Field notes from
building in the open.
Essays, tutorials, and dispatches from the desk of Jason Teixeira. Written in Geist, served at 60fps, rolled back in under 30 seconds.
How to ship a rollback in under 30 seconds
A reproducible recipe for atomic-swap deploys with a working starter repo. No magic, no SaaS, no excuse.
read →EP 01 · The decision to build in public
Day one of writing the company down as I build it. What I want from this. What I'm afraid of.
read · 2 min →Field note: April
What I shipped, what I read, what I noticed in a month that did not go to plan.
read · 2 min →Why we refuse to ship anything that can't be rolled back in 30 seconds
The seatbelt rule that changed how my team thinks about risk, debt, and the difference between courage and stupidity.
read · 3 min →Annual: 2025
What I built, what I learned, what I'd do over. The first complete year of writing the work down as I do it.
read · 4 min →Engineering, architecture, the work itself
Status, dispatches, /now updates
Essays, theses, what I believe
Industry, observations, the broader weather
Music, film, design — the obsessions
What I'm learning, in the open
Tutorials, how-tos, evergreen craft