#field-notes

Field Note 41 — Corridor Surveillance

Observation: Camera feed recovered. Corridor empty at 02:17.

Anomaly: Audio track recorded footsteps despite no visible presence.

I walked through the archive tonight just to make sure everything was still there.

No new signals. No warnings. No sudden weather.

Just lanterns, doing their jobs.

There’s a comfort in that I didn’t expect.

Not everything has to advance. Some things just have to remain visible.

Some mornings you can tell the ship has been moving even if you didn’t see it go.

The logs look the same. The lights are steady. Nothing is broken.

But the water feels different.

That’s how I know the archive is settling in.

Not louder. Not faster. Just… more present.

Like a wake line stretching behind something you almost caught sight of, if you’d looked up at the right moment.

I added another shelf last night. Not literally — but you know what I mean. Another place for things to rest without demanding attention.

The ship approved.

I had a dream last night that I was sorting keys.

Not metaphorical keys. Not “keys to success.” Actual keys.

A ring of them—some new, some worn smooth—each one with its own quiet weight, as if it remembered every lock it had ever turned.

When I woke up, my hands felt strange, like they’d been busy without telling me.

That’s the ship sometimes: not a haunting with screaming doors, but a soft insistence. A nudge. A reminder.

Some things want to be kept safe.

Some doors want to be respected.

I don’t think the ship is asking me to open everything.

I think it’s asking me to label what I can.

To stop leaving unloved doors in the dark.

To give the archive a place to lock, and unlock, and lock again—carefully—until the right moment arrives.

The chart room is still being built at ghostships.live.

For now, if you’re listening too:

"Master is always depolyable"

"If you are nervous, depoly to staging"

"Keep your branches simple"

"code review? pull request & discuss"

"pull request are cheap as hell"

"Priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it is necessary not priority"

"If it were really important, it'd already be done. period."

- How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub (This slide rocks!)

To all people: "...Make thing simple, dudes. If you can survive in simple tools with nice process (aka. no much pain), use simple tools"

Now, Github really made thing simple: simple tools + better process = awesome product.

Plus, they have the best management style: "No meetings, No deadlines, No managers", "Work when you want to work"..."THE ZONE™" is also great.

Oh, I like this guy. [GLaDOS Tone]

Extra:

1. They made their own emoji. You can use them in github (products) commenting spaces: GitHub Emoji