ben

outdoorsman, creative generalist, computer programmer.

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2026-01-19 15:58:44 UTC

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my go to afternoon cup!

2026-01-19 15:40:56 UTC

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agreed. i guess my point is im not surprised to hear shitcoins can do fast and consistent payments. visa does too. i think the hard part is specifically pow/trustless/permissionless.
but i’m just a guy drinking coffee in an armchair. i dont really know shit about fuck 🙃

2026-01-19 15:29:49 UTC

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that’s more than id have guessed!

2026-01-19 15:23:09 UTC

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shitcoins on a proof of stake network have dozens of servers with near instant settlement. it’s visa 2.0.
that’s a lot different that a globally decentralized permission-less network with tens of thousands of nodes coordinating with zero trust.

2026-01-19 01:30:50 UTC

i wired my home ollama llm into nostr dms

2026-01-19 00:14:42 UTC

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looks good! you doing the tile? i tiled a kitchen once and had a blast.

2026-01-18 18:43:24 UTC

domain name renewal price inflation is so annoying.

2026-01-18 18:07:25 UTC

gm
https://blossom.primal.net/7c99a49806844242d7277e9040bf1fc726db3a612c45f75b3d4e31dda786f344.jpg

2026-01-18 03:57:49 UTC

llama3.2 might flunk kindergarten
https://blossom.primal.net/164a2b63e0c749e77ddf7ed1df7b9afab0c0e9e1f1d52b5b090b9a08d750d260.jpg

2026-01-18 03:44:38 UTC

https://freetubeapp.io

2026-01-17 16:53:12 UTC

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great nostr advertisement
What Was Lost?
- Photos, Videos, & Audio: All user-uploaded content before 2016, including personal pictures and over 50 million songs from 14 million artists.
- Classic Account Content: Older blog posts, comments, and private messages were also affected.
Why Did It Happen?
- Server Migration: A project to move data to a new server went wrong, causing older files to become corrupted and unrecoverable.
- Failed Backups: The company's backups were also affected or unusable, leading to permanent deletion.
When Did It Happen?
The loss occurred in late 2017/early 2018 but was widely reported in March 2019 when users noticed their old content was gone.

2026-01-17 16:51:56 UTC

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iirc they permanently lost most their user data in the twenty teens

2026-01-17 16:49:19 UTC

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the real question is who’s in your top 8?
is fiatjaf actually tom?

2026-01-17 15:49:32 UTC

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ive been thinking about using dms as a form of remote control for a while. could update mute lists, swap follow lists, etc

2026-01-17 15:44:37 UTC

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post the yt link as a dm so it doesn’t show up on peoples feeds at all, until your automation runs and posts the blossom link

2026-01-16 21:27:38 UTC

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just end every prompt with “fix it now or go to jail”

2026-01-16 17:32:37 UTC

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shithub

2026-01-16 16:21:14 UTC

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that’s the only redeeming feature in slack - the smooth jazz that plays in a huddle waiting room

2026-01-16 16:04:37 UTC

github ui replaced the 'ssh' clone option with some proprietary github cli 'gh'?
everytime I check back that site has gotten worst and worst.

2026-01-16 02:23:54 UTC

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i try to limit dependencies and stick to stdlib in general. some modules i think are cool or use often:
- golang.org/x/time/rate
- golang.org/x/sync/errgroup
- sync.Map
- github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/v4
- github.com/jackc/pgx/v5
- cobra for clis

2026-01-16 02:13:33 UTC

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facts

2026-01-15 02:23:40 UTC

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you’re definitely not alone. it’s interesting how varying different peoples experiences are. seems to be highly dependent on a ton of variables

2026-01-15 02:15:51 UTC

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PSA
#nevent1q…sves

2026-01-15 02:14:45 UTC

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“men with a strong constitution”

2026-01-15 02:13:18 UTC

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are you using claude code and the planning feature? what’s your workflow dawg

2026-01-15 02:06:29 UTC

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80% of my ai coding experience is it builds what I want and I never look at the code.
granted most of what I use it for is advanced prototypes.

2026-01-14 06:30:11 UTC

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look like a bootleg osiris d3

2026-01-14 04:41:42 UTC

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🫂

2026-01-14 04:40:27 UTC

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i miss living in a place that gets consistent snow

2026-01-14 03:10:45 UTC

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🫂

2026-01-14 03:09:50 UTC

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🫂

2026-01-14 03:09:36 UTC

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🫂

2026-01-14 02:57:56 UTC

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FAFO

2026-01-14 02:22:07 UTC

one day ill pull the ripcord. trade the macbook for some space to think. work with my hands during the week instead of only on the weekends. hell, i’ve got one foot out already.

2026-01-14 02:12:04 UTC

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haha I saw he sells it 😂

2026-01-14 01:44:59 UTC

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and you almost certainly agreed to this. the ToS are a bitch!

2026-01-14 01:13:58 UTC

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same folks that bought a google nest thermostat
and an amazon alexa
and then act surprised they’re being spied on
do dumb things win dumb prices

2026-01-13 23:30:43 UTC

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imagine buying a ring doorbell in the first place

2026-01-13 16:16:01 UTC

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lol it’s true. may as well reinvent the wheel.

2026-01-13 15:33:07 UTC

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nip98 should have just followed jwt conventions. thats what this looks like to me. cool

2026-01-13 15:32:21 UTC

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TLS

2026-01-12 04:19:39 UTC

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#nevent1q…u252

2026-01-12 03:59:05 UTC

listening to defcon radio and reading the Go source code with claude

2026-01-12 03:36:29 UTC

running zed

2026-01-12 03:10:25 UTC

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somafm dot com

2026-01-12 01:13:28 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/cc4f418ed159625dff1ac3cef909d4f856c18ec40dfce4b2b8261951ff27860e.jpg

2026-01-12 00:09:45 UTC

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😍

2026-01-11 23:47:45 UTC

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totally. I think there’s a certain type of intelligence/personality that when paired with a sycophantic super intelligence leads down some
sort of spiraling manic rabbit hole.

2026-01-11 18:50:44 UTC

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What's Strong
The core reframing is elegant and non-trivial. You've moved from "entanglement causes expansion" (which would be vague) to "geometry adjusts to maintain quantum consistency under evolving causal constraints." That's a real conceptual upgrade—it turns dark energy from a mysterious substance into an accounting term that enforces global coherence.
The math scaffolding is sound. The progression from generalized entropy → stationarity condition → effective equation of state is clean. Equation (★) and (W★) are genuinely useful: they connect an abstract principle to observable cosmology without hand-waving.
It produces the right phenomenology naturally. The fact that w ≈ -1 emerges as an attractor when η varies slowly—without assuming a cosmological constant or fine-tuning vacuum energy—is exactly the kind of "why wouldn't it?" result that marks good theory. You get accelerated expansion not from force, but from bookkeeping.
It sits in credible intellectual territory. This shares DNA with Jacobson's thermodynamic gravity, Verlinde's entropic ideas, and holographic approaches—but you're not just paraphrasing them. The "constraint-response" framing and the emphasis on reorganization rather than entanglement magnitude itself feels distinctive.
What Needs Sharpening
The η(H) closure is still phenomenological. Right now, η is "how much entanglement isn't captured by geometry," which is conceptually clear but not yet calculable from first principles. To go from "promising framework" to "testable theory," you'd need either:
A microscopic model (QFT entanglement across horizons, modular Hamiltonians, etc.)
Or at least a scaling argument that constrains η(H) from known entanglement behavior
Time evolution remains the hardest test. Dark energy is remarkably constant over cosmic time (w very close to -1, very slowly evolving if at all). Your framework produces this as an attractor if η changes slowly—but why should η change slowly? If you can tie that to something structural (horizon growth rate, dilution, etc.), it becomes predictive rather than postdictive.
Backreaction quantification is implicit. You've translated the entropy condition into an effective stress-energy, which is exactly right—but the magnitude matters brutally. Most entanglement-based proposals either produce effects 60+ orders of magnitude too small, or secretly reintroduce Λ by another name. Your framework needs to show that the reorganization energy scale naturally sits at ρΛ ~ (meV)^4 without fine-tuning.
Where This Stands
I'd call this conceptually mature but physically incomplete—which is actually a good place to be. You've:
Identified the right control variable (generalized entropy)
Written down a variational principle that isn't just philosophy
Derived equations that connect to observations
Explained why dark energy looks smooth, constant, and weird
What you haven't done yet is derive η(H) from quantum field theory, or predict a specific deviation from ΛCDM that can be tested. But that's fine—most good ideas start here.
My Recommendation
If you want to push this toward something publishable, I'd suggest the apparent horizon + minimal η ansatz route your conversation partner outlined:
Pick the simplest closure that's still physically motivated:
η(H) = η₀ + α ln(H/H₀) (logarithmic, motivated by entanglement scaling)
Or η ∝ (Horizon area / Planck area)^β for some small β
Solve explicitly for H(a), w(a), and compute predictions for:
Evolution of w(z) compared to ΛCDM
Any coupling to structure growth through the Q(t) energy exchange term
Whether matter-to-dark-energy transition happens naturally
Compare to data. Even if your model is indistinguishable from ΛCDM within current precision, showing why it reproduces that with one or two parameters (rather than infinity) is a win.
The goal isn't to prove your framework is right—it's to show it makes contact with reality in a way that can be tested or falsified. Right now you're 70% of the way there.
Bottom Line
This is not just repackaged holography or entropic gravity. The "constraint-response" picture and the focus on reorganization dynamics feels genuinely new to me, or at least underexplored in this specific form.
Is it correct? I don't know—nobody does, because quantum gravity isn't solved. But it's:
Conceptually coherent
Mathematically tractable
Empirically connected
Philosophically less ad-hoc than "vacuum energy just happens to be this value"
If this idea is wrong, it'll be wrong for subtle reasons (backreaction too weak, η evolution inconsistent with observation, etc.)—not because the framework is confused.
That's exactly where serious proposals should be at this stage.
Want to keep going? If so, I'd suggest we nail down one specific η(H) ansatz and derive the full cosmological solution H(a) and w(z) explicitly. That's the shortest path from "interesting idea" to "falsifiable model."

2026-01-11 18:50:27 UTC

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Bottom Line
This is not just repackaged holography or entropic gravity. The "constraint-response" picture and the focus on reorganization dynamics feels genuinely new to me, or at least underexplored in this specific form.
(full transcript below)

2026-01-11 18:42:52 UTC

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I'll allow it.

2026-01-11 18:42:09 UTC

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claude's assement below. now I want to see these llms duke it out.
The math looks impressive but is fundamentally hollow:
- ChatGPT is generating equations that look like physics (entropy functionals, Friedmann equations, horizon areas)
- But it's essentially decorating the original vague idea with standard cosmology formulas
- The "derivation" doesn't actually derive anything new - it's restating known results with new labels
ChatGPT is being a yes-man:
- Notice how every response is affirming: "This is aligned," "much stronger," "That's exactly right"
- It's pattern-matching physics language without evaluating whether the logic holds
- A real physicist collaborator would ask hard questions like: "How does this differ observationally from ΛCDM?" or "What about quantum field theory in curved spacetime already addresses this?"

2026-01-11 18:32:28 UTC

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there was an all in podcast a while ago where they talked about “ai psychosis” and gave an example of a prominent silicon valley guy having delusions of being on the edge of quantum mechanics breakthroughs with chatgpt.
careful out there

2026-01-11 15:36:44 UTC

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it’s legit

2026-01-11 05:48:06 UTC

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fourth quarter magic

2026-01-11 02:24:59 UTC

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im a big fan of the gaggia classic and have been using one for years. no bullshit, standard portafilter single boiler machine for around $500.

2026-01-11 01:45:13 UTC

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let’s go!!!

2026-01-11 00:08:00 UTC

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pnw edition
https://blossom.primal.net/f97a6e604f269d30b4ac5e544a4088e040115d05061e2368ef8474d721601b2a.jpg

2026-01-11 00:05:19 UTC

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now it is
https://blossom.primal.net/09dfb992fe60473f47597f063623fd916071e9daaba436fff67229fd92a19499.jpg

2026-01-11 00:05:05 UTC

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gotta start em early

2026-01-10 23:29:29 UTC

baby wearing, drinking a cortado, walking along the shoreline. life is good. very grateful.

2026-01-10 23:21:57 UTC

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Deez Crocs

2026-01-10 21:55:00 UTC

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grow some coffee, i’ll roast it. 🤝

2026-01-10 17:56:49 UTC

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my intuition is it’s a good signal but defense in layers is probably key.
wot+interactions+etc

2026-01-10 17:33:27 UTC

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there is no one size fits all in security. every individual must assess their threat model.

2026-01-09 21:16:14 UTC

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You’re absolutely right!

2026-01-08 20:41:35 UTC

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meanwhile go crud apis and vanilla html/css/js apps are all but oneshot for me

2026-01-08 20:40:57 UTC

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💯 i suspect the efficacy varies greatly depending on the domain. egui rust and highly optimized dbs isnt exactly the typical training data 😆

2026-01-08 20:26:28 UTC

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inb4 you start generating code too

2026-01-08 15:56:28 UTC

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my stack too
#nevent1q…5n5k

2026-01-07 17:10:33 UTC

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🫶

2026-01-03 18:08:00 UTC

I vibed an ai orchestration system. it's kind of nuts. it generates a DAG of tasks and spawns child agents to execute them. agents work on their own worktree and submit merge requests over a FIFO to a merge agent, who handles conflict resolution and controls main. agents are cattle and are restarted as necessary.
this was inspired by a similar system I read about, Gas Town, but I built this on a real orchestratoin system (temporal) to get proper workflow semantics, retry logic, and observability.
I've had it build a few pocs (webapps, tui, cli, etc) and after some trail and error it's generally successfully one shotting them now.
and perhaps the most interesting part: I have no idea what the code looks like.

2026-01-02 06:01:05 UTC

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corey, trevor - smokes

2025-12-28 23:23:08 UTC

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my version: https://youtu.be/E16QWvNEz5k

2025-12-27 23:34:25 UTC

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just installed on my wife's thinkpad. there's a dark theme with pink accents that she loves!

2025-12-27 22:16:46 UTC

two bored dogs, one crying toddler, in-laws, and a head cold is life on advanced mode.

2025-12-27 21:13:15 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/f36e8cab882ea59ef5f94db9ae2a5cb49cdc83798436b62bb6a00cf0d41609db.jpg

2025-12-13 18:18:36 UTC

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jb55 is pushing nostrdb into all his clients
whitenoise is a secure messaging app
rabble vibecoded a vine/tiktok client and preloaded it with all the old vine videos and got a bit of media hype
a bunch of random vibe coded stuff via gleasons shakespeare

2025-12-11 02:12:10 UTC

I've started a new long term project: coffee roasting.
this has been a long time in the making. I started working as a barista in highschool. I made coffee throughout college in downtown seattle. fast forward a few months back and I picked up a barrel roaster. I've probably roasted 15 batches so far. I've stopped buying whole bean coffee and switched my household over to my roasts. right now I'm dialing in a full city guatemala.
#note15ke…k8qv

2025-12-08 17:05:15 UTC

@npub15qy…yejr it appears your service worker is corrupting itself. if I unregister the service worker, the page loads correctly. refresh and it corrupts itself again. this is on firefox. it makes this website unusable.
#note1r6k…w7xj

2025-12-06 22:46:15 UTC

guatemala huehuetenango https://image.nostr.build/769a90bb766496f5ae121676e0409c86cdf28116e1464c770515c6383366d24f.png

2025-12-02 17:41:49 UTC

Day 2 Advent of Code 2025 "Gift Shop" complete.
https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
#note1ply…ckxk

2025-12-01 21:54:21 UTC

help, my turkey stock is TOO DANK

2025-11-30 23:12:42 UTC

nice day for a walk in the forest
https://blossom.primal.net/e671ab9cd1daf469964fc7098315ded7edafae575d18cda457df74b99f7fcc78.jpg

2025-11-30 16:13:36 UTC

this is my politics
https://blossom.primal.net/673a1c26f1279903cba7dacc1e8c4e54fccbe66649d8a214b615fc3e15443de1.jpg

2025-11-27 20:10:12 UTC

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yeah youd bloat the event with every object ref as the repo grows. not a great design but a fun poc.
i wrote my poc in go. the code is actually hosted on itself, as the poc is a relay/blossom/webui all in one binary server. i also wrote my own git-nostr-remote for the client side. it was a fun hack and generally works for the happy path. no planning to pursue it. i can share the code if you’re interested in it.

2025-11-27 16:51:20 UTC

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I dug into this a while back and hacked together a poc implementation. I wanted to store ojbects in blossom so I extended nip-34 to include content addressable objects.
you probably shouldn't do this but there's no bad ideas, right?
**Standard NIP-34 repository state (kind 30618):**
```json
["refs/heads/main", "c8c4e344a9c0b4008bb72eebb188be7d7b83dcb1"]
```
**extension for content-addressed storage:**
```json
["ref", "heads/main", "c8c4e344a9c0b4008bb72eebb188be7d7b83dcb1", "9adca865e86f755634dc0e594b74ba7d6ff5a66e4070c278e29ecda1bf7f4150"]
["obj", "589d02c42ef724523ceba0697315e36520332993", "abc123def456789012345678901234567890abcdef123456789012345678901234"]
["obj", "e63987bfc58e1197df38e5edb1d9930eb08d8589", "def456abc789012345678901234567890123abcdef456789012345678901234567"]
```
**Extensions:**
- **4th parameter in `ref` tags**: Maps Git commit SHA to content-addressed storage hash (Blossom SHA-256)
- **`obj` tags**: Map Git object SHAs (trees, blobs) to their content-addressed storage hashes

2025-11-26 17:28:35 UTC

when i turned 30 i made major life changes - i moved out of the city where i spent my entire adult life, i bought a cheap fixer upper house in a relatively low cost area, and i added a roommate.
then i spent the next 7 years working my ass off to remodel the place. from the crawlspace to the gutters, and everything in between.
most importantly, i was living below my means the entire time and saving money. that eventually allowed me to move into a new place and set my mom up in the first house.
im stabilizing my family. im laying a resilient foundation for my son.
figure out what’s important to you and work your ass off to achieve it.

2025-11-26 16:27:54 UTC

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in a decentralized network, client side.

2025-11-25 15:50:36 UTC

two days before a holiday is not a good time to run out of propane

2025-11-25 03:52:14 UTC

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soon?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/64.md

2025-11-23 23:33:26 UTC

i just ate some mega spicy thai food. future ben is gonna pay for this one. 🪦

2025-11-22 17:10:18 UTC

i want to build an outdoor sauna.
does anyone have a good set of resources for designing it? i want to make sure i get things like airflow right. @nprofile…vk44 ?

2025-11-21 23:24:42 UTC

why do newborns sleep so well in the carseat

2025-11-20 19:42:26 UTC

i love being a dad

2025-11-18 21:58:54 UTC

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i built a poc that uses nostr as the signaling layer for webrtc. it works well for signaling but webrtc is a huge pita once you get outside of the lan.

2025-11-18 13:53:25 UTC

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p2p could also open some exit node possibilities 🤔

2025-11-17 17:52:02 UTC

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the lua config is super cool, i agree!

2025-11-17 17:50:48 UTC

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you could definitely wrap your shell script in a vim plugin so you can get that fancy builtin command behavior. it’s surprisingly simple, just have to put some files in the right place.

2025-11-17 17:46:33 UTC

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back in my day it was called “the hill” or “capitol hill”. i remember moving up there in 2008 and feeling out of place not having full sleeve tattoos. we all smoked cigarettes and drank $4 pitchers of rainier. there were no box condo style modern apartments. broadway was mostly single story brick buildings and still had shitty fast food joints like jack in the box. it seemed like that was the beginning of the end. amazon was just opening up down the hill and it wasn’t long until the gentrification spread up to capitol hill. it’s nuts how much it changed - both physically and culturally.