Field Guide

Reports

Field notes, postmortems, and case studies.

The trade-off pages are evergreen. These are not. Reports capture specific incidents, decisions, and lessons — the parts of practice that don't fit a clean two-column layout.

2 reports · Markdown-driven · Updated continuously
  1. Stacked papers and a stylised pen on a warm background.
    May 6, 2026 Dan Woytowich

    Welcome to the Reports

    A short note on what these reports are and how the markdown-driven format works.

    • meta
    • getting-started
  2. Two cubes balanced on either side of a fulcrum.
    April 22, 2026 Dan Woytowich

    Build vs. buy, two years later

    We built the auth stack ourselves. Here's the bill — in engineer-months, on-call pages, and opportunity cost.

    • build-vs-buy
    • identity
    • retrospective