Welcome to the first issue of the hackenberg.tech engineering and research dispatch.
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Key Engineering Themes This Month
- Control-Plane vs. Data-Plane Agent Architectures: Why production multi-agent systems fail when context windows are polluted by raw tool output, and how strict orchestrator-worker isolation keeps multi-step engineering workflows deterministic.
- Slide-as-Code with Cue-Synchronized Neural Voiceovers: Building an Astro + Reveal.js presentation pipeline that compiles Markdown slides, inline SVG schematics, Edge-TTS audio tracks, and zero-diff PDF handouts from a single source of truth.
- Line-Exact Text Geometry & 2D Signed Distance Fields: Using DOM
TreeWalkerandRange.getClientRects()to compute smooth Quilezsmindistance fields around multi-line typography at 60 FPS.
