Bad Claude !

Available for podcast bookings

The guy you call
when Claude poops on your project.

$ whoami consultant

$ pwd ~/central (UTC-6)

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› Consultant, founder, and host of SaaS That App.

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— Edwards, J. · 2026 —

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+ Wilbur ⌐■_■

// const yearsCoding

0 +

Years writing code

started before the gem store

// const companies

0

Companies started

both still running

// const exit

0

Successful exit

sold the consultancy, '22

// const badJokes

∞

Bad jokes per call

arr.push(joke) // loops forever

// 01

What I'm building

last commit · 4h ago →

Two companies. One exit. Zero nonsense. I run Delta Systems, co-founded StriveDB, and host SaaS That App - all from the same desk, mostly the same coffee mug.

Started shipping software as a teenager building websites for customers found through my high school network in Albuquerque. Took a brief detour through college and a "real job" that lasted six months, long enough to discover I was already running a side business that out-earned the day job.

CIO · since 2022

Delta Systems

Your Dev Team on Demand.

Engineering, infrastructure, and security across small client engagements. The shop I'd want to hire, for teams that care more about value delivered than slides delivered.

Software development Fractional CTO Cloud Architecture

Explore Delta →

// 02

Side projects

things I build for fun →

Primeval Arcana Character Sheet

An interactive character sheet for the table.

Web-based character sheet for tracking stats, items, and rolls during my home tabletop campaign. Built around how I actually run sessions - less form-filling, more 'click this and roll.'

Angular
TypeScript
Sass

Live Source

Schleifer

Schleif deine deutschen Fälle.

A front-end-only Angular 19 app I built for myself to drill German grammatical cases (Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ, Genitiv) until the declensions stop feeling like a betrayal.

Angular 19
TypeScript
IndexedDB

Live Source

Kessler

My personal assistant, in agent form.

A private AI agent that handles my calendar, inbox triage, follow-ups, and the daily admin layer that doesn't deserve human attention. Also sends me and my mom a daily affirmation or inspirational quote, because even a glorified inbox bot can have a soft spot.

Ruby
Claude API

// 03

Podcast

saasthatapp.com →

SaaS That App. Real strategies, real numbers, and one bad joke per fifteen minutes, guaranteed.

Recent guests: Rob Walling, TK Herman (Factor AE), Joe Kowalski, Jonathan Mendonsa (ChooseFI). Drop me into your run-of-show. I'll bring strong opinions and a vetted hot take.

50:21

Scaling SaaS Smarter: Growth & Retention Strategies

with Rob Walling

45:02

How Strong Culture Built a Stronger SaaS

with TK Herman, Co-Founder of Factor AE

46:22

$1B Mistake? Picking the Wrong Vertical

with Joe Kowalski

1:00:41

How Cockroach Mode + Curiosity Rebuilt a Career from Scratch

with Jonathan Mendonsa, Co-founder of ChooseFI

Quick takes

more shorts →

65s

Certain Engineers Are Better With AI

27s

AI Fatigue

45s

Budget-first Is Backwards

// 04

Thoughts

all thoughts →

May 21, 2026

WordPress is dead. Good.

WordPress won the small-business web by being the least worst option. With Middleman and Claude, that excuse is gone. A retiree with no technical background just shipped a better site in a weekend.

#ai #infrastructure #engineering

read → Apr 13, 2026

Your CTO is fleecing you (and AWS thanks you for it)

Your CTO isn't fleecing you on purpose. They're a nerd with toys, a CEO who can't push back, and an AWS bill that's eating the runway. Here's the pattern, the boring fix, and a red-flag checklist.

#infrastructure #engineering #consulting

read →

// 05

Things I can talk about

drop into your run-of-show ↓

on AI

Stop overthinking AI. No one wants to talk to your chatbot.

What 95% of AI startup advice in 2026 is getting wrong, and what founders should actually be automating instead of bolting another bot onto a UI nobody asked for.

on architecture

Your CTO is fleecing you, and AWS thanks you for it.

120-user "at scale" app, multi-region Kubernetes, six-figure cloud bill. Why over-engineering quietly bleeds early-stage SaaS dry, and why your CTO keeps proposing the wrong stack.

on founders

Burnout, and watching your baby almost die.

What severe burnout really looks like. What the signing table teaches you. How you stitch yourself back together without selling the company a year too late.

on exits

From an Albuquerque bedroom to seven figures, then out.

The bus-ride conversation that changed everything. The hire-someone-on-Tuesday-for-a-stack-you-don't-know moment. What selling a consultancy actually feels like.

on money

FIRE meets entrepreneurship.

How your personal financial position quietly decides what kind of moonshot you can take, and how to set yourself up so the answer is more than "the safe one."

on stacks

The boring case for Ruby in 2026.

Why I still bet a company on Rails after the AI cycle did what it did to language conversations, and why hiring is easier than the HackerNews comments would have you believe.

// 06

Languages

CEFR levels →

English C2

Native

First language

Spanish B2

Upper intermediate

Conversational; can hold meetings & banter

German A2

Elementary

Currently learning

Italian -

Not started yet

On the list

Polish -

Not started yet

On the list

// 07

Off the clock

the personal stack →

Wilbur, CTO of treats

+ Daniel Cannon.

Co-founder of the original consultancy. Husband. We built our first company together; somehow we're still in business, and still married.

Bavaria, '23

Co-host emeritus

Singapore, remote since '16

San Salvador

Pattaya

Chiang Mai

The guy you call
when Claude poops on your project.