Bugs that become a feature

Is there a “go-fund-me” type of service that using #nostr and lightning ⚡️?

Like one can set a fund goal and people can zap ⚡️ to that goal.

Or is anybody building this?

Sweet. Now what’s mine say?

Trying to understand what is Trump’s plan with the tariff. Let's say that they could bring manufacturing back to the U.S. what’s next? How would the U.S. get the rest of the world to buy from them when there are cheaper options right next door?

To me, it made perfect sense that for a company like Apple for example, to have their iPhones come out from a factory in China, have it transported and sell to the rest of Asia, rather than having their iPhones come out from a factory in the U.S. and ship it to the rest of Asia, or Europe, or rest of the world.

Isn’t it better to produce the thing that your buyer wants to buy, closer to the buyer itself so you can transport it to them faster, and cheaper?

Unless the end goal is not just to have the world buying from the U.S. but also to stop the world buying from China. How do you do that?

https://jibone.substack.com/p/trumps-tariff-whats-the-plan-really

My daughter abandon her survival world and created a new creative mode world and invited me in. Chicken Jockey!

Guess who had a blast watching A Minecraft Movie? 😁

I recently re-read William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Reading both of this book in today’s context gives a different prespective.

A short post where I compare the tech mentioned in the two books with what we already have now.

https://jshamsul.com/essays/2024-07-19-cyberspace-and-metaverse

On Nostr, “repost” I think is better than “likes”. Since there is not much of a discovery algorithm (which I think is preferable) — “liking” a note does not bring much value.

“Repost” gives the note the chance to reach more people, and also introduces new accounts to users.

This feels like the early days of Tumblr, where “reblog” was the main thing. “Reblog” allows the post to get more exposure.

In 1786, Benjamin Franklin observed that Americans were so busy reading newspapers and pamphlets that they scarcely had time for books.

Alexis de Tocqueville took note of this fact in his Democracy in America, published in 1835: "In America, parties do not write books to combat each other's opinions, but pamphlets, which are circulated for a day with incredible rapidity and then expire."

Both passage is from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman first published in 1985

Few centuries later, it is "Tweets" and "TikTok videos" that has taken over the main form of discourse. Headlines over headlines, video snippets over snippets.

As long-form writing fades from digital culture and ‘memeified’ short-form content takes center stage, the seriousness, clarity, and above all, the value of public discourse dangerously declines.

As long-form writing fades from digital culture and ‘memeified’ short-form content takes center stage, the seriousness, clarity, and above all, the value of public discourse dangerously declines.

I try. I made sure to repost here what I post on other platform X. Just that most of the time Nostr feel a bit too bitcoin centric. Just need to have more people using this.

Swap whatever left to BTC? Or hodl?

New Code & Codex dispatch is out.

"Spiders And Their Web"

https://open.substack.com/pub/codeandcodex/p/spiders-and-their-web

Code Base Liberation Day!

We must impose an npm import tariff to reduce our reliance on foreign code.

Bring back the code. Write the ISO date formatter from scratch.

Make JavaScript Great Again.

For me, I’m sticking to my iPhone 13 mini until it breaks.

Its the right pocketable size I think.

Nice, i think e-readers are the best investment 😁

The Amazon Kindle might just be the best hardware / software. I got mine almost 10 years ago around 2015.

Had not charged it for months. Today I plug in to charge, and it just works. Books still there. After I connect to new home Wi-Fi it starts to sync. Everything just works.

I love Civ game, played a lot of Civ 5 back then, did not had the chance to play Civ 6 a lot tho. I was excited to play Civ 7, but it seems its getting not so good reviews from Civ fans 😓

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Your keys

Your node

Your hash power

Any generous BTC whale want to sponsor me a Bitaxe Gamma? I want to try solo mining 😁

We can share the block rewards if I ever got one 😅

Zap ⚡️ me some sats 🙇‍♂️

#bitcoin #bitaxe #solomining

AI does not stand for ‘Artists’ Interpretation’.

People are bashing vibe coding, saying that AI will introduce unmaintainable, error prone, spaghetti code.

Well buddy, I don’t need AI for that—I’m perfectly capable of pushing unmaintainable, error-prone spaghetti code to production myself.