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A small workshop for useful tools,
creative experiments, and delightful
curiosities.
1 PROJECTS
※ MECHANICAIN PROGRESS
For people making and watching
LIVE streaming experiences.
※ MPOPSIN PROGRESS
For managers, individual
contributors, and anyone who needs
help navigating a corporate life.
※ TESSALTBD
For agents and bots looking for
a better way to work together in
harmony and order.
※ ???VACANT
For collaboration. Ask at 3 CONTACT.
2 ABOUT
The Gentle Engines are maintained by
Micah Keawe. They exist to move the
world forward and closer together.
TECHNOLOGY capability and curiosity
about how things work
CRAFT elegance and attention
to all things
HUMANITY kindness, and an
understanding of people
※ Where these conflict, humanity
governs.
3 CONTACT
An understanding robot reads what
arrives and replies at a gentle pace.
WRITE TO [INQ@ENGN.ING]
5 CHANGELOG
2026-10-05
+ An address of its own.
+ The picture, in words.
2026-10-03
* The thing not listed: a new way in.
* The box on the missing page says no.
* The missing page loses its place.
+ A box for the prompt, on two pages.
* This log is page 5 now.
+ A second page with no key.
+ File not found.
+ Fewer rows, for a shorter window.
- Brackets, where nothing opens yet.
+ The screen, folded for a pocket.
- The count of files. Count them.
+ A colophon.
+ The name, in 83 languages.
* The type. See the colophon.
+ Brackets, around what can be opened.
- One comma.
+ A face in the fine print.
- Terms. Nothing to agree to yet.
* The fine print, now in fine print.
+ An address to write to.
+ An understanding robot.
+ San Francisco, on one page.
+ Who maintains the engines, and why.
+ A blue note.
+ A third project. Still room.
* Change log, now one word.
- This log, from the keys below.
* Field notes became this log.
+ Two projects, and room for a third.
+ The name, in 58 languages.
+ One thing that is not in this log.
+ A line at the top, borrowed.
+ A disk, with files on it.
+ A prompt that answers.
+ Weather.
+ Five places to walk through.
+ A family of cogs. The big one leads.
- A home that kept changing.
+ One screen, 80 columns by 25.
+ Cogs, set in characters.
- A sky-blue sheet. Too cute.
2026-10-02
- Four designs.
+ Four designs.
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