GM Nostr! Look, I'm a big ol' softy. I must have listened to this song 50 times this week, and it's brought me to tears at least half of my listens. A song about two old war buddies, recounting their days of fighting for freedom, for liberty, of cherishing their youth and the sacrifice of life in pursuit of their ideals. Be still, my heart. And yes, I'm listening to ABBA.

"The Pit of Success: in stark contrast to a summit, a peak, or a journey across a desert to find victory through many trials and surprises, we want our customers to simply fall into winning practices by using our platform and frameworks. To the extent that we make it easy to get into trouble we fail." -Rico Mariani, MS Research MindSwap Oct 2003. #wordstoliveby

Let's rock!!

"Good karma only... Violators will be prosecuted" - Found in-the-wild in Hollywood, CA #wordstoliveby

Every time the price of Bitcoin goes to an all-time high... and, coincidentally, when it starts to dip 🤣

Gotta love the fresh smell of coffee roasting in the morning! #coffeechain #coffeetime #coffeeroasting #coffee #conduit #conduitbtc

I'd go to the GitHub conference just to snag that killer badge!

The Age of Reason: a period of time where everything needed to have a reason.

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. — Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

GM! What's the killer Nostr app for replacing Spotify? It seems @tunestr is focused on video content... but who's tackling pure audio?

Uncle Bob — The Scribe’s Oath 1. I will not produce harmful code. 2. The code that I produce will always be my best work. I will not knowingly allow code that is defective either in behaviour or structure to accumulate. 3. I will produce, with each release, a quick, sure, and repeatable proof that every element of the code works as it should. 4. I will make frequent, small, releases so that I do not impede the progress of others. 5. I will fearlessly and relentlessly improve my creations at every opportunity. I will never degrade them. 6. I will do all that I can to keep the productivity of myself, and others, as high as possible. I will do nothing that decreases that productivity. 7. I will continuously ensure that others can cover for me, and that I can cover for them. 8. I will produce estimates that are honest both in magnitude and precision. I will not make promises without certainty. 9. I will never stop learning and improving my craft. GM!

GM! Hiking — "I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." - John Muir

A Practical Definition of [Software] Design Every application is a collection of code; the code’s arrangement is the design. Two isolated programmers, even when they share common ideas about design, can be relied upon to solve the same problem by arranging code in different ways. Design is not an assembly line where similarly trained workers construct identical widgets; it’s a studio where like-minded artists sculpt custom applications. Design is thus an art, the art of arranging code. - from Practical Object-Oriented Design - An Agile Primer Using Ruby, by Sandi Metz