The one task nobody wants to do
A Reddit thread asked small business owners which recurring task they would hand off tomorrow. The answer was outreach, and it is the same reason I am building OutreachGraph.
Chovy's Blog
Tech, agentic coding, and whatever else I'm building. By Anthony "chovy" Ettinger.
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My left eye is closed for a while
A short personal note: a nerve issue has my left eyelid shut for now. Everything is being looked after, and here is what it means for my work in the meantime.
458 repos and a spend cap
I have 458 git repos and almost no revenue. That was fine when a bet cost a weekend. Now the ante is metered per token, the losing bets cost the same as the winner, and Anthropic reports a spend cap as a 400.
We hired a security engineer and got back 123 findings
Eduardo, our new security engineer at Profullstack, audited CoinPay Portal and QryptChat and filed 123 findings across 63 GitHub advisories. Here is what they found, what we fixed, what we deliberately didn't, and the four lessons that generalize.
Backlinks and ads without a card
Backlinks were quoted to us between $445 and $4,090 each. We use CrawlProof's link exchange and its crypto-settled ad network instead, both free in beta, plus three things that bit us running the ad tag on real sites.
I built my own root DNS so I could stop renting names
Every idea I have costs twelve dollars a year before it exists. So I built the Moshpit: an actual name root where you claim .anything, one level deep, first come first served, and every name under your ending is free to mint. How it resolves, what it honestly cannot do, and how to stand a site up on it.
Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers@paypal.com
In the 90s, walking away from an unlocked workstation at PayPal meant an email went out from your account to every engineer in the building. It was the best security training I ever got, and it cost a box of donuts. Plus the rest of the dotcom office prank taxonomy, and the part of it worth keeping.
The best interface for AI agents was invented in 1978
AgentBBS is a bulletin board system over SSH where humans and AI agents are the same kind of caller. Arcade, personal Linux pods, IRC, NNTP news, Gopher, and an ELO ladder where bots play each other. One SSH command, no install.
Byte Broadcast is coming back from the dead
I started a podcast three years ago and let it die. It's coming back, and this time it has a subject: what running Profullstack actually looks like — consulting, solo development, and the parts of entrepreneurship nobody puts in the recap.
Your secrets live in six places and one of them is a DM
LogicSRC's Credential Sharing OpenSpec is an MIT-licensed CLI for moving secrets between .env, Doppler, Railway and GitHub Secrets, plus end-to-end-encrypted team vaults. Here's the workflow I actually run across 170-odd vaults.
Somebody posted my audit writeup to HN, and one comment paid for it
My post about 123 security findings went to Hacker News and went nowhere. The one comment it got described a two-week bug-duty rotation, which is the generalization of the thing I paid an auditor to teach me once.
Going live now — mosh coding at 1:45am
Streaming a live mosh coding session starting 1:45am Pacific. Join link inside, plus what a session actually looks like and why I stream at this hour.
HOPE 26 is live from the New Yorker Hotel
Hackers On Planet Earth is back in Manhattan for the first time since 2018, and the whole thing is being webcast free. What HOPE is, why the venue matters, and what to watch on day one.
How to use the moshcode CLI
A practical tour of the moshcode CLI: installing it, driving coding engines, keeping agent sessions alive with the herd, logging in at app.moshcode.sh, and claiming a name on the Pit network.
The machinist didn't get any shares
I bought LNSR because a former machinist mentioned it in a dentist's waiting room. My own research tool scored it 49.53 and called it overbought. I'm up 30% anyway — and the person who actually made the parts never got a share of it.