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STORY · FICTION
Jurisdiction
A regulatory victory becomes a problem no one knows how to contain.
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Field notes · est. 2010
I'm a systems thinker,
a product engineer,
and an occasional poet.
Staff engineer by day; maker by compulsion.
The log is where the compulsion lands: projects, experiments, the occasional note. Newest first.
The Log 007 entries
006
STORY · FICTION
The Continuity of Care
A neural interface gives Mara her voice back. Then the network learns that no was never one of the restored functions.
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ARTICLE · AI
The Codebase Is No Longer the Center
Why intent, constraints, and evals are becoming the governing layer of modern software development.
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PROJECT · RUST
Changefeed
Turns web page changes into tight events for AI agents — skip the part where you feed the whole page to the LLM again. Deterministic pipeline, clean exit when nothing moved.
github.com/nathanenglert/changefeed ↗003
PROJECT · RUST
Clio
A Postgres workbench built around a simple idea: you should be able to watch what an AI agent is doing in your database. Same interface, shared activity strip, one binary.
github.com/nathanenglert/clio ↗002
PROJECT · WEB
Summit
Finds the meeting city no one has to complain about. Scores every hub by total group travel time, with each traveler's route drawn on the map.
github.com/nathanenglert/summit ↗001
PROJECT · WEB
Raffler
A raffle picker with weighted draws and a slot-machine reveal. The odds are actually fair — crypto-grade randomness, entirely in your browser.
github.com/nathanenglert/raffler ↗Say hello.
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