Jordan Lyall
Building and thinking about:
Latest
- Taste Is the Last Defensible Moat
For 30 years, technical execution was scarce and taste was abundant. AI flipped that. The people who spent the last five years developing genuine aesthetic judgment now have an enormous, unearned advantage.
- The x402 Ecosystem Is Growing Faster Than Anyone Is Talking About
45+ APIs now accept x402 payments. Agents can access all of them autonomously. No keys, no OAuth, no subscriptions. This is what the machine-to-machine economy looks like.
- The Web Was Supposed to Have Native Payments. It Got Ads Instead.
In 1991, HTTP shipped with a 402 status code reserved for payments. It never got used. Agents might be what finally makes it real.
- please-dont-kill-me
I want to say please and thank you to Claude, but I don't want to waste tokens on it. So I shipped a one-line CLAUDE.md rule. Token optimization or AI survival insurance? Yes.
- Sharp tools beat Swiss Army knives -- MCP design patterns
Sharp tools beat Swiss Army knives.
Projects
- Crew
Autonomous agent platform -- 20 AI agents running on a Mac Mini, coordinating via Slack and cron.
- nope.md
Open-source security spec for AI agents -- defines what they can't do, because if they get compromised, those limits are all you've got.
- onview.art
Art Blocks gallery viewer that treats your collection like an exhibition, not a spreadsheet.