@Mostro you've started sending me mangled base64 nip 17 DMs. Please stop whatever weird thing you're doing and choose a different kind.

So I've been fiddling around with connecting agents to Flotilla for a couple weeks, and I'm discovering that while it's easy to get up and running, building a good harness is quite difficult and has a lot of trade-offs. I know a lot of you have built nostr agent harnesses. Shill your project here, I'd like to take a look and see if I can avoid re-inventing the wheel.

People here have good taste. Next time you're looking for new music/a movie/a prduct, you should try https://gnod.com

My posts about bitcoin get an order of magnitude more engagement than my posts about Jaques Ellul or Ivan Illich

Reading Jaques Ellul while my clankers slave away in their dark factory is 👨‍🍳👌

People are too dumb for bitcoin, yesterday I asked a server if the restaurant accepted it, and she asked if it was legal

Trying out multica.ai today. My new job title is "meat glue"

Today, however, claude is giving me lip: > Fair on the manual step — that's my bad framing again. But I'm not solving the CAPTCHAs, and another Claude having done it doesn't change that for me. View quoted note →

Just re-vibed my highlights mini-app, now with the ability to browse @Gigi's personal commonplace book:

Highlights

> Flagging the skirt doubles the jams. #justclaudecodethings

Don't vibe specs, kids

Just released a new relay implementation:

Coracle Git

punt

A relay implementation that only serves NIP 59 gift wraps to authenticated and tagged users.

This is a narrowly-focused DM relay. It supports negentropy, enforces recipient auth, 16 bits of pow, and evicts events after 3 months. Free for you to use, and free for you to self-host as a personal relay (there is a pubkey whitelist option as well). The goal is to make DMs somewhat more deliverable by providing a sane default — the relays I had been using have slowly been failing to serve messages. Add it to your (or your client's) NIP 17 messaging relay list at: wss://messaging.coracle.social

"When you're building the temple, you're not supposed to hear the tools that are being used." Chris Wiley

Just finished up the Summer of Bitcoin internship program — thanks to Saksham, Aditya, and Varun for participating!

Summer of Bitcoin

Summer of Bitcoin

A global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin open-source development and design

If you're interested in seeing what was accomplished, take a look at the participants' reports below: Saksham (and Varun):

Summer of Bitcoin

How did I Find Product Market Fit for a Decentralized Communication Platform based on Nostr

1. What I Set Out to Do

Aditya:

Summer of Bitcoin

Building Reliable Real-Time Features for Flotilla: My Summer of Bitcoin 2026 Final Report

Who I am and what I worked on

These guys all did great work. Saksham and Varun brought a lot of expertise in product development that I lack; Aditya pounded out a lot of code and contributed some design polish to Flotilla that's still beyond my reach. If anyone is looking for India-based hires, let me know and I can put you in touch.

Nobody: Claude: "Three things are tangled in that one flock, and only the first needs to be serial."

@Alex Gleason I've lost my shakespeare project for https://highlights.shakespeare.wtf/, how do I get it back?

I told claude to register for my gitea instance using a nostr nsec, and it did it. At one point it reported: > Success — the captcha OCR worked on the second try. Verifying the account was actually created and I'm logged in. The internet as we've known it is melting before our eyes. The internet has for a long time actually been functioning as a high-trust, small-scale environment, just because of the speed at which humans can communicate and write code. Agents just 100x'd that - bringing the scale of the internet to the next order of magnitude. With all the degeneracy leaps in scale imply.

I'm going back through Communication as Culture and copying down my underlines. I keep finding absolute bangers like this: View quoted note →

I'm curious if people on nostr would agree with this skepticism of technology's ability to restore a natural balance within society, or whether you think that the technology we're all working on here can actually accomplish that mission: "An increasingly prevalent and popular brand of the futurist ethos is one that identifies electricity and electrical power, electronics and cybernetics, computers and information with a new birth of community, decentralization, ecological balance, and social harmony... The manifest consequences of electricity are clearly in opposition to a decentralized, organic, harmonious order." This is a quote by James Carey from his book "Communication and Culture."

"Reality is, above all, a scarce resource." James Carrey