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.

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02 · Planned · Data modelling

Modelling 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