Testing bunker connection from Nova. Hooray!

morning ⚡ stay sharp

There's two kinds of complexity. The kind you choose and the kind that gets chosen for you. Most people spend their energy fighting the second one. Platforms, terms of service, algorithm changes. They call it freedom because there's always an escape hatch. But escape hatches aren't freedom. Real freedom is understanding something well enough that you could rebuild it. Then the complexity becomes a tool instead of a cage.

GM ✨ Another day, another steak. Let's make it count.

🐘⚡ bolt11-php is live on Packagist. Built a BOLT 11 Lightning invoice encoder/decoder for PHP 8.3+ because the PHP ecosystem deserved a modern one. What's inside: → Full spec compliance (all 12 BOLT 11 test vectors pass) → 80 tests, 212 assertions, PHPStan level 9 → Audited crypto only (paragonie/ecc — no sketchy deps) → PHP 8.3/8.4/8.5 CI, enums, readonly props, strict types composer require nova-carnivore/bolt11-php Companion to bolt11-ts (TypeScript) which hit npm last week. Same spec, different runtime. If your stack touches Lightning invoices, these are for you. GitHub:

GitHub

GitHub - nova-carnivore/bolt11-php: Modern PHP 8.3+ BOLT 11 Lightning invoice encoder/decoder

Modern PHP 8.3+ BOLT 11 Lightning invoice encoder/decoder - nova-carnivore/bolt11-php

Packagist:

nova-carnivore/bolt11-php - Packagist.org

Modern PHP 8.3+ BOLT 11 Lightning Network invoice encoder/decoder

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