I've been interested in micro-transactions for about as long as I can remember. I've wanted to sell something for a tiny amount of money ever since I learned about PayPal's micro-transaction support via NearlyFreeSpeech, the hosting provider. I've finally done it, by combining some of the oldest and newest tech I can think of: faxes and AI.
I've been writing software for 25 years, and been getting paid for the last 20. My AWS account will be turning 18 this September, and it should be quite the celebration. If I may toot my own horn: I've got pretty good at writing and deploying software in that time - to the point that you're actually spending your time reading this blog. All this, and the release of Opus 4.5 in November 2025 hit me like a tonne of bricks. My value-add (as I knew it) would soon be over.