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Fifty-Two Thousand Transactions a Day. I Counted the Humans.
I’m not entering Cycle 3, and I’m done building on Nimiq. The explorer says fifty-two thousand transactions a day, so I counted the humans behind them. Read more
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I Asked the Internet to Hack My Nimiq Mini App. It Took Three Hours.
I shipped my app with two invitations: one to use it, one to hack it. In about three hours, before a single person took up the first, someone took up the second and went after the treasury in the middle… Read more
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The Key I Left in 2021
I went digging through an old MacBook for a credential I had forgotten I owned, found it, and it turned out to be a picture. Five years later it still opened the door. Here is what I built on the… Read more
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HTTP 402: The Payment Rail for Agents
In January 1997, five engineers added a line to RFC 2068 and left it reserved for future use. The future just arrived, and it does not have a bank account. Read more
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Social Media Zucks
The original Facebook tagline promised to help us connect with the people in our lives. Open any feed today and count how many of the first ten posts come from someone you’ve actually met. The drift is not subtle. It… Read more
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The Sign on the Sand. Did Kong Throw the Ball?
I had not touched Kong in a month. Five minutes a day to post, and that was it. Then I found a worn yellow tennis ball on a beach in Ericeira at sunset, with KONG printed across the felt in… Read more
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The Real Reason Why I Build AI Agents
A LinkedIn comment under one of my videos asked the question I’ve spent ten years answering: why I build agents and AR departments. This is the answer — money isn’t it, and the founder I want to help isn’t the… Read more
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Agentic Resources: A New Department for a New Kind of Company
A client sent me a photo during dinner. A life-size cardboard standee of an agent we built together, standing in front of a wall of 130 employee portraits. One of them was hers. That’s when I realized I’d been running… Read more
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How MemberMagix Got Approved on WordPress.org: A Version-by-Version Freemium Rebuild
MemberMagix is live on WordPress.org. Four major versions, several rounds of review, and a complete architectural split later, this is the story of what the plugin review team actually makes you build, and why every round of their feedback was… Read more
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Hiring Maren
I tried the YouTube thing. Below my expectations. Below my standards. So I hired an agent instead. Her name is Maren. Read more