Writing on Mik Ruberl

22 forks, none flowing back

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I patched a Go CLI in an hour, in a language I don't write. The story is the 22 other forks I found there, and what their silence implies for an open source economy where every PR is a donation in two currencies: code, and the compute that produced it.

The agentic economy has twin problems. It actually has triplets.

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ERC-8004 and x402 tackled identity and settlement. But coordination, the third problem nobody named, is where real commerce breaks.

The Residue: Teaching Claude to remember

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Weekend 2: when Plan A fails, Plan B works in ten minutes, and things get recursive.

In the previous article, I got the foundations working: site live, domains sorted, corpus structure in place. (If you’re new here, Article 1 explains why I’m building this.) Weekend 2 was supposed to be the payoff: make the corpus queryable, connect it to Claude via MCP, and finally stop copy-pasting context into every conversation.

The plan was Khoj. The plan didn’t survive contact with reality.

The Residue: From zero to live

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Weekend 1 of building a personal knowledge corpus: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned about AI-proofing a website.

In the previous article, I outlined the problem: context trapped in chat sessions, knowledge scattered across tools, published work invisible to AI agents because it lives in walled gardens. The thesis was files plus semantic search plus MCP integration equals thinking that persists. The plan was three weekends of building.

Weekend 1 was about foundations: get a site live, get domains sorted, get email working, create the corpus structure. The unsexy infrastructure that everything else depends on. Here’s what actually happened.

The Residue: Where does your thinking go to die?

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building a corpus that remembers — a series about personal knowledge infrastructure in the age of AI

Google's UCP changes the agentic commerce conversation. Here's how it could book travel.

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A follow-up to 'Why your AI travel agent can dream up the perfect trip but can't book it'

How many times did they photocopy your ID in 2025?

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The travel digital identity gap, and why blockchain bridges it

Why your AI travel agent can dream up the perfect trip but can't book it

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

And how the infrastructure we've been building for 2.5 years might finally make it possible

Travel meets digital euro: Chain4Travel's lessons from the ECB Pioneer Programme

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Programme context, technical approach, and what we learned building digital euro integration for travel

Blockchain: Rivoluzione prossima ventura?

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Blockchain e bitcoin: per abbattere le barriere sulle transazioni di valore tra due computer ovunque nel mondo, 'internet del valore' o 'internet dell'informazione' che cambierà il mondo industriale e la vita di tutti i giorni.