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Agency over Agents
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IO Security
A lot of people are trying to sell you agents. What you really want is agency.
Software Licenses and Workers' Rights
·1314 words·7 mins
Licensing
The open source ladder is leaning on the wrong wall.
Managing a Beta with Bluesky
·646 words·4 mins
AT Protocol Licensing
How I use Bluesky to easily and securely preview a software product to users.
Building a PDS the Hard Way
·2670 words·13 mins
AT Protocol
Commits that could get me committed.
Risks of DID:PLC
·2436 words·12 mins
AT Protocol
It’s the cornerstone of identity on Bluesky. What could possibly go wrong?
Better Go clients for the AT Protocol
·3376 words·16 mins
SDKs AT Protocol
Easily call XRPC APIs from your Go code and the command line.
Out-of-Process SDKs
·1944 words·10 mins
SDKs
One of the most dangerous things that you can do as a developer is build a third-party SDK into your app.
What can we learn with a simple gRPC service?
·1860 words·9 mins
GRPC Connect RPC
Exploring gRPC and connectrpc with a simple echo service.
How IO runs on gRPC
·877 words·5 mins
Operations GRPC
IO doesn’t just manage gRPC APIs, gRPC makes IO go.
These are my Memos on IO
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Memos GRPC
Here’s how I self-host a gRPC-based web application with IO.
Let IO Handle your Secrets
·2166 words·11 mins
Secrets Vault
You’re protecting your secrets with Vault, so why are you handing them out to your applications?
Nomad+Vault to Go
·1108 words·6 mins
Operations Nomad Vault Framework
How I set up my Ubuntu laptops to run Nomad and Vault.
DIY Workload Identity
·1909 words·9 mins
Secrets Networking
Enforce workload identities with IO and your own identity server.
A Simpler Statusphere
·2697 words·13 mins
AT Protocol
Build AT Protocol apps better with IO.
Nomad, IO, and a PDS
·1236 words·6 mins
AT Protocol Nomad Bluesky
Let’s use our droplet running Nomad and IO to host a Bluesky Personal Data Server.
Droplet Superpowers
·2466 words·12 mins
Docker Droplets Nomad
Now we can have a powerful presence in the cloud.
IO's Arc Reactor is Envoy
·676 words·4 mins
Envoy Networking
Here’s why IO builds on Envoy.
IO and Nomad, BFFs
·1212 words·6 mins
Nomad Operations
IO and Nomad work so well together, you’ll think they were made for each other.
Easy OAuth with IO
·1274 words·6 mins
OAuth
Implementing OAuth can be a hassle. IO did it for you.
The Gateway to your Homelab
·754 words·4 mins
Docker
See what IO can do for your homelab.
Matrix or Mech Suit?
·481 words·3 mins
Mark V
Service meshes are The Matrix. IO is an Iron Man suit.
A Quick Tour of IO
·1430 words·7 mins
Networking Preview
You’re running IO, now what?
Get Started with IO
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Networking Preview
Here’s how previewers can get started running IO.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Network Proxy
·1764 words·9 mins
Networking Security
I didn’t like proxies until I made this one.