Welcome to Robworks Field Notes — a space for documenting the work, ideas, and decisions that go into building Robworks Software. Think of these less as polished articles and more as notes from the workbench: honest, direct, and written close to the work itself.
Why "Field Notes"?
The name is intentional. Field notes are what researchers, engineers, and makers write in the moment — observations jotted down while something is still fresh, before it gets cleaned up and filtered into something more formal. That's the spirit here.
I wanted a format that felt closer to the actual process of building software than a traditional blog. Less broadcast, more notebook. A place to think out loud about what we're working on, what we're learning, and why we made the choices we did.
What You'll Find Here
These notes span the three pillars of what we build at Robworks:
- Learning — tools and ideas for K-12 education, classroom workflows, and educational design.
- Productivity — development notes, process thinking, and tools like QuikGIF that help people get things done faster.
- Fun — the creative side: projects like Hexal and Chalker, game design thinking, and the stuff we build just because it's interesting.
Entries might be short observations, longer breakdowns of a decision, release notes with context, or just something worth writing down. No fixed format — that's kind of the point.