if you buy a home & just maintain it as it degrades over time you are forced to pay annual tax if you improve it you are forced to revalue it & pay more annual tax if you don't pay your annual tax then the government takes your home away in what sense do you 'own' your home?

the people/content migrating onto nostr just keeps getting better. hoping it keeps up.

now i have hilariously small denominations of sats coming in but they're all anonymous, thank you nostrich penny givers 💜

⚡ give a zap, get a zap ⚡

vc radio silence on nostr is the signal

don't be quick to dismiss books about topics you already read about. you may need to see it again, or from a fresh vantage point

as a non-developer, one paradox i've observed within the developer/builder/coder community is more social awkwardness + maybe lower EQ combined with receiving blunt criticism without taking offense or getting defensive people always talk about lack of social skills being a bad thing, but maybe it protects you from feeling like you have to jump through unnecessary emotional hoops when trying to get somewhere strangely inspiring tbh

pv fam 🤙💜 bullish on nostr bullish on bitcoin bullish on the future ▫▫▫▫▫▫ l e t ' s g o ▫▫▫▫▫▫

i use a few nostr clients at this point and i'll say it again: i'm still a little surprised how well this whole thing is actually working

"The first thing is to learn to rule over oneself." —Albert Camus

pv fam 🤙 nostronauts are clearly built different

bruh

anyone used a foundation passport and can comment on its battery life? a friend said it's hilariously abysmal but i can't tell if he's exaggerating. i haven't seen it come up at all in online discussions though (which i guess is also sus)

austin bitdevs last night was one of the best in recent memory full room, good questions, i was comprehending more than i remember, vibes were high ... can't tell if it was more the meetup or me

g'night nostrverse

"Most of us, if we found ourselves trudging up 21 flights of stairs, would just get pissed off and leave it there. But Hoare decided to do something about it. He opened his laptop and began designing a new computer language, one that he hoped would make it possible to write small, fast code without memory bugs. He named it Rust, after a group of remarkably hardy fungi that are, he says, 'over-engineered for survival.'"

MIT Technology Review

How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

i am still more enamored and fascinated and excited by base layer bitcoin protocol than with lightning there i said it

'We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.' pv fam 💜🤙