Jacob Windle
@jbwindle.bsky.social
Co-founder | CTO | Software Engineer in Identity Crisis | Claude Wrangler
Built a Clojure webhook service today. Love being able to spin up a server in the REPL, capture requests, and inspect the data without leaving my editor. Add Claude integration and it's everything I need. Flow state stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Built a Clojure webhook service today. Love being able to spin up a server in the REPL, capture requests, and inspect the data without leaving my editor. Add Claude integration and it's everything I need. Flow state stuff.
Pivoted to Kubernetes today, no way around it. Got Loki, Promtail, Grafana, and k8s ingress all working. Databases stayed out of the cluster. Mostly functional now. Huge relief
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Pivoted to Kubernetes today, no way around it. Got Loki, Promtail, Grafana, and k8s ingress all working. Databases stayed out of the cluster. Mostly functional now. Huge relief
Base image is building with SSH key for bootstrap, then Colmena pushes the final NixOS config. Feels good but not totally sure this is the right way to do it. Could be overengineering
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Base image is building with SSH key for bootstrap, then Colmena pushes the final NixOS config. Feels good but not totally sure this is the right way to do it. Could be overengineering
sops-nix lets you commit encrypted keys to git and it still feels crazy. Self-hosting journey continues. Secrets rotation is next to figure out but having everything in git is honestly great
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
sops-nix lets you commit encrypted keys to git and it still feels crazy. Self-hosting journey continues. Secrets rotation is next to figure out but having everything in git is honestly great
solid admin day planning technical stuff. wild how much the work has changed - way less coding, way more just thinking things through
October 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
solid admin day planning technical stuff. wild how much the work has changed - way less coding, way more just thinking things through
doing the boring work today - structured logging and metrics. need to understand what's actually happening in the system. can't believe i'm talking about KPIs unironically now
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
doing the boring work today - structured logging and metrics. need to understand what's actually happening in the system. can't believe i'm talking about KPIs unironically now
today was all Terraform. per-customer SES setup, SQS topics, accounts in the customers OU. lots of config files but it's working
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
today was all Terraform. per-customer SES setup, SQS topics, accounts in the customers OU. lots of config files but it's working
Today was all AWS setup for SOC 2. Root accounts, OUs, ECRs, AMI baking. So much to track in your head at once, honestly a bit overwhelming.
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today was all AWS setup for SOC 2. Root accounts, OUs, ECRs, AMI baking. So much to track in your head at once, honestly a bit overwhelming.
Some of the CTO's duties are extremely boring. Just setup a company password manager and consolidated billing details
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some of the CTO's duties are extremely boring. Just setup a company password manager and consolidated billing details
Got my hardened Linux setup locked down with Nix. Building images for DigitalOcean, then Terraform + colmena for deployments. Tailnet means barely any open ports. After years of bash and ansible, Nix feels like the missing piece I didn't know I needed.
October 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Got my hardened Linux setup locked down with Nix. Building images for DigitalOcean, then Terraform + colmena for deployments. Tailnet means barely any open ports. After years of bash and ansible, Nix feels like the missing piece I didn't know I needed.
I'm prone to cults lol but Nix is winning me over. Seeing my entire fleet state as config files, what's installed where, security measures, all of it. pretty great
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I'm prone to cults lol but Nix is winning me over. Seeing my entire fleet state as config files, what's installed where, security measures, all of it. pretty great
Success! Working SSH locally in QEMU
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Success! Working SSH locally in QEMU
diving into Linux hardening today. disabling ICMP redirects, echo broadcasts, adding nohibernate to kernel so it can't write sensitive stuff to disk. lot of little things I didn't know about
What's your go-to hardening step that most people skip?
What's your go-to hardening step that most people skip?
October 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
diving into Linux hardening today. disabling ICMP redirects, echo broadcasts, adding nohibernate to kernel so it can't write sensitive stuff to disk. lot of little things I didn't know about
What's your go-to hardening step that most people skip?
What's your go-to hardening step that most people skip?
testing QEMU configs before shipping. NixOS and QEMU both new to me. using nixos-generators in my flake for image builds. gotta make sure this thing actually works first
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
testing QEMU configs before shipping. NixOS and QEMU both new to me. using nixos-generators in my flake for image builds. gotta make sure this thing actually works first
Made a social media syndicator this weekend. Takes my writing and adapts it for different platforms. You control the style so it doesn't sound like AI garbage. All starts with what I actually wrote, just reformatted. github.com/jaketothepast/social-media-syndicator
October 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Made a social media syndicator this weekend. Takes my writing and adapts it for different platforms. You control the style so it doesn't sound like AI garbage. All starts with what I actually wrote, just reformatted. github.com/jaketothepast/social-media-syndicator
A solid day, finished up cross-channel messaging in the ole' rails app. Now to spend the rest of the time with my family.
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A solid day, finished up cross-channel messaging in the ole' rails app. Now to spend the rest of the time with my family.
Rails is without a doubt the best system to build on top of with AI. most of the concerns that you'd have as an application developer are already handled for you. You just have to bring your agent and your feature ideas.
October 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Rails is without a doubt the best system to build on top of with AI. most of the concerns that you'd have as an application developer are already handled for you. You just have to bring your agent and your feature ideas.
Hows the tech scene on here? How many programmers exist on Bluesky?
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hows the tech scene on here? How many programmers exist on Bluesky?