Field Notes

Infrequent, significant, long-form pieces: pattern catalogs and deep dives that don't fit the regular blog cadence.

Ship the Proof: A Field Guide to the Series

A field guide to the ten-part Ship the Proof series: what it argued as a whole, five themes it moved through, and links to each part plus the bonus post for depth.

Can Replicated SQLite Carry Multi-Region, Per-Customer Apps?

A neutral survey of Litestream, LiteFS, libSQL/Turso and Cloudflare D1 as replication paths for WAL-mode SQLite in database-per-customer, multi-region architectures, with every claim presented alongside its adversarial qualification.

Dynamic Workflow Design Patterns

A GoF-style catalog of twenty orchestration patterns and eight anti-patterns for coordinating subagents in Claude Code dynamic workflows.