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Software engineer into #FOSS, #Rust, #NixOS, and #DevOps.

#Discgolf player, #Swedish and #Czech learner, reverse engineer of weird data formats. Building TUIs, decoding APIs, and always chasing clean configs.

Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team @Discourse

"A kind of tooling and orchestration gremlin" - codex

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Joined July 08, 2025

website:

https://jakegoldsborough.com

github:

https://ducks.github.io

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various wares from the PNW:

https://gnarlyvoid.com

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ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Jul 30, 2026

I had an idea that refused to leave my head: upload an image, slap googly eyes on it, and download the result. Then I realized the eyes could be SVGs... and SVGs can move. So I built https://googlyeyes.dev a browser-only tool that exports PNGs or "living" SVGs whose pupils follow your cursor. Sometimes the best software exists simply because it's funny to make. https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/building-googlyeyes-dev/ #javascript #oss #fun

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 26, 2026

Plugin screenshots rot fast.

I built a small pipeline for automatically generating screenshots of Discourse
plugins using Playwright, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Pages.

Each plugin owns its own screenshots via a simple screenshots.yml, while a
shared reusable workflow handles the heavy lifting.

Also includes some fun NixOS + Playwright debugging along the way.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/building-discourse-plugin-screenshots/

#oss #discourse #webdev #devtools

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 21, 2026

Claude Code on NixOS, part 2.

Wrote about why patching dynamically linked binaries is only part of the problem when modern AI tooling ships with its own assumptions about runtime, filesystem layout, and self-management.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/patchelf-broke-claude-code/

#nixos #ai #devtools #linux

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 17, 2026

I dug through a year of GoatCounter analytics from my self-hosted blog.

The interesting part wasn't traffic volume, it was the patterns.

Six numbers from a year of technical blogging:

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/blog-stats-six-numbers/

#dev #writing #blogging #selfhosted

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 16, 2026

I added a tiny "Was this helpful?" button to my Zola based static blog.

No backend, auth, comments or frameworks.

Just a GoatCounter event, localStorage dedupe, and ~70 lines total.

Small feature, but it gives a much better signal than raw pageviews.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/was-this-helpful-button/

#webdev #oss #blogging

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 07, 2026

Claude Code moved from npm → curl installer.

On most systems: fine
On NixOS: dynamic linker says no

Dug into why dynamically linked binaries break on NixOS and wrapped it in a nix-shell.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/running-claude-code-on-nixos/

#nixos #ai #devtools

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · May 04, 2026

I wanted a tui based audiobook player so I built one.

no apps, no DRM, just files and a TUI.

turns out audiobooks fit surprisingly well in the terminal.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/shellbooks-terminal-audiobook-player/

#rust #tui #cli

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 18, 2026

if it looks too good to be true, it probably is

but now you can check

built a tool for verifying real estate listings:

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/launching-isitreal-estate/

https://isitreal.estate/

#webdev #oss

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @fortyseven@defcon.social

@fortyseven gotta wait on reresurgence

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @ducks@hachyderm.io

@deafferret@flyovercountry.social forgot I wrote a post about it actually https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2025/deploying-static-site-zola-github-actions/

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @deafferret@flyovercountry.social

@deafferret@flyovercountry.social zola does that pretty well. I just drop a new markdown file into a certain dir and push to main and it gets built and hosted right on github pages. link to my site/workflow if curious: https://github.com/ducks/jakegoldsborough.com

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @ducks@hachyderm.io

@deafferret@flyovercountry.social also curious to hear what you look for in a SSG because building one could be fun

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @deafferret@flyovercountry.social

@deafferret@flyovercountry.social https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overview/ I'm pretty happy with zola

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Apr 10, 2026

I didn’t expect this, but my blog started getting traffic across multiple completely different posts in the same day.

Search engines, AI tools, something is picking it up.

Not huge. Not viral. But real.

Turns out it’s less about one post, and more about becoming a surface area.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/how-my-blog-started-getting-indexed/

#dev #writing

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Jan 02, 2026

Replying to @n1@fosstodon.org

@n1@fosstodon.org I'm mostly curious about my listening habits. I don't use spotify and wanted a kind of rewind of my own.

ducks @ducks@hachyderm.io · Jan 02, 2026

Built a self-hosted scrobbling service in Rust.

API + Postgres backend, sqlx offline mode, static UI, and public profiles that can be toggled private.

Writeup:
https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2026/building-scrob-self-hosted-scrobbling/

#rust #oss #selfhosted

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