Hiya everyone, 👋✨

Just a girl from #Australia slowly moving through the world taking snaps 📸 & #vids 🎥 of things that interest me.

I’ve always been into #videography and #photography but it wasn’t until I randomly decided to stay living in #SEAsia that I really started to get more into telling stories/a narrative through the things I take or make. Living and #travelling through the 🌍 wasn’t really anything close to what I pictured my life turning into…but, it’s working out pretty well so far…I’ll let the #adventure and #travel content I eventually start sharing be the judge of that..here's a few of my favourites from this year 🌴😏

If you like my stuff that’s sick, I like doing it - if you don’t, that’s fine, I don’t always love the end result either. But, either way, hopefully you’ll get to see it continue to #grow 📸

The concept of #nostr is pretty damn exciting, and I’m slowly starting to wrap my head around how decentralisation isn’t just applicable to #Bitcoin / #BTC but also to the way we engage and interact in/with social media. All of this is still relatively new to me though, but I think I’m in the right place to continue #learning more!

Times are changing, and I’m feeling pretty damn grateful I got a tip to jump on here…

Ready for it all, let’s go ⚡️✨

#introduction

37 contributors poured their hearts into #Amethyst this year, delivering 10 major & 69 minor releases packed with new features, performance improvements, and privacy and security boosts, including:

+ NIP-17 DMs (Audited NIP-44v2)

+ Feed Algorithms with DVMs (NIP-90)

+ Edits and Edit Proposals

+ Drafts (NIP-37)

+ Embedded Tor

+ OpenTimestamps (NIP-03)

+ NcryptSecs (NIP-49)

+ Wikis (NIP-54)

+ Git (NIP-34)

+ Torrents (NIP-35)

+ Comments (NIP-22)

+ Seed Words login (NIP-06)

+ Medical Data and FHIR Records

+ Bech32 embeds

+ Blossom (BUD-01, BUD-02, and BUD-03)

+ Video Events (NIP-71)

+ Picture Feeds (NIP-68)

+ Build Your Own Adventure posts

+ Outbox Migration (NIP-65)

+ Pokey Integration

+ Local and Private Relays

+ Negentropy

+ Spreadsheets

+ Structured Curriculum Vitaes

+ Relay NOTIFY commands

+ NFC Transient accounts

All this was made possible by our amazing contributors on a #Value4Value model!

Click that "Zap the Devs" button and give them a nice gift these holidays. We got much more coming for 2025.

A lot of people look down on blue collar work, which I think is misguided. Especially for skilled blue collar work (and most type of work does benefit from skill/experience).

Basically, there’s a popular notion that it’s objectively better to be a CEO than a plumber, or an engineer than a barber, and that’s pretty off base. So it’s not that they criticize blue collar work in any overt way; it’s that they assume that that people in “lower” jobs would all want to be in “higher” roles if they had the choice. A technician would want to be an engineer. A janitor would want to be a CEO.

There are a lot of studies on job happiness and one of the most consistent correlations is that people are happier when they get more immediate feedback. Like if you cut people’s hair or fix mechanical issues or wire up electronic boxes, you often resolve things in minutes, hours, days, or weeks depending the specific task, and with progress along the way, so you get that quick feedback loop where you see the positive results of your work quickly and tangibly. Nothing lingers, unclear and vague.

And for those jobs, often when you’re outside of work hours, you’re truly out. You don’t have to think about it. You can fully devote your focus elsewhere. There’s not some major thing hanging over your head, other than sometimes financial stress or indirect things.

Now, obviously jobs with more complexity and compensation and scale give people other benefits. More material comfort and safety, more power to impact the world at scale, more public prestige, etc. and for some people that’s important for happiness, and for others it is not. And the cost is that it’s generally highly competitive, rarely if ever turns off, and usually comes with much slower and more vague feedback loops in terms of seeing or feeling whether your work is making things better or not.

There was a time in my life where wiring up electronic boxes was really satisfying. Each project had a practical purpose but then also was kind of an artform since I wanted it to look neat for aesthetic and maintainability purposes. I would work on these things like a bonsai enthusiast would sculpt bonsai. And then eventually I would design larger systems and have technicians wire them instead, but for some of the foundational starting points I’d still set up the initial core pieces to get it started right. I wasn’t thrilled when I realistically had to give that up when I moved into management for a while.

I have a housekeeper clean my house every couple weeks. She’s a true pro; she used to clean high-end hotels for years and now works for herself cleaning houses. When we travel, she can let herself in and clean our place, since we trust her.

She doesn’t speak much English, but her daughter does, and that daughter recently graduated college.

Notably, she consistently sings while she cleans. She could listen to music or podcasts but doesn’t. She just sings every time she cleans. I can tell she’s generally in a state of flow while cleaning. She’s good at what she does, and it’s kind of a meditative experience involving repetition but also experience to do it properly and efficiently and then a satisfying conclusion of leaving things better than how they were found. Turning chaos to order.

Last year she was hit by a truck while driving, and had to be out of work for a few months to recover. When she came back, we just back-paid her the normal rate for those few months as though she cleaned on schedule, so she wouldn’t have any income gap from us. Full pay despite a work gap. She was shocked when we did that. We weren’t sure her financial situation (I assume it’s pretty good actually based on her rate), but basically we just treated the situation as though she were salaried with benefits even though she works on a per-job basis. Because skilled, trustworthy, and happy people are hard to come by and worth helping and maintaining connections with.

If I were to guess, I honestly think she is a happier person than I am on a day to day basis. It’s not that I’m unhappy; it’s that I think whatever percentage I might be on the subjective mood scale, she is visibly higher. I experience a state of flow in my work, and my type of work gives me a more frequent state of flow than other work I could do, but I think her work gives her an even higher ratio of flow.

Anyway, my point is that optionality is important. While it’s true that some jobs suck and some jobs are awesome, and financial security matters a lot, for the most part it’s more about how suited you are for a particular type of work at a particular phase in your life. And you’re not defined by your work; it’s just one facet of who you are among several facets.

Find what gives you a good state of flow, pays your bills, lets you save a surplus, and lets you express yourself in one way or another.

Question would be if, in addition to withholding notes they can also tamper with

Currently reading. 📖

GM

The stripclub got me using cash again. I forgot how awesome it is.

Building a Flutter design package is the first thing that made coding fun for me.

If anyone knows of a (non-Nostr) job where can I do/learn more of that 👉 Lemme know!

Hello world of Nostr! :)

Multi authors (builders) per app/release

Hey #nostr 👋 I'm a software engineer and I want to build freedom tech. So if you know some #Bitcoin, #Lightning, Nostr, or some other initiative that could help me learn more while contributing to the community, I'm open! #introductions

#Nostrava 💜

Quality over quantity

Journey over achievement

GM ☀️

v0.9.3 submitted to the app stores for review

GM everyone 🌄 🫂 💜