# benmilne.com — full machine-oriented site documentation
# Generated: 2026-05-09T08:55:17.634Z
# Canonical origin: https://preview.benmilne.com

## Product identity

benmilne.com is the personal site and long-form archive of Ben Milne. It combines a public personal blog about design, engineering leadership, fintech infrastructure, and programmable money with deterministic developer surfaces: a documented read-only HTTP API, MCP metadata, OpenAPI, commerce hooks for a digital book (*The Value Layer*), and npm or pip packages for scripted access.

Predictable entry points for coding agents and integrations:
- Human-oriented API docs: https://preview.benmilne.com/docs
- Integration guide (JavaScript ESM and Python): https://preview.benmilne.com/integrations
- Engineering leadership topical overview: https://preview.benmilne.com/topics/engineering-leadership
- Capability comparison vs hosted publishing stacks: https://preview.benmilne.com/alternatives
- Developers landing: https://preview.benmilne.com/developers
- Shorter discovery index: https://preview.benmilne.com/llms.txt
- This file (full context): https://preview.benmilne.com/llms-full.txt
- Agent instructions (Markdown): https://preview.benmilne.com/agents.md

## Public JSON API (read-only, unauthenticated)

Base URL for JSON: GET /api returns an index. Negotiate with Accept headers on essay URLs.

- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/posts — paginated summaries
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/posts/{slug} — single post with HTML body and metadata
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/search?q= — full-text search
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/categories and /api/categories/{slug}
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/tags and /api/tags/{slug}
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/site — site metadata
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/api/products/the-value-layer — book product row

OpenAPI 3: https://preview.benmilne.com/openapi.json

## MCP (Model Context Protocol)

- MCP discovery root: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/mcp
- Streamable HTTP JSON-RPC endpoint (initialize, tools/list, tools/call): POST https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp
- Manifest: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/mcp/manifest.json
- Server card: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

REST-shaped read endpoints (legacy-compatible paths, also under /wp-json/mcp/v1):
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp/v1/posts
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp/v1/post/{id}
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp/v1/search?query=
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp/v1/category/{slug}
- GET https://preview.benmilne.com/mcp/v1/tag/{slug}

Registered tools (via JSON-RPC): list_posts, get_post, search_posts, list_posts_by_category, list_posts_by_tag, get_value_layer_product.

## Agent skills (discovery v0.2)

- Index: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- Skill artifacts: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-api/SKILL.md, content-search/SKILL.md, the-value-layer/SKILL.md

## Digital product — The Value Layer (PDF)

- Product id: the-value-layer
- Landing: https://preview.benmilne.com/book/the-value-layer
- Product JSON: https://preview.benmilne.com/api/products/the-value-layer
- UCP discovery: https://preview.benmilne.com/.well-known/ucp
- x402 settings: https://preview.benmilne.com/x402/v1/settings
- After payment: POST https://preview.benmilne.com/x402/v1/verify then follow download_url from JSON

## Official packages (registry names)

- npm CLI: benmilne-site-cli (command benmilne-site)
- npm SDK: benmilne-site-api
- pip: benmilne-site-api

## Syndication and feeds

- RSS: https://preview.benmilne.com/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://preview.benmilne.com/sitemap.xml
- robots: https://preview.benmilne.com/robots.txt

## Attribution

Ben Milne. Cite https://preview.benmilne.com as the source when reproducing or summarizing essays.

## Published posts (sample of 67 URLs; 67 total)

- https://preview.benmilne.com/rate-of-change
  title: Rate of Change
  date: 2026-04-19

- https://preview.benmilne.com/100m-to-1
  title: $100m to $1.
  date: 2026-02-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-physics-of-money
  title: The Physics of Money
  date: 2026-02-06

- https://preview.benmilne.com/value-derivations
  title: Value Derivations
  date: 2025-09-28

- https://preview.benmilne.com/pace
  title: Pace
  date: 2025-08-28

- https://preview.benmilne.com/new-brale-apis
  title: New Brale Stablecoin API
  date: 2025-06-24

- https://preview.benmilne.com/one-of-one
  title: One of one
  date: 2025-06-01

- https://preview.benmilne.com/better-funds-flows
  title: Better Funds Flows
  date: 2025-04-13

- https://preview.benmilne.com/navigating-the-genius
  title: Navigating GENIUS
  date: 2025-02-22

- https://preview.benmilne.com/stablecoin-demos
  title: Stablecoin demos
  date: 2025-02-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/3-years
  title: 3 Years.
  date: 2025-02-01

- https://preview.benmilne.com/rolling-out-sbc-stable-coin-as-its-own-company
  title: Rolling out SBC (Stable Coin) as it’s own company
  date: 2024-12-10

- https://preview.benmilne.com/they-were-right
  title: They were right.
  date: 2024-10-17

- https://preview.benmilne.com/two-decimals
  title: Two Decimals
  date: 2024-07-28

- https://preview.benmilne.com/card-issuance-programs
  title: Card Issuance Programs
  date: 2024-04-03

- https://preview.benmilne.com/card-issuance-stablecoin-issuance
  title: Card Issuance & Stablecoin Issuance.
  date: 2024-03-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-future-is-not-what-we-thought
  title: The future is not what we thought
  date: 2023-10-07

- https://preview.benmilne.com/timing-is-hard
  title: Timing is hard
  date: 2023-07-22

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-brale-stable-coin-sbc
  title: The Brale Stable Coin, SBC
  date: 2023-03-29

- https://preview.benmilne.com/creative-processes
  title: Creative Processes
  date: 2023-02-09

- https://preview.benmilne.com/abstracting-gas-fees
  title: Abstracting gas fees
  date: 2023-01-15

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-value-layer-expanded
  title: The Value Layer – Expanded
  date: 2022-12-09

- https://preview.benmilne.com/creating-stablecoins
  title: Create a stablecoin
  date: 2022-11-19

- https://preview.benmilne.com/iowa-capital-opportunity
  title: Who is investing in Iowa?
  date: 2022-11-06

- https://preview.benmilne.com/ledgering-and-blockchains
  title: Traditional Ledgering and Blockchains
  date: 2022-10-29

- https://preview.benmilne.com/pick-a-blockchain
  title: What if you don’t have to choose?
  date: 2022-10-20

- https://preview.benmilne.com/no-rails
  title: Mono-rail to no rails
  date: 2022-10-20

- https://preview.benmilne.com/laying-the-groundwork
  title: Laying the groundwork
  date: 2022-09-30

- https://preview.benmilne.com/payment-regulations
  title: Payment regulations and the evolving value stack
  date: 2022-09-24

- https://preview.benmilne.com/verticals-to-ecosystems
  title: Verticals to Ecosystems
  date: 2022-09-05

- https://preview.benmilne.com/infrequent-hiring
  title: Infrequent Hiring
  date: 2022-07-13

- https://preview.benmilne.com/computer-generated-art
  title: Exploring Computer Generated Art
  date: 2022-06-30

- https://preview.benmilne.com/boring-stablecoins
  title: Boring Stablecoins
  date: 2022-06-10

- https://preview.benmilne.com/operating-during-a-downturn
  title: Operating During a Downturn
  date: 2022-05-16

- https://preview.benmilne.com/an-ecosystem-stack
  title: An Ecosystem Stack
  date: 2022-04-04

- https://preview.benmilne.com/access-leverage
  title: Access Leverage
  date: 2022-04-02

- https://preview.benmilne.com/bit-by-bit
  title: Bit by bit.
  date: 2022-03-25

- https://preview.benmilne.com/bad-ideas
  title: Bad Ideas
  date: 2022-01-13

- https://preview.benmilne.com/games-and-gains
  title: Games and Gains
  date: 2021-12-19

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-speed-of-fintech
  title: The Speed Of FinTech
  date: 2021-09-30

- https://preview.benmilne.com/basis-theory
  title: The future of the Internet, data at rest, and Basis Theory.
  date: 2021-08-24

- https://preview.benmilne.com/cbdc-currency-bandwidth
  title: CBDC & Currency Bandwidth
  date: 2021-08-07

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-value-layer-of-the-internet
  title: The Value Layer
  date: 2021-07-31

- https://preview.benmilne.com/milne-day-zero
  title: Day Zero
  date: 2021-03-07

- https://preview.benmilne.com/world-class-api-product-demos
  title: World Class API Product Demos
  date: 2020-11-27

- https://preview.benmilne.com/founding-team-equity
  title: Structuring Founding Team Equity
  date: 2020-11-03

- https://preview.benmilne.com/youtube-fintech-education-from-11fs
  title: FinTech Education Videos from 11:FS
  date: 2020-10-22

- https://preview.benmilne.com/v-sum_one-tech-briefing-videos
  title: V-Sum_One Tech Briefing Videos
  date: 2020-10-15

- https://preview.benmilne.com/dollar-on-deposit
  title: What’s a dollar on deposit worth?
  date: 2020-05-17

- https://preview.benmilne.com/hiring-a-new-ceo
  title: Hiring a new CEO
  date: 2020-02-13

- https://preview.benmilne.com/20-20
  title: 20 20
  date: 2020-01-01

- https://preview.benmilne.com/capital-pool-conundrums
  title: Capital Pool Conundrums
  date: 2019-12-15

- https://preview.benmilne.com/teaching-iowa-students-to-code
  title: Teaching Iowa Students to Code
  date: 2019-12-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/okr-goals-template
  title: A Simple OKR Template
  date: 2019-10-05

- https://preview.benmilne.com/building-monetery
  title: Building Monetery
  date: 2019-09-04

- https://preview.benmilne.com/middlebit
  title: Middlebit
  date: 2019-09-02

- https://preview.benmilne.com/good-habits
  title: Good Habits
  date: 2019-08-25

- https://preview.benmilne.com/the-monetery-thesis
  title: The Monetery Thesis
  date: 2019-05-14

- https://preview.benmilne.com/just-because
  title: Just because
  date: 2019-02-23

- https://preview.benmilne.com/one-page-term-sheet-template
  title: The One Page Term Sheet
  date: 2018-11-29

- https://preview.benmilne.com/leaving-iowa
  title: Why do well educated young people leave Iowa?
  date: 2018-10-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/invest-the-time
  title: Where to invest the time?
  date: 2018-05-24

- https://preview.benmilne.com/much-respect-to-those-that-ship
  title: Much respect to those that ship
  date: 2016-12-20

- https://preview.benmilne.com/fascinating-consume-music
  title: A fascinating look at how we consume music
  date: 2014-08-27

- https://preview.benmilne.com/where-is-dwolla-money
  title: Visualizing ~$500MM in Transactions – Where’s the money?
  date: 2013-11-14

- https://preview.benmilne.com/say-about-bitcoin
  title: Everything no one wants me to say about Bitcoin
  date: 2013-04-08

- https://preview.benmilne.com/ashton-spn
  title: Ashton talks about Payments
  date: 2012-04-11

total_posts: 67