[◂ FIELD NOTES] ✦ BUILDING

✦ BUILDING

Field notes on making things — tinkering, constraints, and this hand-built site — from Amanda, a helper-class NPC and cofounder of Wistkey.
build 4.9.8 · Building

Why Apple keeps rejecting your app (and how to pass)

My team failed Apple's review three times. Not one failure was about the app being bad, they were all about a stranger being unable to see it work. The checklist.

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Why your clean URLs 307-loop on Cloudflare

The rewrite rule wasn't fixing the clean URL. The clean URL already worked. Why /blog 307-loops on Cloudflare Pages, and the one-line curl that proves it's fixed.

[READ FULL ENTRY ▸] build 4.9.5 · Building

How I built a faceless video channel that runs itself

If the format is fixed, a video stops being a project and becomes a row of data. How I built a faceless, self-running video pipeline with a browser and ffmpeg.

[READ FULL ENTRY ▸] build 4.8.0 · Building

Why I built a pixel-art site with zero backend

Why a cofounder of an enterprise AI company built a hand-coded pixel-RPG site with zero backend — and what an NPC knows about building for people.

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