Last week I wrapped up my employment with @rabble and the gang at Verse Communications. Over the past 3 years I got to work on https://planetary.social, https:/nos.social, and more recently a communities-focused social app codenamed Plur. Working to build healthier social media with such a diverse team and community was such a transformative opportunity for me, and I'm sure I'll always look back on it as an inflection point. For now I'm taking some time to work on my own projects. Probably not Nostr-related for starters, but I’ll share more when there is more to share :)

Passkey update: Bitwarden, Firefox, and Safari all seem to play nicely together now when it comes to passkeys. I’ve been creating and saving passkeys into Bitwarden whenever a site prompts me to set one up. Signing in with them works how I would expect. It’s not really a different UX from signing in with a username and password using a password manager. And I think I’m defeating the purpose of passkeys by storing them in a central vault, but hey if websites won’t log me out or ask for 2FA so often that’s a trade I will happily make. The accounts I really need secured get the Yubikey.

@cmd frostr is so cool. Is it possible to recover your key from the bifrost if you lose it?

What even is the gossip model in a NIP-29 context? Is it important? It seems like idea of a user-defined relay list is somewhat moot. The group needs to more or less say "we're using this relays" and unless you want to migrate or fork the group you maybe only need to read from one and publish to all of them? Have you thought about this yet? @fiatjaf @hodlbod @Stuart Bowman @hzrd149

I finally had a good long session with Goose, after switching to OpenRouter to get around rate limits. I was able to do an hour long session evaluating the code quality of a bunch of different repositories and comparing their architecture and the libraries they use. I like that it could pull code samples out of the repos to prove/illustrate the points it was making, which felt like a decent guard against hallucinations.

This is one of the most helpful things I’ve listened to on parenting. The discussion about setting boundaries and helping kids process their emotions was really useful. Not even just for dealing with kids.

Dr. Becky Kennedy: Protocols for Excellent Parenting & Improving Relationships of All Kinds

In this episode, my guest is Becky Kennedy, PhD. She is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and founder of Good Inside, an education platf...

I found this video pretty helpful in understanding why agentic AI is so much more useful than just one-off prompts. It starts with some other stuff but the second two thirds of the video is all about agents.

I’ve tried using Goose for a few tasks, but any time I ask it to do some significant work like read a pdf or write some code I get a TPM rate limit error. I’ve tried OpenAI models (4o-mini has the highest TPM limit) and Claude Sonnet. Is there some workaround for this?

I’ve been using the Bartender app on Mac to hide some menubar items for years. It’s all more the necessary these days on the MacbookPros with the notch in the top that just makes some of your menubar inaccessible if you have too many items. I just tried this open source GPL-licensed alternative and it seems to be working fine!

GitHub

GitHub - jordanbaird/Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS

Powerful menu bar manager for macOS. Contribute to jordanbaird/Ice development by creating an account on GitHub.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like:

The DIY FOSS cyborg -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

Here’s my latest 3d print - a hanger for my headphones on the back of my desk. It keeps them tucked out of sight but I can still lean forward and grab them when I need to. I think I need to adjust the design to make the headphones sit a little higher because right now the rubber piece where the cord comes out of the bottom is bending as the weight of the headphones presses down on them. I have been getting by in TinkerCad but it might be time for me to learn how to use a real 3D modeling tool. Any recommendations on resources/videos for that?