playing ticket to ride with the family, good times

In trying to reason about the #nostr protocol, I used

Repomix

Repomix

Pack your codebase into AI-friendly formats

to concatenate the contents of both

GitHub

nostr-protocol

nostr-protocol has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

repos into a single file and pushed it into a claude project. now I can ask it questions like: which Kind is appropriate for storing lists of lists? It said curation lists, `30004` would be best. I then asked what if I want to have a mixed list of npubs and other lists? it answered that `30000` follow lists were more flexible than curation lists. do those answers seem reasonable? in any case, it's a nice tool for thinking about the protocol.

I've really been enjoying these long-form posts from @ODELL View article →

is anyone working on an MCP server that connects to relays?

"This is my npub. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My npub is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my npub is useless. Without my npub, I am useless. I must use my npub to establish true identity. I must sign more securely than my enemy who is trying to disrupt me. I must shitpost him before he shitposts me. I will ... My npub and I know that what counts in war is not the events we sign, the relays we submit to, nor the tags we use. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit ... My npub is human, even as I [am human], because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its hex encoding, its subkeys, its profile event and its relay list metadata event. I will keep my npub clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ... Before God, I swear this creed. My npub and I are the defenders of my property. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory for the sovereign individuals of the world and there is no enemy, but peace!"

on the dilemmas of megalopolitain systems "The size and intensity of such concentrations of wealth and power have been resented by other regions of the countries in which megalopolitan systems have arisen. The other regions claim a more equal share in the sum total of the country's population, wealth, and power. A too-large portion of these seems held in the megalopolitan areas. There is a basic ethical and political problem inherent in geographical concentration on such a scale."

I'm experimenting with turning arbitrary npubs that have published articles into a blog-like website, including RSS feed. if those articles have an imeta tag attached with type "audio/mpeg", and a URL to an mp3, it will become a podcast. the idea is that a podcast can be a collection of articles with URLs associated with them. try pasting an npub in a see what comes up. this is only the thinnest of thin vertical slices, so go easy on it. this is pre-alpha messing around.

npub.blog

A local-first Nostr long-form content reader

if you want to bypass the front page, try: https://npub.blog/[npub goes here] and RSS feeds look like: https://npub.blog/[npub goes here]/rss

"There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it." https://mises.org/mises-daily/isaiahs-job