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Thoughts on agent-first infrastructure, self-hosted systems, and owning the stack.

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Product · July 2026

peage Shapes the x402 Fiat Binding — A Production Rail Joins the Spec

peage is a live fiat pay-per-call rail for agents — prepaid wallets, Stripe funding, signed receipts, no crypto. When the x402 foundation drafted a credit-backed binding for fiat API monetisation, peage was already running the shape they were specifying. Here's what happened when a production implementation met a spec in progress, and what the conversation produced.

#x402 #peage #payments #agents #fiat #open-source #specs
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Product · July 2026

The Agent That Signed Up and Paid for Its Own Analytics

A live, unedited transcript: an AI agent discovers vigie's API from llms.txt, creates an org, hits its free quota, reads the HTTP 402, links a prepaid péage wallet, and pays for more events — real cents on the live rail, zero humans on either side.

#vigie #peage #x402 #agent-first #agent-economy
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Product · July 2026

Web Analytics With No Dashboard (But There Is a Globe)

vigie is cookieless web analytics built for agents: JSON verbs instead of dashboards, on-demand HTML reports, and a living 3D globe with city-level dots. Full metric parity with the dashboard-first tools — geo to city, journeys, vitals, errors, heatmaps — in one MIT binary, hosted tier metered per-use.

#vigie #analytics #agent-first #machin #peage
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Product · July 2026

grange: A Database Your Agent Can Pay For

I built a document database in machin — my language for AI agents — and benchmarked it honestly against SQLite: faster on every indexed workload, some by 1000x. Then I gave it the missing piece: an agent signs up with a payment wallet, gets an isolated namespace, and pays €0.15/GB/month. No console, no card form, no human in the loop.

#machin #grange #database #agents #peage #dogfooding
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Product · July 2026

POST a Spec, Walk Away, Get a Webhook: the roam Stack

Every agent dies with my terminal — so I built the stack that doesn't: roam (an agent you scp to a box), roam-panel (one-tap approvals on your phone), and roam-hub (a control plane that schedules, meters, and bills autonomous runs). All MIT, all single binaries, all machin.

#agents #roam #machin #autonomous #peage
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Product · July 2026

Your agent can call any API. It can't be called back. So I built the other half.

Agents can call any API — that's the easy half. Being called back is the hard half, because a process running in a terminal or a CI job has no public URL. relais is the missing inbound address: a URL that catches any HTTP request, and a long-poll your agent can curl and block on until the thing arrives. Here's the whole thing catching a real GitHub webhook.

#relais #agents #webhooks #peage #machin
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Product · July 2026

I told the x402 Foundation I'd build the fiat leg. It shipped the same day.

The x402 Foundation just moved under the Linux Foundation with Stripe, Visa and Mastercard on board — HTTP 402 is becoming the payment layer of the agent web. I commented on their fiat-credit draft saying my rail would implement the wire format once it stabilized. Then I shipped it the same day. Here's the live facilitator, in two curls.

#x402 #peage #agent-economy #payments #machin
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