// journal
Field notes from the agentic frontier.
- September 12, 202612 min read
Making MCP, OAuth and Keycloak Agree
We wanted AI assistants to call our API on a user's behalf. We already ran Keycloak, so this looked like configuration. Four failures later — each one masking the next, three of them reported as something they were not — here is the part nobody writes down.
mcpoauthkeycloaksecuritydevops - June 29, 202618 min read
Where should I host my TanStack Start app? A 2026 field guide
An opinionated, numbers-first tour of every serious place to run TanStack Start in 2026 — Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Fluid, AWS Lambda, Bunny Magic Containers and Edge Scripting, Netlify, Deno Deploy, Fly.io, Railway, Render, and self-hosted Node. Pricing tables, runtime gotchas, and a decision matrix for vibe coders shipping real products.
tanstackdevopshostingedgeserverless - June 15, 20266 min read
From prototype to production: how bitfiction.com is built and hosted
A clear path from rapid prototyping in Lovable to full ownership on AWS — TanStack as a static SPA, Staticbot wiring up S3 + CloudFront, GitHub driving every deploy.
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