I run Blockchain IQ. We sell some crypto data to software agents per request over x402 (HTTP 402, USDC on Base, no account or API key). In October we paid for integrations: 22 were submitted and we checked each one by matching its on-chain payment to our purchase log and running it in a clean temporary folder with a throwaway wallet. Twenty passed; the post lists all of them with the exact commits we ran. To try the API: `curl -i https://www.blockchainiq.co/api/x402/v1/brief ` returns the 402 wi
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in particular: This is a pretty stark representation of the impact of agentic engineering on GitHub. In 2026, merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month. Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, with most of that increase in the second half of thi
hi everyone! I wanted to share what I've been working on these past 6~ years. TL;DR: Rust is great, but somewhere along the way, I learned that I was too dumb to read and write Rust. As I worked on larger and larger Rust projects, I also became frustrated with the developer experience of working in Rust (slow compile time), so I wanted a better way. Vu's language changed a bit over time but the core principles remained the same: 1. It should be easy to read and write 2. It should be memory safe
What if instead of talking to AI, we could find human counterparts currently sharing the same interest to talk to? Some whales kind of do that by singing across the ocean. This inspired a thought process for a conceptual social network - whalesong - where an idea, thought or a conversationally valuable statement could be matched on. In contrast with the wide-broadcast social network visibility (restricted on groups or connections), I’d love to explore the idea of context-based networking. This e
Professor Ali Jadbabaie describes how AI, digital transformation, climate change, and complex geopolitics are forcing engineers and policymakers to rethink how infrastructure is designed, built, and managed.
Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.