Category
Field Notes
Short observations from building and running a hyperlocal network day to day.
2026-07-10 The run club around the corner Strava just added race and club event discovery. We look at what that launch gets right, what neighbourhood groups on snakken already do, and the browsing view we want to open next. Field Note 2026-06-29 An old idea, and why we're building it now The first sketches go back to university: you hear about the street party two doors down days late, while a feed cheerfully shows you a festival 500 km away. A note on an old idea, and why it finally felt worth building now. Field Note 2026-04-28 Passkeys only: no passwords to leak Snakken ships without a password field. Field notes from building passkey-only authentication for a mobile app — what got easier, what got harder, and why "we can't leak what we don't have" is worth the support cases. Field Note