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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
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
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, May 10, 2023
Jan Peter
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Jan Peter
UUIDs everywhere
UUIDs are safer than using regular numeric IDs because they are not easy to spoof.
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Jan Peter
Data Transfer Objects
Since Strackt is a full SPA and API-driven application, passing data around needs to be extremely structured; enter the Data Transfer Object.
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Jan Peter
Into Containers
So starts the journey of containerizing Strackt. As always the basics are simple, but getting it to a production-grade level with enough rigor to not get in the way is where things get trickier.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Jan Peter
Planning, testing and typing
Working quite a bit on the feedback loop. Events systems are working better and better and it shows in the implementation speed of new features, but also in the progression of the UI