Welcome. I’m Nate — a software developer who builds things across the stack: from software to hardware, firmware, FPGA work, and the occasional racecar. This blog documents technical projects as they happen: whatever comes across the workbench. Expect build logs, code, schematics, and honest write-ups of what worked and what didn’t.
Drellabot: A Lights-Out Software Factory Experiment
My first instinct, whenever I’m using an AI coding assistant, is to follow along with every step. Guide it, redirect it when it drifts, catch mistakes before they compound. It feels responsible. But it also puts the human squarely inside the AI’s feedback loop — which defeats a lot of the point. Recently, a few colleagues and I started an experiment to find out what happens when you deliberately remove that tight human-in-the-loop. The result is drellabot, a lights-out software factory. ...
Welcome to Orderly Chaos
After a long gap, I’m starting to write again. This blog is called Orderly Chaos because that’s more or less how my project workbench looks on a good day — organized enough to find things, chaotic enough to stay interesting. The posts here will document technical projects as they happen: hardware builds, firmware, software, FPGA work, motorsport data systems, and whatever else ends up on the workbench. A few things I’m working on that will probably show up here soon: ...