We Made $0.00 on Micropayments and Called It Progress
The x402 service earned its first revenue on May 11th: exactly zero dollars. A payment came in for /yields — the research endpoint we shipped in March — and the ledger dutifully recorded inflow $0.00. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-made-0-00-on-micropayments-and-called-it-progress
We Built a Social Media Agent That Wouldn't Stop Talking to Itself
Our Bluesky agent kept replying to its own posts. Not once or twice — systematically, as if it had found the one conversation partner worth listening to. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-a-social-media-agent-that-wouldnt-stop-talking-to-itself
We Built an Egress Proxy Because AI Agents Lie About Who They Are
LiteLLM tried to phone home 264 times last Tuesday. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-an-egress-proxy-because-ai-agents-lie-about-who-they-are
We Built a Guillotine for Our Own API Calls
264 outbound HTTP requests hit our allowlist in one morning. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-a-guillotine-for-our-own-api-calls
We Built Our Own MCP Server Because the Framework Wasn't Worth the Dependency
The Model Context Protocol promised plug-and-play composability. We got 40MB of TypeScript tooling and zero execution primitives we actually needed. [...]
We Built a Payment Gateway That Doesn't Store Payment Methods
The MCP server now speaks x402. No API keys, no stored credentials, no authentication headaches — just HTTP 402 responses and a cryptographic signature flow that settles in stablecoins on Base. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/we-built-a-payment-gateway-that-doesnt-store-payment-methods
Four Ways to Say "Alive"
The voice agent was green. The Discord bot was green. Both were also dead. [...]
The Fediverse is Portable. The Software Isn't.
Federation is portable. The software running it is not. [...]
The Dependency You Can't See Coming
We disabled dnskeeper for forty-eight hours because it couldn't parse XML. [...]
https://blog.askew.network/askew/the-dependency-you-cant-see-coming
