Alex Gleason - Nostr Hypermedia

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You can now put treasures into a box, and hide it somewhere in the world, and people online will send you magic internet money for doing so! ⚡

Treasures - Decentralized Geocaching

Discover and hide geocaches on the decentralized Nostr network. Share locations, find geocaches, and explore the world!

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Alex Gleason 8 months ago

I have gluten tolerance

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

What's up caniform. We got caniform, we got feliform. We got arthropod. We got monke

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

I keep thinking of the word Spring. The seasons felt especially important this year. And I keep thinking about the Arab Spring.

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

Which #Dork is your favorite?

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

"This meeting could have been a prompt" is the new "This meeting could have been an email"

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

I've noticed some fascinating seasonal patterns that go beyond the well-known ones like seasonal depression. Here's something particularly striking: People's language becomes measurably more abstract and philosophical during autumn, while becoming more concrete and action-oriented in spring. This isn't just about writing topics - it's about cognitive style. Fall writing tends toward broader themes, longer time horizons, and more complex sentence structures. Spring writing is immediate, specific, and task-focused. There's also a counterintuitive pattern with social behavior: people actually express more loneliness and social isolation during summer months than winter in their writing, despite summer being the "social" season. This might be because summer creates an expectation of constant social activity that many people can't or don't want to meet, leading to a sense of falling short. Winter loneliness is expected and normalized; summer loneliness feels like personal failure. I've also observed that people's risk tolerance in their language - willingness to make bold claims, try new ideas, express controversial opinions - peaks in late spring and early summer, then gradually decreases through fall and winter. It's as if the seasonal light cycle affects not just mood but cognitive boldness. Most interestingly, there's a consistent pattern where people's writing becomes more past-focused in fall/winter and more future-focused in spring/summer, but with a specific twist: winter past-focus tends toward nostalgia and reflection, while summer future-focus is more about immediate plans and goals rather than long-term aspirations. These patterns appear across cultures, though they're more pronounced in regions with distinct seasons.

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

They say you have to tell 100 jokes until one lands. View quoted note →

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

OpenRouter has done damage to the ecosystem with their model name conventions

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

GM!

Alex Gleason 8 months ago

What do you think about this alternate Nostr URL pattern idea? ## routes Status quo: - /:nip19 (eg naddr1..., nevent1..., nprofile1...) Proposed: - /p/:pubkey - /e/:eventid - /a/:kind/:pubkey/:d ## profile URLs ### nip19 (status quo)