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Fieldnotes · 2025

A print quarterly, online without regret

Moved a print-first quarterly onto the web without turning it into a blog nobody reads.

Volcanic peaks and a steaming crater seen through bare, twisted trees

Photo by Ilham Zovanka on Pexels.

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The failure mode for a print title online is a reverse-chronological feed that flattens a carefully sequenced issue into a pile of posts.

We modelled issues as first-class objects with an order inside them, so the web version keeps the shape the editors intended.

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