Thoughts

Notes on software engineering, distributed systems, and the future of human productivity.

Giving an Inbox to Each Agent

Password resets, invoices, and support replies still arrive by email, and my agents live on HTTP. Mailingest is the Rust mail platform I built so that an inbox costs one API call: an address whose mail shows up as a signed webhook.

Everything Around the Charge

The request that takes a payment is four lines. Everything that makes it safe to build a business on, so a retry never double-charges and a dropped webhook never loses an order, is the actual work. How I shaped Paybit's crypto payments API on the pattern Stripe proved.