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2026
  • The human loop is the one nobody is engineering
    Agent loops can write, test, and retry at machine speed. The hard part is designing the review moment where an engineer can still understand and redirect the work.
  • OneKey Classic 1S vs Trezor Safe 3: Built for Different People
    A comparison of two affordable hardware wallets: Trezor Safe 3 as the conservative default, and OneKey Classic 1S for active multi-chain users.
  • Lessons from Building a Domain Agent
    What building a financial agent taught me about specs, evals, dogfooding, and building products with agents at high velocity.
  • Scrapers vs. Sites That Don't Want to Be Scraped
    Comparing agent-browser, Camoufox, and Scrapling to find the best stealth scraper for AI agents.
2025
  • Browsing Inside a Browser: How Web Proxies Work
    Service workers, URL rewriting, and the Scramjet generation. An explainer on browser-based web proxies, how they differ from traditional proxies, and where they break.
2024
  • Your Own OAuth Server, No Servers Required
    Deploying Ory Hydra on Google Cloud Run for a fully serverless, OpenID Connect-certified OAuth 2.0 server.
  • What If Your Cloud Provider Literally Could Not Read Your Files?
    How non-custodial encryption lets you store data with any provider while keeping the keys to yourself.
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