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July 29, 2026
Jan Peter
The walks we didn't take
The breaks used to be where the hard decisions got made. Now the work is refinement, and I can do that from a campervan — it just costs a couple of walks.
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July 10, 2026
Jan Peter
Craft or compulsion
Seven weeks from early access, and I still can't tell where craft stops and can't-let-it-go begins. On details — and the date that makes me choose.
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July 2, 2026
Jan Peter
The early devlog lives here now
Four years of building notes from projectstrackt.dev — the original strackt devlog — now live here in The Log. Same story, one place, old links still work.
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July 1, 2026
Jan Peter
Month 65
Month 65 of building strackt. CVE patching, self-renewing certs, an installable CLI — the boring month that mattered. And finally a date: August 28, early access.
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June 16, 2026
Jan Peter
Why I take my time
I don't need strackt to succeed; I've got a job and enough money. I take my time because the standard I'm after — reproducible, right, something you can trust — only comes from the effort nobody sees.
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June 1, 2026
Jan Peter
Month 64
Month 64 of building strackt. May built the part you actually touch: a new interface, six ways to order a server, and a try-before-you-bring-your-own on-ramp.
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May 17, 2026
Jan Peter
The loop, not the tools
I used to spend my time swapping tools and refining code. Now agents do most of the coding — and most of mine sits on the plan.
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May 9, 2026
Jan Peter
Month 63
Month 63 of building strackt. April was a refactor month: 169 issues, 400 commits, an 18-month architectural correction. Progress you only feel looking back.
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April 3, 2026
Jan Peter
Month 62
Month 62 of building strackt. The pieces are connecting, the infrastructure is starting to work like a platform, and the work finally gives energy back.
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March 25, 2026
Jan Peter
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 build around: focus on the user, automate me.
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