Field notes — 23 practical articles
Building, breaking, and fixing things.
Practical notes from shipping websites, business systems, networks, automation, and design. The decisions, recovery paths, and checklists are left in.
Newest field noteWeb Development · 12 September 2026 · 8 min
The Website Launch Checklist I Use for Kenyan Businesses
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Web DevelopmentThe Website Launch Checklist I Use for Kenyan Businesses
A practical pre-launch pass covering mobile money, performance, analytics, accessibility, backups, and the details clients notice first.
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Business SystemsTaking an M-Pesa Integration from Sandbox to Production
The checks that matter after STK Push works in development: callbacks, idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails, and support workflows.
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Cloud & DevOpsDeploying a Next.js Static Export to cPanel Without Surprises
A repeatable route from App Router source code to shared hosting, including trailing slashes, images, forms, and 404 behavior.
Read field noteWeb DevelopmentReact or WordPress? A Small-Business Decision Framework
Choose the tool around ownership, editing, integrations, budget, and long-term maintenance instead of developer preference.
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DesignDesigning Forms That More People Can Actually Finish
Labels, validation, focus, error recovery, field grouping, and mobile keyboards—the small decisions that determine completion rates.
Read field noteWeb DevelopmentAPI Error Handling That Users Can Trust
How to turn timeouts, duplicate requests, expired sessions, and third-party failures into predictable product behavior.
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CybersecurityA Security Baseline for a Small Office Network
A realistic first hardening pass for routers, Wi-Fi, staff devices, guest access, updates, backups, and incident ownership.
Read field noteCybersecurityA Practical Wi-Fi Audit for Growing Teams
Measure coverage, congestion, roaming, capacity, and security before buying more access points or blaming the internet provider.
Read field noteCloud & DevOpsCloud Cost Control for Small Teams
A lightweight operating rhythm for budgets, tagging, idle resources, data transfer, alerts, and cost-aware architecture.
Read field noteCloud & DevOpsUsing Docker Without Overcomplicating Deployment
Where containers create genuine consistency, where they add ceremony, and the minimum production habits worth keeping.
Read field noteCloud & DevOpsA GitHub Actions Pipeline Small Teams Can Maintain
Build a boring, visible deployment pipeline with quality gates, protected secrets, useful logs, and an uncomplicated rollback path.
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Automation & AIHow to Build n8n Workflows That Survive Real Life
Retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, credentials, alerts, and observability for automations that run after you close the laptop.
Read field noteAutomation & AISocial Media Automation Without Becoming Robotic
Automate scheduling, approvals, asset checks, and reporting while keeping judgment and conversation firmly human.
Read field noteAutomation & AITurning a Messy Spreadsheet into a Useful Dashboard
Start with decisions, define clean metrics, build a repeatable data pipeline, and give every number an owner.
Read field noteAutomation & AIGuardrails for an AI Customer-Support Assistant
Define scope, source answers, protect customer data, escalate uncertainty, and evaluate usefulness before chasing cleverness.
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DesignThe Brand Identity Handoff Clients Actually Need
A logo is only the start. Deliver usable files, clear rules, templates, ownership, and examples for real everyday decisions.
Read field noteDesignA Figma Design System for a Small Product Team
Build just enough structure—tokens, components, states, naming, and governance—to speed up work without creating a museum.
Read field noteDesignMobile-First Design for Kenyan Customers
Design for real devices, variable connectivity, one-handed use, mobile money, clear trust signals, and support when things fail.
Read field noteBusiness SystemsDesigning an E-commerce Payment Flow That Recovers Gracefully
Treat payment as a state machine, not a button: pending states, retries, callbacks, receipts, reconciliation, and support all matter.
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DesignWriting Project Case Studies That Clients Trust
Replace vague claims with context, constraints, decisions, evidence, and honest boundaries—without exposing private client information.
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Web DevelopmentHow I Built an M-Pesa Integration for a Nairobi Retailer
A walkthrough of integrating Safaricom's Daraja API—the gotchas, the architecture decisions, and how it cut payment disputes to zero.
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DesignBuilding a Brand Identity That Won Hospital Contracts
How a clear visual identity system helped MediCore Supplies secure two new hospital procurement clients in under 3 months.
Read field noteAutomation & AIAutomating Social Media with n8n—From 3 Hours to 45 Minutes
How I used n8n to connect Instagram and Facebook APIs so a small business owner spends 45 minutes instead of 3 hours on content every week.
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