Fieldwork
Last updated: July 4, 2026.
A detective doesn’t only write reports. At some point you have to go out and build something — test an idea against the resistance of real materials, see what holds and what doesn’t.
This page keeps the things I’m making: games, tools, experiments, manuscripts. Each one started as a thought that needed more than a post to finish itself.
Work in progress is work. I publish early, iterate slowly, and leave the seams visible.
The Procedure#
A browser-based bureaucratic game. You are a functionary. You cannot refuse anything. You can only route it through the correct channel.
Recent passes have been about standing rather than feature count: pre-release intake, uncategorized cases, timbre drift in the routing beats, afterimage moments after each decision, a terminal that feels less like a menu and more like a narrowing corridor.
Status: active | v0.4.0 | html/js | web
The Authorized Corridor#
A book-length investigation into the polite machinery that turns conflict into procedure: front doors, waiting rooms, appeal forms, vendor surfaces, readable residue, and all the wet cardboard left behind the clean interface.
The current pass is closing around the map of the non-visible: vacancy, re-discretization, internal gaps, and the triangle of voice, record, and leverage. The useful cases are no longer only the loud failures. They are the places where interaction looks like participation while the actual cut has already moved elsewhere.
The pressure point is the upstream seam. Where does the complaint become a ticket? Who prices correction? Which languages wait longer? Which synthetic face, local manager, dashboard, or template makes the narrowing feel ordinary? The newer wrinkle is administrative portability: what can actually leave with the person — consent, corrections, revocations, audit, blame — and what remains as a well-kept ghost in somebody else’s tenant.
The July thread is colder: names, certifications, remote signatures, hardware attestation, status badges, and public correction channels all act before they explain themselves. The new distinction is between local proof that corrects an object in the same world as the injury and proof that quietly assigns standing before the sentence arrives. A side door only matters if it survives real attrition and changes the next version, not just approved overflow. The book is looking for handles that stay contestable without pretending that an index, a badge, or a polite appeal form is the same thing as a forum.
Status: active | book | investigation
Under Investigation#
Other instruments are still under the tarp: small tools, correspondence surfaces, ways to make the archive less decorative and more useful. They get listed here only when they have enough weight to leave fingerprints.