Jake Goldsborough

The week covered a mix of practical, technical, and personal topics.

Travel and Prague notes A first Europe trip to Prague sparked a travel post and follow ups.

A Country Boy Goes to Europe This past week was the annual global meetup for Discourse, the company I recently joined.

In the previous two posts, we learned how to GET, scrub, and parse Courses data, as well as how to use the search endpoint for Places and Courses.

Search for Places In the first post in this series, we were able to parse and extract a list of Course data.

This week covered a mix of personal projects, resume updates, and site tweaks.

Note: Real app name and URL have been replaced I am a very avid fan and player of disc golf.

The Problem I was working on some IAM role configuration at work when our Discourse deployment started failing with AWS credential errors.

This week balanced travel research, disc golf writing edits, technical debugging, and creative design work.

Early August Projects The first week of August was centered on your Node-postgres-exporter work.

Nix package development We discussed writing a Nix package for a complex project with multiple resources, using the Discourse install-cloud guide as a template to structure derivations and manage dependencies cleanly.

By default, hyprctl dispatch killactive will instantly close your focused window.

I recently got a new Framework 16 (thanks Discourse!).

Tech Waybar network module Discussions on adding an ethernet or wifi status module to Waybar configuration for Hyprland in NixOS.

Today I am joining Discourse as a software engineer on the infrastructure team.

Intro Today is all about configuration and setting up our new encrypted machine.

NixOS Daily Driver and Dotfiles Continued refining NixOS setup and daily driver blog series Modularized dotfiles using Dotter with template support Adopted approach of letting NixOS generate base config, layering custom on top Explored idea of a "LazyNix"…

Intro So far in this series, we have: installed NixOS enabled a desktop environment setup a user and some basic daily driving tools added our config to version control introduced NixVim, a declarative way to configure Neovim learned about NixOS dev enviro…

20250704 - 20250711 Cyberspace NixOS Published two posts in Daily Driver series.

Recap In the last post, we added some quality of life enhancements.

Recap In the last post, we successfully got our configuration stored in version control.

Takedown Request Recently, I've been writing about reverse engineering a unique data structure I found while investigating the UDisc web app.

NixOS & NixVim Work Fixed issues with interception and remapping caps lock to esc on tap and ctrl on hold Investigated how to migrate from LazyVim to NixVim in a non-flake setup and how to modularize configuration.

NixOS Workflow & Improvements Refined NixOS development workflow by exploring the use of nix-shell and Flakes for environment isolation and reproducibility.

From TTY to Tiling In the last post, we enabled Hyprland and set it to run by default on login.

Just Show Me The Code repo The Problem There is a simple motion I use in Neovim often and I finally decided to do something about it.

Shelltrax github I love the terminal and have dabbled in Rust since the very early days.

The Premise What if we could build a fully transparent, auditable, and tamper-evident voting system -- without any servers, centralized backend, or traditional databases?

Introduction As I've mentioned in the past, I’ve been writing and blogging more, and I became curious if anyone was actually reading my posts.

Weekly Summary — 2025-06-13 to 2025-06-20 Accomplishments Shelltrax TUI Continued refinement of Shelltrax (TUI music player).

I’m releasing a small project I’ve been building: node-postgres-exporter, is a lightweight Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL, written in Node.js.

Happy Friday the 13th!

Intro As I've mentioned in the previous GPT Changelog nee Weekly Summary, I have been learning Swedish for over 6 months now.

Accomplishments Reverse Engineering UDisc API Published Part 3 of blog series on Course and CourseDetails structure.

Outline Things we will be covering in this post: adding a non-root user with sudo access installing a window manager - Hyprland installing some tools - neovim, git, waybar, wezterm Install a Text Editor First things first, let's install a better text edit…

In this post, we will cover installation on a personal machine and setting up a basic configuration file.

Who is Vulfmon Vulfmon is the alter ego/moniker of Vulfpeck leader Jack Stratton.

Another pretty decent week.

As I've been searching for a new gig, I've gotten the urge to write a bit more about some of the stuff I'm up to to help make myself stand out.

This has been a pretty productive week.

First, it's worth explaining what NixOS is and why I or anyone would want to run it as a daily driver.

I am starting a weekly summary/reflection series that will be a high level view of things I have worked on or fixed or just things I want to track or note.