Signed JSON Objects over Carrier Pigeon (SJO/CP) for those of you who don’t like websockets.

A god cannot be simultaneously omnipresent, omnipotent, and all good at the same time.

One of them is false.

Devs, now that AIs are explaining code better than any documentation, how do we feel about not documenting anything anymore?

Most of the documentation I see are outdated and somewhat useless (just explains the variables names and minor info about the function).

I tend on only document the why's of the code and not the what's and the how's. But let me know your thoughts.

I haven't used a Windows machine since 2005, so I'm a bit out of touch on it. Last I recall the zip functionality was integrated into the Windows file explorer, and extraction involved double-clicking on the zip file, which opened up the zip as if it was just another folder, and allowing the copying of individual files, or a function that extracted the full zip. It was pretty intuitive from what I remember. I would think an independent program to handle the creation, extraction, and manipulation of zip files would be a more clunky and time-consuming solution. 🤷‍♂️

Chicken have a winning strategy, their population size skyrocketed in the last centuries.

When they bought these licenses is important. If it was 20 years ago, it might be reasonable. But if it was recently? Lol no. Zip is built into Windows. Anyone selling WinZip licenses today should be hung upside down by their toenails.

I asked a person today why they still use a fax machine: Because I can send them a document without having to open my email. I am busy. I don't want to see my inbox. I don't want to type my password. I want to just send them this document and move on.

Have we lost the plot in interface design? 🤔

The best thing about Bitcoin is that it belongs to us. It's made by us and it's used by us.

big parser doesn't want you to know that building parsers is actually incredibly easy. for some reason parsers are scary to programmers.

here's a parser I just built that takes a list of text tokens out of visa pdf statements and converts them to ledger-cli (plain text accounting) format... because apparently csv exports from my bank is too much to ask for.

the basic idea is that you have one large array of strings extracted from the pdf. this is an unreadable stream of unstructured text chunks called tokens.

for each token you see if you can parse the next N tokens into a transaction line item. if it fails you just advance the parser by one and try again. if it succeeds then the parser would have eaten all of the tokens it needed so it can continue from there.

you can build this kind of parser in *any* language, it would look identical. it's just a few simple functions and data.

after doing these kinds of things at a record label for 6 years I'm convinced that accounting is more of a software engineering job, can't imagine going through pdfs manually each month.

I'm not sure what the point of this post was other than to say I like parsing things and that banks suck.

carry on.

What does he mean by this? Is the social security database a folder of text files?

They indeed are immaginary. If we accept the Timechain as the ground truth, nothing other than sats exist. Sub-sats amounts are not settlable onchain, thus that's imaginary credit.

Unpopular opinion:

#Onlyzaps is for rich folks who have to much money and time.

70% of Americans live check to check and can't afford to live.

Did you know helping lift someone out of poverty with zaps frees up their time to better serve the world?

Yeah! Studies show having enough money to live frees up time and grants peace of mind allowing him/her to learn new skills while on the journey to find oneself and their true purpose.

It’s crazy that apps are built this way. Silos that try their best to sync with each other and their proprietary formats (badly). github -> linear -> morgen. If one of these apps cuts off its integration or goes out of business there goes your entire workflow.

nostr is a different way to build interoperable apps. If we had project management clients on nostr, they could just work together automatically with no syncing required.

The PM apps would all understand the same issues and tickets regardless of if it was github project, gitlab or jira. They could all read from the same data source or sync with each other extremely efficiently with negentropy.

Not only would they work together; they would continue working together, *forever*. That’s the power of building on open protocols. This is the future we are building. nostr:note14yzhpgp8yay2wclevd99agx7xawt0akeaqzd2n7zgr474xvt3fasjqfl36

Let's say it's 2035, 10 years in the future. Nostr has won. Describe what do you do on your favorite Nostr client. 👇

A #ChatGPT summary of a concept I am exploring - conscious agency.

I am not so much concerned about the nature of conscious agency but rather how I can extend my own conscious agency into to digital realm. #Nostr is the perfect protocol for this.

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Conscious agency refers to the capacity of an individual or entity to act intentionally and with awareness of their actions and their potential consequences. It involves both conscious awareness (the ability to perceive and understand one’s environment and internal states) and agency (the ability to make choices and take actions that influence outcomes).

Key components of conscious agency include:

1. Intentionality: The ability to form goals, plans, or intentions that guide behavior.

2. Awareness: Being conscious of oneself, one’s actions, and the context in which those actions occur.

3. Free Will: The perception of having the freedom to make decisions and act upon them, even in the face of constraints.

4. Responsibility: Recognizing that one’s actions have consequences, and taking ownership of those consequences.

5. Self-Reflection: The capacity to evaluate one’s actions and decisions to align them with personal values or external goals.

In philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, conscious agency is a subject of exploration, as it delves into questions about the nature of consciousness, the brain’s role in decision-making, and how free will operates within the constraints of biology, environment, and society.

Hmm people don't insure bikes. Regulated ownership sounds like something the insurance companies would have lobbied for.

The more corpo profiteers that can gain from it's kyc the more risk of kyc requirement laws. Everyone needs to say fuck off when that time comes. Where there's a demand there's a market.