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Nick is a GitHub Star, AAIF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, AWS Community Builder, Software Developer, and Developer Advocate. With over two decades in technology and a decade of open source contributions, plus six years of professional open source work at companies like OpenSauced, dev.to, Netlify and now Pomerium, he brings deep community knowledge to his work. You'll often find him live streaming tech content, either solo or with friends from the community.
I joined Andrea Griffiths for GitHub's Open Source Friday featuring Pomerium, an open source identity-aware proxy that secures access to internal apps and services. We’ll dig into how Pomerium approaches authentication, authorization, and zero trust access, and explore the project from both a technical and contributor perspective.
Video/Podcast / 06-12-2026
Added trusted proxy auth mode to the OpenClaw project.
Open source project / 05-14-2026
A writeup on an agent skill I created that helps you leverage the Excalidraw MCP in OpenClaw, where you do not have access to the UI of an MCP app.
Blogpost / 04-25-2026
Jon Lebensold, Founder at Jetty, joins Nick Taylor for a hands-on conversation about agent evaluations and how to systematically improve agent performance. Jon will dig into what a practical runbook for hill-climbing looks like.
Video/Podcast / 04-23-2026
My talk from AI Engineer Europe on the OpenClaw track. It discusses the Trusted Proxy Auth mode I implemented in the OpenClaw project and then I demo how I leverage OpenClaw to build.
Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 04-09-2026
A writeup about using Varlock for validating environment variables in Astro and Vite projects to prevent runtime failures and secret leaks.
Blogpost / 03-11-2026
A writeup on a new project I created called Clawspace, a browser-based file explorer/editor for an OpenClaw workspace.
Blogpost / 03-10-2026
cat is an awesome tool, but there's a more modern tool, bat, that provides you with all the goodness cat has and more.
Blogpost / 03-02-2026
