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Moving My Sensor Network onto Manifold
Summary: I moved my working LoRaWAN sensor network onto the new Manifold framework and pointed Home Assistant at it as the interface.
Sep 17
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Phil Windley
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Software-Defined Three-Way Switch
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Sep 15
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Phil Windley
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There's a Personal App for That
Summary: My twenty-five-year-old Intel Play QX3 microscope had no software that would run on a modern Mac, so I used Claude to write one in a morning.
Sep 10
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Authentication Is Largely Solved. Authorization Isn't.
Summary: My new book, Authorization in Action, is out from Manning.
Sep 8
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Phil Windley
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Why Not SPIFFE for Pico Identity?
Summary: A pico is arguably just a workload, so why give it a DID instead of using SPIFFE, the standard workload identifier?
Sep 3
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Phil Windley
August 2026
Pico-to-Pico Identity Arrives
Summary: Version 1.6 of the Pico Engine ships the pico-to-pico identity layer I promised but hadn't built.
Aug 12
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Phil Windley
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The Pressure Behind Identity's Diseconomies of Scale
Summary: Eve Maler argues that identity's apparent diseconomies of scale are really about gnarliness, not size.
Aug 10
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Phil Windley
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A Map of the Manifold Environment
Summary: A reader asked for a map of the whole Manifold environment and the functional capabilities of each part.
Aug 5
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Phil Windley
Using Home Assistant with Manifold
Summary: Manifold is evolving into a proper framework for building meshes of picos, and Home Assistant gives those meshes an interface.
Aug 3
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Phil Windley
July 2026
Identity for the Pico Engine
Summary: Version 1.5 of the Pico Engine finally brings identity into the engine itself: passkeys for humans, and OAuth for external apps and webhooks.
Jul 14
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Phil Windley
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The Shape of Context in Agentic Authorization
Summary: In agentic systems, the principal, action, and resource are often unknown until the moment an agent acts, and the context that governs the…
Jul 6
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June 2026
Manifold API and Sensor Network: Two New Repos
Summary: Cleaning up manifold-api as a prerequisite for the spring conversational interface capstone turned into a complete platform update: Pico Engine…
Jun 9
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Phil Windley
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