Came home from a relatively short trip and I check my mushroom tent. Looks like the humidifier was dripping a bit somehow on the floor. This weird scobby/mold/mushroom thing was growing on the floor. I post progress, success, and failure #moldstr #mushstr #kombucha

#photography #artifax

Harvested a good chunk of Reishi today #mushrooms #grownostr

I wrote this code for a job interview, but I didn't get the job so I have made it open-source. It might be a good reference for someone? Also if you star my github repo I'll pay you 1500 sats.

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GitHub - kornpow/lnd-kube-ha

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1. It uses `lndinit` to initialize and/or unlock the LND from a stored secret. 2. Configures LND to use the postgres DB backend 3. It uses ETCD leader election, so you can have a high-availability LND deployment where if one goes down, a second replica, (on a different machine) can take over the Lightning Ops. 4. It runs the Aperture server to create a Lightning Paywall. I really, really, really want to have a career working with Bitcoin and Lightning, so if you know anyone hiring please send them my way! @Blockstream @jack @ODELL @Bitkey @Lyn Alden @moneyball @Derek Ross @calle 💯 @gladstein @Rigly @The Space @Sazmining @preston

First successful Enoki #mushroom grow! They like cold temperatures and high CO2 so these little guys have been growing in my fridge for a few months now. #mushtr #shroomstr @Foxfire Mushrooms

Hiking trip not going exactly as planned but I’m posting from 12,800 feet! Starlink has been a game changer I can Nostr post from anywhere #creede @Ben Justman🍷

Ordering my latest Seedsigner development board. 30 units inbound. Features: 1. Multiple LCD header ports, so you can solder in the 320x240 screen. 2. Pi Zero or Luckfox Pico embedded Linux support! Look mom no RPi!!! 3. Support for the standard waveshare hat. 4. External buttons for future development and cool case designs. 5. GPIO expander chip to enable future development of Seedsigner on devices with minimal GPIO. 6. I2C grove header so you can plug in a wide variety of potential accessories! Want to also say very VERY many thanks to Modulo for sponsoring some of my work on this! While I am helping him some, I think the Seedsigner ecosystem as a whole is gaining a lot from him supporting me. I really do love open-source. But if you are hiring for something in bitcoin and need a passionate and driven individual, please send me a DM or a message. @SeedSigner @SeedSigner ("the man") @Keith Mukai @Dimi @FractalEncrypt @modulo @Guy Swann @ODELL @BLUESKY @The Space

Getting a lot of new followers? Maybe from follow packs? Check out this intense cotton snow storm I was in this weekend

#asknostr One final sort observation about Nostr based shopping. I wonder if others know good ideas. A lot of you sellers are like “zap me and I’ll send you products”. Like it is never that simple. Even if you had a single product, your next questions are: “where do I send this product?” “What name do I put on the package?” It’s sorta awkward to ask a bitcoiner using a nym what their real name and address is. And then the next piece of difficulty is normalizing addresses people give you. People always forget stuff in their address. The benefit of a real website with a form is you can validate this before the order is ever submitted. Especially for non-US orders, I cannot just look at an address and be like, “yeah that definitely seems reasonable”. So typically I avoid non-US shipping, but sometimes it is worth it. Dealing with customs harmonization codes also makes me wanna scream, so that’s another reason. Just food for thought. What are some of your internal procedures for handling ad-hoc orders on Nostr (or otherwise) which doesn’t require a lot of back and forth with the customer trying to get the basics down? #nostrsellers

GitHub notifications are my favorite notifications…

Sending some seedsigner hardware to some beta testers. Read on to learn more about my thoughts about today… Shipping physical stuff is kind of hard, especially when you only do it occasionally. I have to take time after a day like today and reflect and improve my processes. I feel bad sometimes. At lot of you vendors here are posting about how high quality your products are. But for me, selling electronics in particular, it is really hard to get to the level you get even for like lower quality Chinese Amazon products. Maybe the product is junk, but it is packaged so much better than is possible in my home production mode. All I can do it iterate though. Hopefully if I can get orders more consistently, I can build the processes. Generally, the move is to have products in stock. I can’t be making stuff to-order. #bitcoin #building #seedsigner

Harvested some Reishi mushroom. It took about 4 months to grow to this size. Just kept it inside the bag the entire time, no need for any fancy environment control. #grownostr @Foxfire Mushrooms @jack

Babushka kitty #catstr

Finally got my new node devices setup! New Left: 2 Beelink AMD mini-PCs Old Right: An Arduino compatible celeron mini-pc and an old quad core laptop. Previously I ran my Bitcoin node and my Fulcrum electrum server on the mini-pc and the LND node on the laptop #bitcoin #building

Doing some lab work. Just took agar and LC out of the pressure cooker. Going to pour dishes soon. #mushrooms #lab #work

Nature creeping into the burbs, Coyotes playing #rarecontent #nature #grownostr

There are 402 clients connected to my relay I made for myself! https://bostr.lightningspore.com/ No wonder I cant boot my system up anymore with 2GB of ram #devstr #whatstr

Black King Oyster harvest today. Some stats about this harvest: I spawned 1lb of colonized grain to 10 lb bags of sawdust/soy hull gourmet substrate (thanks @Foxfire Mushrooms for supplying!) on 02/19/2025. That means it took 37 days for these. Probably half of that time it was colonizing, half it was in the fruiting tent. After pulling the mushrooms off of the block the total weight was: 4.716kg I trimmed up these mushrooms to remove less desirable parts: Good looking mushrooms: 3.506kg Compost pieces: 1.21kg So about 75% yield there. Which could definitely be improved by me harvesting at a better time, and maintaining better environmental conditions. There is something in mushroom growing called "biological efficiency" (BE) which tells you how well you did. Each species of mushrooms has a range of acceptable values here. Biological Efficiency = (Fresh Mushroom Weight / Dry Substrate Weight) × 100% Biological Efficiency -> (3.506 kg / 5.443 kg) × 100% Biological Efficiency = 64.4% I did the calculations based on a couple of difference dry substrate weights, which gave me a BE of 48.3% to 77.3%. This is lower than the ideal (100-150%), but also my execution wasn't really ideal either. Its good to get this all written down so that next time around I have a goal to beat! https://learn.freshcap.com/growing/mushroom-yield-and-biological-efficiency/ #mushrooms #mushstr #grownostr #science #math

#asknostr @strike I have had two different people try to send me bolt11 invoices from Strike, which had expiry of 60 seconds instead of 3600 seconds. I cant find any setting to change it either? But on my account when I generate an invoice and decode it shows the typical 3600. Any ideas here? Actually to be exact, the two invoices my friend sent to me from strike had an expiry of 57 seconds. Weird?