feat(gateway): add trusted-proxy auth mode (openclaw/openclaw)
Added trusted proxy auth mode to the OpenClaw project.
Open source project / 05-14-2026
Nick Taylor
Canada
Nick is a GitHub Star, 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.
Community Contributions
Introducing Excaliclaw: A Skill for OpenClaw to Generate Excalidraw Diagrams
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
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 for hill-climbing looks like.
Video/Podcast / 04-23-2026
Claws Out: Securing and Building with OpenClaw
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
Stop Shipping Broken Env Config
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
Clawspace: A Browser-Based File Explorer for OpenClaw
A writeup on a new project I created called Clawspace, a browser-based file explorer/editor for an OpenClaw workspace.
Blogpost / 03-10-2026
Stop using cat
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
All Things MCP with Rachel Lee Nabors — Web Agentic Engineer
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 perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
Video/Podcast / 02-23-2026
