From the notebook
Field Notes
Not every useful lesson begins with a marketing brief. Some start with rebuilding an old radio, attending a community event, or turning a job search upside down to see what falls out.
Field Notes is where I keep the projects, experiments, and observations that do not belong in the site’s professional categories. They are less tidy by design. The method is still familiar: make something, pay attention, and write down what survived contact with reality.
What tends to show up here
- Side projects and practical experiments
- Career and community observations
- Lessons that travelled back into the work
Notes on Field Notes
Codegarden 2019 Recap — H5YR
A practical recap from Codegarden 2019 covering Umbraco 8, team learning, empathy, accessibility, and the community side of the event.
How Do You Hire Your Own Boss?
An unconventional job search experiment: reverse the hiring process, publish what you want, and let your network surface the right opportunities.
Let’s Build a Raspberry Pi Retro Radio
How I rebuilt a 1940s Bang & Olufsen radio into a modern streaming device using a Raspberry Pi and Volumio.
Codegarden 2018 Recap
My first Codegarden recap: Umbraco community, festival energy, V8 and headless previews, and practical lessons I took home.