What do you need for UCP? There are two levels of UCP readiness. The first is the minimum viable manifest — the bare requirements to pass validation and appear in the UCP directory. The second is the agent-ready setup — what it actually takes for an AI agent to browse, cart, and check out at your store without friction. Think of this as your UCP checklist — the minimum requirements plus the recomm
How I Built a Bitcoin-Only Digital Store (No Stripe, No PayPal) What happened when I deleted my payment processor and embraced financial sovereignty I still remember the day Stripe froze my account. A client disputed a $200 payment and before I could even respond, my entire balance was locked. Three weeks of emails. Two verification requests. And ultimately, a 30-day hold while they "investigate
The Problem Most engineers deploy to Kubernetes by clicking buttons in a UI. I built Archnet — a fully automated Internal Developer Platform What is an Internal Developer Platform? An IDP is the infrastructure layer that sits between your code How code gets deployed How secrets are managed How the system monitors itself How failures get detected and fixed Most companies pay Humanitec or Backsta
"OK, I understand the RPS formula. But is our RPS — actually — high or low compared to our industry?" Right after I published the RPS-definition guide last week, this was the most common question I got back from EC operators. They want to know where they sit, not just how to compute the number. Knowing your RPS is $1.20 means nothing if you don't know whether that's the industry median, the top qu
I run a flower shop in Munich and recently migrated my entire e-commerce setup to Medusa v2. The shop, the One thing that was completely missing: a connection to Lexware Office, which is the most popular accounting software So I built LexBridge - an open-source Medusa v2 plugin that automates the entire invoicing workflow. What it does When a customer places an order, the plugin: Looks up the cust
We had ArgoCD running perfectly. Every deployment was reconciled from Git. Drift detection worked. Rollbacks were one-click. Our GitOps setup was clean. Developers still couldn't provision a staging environment without pinging the platform team. That gap — between "GitOps in place" and "developers can actually self-serve" — is where most platform engineering teams get stuck. GitOps solves a real p