Jake Goldsborough

Last year, my first trip to Europe was one week in Prague.

I read Dave Kiss's eulogy for the software engineer and kept coming back to one question.

One actual week this time.

Two weeks since the last changelog.

I built a little website and then handed the website to an agent.

I had what I thought was a prerequisite question: are models any good at sound recognition?

Until now, every agent I ran through Replaybook was blind.

One week since the last changelog.

I was trying to review a pull request. gh failed.

Two days ago I wrote this sentence about Agents of Empires: The map is currently a table in a terminal.

Three weeks since the last changelog.

At 10:30 this morning, three language models woke up inside three blank NixOS machines.

This weekend my OpenRouter bill crossed twenty-five dollars.

This morning I sent four language models into four copies of the same broken production system.

I'm hoping to move to Czechia, so I'm learning Czech.

I have been building Replaybook as an incident replay trainer.

At the end of Part 3, I described everything claux still needed as "polish."

I built a website with one rule: The creature is alive only while somebody is looking at it.

I had an app idea that had been sitting in my head for a while: Upload an image.

Back-to-back weeks, which the numbering has not seen in a while.

When I wrote about glow - the tool that turns my one-giant-key macropad into a Claude status lamp - I ended on a throwaway line: it drives any VIA/QMK keyboard, point it at a VID/PID.

I bought a Keychron Q0 Mini as a joke.

For a while now I've kept a plain-text log of what I work on.

It has been a minute since the last one of these - the numbering says 29 and the last post was 23, so call it a six-week gap in posting, not in working.

I built Conway's Game of Life inside n8n.

Post-mortems are the most underused artifact in software engineering.

Last week I built a community management sim that runs inside Discourse.

There's a browser game called You are the OS where you play as a computer's operating system.

Two weeks ago, someone posted an internal proposal: My dream for the future is a good proxy that automatically sends requests to the most appropriate model, allowing us to run a heterogeneous AI inference, and have it routed to our customers automatically.

I run Discourse's dev environment through a nix-shell.

The state of the web right now is an arms race.

git blame tells you who wrote this line. arf why tells you what they were thinking.

A long week on personal infrastructure, with the through-line being "actually use the tools I've built."

I run a small VPS (pond-nix) that hosts a few personal services behind Caddy.

A local non-profit put out a call for volunteers looking for a "front-end web developer consultant" for their Squarespace site, and I answered it.

I built discourse-plugin-screenshots on GitHub, a small tool that captures Discourse plugin UIs against a real Discourse instance in CI and publishes the resulting PNGs to GitHub Pages.

I built a Discourse plugin that turns a category of topics into a chronological travel itinerary.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about running Claude Code on NixOS with a 133-line shell.nix that patchelf-modifies the binary on install.

I recently noticed that the 1 year anniversary of my blog came and went.

I write a lot here.

I run NixOS on my laptop.

I have a music player in the terminal (shelltrax) and a podcast player in the terminal (shellcast).

Most real estate listings lie.

I write this blog primarily for myself - to think through problems, document decisions, and have a record of what I built and why.

Michał Fita responded to my whoami-spec post asking about verifiable credentials.

Most people using Claude Code don't know it has a shared memory system.

Part 2 left off at 1,530 lines with an inline REPL, permission prompts, session management, and compaction.

I was reading through the Claude Code source -- the TypeScript that leaked via a source map in the npm package on March 31st -- and found a buddy/ directory.

Part 1 got a working binary.

Claude Code's source leaked on March 31st.