Share, Understand: A New Vision for Guest Services with QR Cards
September 11, 2024
Spike IKE
September 5, 2024
Concurrency
September 4, 2024
Tenacity
August 28, 2024
Breakthrough
August 21, 2024
Clever Yarn
August 14, 2024
The Cuddler
August 7, 2024
The Octopus
July 31, 2024
4 simple rules from a startup founder
July 24, 2024
Environment Strategy
July 17, 2024
A Case for Cards
July 10, 2024
Tree or dinosaur?
July 3, 2024
How to read a clock
June 26, 2024
My 9-track mind
June 19, 2024
Sorry for the Vaporware
June 12, 2024
Peak QR Code
June 5, 2024
Recipe for dynamic, deep-linked QR Codes in Power Platform
May 29, 2024
Pigeon Idols
May 22, 2024
Ugly Ducklings
May 15, 2024
Traffic Management 101
May 8, 2024
Citizen Satoshi
May 1, 2024
Kill Bull
April 24, 2024
Building a future-proof database of neighborhoods
April 17, 2024
Who's That Armadillo?
April 10, 2024
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Turning a shoe store into a tourism guide
April 3, 2024
Foot for thought
March 27, 2024
Sink or Swim: Creating Space for Citizen Developers
March 20, 2024
Back-of-Envelope: When Does Power Platform Make Sense?
March 13, 2024
How to make dresses (or databases)
March 6, 2024
Eight Days in the Dataverse
February 28, 2024
Announcing: Certification Skills Explorer
February 21, 2024
How I Fell in Love with Power Platform
January 28, 2024
If the World is Eating Software, Who's Doing the Cooking?
January 21, 2024