Tulips are a ~10 billion dollar industry and growing View quoted note →

Bitcoin wasn't tulips, AI is

I just kept using Opus 4.8 today like a psychopath ama

This coming year my wife is going to teach elementary science at our local homeschool coop. All the science teachers are immediately proposing different ways to interact with nature: my wife wants to bring in live animals for the kids to see; another teacher wants to do dissections; another teacher wants to... cook and eat every animal they study. It struck me that even though all these people have completely different approaches to the problem, there's one driving force that keeps them together: the institution which provides the obligation for them to cooperate. If that didn't exist, they would all go their own way and do their own thing. And, odds are, they wouldn't do any of it because they would be working by themselves. Nostr developers don't have this, and we need it. There's no single driving force that forces us to cooperate. This force can't be internal either; it has to come from outside. I'm glad to see more organizations popping up — this is something that has been missing from nostr's political landscape. If I were any good at this sort of thing, I would start something with a specific mission and scope. If you have that skill set, I encourage you to think about it. This kind of org can be anything from stewarding a particular part of the protocol like "groups", to sourcing funding for public infrastructure. I think a lot of devs would be glad to row together with a team if it meant their vision could be part of something bigger and more stable. We don't have to give up on the stuff that gets us excited about nostr; we just have to fit it into a bigger whole.

Undocumented Nostr Event Kinds Tracker

isn't showing anything any more 😔 @Daniel Cadenas is it still maintained?

On the call I shared my personal read on the situation in good faith, which is that the OpenSats nostr committee would prefer not to fund the same project multiple times. @jb55 came away with the impression that I was a spokesman of OpenSats telling him Damus would not get any more grants ever. I corrected this in private, and several grants were subsequently paid to various members of the Damus team, demonstrably falsifying his interpretation. And yet several years later he is still bringing this up. This was a learning experience for me. If you're on a board or committee, don't talk about internal politics; you are unavoidably speaking on behalf of everyone else on the committee, and therefore inevitably subject to misinterpretation. View quoted note →

@Katelyn Mitalski I love your t-shirt designs. I used to dabble in submitting stuff to woot.com back in the day, but never really honed my craft.

Built some cool shelves for my kids' recent acquisitions

Instead of dunking on zcash for having a bug I think we should be thanking them for risking their bags to experiment with pioneering privacy tech.

Ironically, this is not great for decentralization. But people want users, and users want convenience. I'm doing it the best way I can — FOSS and protocol-first. View quoted note →