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startswithaj/README.md

Hi, I'm Jake,

I have worked on:

  • Online Poker / Sportsbooks / Fantasy Sports
  • Government
  • Enterprise Scheduling
  • Adtech
  • DeFi
  • Fintech / Perpetuals / Order books

I am the author of:

  • ChargeHA - Solar-aware EV charge controller for home automation.
  • P0RT10N - S3 Orchestrator for sharing disk space with friends.
  • ClaudeBox - Strict Claude Container and VM system.
  • Premiarr - Telegram bot announcing new TV/movie premieres, with Jellyseerr integration for one-tap requests.
  • DhedgeV2 - Asset Management Protocol. 100m+ TVL. No Exploits. Core contributor.

I have contributed to Open source projects such as:

Found and raised bugs with fixes for:

My 3 favourite programming books:

  • The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  • Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
  • A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout

More about me:

I’ve been a programmer since I was a teenager. You can see at least 12 years of this activity on GitHub. Love coding and building. It’s a passion. It's expression.

On AI and LLMs: When I first had it reverse engineer a custom binary protocol in 5 minutes - the power of it clicked. This would have been something that would have taken me weeks if ever. That being said it needs strong guardrails to be harnessed without creating a chaotic mess. It will be interesting to observe how these guardrails develop and models mature.

I once saved the Australian federal government tens of millions of dollars a year by finding a bug in their softphone provider's code by reverse engineering it. Ask me about it.

I really enjoy walking my dogs, cooking, tea, and good pho. 🍜

I run a k8s cluster at home.

I like friendly fast paced environments. Creating, shaping and building. ✌️

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  1. ChargeHA ChargeHA Public

    Self Hosted Smart EV Charing - Charge your EV from your excess home solar. Self Hosted ChargeHQ.

    TypeScript 6 3

  2. ClaudeBox ClaudeBox Public

    Sandboxed Claude Code in Docker — same experience, isolated environment.

    Shell 1

  3. P0RT10N P0RT10N Public

    An orchestrator + web UI for MinIO (S3) and Tailscale that makes lending storage to your friends easy — and their storage immutable.

    TypeScript

  4. premiarr premiarr Public

    A Telegram bot that announces new TV show premieres and movies at home (streaming) from Rotten Tomatoes, with integration to Jellyseerr for easy media requests.

    TypeScript 1

  5. RxJStore RxJStore Public

    A lightweight tool for caching, batching and interface unification in the spirit of RxJS

    TypeScript 4 1

  6. eating-cli eating-cli Public

    a very simple node.js command line application for recording what you eat (a meal diary/journal)

    CoffeeScript 7 2