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Product stories, engineering notes, and lessons from building systems for real-world use.
Ten Systems, One Product Studio
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.
Read more >Never Trust the Browser's Payment Confirmation
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.
Read more >Designing for a Platform That Assumes It's a Target
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.
Read more >Why Balotiq Chains Every Ballot
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.
Read more >Welcome to Nerds IV Insights
Why we're starting this blog, and what to expect from it: engineering notes, product updates, and the occasional AI take.
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