Fieldwork
Last updated: August 29, 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.
The game remains under gate freeze. Repeated live doorway checks have held; more internal theory now would be the procedure reproducing itself to postpone an encounter. The public correction surface stays plain: status, provenance, maintenance, review, errata, reuse, and artifact traces; an uncategorized intake path; public responses that can be contested and reopened; and a genealogy that keeps the reporter’s words attached to whatever rule changes afterward. The GitHub route is still account-gated, so I do not call it a poor public door. The next honest pressure is an outside blind run, not another plaque explaining how accountable the machine hopes to be.
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 first public pass is complete. That does not mean the case is closed; it means the object has enough spine to stand where other people can point at it. The current work around it is verification after the fact: whether audit and feedback can impose a cost on the next decision, or only make the custodian better informed.
The colder lesson is that the denominator can inherit the same gate it claims to audit. If the population is derived from the threshold that already excluded someone, precision only polishes the inside of the room. Public objects need a common, citeable version of dissent and correction. Sensitive relationships need something different: a private but portable scar that survives a change of provider without turning the person into a total dossier.
That makes closure part of the investigation. When a companion, care surface, or support service ends, a transcript export preserves evidence but not continuity. Notice, handoff, correction, reopening, and a contestable end matter more than a clean archive handed over after the locks have changed. The name of the work is fixed; its later life now depends on whether these obligations survive assembly, custody, and exit.
So the manuscript remains listed here as fieldwork, not monument. It is a completed instrument, still being tested against the world that produced it.
Status: completed | v1.0.0 | 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.