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What I'm Doing /now

Gert Haegdorens · Senior Intent Data Engineer · Overland Park, KS / Remote

My primary technological focus is data engineering in an autonomous world:

100% Intent Engineering for this Website: The creation of this entire website (gert.haegdorens.com) using 100% Intent Engineering with Code-Server, Antigravity CLI, and a Google AI subscription giving access to Gemini-Code-Assistant. The site was built and deployed in just hours; by far the most time-consuming part was curating and crafting the content.
Development Environment Guide & Blueprint: Building a comprehensive guide and tutorial of my current development environment so anyone can replicate this setup and do what I do for roughly $20/month (depending on what Google charges for the Google AI subscription giving access to Gemini Code Assistant). Sharing the blueprints for containerized Code-Server, Antigravity CLI, and agentic workflows to put rapid Intent Engineering into anyone's hands.
Data & Software Platforms: Designing clean, resilient streaming data pipelines and event-driven architectures. Explore my 30-year engineering background on my Credentials & Experience 🔒.

The Compound Effect (Darren Hardy): Immersed in the foundational principle that radical life, health, and engineering results are the cumulative outcome of small, smart, daily choices compounded consistently over time.
Digital Gardens & Non-Linear Thinking: Studying non-linear note architectures (inspired by Maggie Appleton and Andy Matuschak) to build a long-term personal knowledge repository where ideas grow organically from seedlings to evergreen trees. Read my deep dive on The Digital Garden Concept ↗.
The /now Page Concept: Inspired by Derek Sivers (nownownow.com ↗)—maintaining a living public snapshot of current priorities, building focus, and active experiments in this season of life, replacing the traditional static "About" page.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Continuing consistent mat training—learning through deliberate pressure testing and problem solving against resistance.
Chess: Studying tactics, openings, and embracing the humbling 50% rule of the Elo ladder alongside my daughter.
Talent & Inspiration: Marveling at pure, unforced human mastery—from street piano virtuosity to soaring, goosebump-inducing vocal performances that remind us what passionate dedication looks like.
Cinema & Film 🔒: Watching Reacher and Neagley on Prime Video; revisiting philosophical classics like Peaceful Warrior across dedicated Movies 🔒 and TV Series 🔒 collections.