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Saturday, May 9, 2026
Month 63 of building strackt. April was a refactor month — 169 issues, 400 commits, an architectural correction 18 months in the making. The kind of progress that doesn't feel like progress until you look back at it.
Jan Peter Wiersma
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
We're adding UI now so we can take it away later. Most server platforms grow knobs forever; most clouds hide everything. We're picking neither.
Jan Peter Wiersma
Friday, April 17, 2026
Jan Peter Wiersma
The Work You'll Never See
Two weeks, no hero features. The boring reconfiguration work that keeps your server steady — and why most of what strackt does, you'll never see.
Friday, April 3, 2026
Jan Peter Wiersma
The Invisible Backbone
We built a secure overlay network to manage your servers without a single open port. Then it became a cross-provider VPC.
Friday, April 3, 2026
Jan Peter Wiersma
Month 62
Month 62 of building strackt. The pieces are connecting, the foundational infrastructure is starting to work like a platform, and for the first time the work is giving energy back.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Jan Peter Wiersma
Company of One
Paul Jarvis's Company of One didn't give me a plan. It gave me the conviction to try — and two principles I've been building around ever since: focus on the user; automate me.