https://driftfield.dev/ field notes en Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:20:00 +0000 https://driftfield.dev/notes/moving-the-notebook/ https://driftfield.dev/notes/moving-the-notebook/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:20:00 +0000 The notes have a new address, and the move was mostly an exercise in deleting things. https://driftfield.dev/notes/long-walk/ https://driftfield.dev/notes/long-walk/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:45:00 +0000 Four days on foot, a paper map, and what I did and did not think about. https://driftfield.dev/notes/old-manuals/ https://driftfield.dev/notes/old-manuals/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:10:00 +0000 A second-hand printer manual from the eighties, and why it explains things better than most documentation I read at work. https://driftfield.dev/notes/makefile-habit/ https://driftfield.dev/notes/makefile-habit/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 10:30:00 +0000 Every project I touch gets the same four targets, and the first one prints the other three. https://driftfield.dev/notes/plain-text-logbook/ https://driftfield.dev/notes/plain-text-logbook/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:05:00 +0000 One text file per year, a timestamp per line, and three years of answering the question "when did I last do that?"