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Monday, August 3, 2026
Month 66 of building strackt. Two testers read it the same wrong way in one week — the fix wasn't the price, it was the sign on the door. 26 days to early access.
Jan Peter
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Friday, July 10, 2026
We're tearing out the last of Filament's customer-facing panel — one of the final pieces before early access, and what it actually took to do it without breaking things.
Jan Peter
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
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.
Jan Peter
Wednesday, 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.

Friday, July 17, 2026
Jan Peter

We wipe your server. Here's why.

The first thing we do to your new VPS is erase it — disk and all. That's not the risky part; it's the only honest way to manage a server we didn't build.

Friday, 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.

Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Jan Peter

A production 500, fixed from the terminal

A 500 on our own live site, diagnosed and fixed without leaving the terminal — every step one CLI command, right up to the one we still had to SSH for.

Thursday, 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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