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Product stories, engineering decisions and lessons from running software people depend on.
Latest · 10 October 2026
Chatting with a consumer AI assistant can mean your conversations help train its models, whether you pay or not. Here is what ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini actually do with your chats, the fine print most people miss, and five steps to take back control.
We redesigned our website, then discovered nobody could email us. Here's why it happens to so many businesses, the two minute check that catches it, and how we fixed ours in under an hour.
A closer look at how Balotiq chains, encrypts and isolates every ballot: what a voting system has to guarantee, the engineering behind each guarantee, and the trade off we haven't finished yet.
School heads ask us this more than anything else. Here's an honest breakdown of what you actually pay for, the costs schools forget to count, and real numbers for a typical Ghanaian school.
From school operations and secure elections to commerce, civic technology, AI, and a story-driven game: a current map of the ten products in the Nerds IV portfolio.
A surprising amount of e-commerce fraud comes down to one bad assumption: trusting the client to say a payment went through. Here's how PagezTech avoids it.
COMoG's watchdog role means its platform has to assume someone, someday, will try to tamper with it. Here's how that assumption shaped the build.
Elections fail people in two ways: the process is opaque, or it's too cumbersome for turnout to hold up. Here's the engineering decision behind how Balotiq avoids both.
Why we're starting this blog, and what to expect from it: engineering notes, product updates, and the occasional AI take.
