2026
- Terms in the 402: The Payment Challenge That Also Tells You What You're Licensed To Do
TL;DR: An HTTP 402 usually just quotes a price. In the last post I argued that terms (what you’re licensed to do) and payment (the money) are different layers that belong together on one origin. Here …
- Why Doesn't the Web Just Use HTTP? It Does — and It Doesn't
TL;DR: Publishers are building dedicated “content ingest APIs” to sell access to AI agents, and the obvious question is: why not just use HTTP, which already delivers the content and, with x402, can …
- Your Website's Second Audience Just Got Its Own Ads
TL;DR: A few months ago I built an agent-optimized version of this site: when an AI crawler asks for a page, it gets clean Markdown instead of my full HTML. Time Magazine built the same thing, then …
- Getting Paid by Agents: A Managed Paywall at the Edge
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with a narrated tour of the build. TL;DR: In Part 2 I built the buy side: an agent that autonomously pays per article over x402 with Amazon Bedrock …
- Your Voice Clone Is Only as Good as the Reference Clip
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video with narrated diagrams. TL;DR: A voice clone built by conditioning on a reference clip, Qwen3-TTS, in my case, inherits the clip’s cadence, pitch, and …
- From a Generic Voice to My Own: Self-Hosting a TTS Model on Amazon SageMaker
TL;DR: Last time, the demo video for my agentic-payments post was narrated by Amazon Polly: a clean, managed, recognizably synthetic voice. This time the same demo is narrated in my own voice, cloned …
- I Built the Agent That Pays — Here's What I Learned
TL;DR: A couple of weeks ago I wrote about HTTP 402 and why AI agents might finally activate the internet’s oldest unused status code. The post sparked a real discussion, so I built it: a research …