Latest Blog Posts from Torc Community Members

Last updated: 26 April 2026 at 3:59 pm GMT

  1. Introducing Excaliclaw: A Skill for OpenClaw to Generate Excalidraw Diagrams

    This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge I already use the Excalidraw Model Context...

  2. Agents need a runbook for hill-climbing

    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 f...

  3. Imposter-maxxing

    Nobody tell them how many times I googled "The Channel"...PSA: This topic has been beat to death. But honestly, there are few things I enjoy more in life than beating a dead horse. Let's turn that ho...

  4. Stop Shipping Broken Env Config

    I first hung out with the Varlock team back in late August 2025, so this is not brand new to me. But...

  5. Clawspace: A Browser-Based File Explorer for OpenClaw

    I've been working with OpenClaw for a while now. If you're not familiar, it's a self-hosted personal...

  6. Let Dependabot Merge Its Own PRs

    Update March 2026: Given the Axios supply chain attack, revising this. It's still convenient to let...

  7. Stop using cat

    If you use cat in your daily workflow, this is a tiny upgrade with lots of upsides and honestly, no...

  8. Torc Bot 3: Torclation Services

    Why build it? So within the Torc community, we have a global user base with a very large contingent in LATAM. For a lot of our events there is a specific Espanol version of the stream and...

  9. Torc Bot 2: The Refactor

    Refactoring is important, but also difficult You ever create something with the best intentions of it being to standard and end up just winging it after you get started? Yeah, I did that wi...

  10. All Things MCP

    Rachel Lee Nabors joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things MCP, from MCP servers and MCP apps to the new WebMCP, which aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools so AI agents can perf...

  11. Pomerium MCP Support Updates

    Nick Taylor and Denis Mishin from Pomerium discuss and demo the latest updates to MCP support in Pomerium.

  12. Five Git Config Settings Every Dev Needs

    You've probably added some settings to your Git Configuration, but here are some you might not have...

  13. ChatGPT apps & MCP apps with Skybridge

    FrΓ©dΓ©ric Barthelet, CTO & Co-founder Alpic, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Skybridge framework that enables developers to build ChatGPT apps & MCP apps.

  14. Building a Multifunctional Discord Bot: A Comprehensive Technical Deep Dive

    Discord has become the go-to platform for running communities, whether you’re organizing a gaming guild, a dev collective, or a professional network. It has plenty of built-in tools, but sometimes you...

  15. [Boost]

    How Not to Self-Reject Before You Even Try Yodit Weldegeorgise ...

  16. 2025 Retrospective

    2025 Retrospective 2025 has come and gone and this is the first year I have actually sat down and done somewhat of a review of the year. I feel like the year went so quickly and at the sa...

  17. Windows paths with spaces in Python's `os`

    Dealing with spaces in file paths is an issue that I keep running into. So here's a very short blog to save us time and headaches. You can either use r string or double backslashes (\\). ...

  18. writing about reading about writing about development in order to write about development

    somehow joining a book club led to me wanting to write more and these are my ramblings. hey I didn't say it was going to be good writing ok

  19. Magic Mundanity

    πŸŽ„ RISE & RAGE, Agents of Chaos! πŸŽ„& Happy Holdaze! Buckle up!The header photo for this blog is a picture of me (duh) at a tea party of my own creation in my festive jammies on a hot, humid, Florida C...

  20. Fake SMTP Server

    Step 1: Install aiosmtpd library pip install aiosmtpd Step 2: The Modern Fake SMTP Server Script (aioserver.py) import asyncio from aiosmtpd.controller import Control...

  21. `requirements.txt` in python

    Stop Saying "It Works on My Machine!" Ever tried to share your Python project and had someone tell you, "It doesn't work on my machine?" That usually happens because they're missing a libra...

  22. Getting Marimo Up and Running on Windows with uv

    Getting Started with Marimo on Windows (using uv) Let's install the Marimo Python notebook on Windows with uv. 1. Get the uv Installer First, we need to install uv. Open Po...

  23. Installing pandas with uv on windows

    Here's a quick overview to installing pandas on windows: We will follow these steps: Install uv (if you haven't already). Create a virtual environment using uv. Activate the virtual environment. Ins...

  24. On Thin Ice.

    πŸͺ© RISE & RAGE, MUFFINS πŸͺ©A bit of sap to start: I’ve been with my company for nearly 6 years and in that time frame, I have experienced a career evolution that I never saw coming. This is dedicated t...

  25. Basic Mail Automation in Python

    Mail automation is a python script and is usually called "Mail Merge Generator" but I like mail automation more, so that's what I'm gonna call it for my article. This article is very beginner friendl...