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NEXUS — an atlas for a cluster
The private fleet command center started with a star chart; its public exhibition uses the real chart engine and example data.
There was a useful intuition hiding underneath a ridiculous situation: I had accumulated enough machines and agent projects that I could no longer see the whole thing at once.
NEXUS is the attempt to give a personal cluster a coherent face. The first visual experiment looked at the computers as stars, with services and connected devices taking shape around them. The private product goes much further: machine observations, service truth, agent work, models, terminals, and eventually safe controls.
The interactive public chart is a real rendering of the NEXUS planisphere, running on invented readings and illustrative connections. It is not a public window into my infrastructure.
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A star map can't drive the machinesWhy the attractive first NEXUS visualization had to make room for real operational surfaces.
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NEXUS: the constellationRotate the real NEXUS planisphere renderer, disconnected from the private fleet and populated with illustrative readings.
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When the computers became a constellationThe strange route from too many machines and too many agent sessions to an interactive star chart.
Two different surfaces
- Private NEXUS: the real read-only first slice, reachable only from authorized devices on the tailnet. It collects and distinguishes actual observations, lost feeds, and unknowns.
- Public experiment: the chart renderer without its private collector, authorization, endpoint inventory, or live values. Click and rotate it to understand the idea.
The next direction is not to make an ever more ornate constellation. It is to make every node inspectable, whether it has a desktop or not, while leaving the beautiful chart as an optional way to look at the system.