I work on my own "agentically-engineered" projects and the pursuit of certain ideas for what you're calling intrinsic motivation, and I don't particularly care if others find it interesting or even find it at all or not, because the ideas themselves are cool to me.

It's kind of like I can suddenly tinker at 2,000% efficiency and share what I'm doing, _and if someone else finds it interesting, that's cool too_

1. *Totally self-hosted and 100% private*: I run it over ZeroTier to connect my systems, but Tailscale or just your personal LAN works great as well.

2. *Flexible, immediately usable, & extensible*: It can use S3/R2/etc for the actual document storage if you want object storage, or you can just use local files. I've been running RustFS myself on a small local k8s cluster which emulates S3. It comes with migration tools to switch from one storage system to another, and it is ready to run in many different forms all designed for AI agents to be pointed at it and immediately self-bootstrapped. "Look at the tracker tool at `` and configure your own mcp and skill using the instructions within" is all you need to tell an agent.

3. *Very lightweight, reasonably fast, and designed more for agents to use it well rather than humans*: That being said, it does have a minimal web UI included so you can also browse your documents.

Furthermore, it has a few design quirks which I really wanted—some people will probably love them and others might hate them. You have to remember that I have a... problem? with simply loving computers, so I tend to work from several different machines simultaneously, and that's a major motivating factor here.

- *Flat structure with tags & folios*: Tracker is only slightly opinionated on document storage hierarchy. You can store a massive collection of raw docs in a flat format, or you can use *folios*—which are just documents of `kind='folio'` whose metadata tracks its files (themselves documents tagged with `folio:`). There is no other way to introduce additional hierarchy; to me, this is a major benefit—I just wanted one big flat space.

- *Explicit locking on everything*: All changes go through an explicit locking mechanism, even simple metadata edits. This is to prevent an agent from reading a stale document before taking action.

- *Strict attribution*: All edits require an actor ID (sent via `X-Actor: @/`). Because I work across Linux, macOS, and Windows simultaneously, it's critical to know exactly which coding agent is doing what, from where, and on which machine.

More details on my personal blog: https://chicagobuss.dev/projects/personal/tracker/

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We're working on Skyway, a new kind of enterprise-grade finops tool born out of the Duckbill Group's consulting business. We're staying small (team-wise) but focusing on the largest of the SaaS spenders and their problems exclusively. We ship daily and have several unfair advantages.

1. Senior Front-end Engineer (TS/JS/React + bit of Python back-end)

2. Senior Back-end Engineer (Python + bit of front-end)

3. Senior Data Engineer (Python, airflow, duckdb, s3, bigquery)

More details are on our careers page (apply through this): https://www.duckbillhq.com/careers/

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/10/20/aws_outa...

We're tackling the hardest finops challenges for the biggest enterprise customers head-on and have a killer team along with the advantage of the established and industry-leading DuckBill Group.

Help shape the leading edge of an entire industry with us while we're still just at seed stage and under 6 engineers!

Comp range is generous on the equity and between 180k and 210k base depending on seniority. We're cooking with flask, react, postgres, clickhouse, parquet and airflow on AWS at the moment.

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Apply here: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/careers/

Or email: careers@duckbillhq.com

We're tackling the hardest finops challenges for the biggest enterprise customers head-on and have a killer team along with the advantage of the established and industry-leading DuckBill Group.

Help shape the leading edge of an entire industry with us while we're still just at seed stage and under 6 engineers!

Comp range is generous on the equity and between 180k and 200k base depending on seniority. We're cooking with flask, react, postgres, and clickhouse on AWS at the moment.

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Apply here: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/careers/

Or email: careers@duckbillhq.com

people keep talking about how "this is what all these Americans want" - bologna I say. They're just voting how they've been programmed to believe.

Find me a Trump supporter that has only researched him from first-hand credible sources and has not been influenced by friends, family, social media, or mainstream media. I would be very surprised if any person like this exists.

this time, they're primed to enable and embolden their plans (see project 2025).

I don't expect these four years to be anything like the last time. I legitimately won't be surprised if this is the last somewhat-normal presidential election in the united states