Respect your gut by deep cleaning your fruit. 🍇🍒🍓🍏🫐

1. Place fruit in XL mixing bowl.

2. Rinse, agitate, drain 3-4x.

3. Add 2 tsp of baking soda, rest 10m.

4. Rinse and enjoy.

If you've never done this, suggest starting with grapes and reserving the drained water into a large clear pitcher in order to observe how much filth comes off. Very gnarly.

#Peatstr

Costco is paying attention

My grandmother had this radio. GM.

I've vibe coded almost a dozen weekend projects this year and with every single one, I've done something I've never tried before. Whether it's developing for a wholly new platform, using a completely new JavaScript framework, or accessing hardware APIs I have zero experience with.

It's incredible how much you can learn by fully submitting to the vibe. Instead of spending days researching the tools I'd like to use, I'm just using them. In the process, I'm learning new things every single day. The learning experience is much more intense than it has ever been in my rather long coding career.

I've never learned as much about programming as I did in the last year. Insane. If this isn't the singularity, I don't know what is.

Now whenever I meet anyone new, I try to make a point of saying: ”What’s your Nostr?”

And when they inevitably say, ”What’s Nostr?” I act completely shocked.

I ran into a homeless man yesterday. He told me that he had been displaced from his home in flint Michigan due to water safety issues.

This unfortunately caused him to lose his job. His wife was still working as a CNA but due to rapidly rising inflation they were unable to make ends meet. This led to a deep stress in the household.

He turned to alcohol and was soon forced out of his home by his wife. While on the streets he began taking harder drugs and soon OD’d on fentanyl. Luckily the paramedics were able to narcan him and bring him back to life.

He’s now trying to turn his life around. I asked him if there was one thing I could do to help him and people like him what would it be?

He looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said “the only thing that will help is a regime change war in Iran”.

For people who’ve been to Japan

What SIM card do you use? eSIM? Local SIM card?

Where to buy?

As a regular listener of the nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx show, I think it’s safe to say that Peter is about one 2% tea tax away from following America’s lead and starting a revolution in the UK…

And I am SO here for it.

Am I supposed to pay Cap Gains taxes on the network fees I pay to move Bitcoin?

In the 80s, while still under a communist dictatorship, we were watching Western (mostly American) movies on VHS tapes. Of course, contraband stuff, while risking prison and torture at minimum.

One particular element that I can still remember from various movies since about 40 years ago is thanks to Jay Ohrberg, a Californian car customizer. Namely, his limits-breaking cars.

We often compare the evolution of Bitcoin with the early days of the Internet. But there is a subtle difference.

The Internet allowed you to do things that were impossible, or at least extremely difficult, to do without it.

Bitcoin is just another type of money, yes, it is better, but as a privileged westerner my government fiat has no major barriers or issues.

When doubters saw that you could send a photo to somebody on the other side of the world instantly with the Internet they were hooked.

When doubters see us paying for stuff instantly, it doesn't get the same wow moment.

The value proposition of Bitcoin is more subtle, just as compelling, perhaps more so, but it takes time and effort to see its value, unlike the Internet where one cat JPEG can change your mind instantly.

Yes, I did use the cat JPEG metaphor in an ironic way 😂

Going to Nice, France next week and haven't had to get euros in a decade. Does Bitcoin fix this or am I still just gun a have to get scammed by the money exchanges?