Field Notes — Travis KeirBuild logs and hard-won lessons from AI, software, Solana, and the systems between them.https://traviskeir.dev/I knew the destination. The AI had the compass.https://traviskeir.dev/blog/compass-and-map/https://traviskeir.dev/blog/compass-and-map/What ten months building with AI taught me about vision, judgement, and knowing when to overrule a confident answer.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe bug with four faces (and the air-gap hiding behind all of them)https://traviskeir.dev/blog/four-faced-bug/https://traviskeir.dev/blog/four-faced-bug/Four genuine fixes, one stubborn symptom, and the invisible trailing space that kept a Solana mint from finishing.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe library said no. The hardware said yes.https://traviskeir.dev/blog/library-said-no-hardware-said-yes/https://traviskeir.dev/blog/library-said-no-hardware-said-yes/How reading the source and interrogating the Solana Seeker camera hardware turned an unsupported feature into a solvable routing problem.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT$0 until it isn't: how I talked myself out of a serverhttps://traviskeir.dev/blog/zero-dollar-server/https://traviskeir.dev/blog/zero-dollar-server/Why right-sizing the backend for a Solana mobile app meant questioning every server, subscription, and supposedly professional expense.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT