About

I’m Nd — a structural engineer. This site is my sandbox for infrastructure and storytelling on the web.

Under the hood it runs on Hugo, deployed via Kubernetes, with a Ghost blog plugged in. I add new pieces regularly, and I’ll keep experimenting with formats as I go.

What I’m doing here

This space is where I publish short stories and test browser-side ideas: image handling, containers, volumes — all the small moving parts that make a modern, static-ish site actually tick.

Current Structure

artistengineering.net  (Hugo, Kubernetes)
├─ blog.artistengineering.net  — The Flumen (Ghost)
│  ├─ 0. Monthly Sections (€2/month)
│  ├─ 1. Chronicles (Free)
│  └─ 2. Codex (Not available at this time)
└─ blog.artistengineering.org  — RTF (Ghost) (currently under construction / private)
   ├─ 0. Interviews (Free)
   ├─ 1. About (Free)
   └─ 2. Writings (Undecided)

The Flumen

The Flumen is a tiny story about memory. It’s set on a planet with two suns, and I’m trying to make that point of view feel physically real.

The world’s politics and group dynamics are inspired by the German Zunftgruppen tradition of Fastnacht — reinterpreted into a system of guilds, roles, and power.

There’s already a codex of roughly 500 pages in the background: maps, political structures, timekeeping, physics rules, naming conventions, and more.

Newsletter and support

There will be a free tier for the newsletter and for all chapters that are already published.

You only pay if you don’t want to wait for the next chapter — or if you simply want to support the work. Running this setup currently costs me about €100 per year.

RTF (Reframing the Future)

RTF is currently under construction and kept private while I assemble the first materials. Launch is planned for Q1 2026.

It’s meant to become a small publication of talks and notes connected to Born to be Bauhaus (BTBB) — the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar art prize/project (2017–2021, with a final group presentation in 2023).

First upcoming text: a conversation between Isabella Fürnkäs (artist; BTBB jury member) and Denise Blickhan (artist; BTBB awardee 2021).

For now, the planned structure is:

0. Interviews (Free)
1. About (Free)
2. Writings (Undecided)

DIY Skullmachine

I may also publish practical experiments and DIY notes — for example, I’m considering a DIY instruction series for a rowing machine. If it ends up here, it’ll be written the same way as everything else: clear, tested, and useful.

Skullmachine

What’s next

Longer term, I want to explore backend features where Kubernetes actually makes sense: user-specific volumes and ways to interact with the site directly. One idea is a learning platform for drawing — but we’ll see where it goes.

Want something similar?

The most important thing to know: this site is built so it can evolve. Every subpage can be its own little world — layout, interaction, and tone can all shift depending on what the page needs.

If you’d like something in this spirit for yourself or your company — a site that’s flexible, technically clean, and not locked into one template — please get in touch. I’m happy to talk through ideas and see what could make sense.