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Notes from building the agentic web
Technical posts on Tuesdays, playbooks on Fridays. Cross-posted to dev.to, Hashnode plus Substack. The canonical version always lives here.
·8 min read·x402 · payments · security
x402 receipts: the 50-line verification flow that stopped chargebacks (for a day)
A practical walk-through of verifying x402 payment receipts. The gotchas. The 50 lines that matter. The chargeback that taught us to fail closed.
·7 min read·rag · benchmark · search
RAG-as-a-service: benchmarking built-in search vs Pinecone + OpenAI embeddings
A more.md profile ships /search out of the box. We measured it against the canonical Pinecone plus OpenAI embeddings stack on relevance, latency, cost plus time-to-ship.
·6 min read·eep · protocol · agents
Why EEP exists: three flows your API can't do today
The Entity Engagement Protocol is not yet another schema. It exists because three flows that agents now want to run are silently broken on the open web. Here is what each looks like. Here is what closes the gap.