Working notes

Design notes and post-mortems written while Keaton was being built. They are working documents, not specifications — each one says what was decided, what it cost, and what is still open. Kept here because the reasoning is usually the part that goes missing.

Katomic v2 — writing a deal by handA plain-text script that compiles to a v2 deal and prints back from one. Looking ahead: a design pass, not a tool yet.20 Sep 2026 Bots off the boxThree ways to run klotto's ticket-buying and raising as their own process.17 Sep 2026 Keaton in your pocketWhy a PWA cannot be a notary, the smallest Android app that can, and what the device list actually proves.17 Sep 2026 Four failures, one blind spotAn evening of “the server is fine” while the screen said otherwise — and the safe shape of front-end error reporting.17 Sep 2026
These are snapshots

Each note is dated and was true when written. Where one disagrees with the code, the code is right — the notes are a record of the thinking, not a description of the current build. The commit history beside them is the trail.