AI is a bubble.
AI right now is loud.
“AI powered” this, “AI powered” that.
AI is a buzz word, a marketing hype,
a shiny sticker slapped onto products to sell.
The ‘bubble’ is not the technology itself,
it is the attention economy around it.
Databases were once exciting, now boring.
Search engines were once magical, now assumed.
Cloud computing were once exotic,
now is invisible until it breaks the internet.
AI will stop being a bubble,
when AI is invisible,
when AI is taken for granted,
when AI is boring.
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Alternatives are not always better,
but it is always better to have alternatives.
I’ve been putting together http://altweb.space, a small collection of alternatives.
Not really aiming to “replace everything”, more like “here are other things out there, if you’re curious.”
https://blossom.primal.net/35d3147418e41a54dc5c0fbca4cf43a9ba8aeea709793d2755a034fdb2eedcb8.mp4
There is no algo to 'game' on Nostr. Just post what matters to you.
Code & Codex started as a Substack newsletter.
It went quiet for a while. I’m restarting it with a different publishing strategy.
Substack is no longer the center, it’s just one distribution point. Dispatches are archived at jshamsul.com, mirrored on-chain via Paragraph, and relayed across Nostr.
For Nostr specifically: essays are published here as long-form notes.
I’m also reposting older dispatches so they live in the relay network.
Just an experiment in permanence, redundancy, and open distribution.
Opening a browser tab and forgetting what you want to look up, is like entering a room and forgetting what is it you were supposed to look for. 👨🦳
Not sure why the text formatting is a bit off in this one.
Soon there’s going to be a cultural pushback against AI-generated code.
Suddenly it’ll be “cool” again to write things the old way,.. not vibing, but the classic LSP-autocomplete way.
Before that moment arrives, I’d like to propose a new label:
“Bespoke, Handcrafted, Artisanal, Human-Made Software”™
😎
CypherPunks are the Sufis of tech.
The elites, those in power, prefer a culture war,
race vs. race, religion vs. religion,..
or even a gender war, men vs. women,..
Anything but a class war: the poor vs the rich.
Political actors and social media platforms will amplify cultural division because they are emotionally powerful and easy to weaponise.
Fear and hate keeps them in power.
Identity-based conflicts create a fragmented working class, and unity among the poor is the elites’ biggest threat.
as-salamu alaykum, that is a great list you maintaining, I would love to get on the list 😄
Ayo, what is this? Looks interesting, whats the link?
Start every game with GLHF, and end it with GGWP.
Unlike Twitter, you can run your own relay and have it to not shadow ban you.
Just the matter of who is connecting to your relay.
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I’m still working on some UI tweaks, stay tuned!
I might have jumped the gun on announcing Satslot a bit too early.
The plan was to follow up with a few social media posts to build momentum. I was planning to create a press kit, and reach out to bloggers, and content creators in this niche.
I wanted to spread the word across platforms, but something came up at work.
That said, I’m picking things back up next week. There are still a few UI tweaks I’m refining. I am working on this feature that lets you download the entire Grid as a single collage image. Think of it as a kind of visual snapshot of Satslot’s evolution over time.
In the meantime, I’m thrilled to see a few slots already claimed. You are the true early Satslot owners. Thank you for being part of the beginning.
I don’t have a press kit ready yet, but here’s a blog post that goes deeper into what Satslot is all about:
https://jshamsul.com/essays/2025-10-29-introducing-satslot
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Announcing Satslot,
32 by 32 Grid, etched by Lightning.
Remember the Million Dollar Homepage?
Back in 2005, Alex Tew built a website that consist of a million pixel arranged in a 1000×1000 pixel grid. Each 10×10 block of pixels is sold with $1 per pixel, minimum price was $100.
I wanted to make something similar, but instead of 1 million dollar, I wanted 100 million Sats, the equivalent of 1 Bitcoin.
That’s how Satslot was born.
Inspired by Million Dollar Homepage, Satslot is a digital canvas consist of 32 by 32 square, each called a ‘slot’.
Every slot can be acquired via Lightning payments, starting at 1,000 sats for the first 32 slots. The price increases with every batch of 32.
Once you secure a slot, you can upload an image, name it, link to a website, and write a brief description, and you can update it anytime you want.
To me, this is part art experiment and part tech experiment. I want to see what happens when the internet paints together, one slot at a time.
It might turn into chaos, hopefully there’s beauty in that chaos.
I’ll post more details soon.
Republishing some of my essays from my Substack Newsletter Code & Codex on Nostr, letting my words live in the open, not confined to a platform silo.
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Trying out long-form post, just checking out highlighter
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I wasn’t sure if I want to proceed with this at first, the project seems silly.
Then I decided, what the heck, lets just try …
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Let’s give a “welcome to Nostr” zap ⚡️ 👇 😁
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