We’re not far from vitriol and division on Nostr. Provocations are already here. Let’s see how we handle it.

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Snort + Alby = Zapping heaven!

Have a good weekend!

Follow me for pure noise, zero signal.

U are a giver!

I got zapped everyday. Feels good 🤙

For #[0] . I hope it makes you smile 😉

Writing is a habit. It takes a lot of practice to get good at and as with every discipline, if you don't use it, you lose it.

It's still a little weird for me to think of myself as a writer. I'm a technical guy. I've been obsessed with computers since I was 8 years old. I've been programming since I was 9. I've been paid for providing programming services for over 20 years.

Yet looking back, it's obvious that writing was a big part of what I was doing. Explaining what needs to be done or how I did something, turned out to have value. I was a math major and writing up proofs is essentially that, it's explaining why something is true in a step-by-step, logical way. This is why so many math and physics people eventually find their place in industry as programmers.

There's also the advent of email, which came at the right time for me. I was in college when the World Wide Web exploded, in 1994. Around that time, the big thing for everyone was email, how you could send letters to people quickly and efficiently. No more waiting for a week or more to receive a reply from someone. I was an email junkie, keeping up with high school friends and writing letters to other people I had kept in touch with. Email for a few years there was a real repository of good letter writing.

Even coding itself was a form of writing. There's beauty in it if you care to look. One of my good friends, Ken Liu is an amazing coder and also an amazing writer. There's something about crafting words that lends itself to a creativity found in coding.

And yes, there is documentation, which unfortunately is very lacking in most programming environments. But the actual code writing really is a form of explaining. It's just to a computer and not to another human being.

In a way, the practice of coding, of being precise about your instructions, carries over to writing. Of course, English isn't nearly as precise as Rust, but we should still be as clear as possible. Perhaps this is why I focus so much on clarity in my writing, rather than in ideas that can be interpreted many different ways.

Still, try as I might, people interpret my writing in their own way. It's like we have different execution environments that we call our brains and the words will never execute quite the same way.

Writing to people helps me see the different ways in which people interpret my words and I can use that to debug my writing, which hopefully improves as a result over time. People are not just execution environments of my writing, but also test harnesses. And Twitter/Nostr are ways to unit test different snippets.

Writing helps coding and vice versa. Even in that last sentence I thought about saying instead "writing helps coding and coding helps writing." Which is clearer? Are there some non-English speakers that maybe don't understand "vice versa"? Does the latter flow a little better on the tongue? Is the user experience better on the former?

I write because I want to improve my craft, both as a writer and a coder.

Reading books will be a huge challenge for the young generation who are developing TikTok brain.. the lack of focus will transition to other aspects of life as well, fitness, job performance ect..

Summary of yesterday’s project:

I successfully connected my #[0] LN address to my LN Node so now when I receive and sending zapps it goes straight to my Node!

Pretty good feeling!!

Only one thing that’s bothering me. I have my Node connected through LNC but it takes about 4x the time to open when I press the zapp button compared to when it’s connected to Albys Node.

I still have a few things to try but it’s working good for now!

Sure, sex is great but have you ever fucked the Fed?

This very interesting and super helpful, at least for me, in order to get a bigger picture of why this is useful and why we need to push for Bitcoin.

I like how you give specific examples on what the problem is and why Bitcoin matters. You’re putting this into a perspective in way for people to understand the importance of it.

Thank you ⚡️✨ Appreciated it 🫂

Nostr in sheer decline:

It was all a dream.

💯💯 I agree!!

I feel like when you start to understand how todays system works, you can in many ways see how Bitcoin solves a lot of those problems.

In your opinion, how does Bitcoin solve a lot of these problems/issues?

Yea I have thought about that a lot recently. Are bitcoiners isolating ourselves and removing our voice from the public discourse by switching to nostr?

I should start posting more about Bitcoin ⚡️ It’s something I’m extremely passionate about and want to learn more about. I truly believe in Bitcoin and the positive effect it can have in this world.

I wanna know more about how people got into Bitcoin and why 🫂⚡️ Please feel free to share. I wanna learn as much as possible 💜

With this anti-CBDC bill introduced today, even if it doesn't pass we will see what side of the fence our politicians fall on. Glad this is will be out in the open so I know who not to vote for.