Thank you! I went ahead and got it live on yoyostr.com last night. Right now I’m working on the trick proof assertion system. Once that’s working I’ll give it a decent homepage and improve the visuals :)
Okay I’ve got the rough draft of the site up on https://yoyostr.com. Imported all my tutorials, made badges for them, added a community tab. It’s rough and doesn’t look all that pretty but it’s a start. I haven’t tested the badges yet, I will tomorrow. There’s more to add but I think I should get what I have so far working first. Not sure how to set up signing in for normies yet either.
Okay I’ve got the rough draft of the site up on https://yoyostr.com. Imported all my tutorials, made badges for them, added a community tab. It’s rough and doesn’t look all that pretty but it’s a start. I haven’t tested the badges yet, I will tomorrow. There’s more to add but I think I should get what I have so far working first. Not sure how to set up signing in for normies yet either.
Once I’ve got the general system working anyone’s free to clone it and modify it for their own communities.
Not quite ready to publish this to yoyostr.com but here’s the rough draft of the community site: https://mikemonty.github.io/yoyostr/
I still need to test the badge awarding stuff.
The badge system is being worked on. I’ll add the rest of the tutorials and then post some proofs to test the system shortly
Haha the prototype seems to be working. Still need to add badges and test that system.
Sharing a trick video from the other day to test posting on yoyostr.
I believe it was a thing around the 60s or earlier. Whenever Pedro Flores sold his company to Donald Duncan they started sending out pros to promote and validate skills. I believe spintastics also had badges later on. It’s been something I latched onto since I was aware of it. When I was in bowling league you’d get patches for reaching certain score levels or in judo you’d get belts for skill level. Why not yo-yo too lol
Same here, I always wished Duncan yo-yo professionals could still be around to verify you knew a trick and give you patches to sew onto a jacket. But since we can do it digitally on nostr now I’m going to make a digital equivalent.
Getting close to a rough version 0.1 of yoyostr. Initial release will focus on teaching. I will curate tutorial videos into difficulty levels. Users will be able to post a video of them doing the trick, after enough community members confirm the video is of the trick then the user will receive a badge for that trick. If they get all the badges for a skill level they’ll get that skill level badge. If you have a badge you asserting someone’s done a trick right will have more weight. Once this is working I will add more community/forum functionality.
Happy new year, time to start vibe coding this idea I’ve had since forever.
Thought it would be fun to round out the year with my oldest yo-yo video. Funny to think back to then, I thought I was pretty good at that point. It’s almost hard to watch it now. Thankful I have it to remind me how far I’ve progressed however.
https://blossom.primal.net/21514352a4c3206d55b6a678ba4c6e8affe0f82b4f32ced6f911406e647f2ed5.mov
For sure 💪🫡 almost to 6% :)
I believe I can prune after the fact, but I have 4tb to work with so it’s not necessary for now.
We need to find a way to expedite the process of getting new Bitcoin nodes running. As soon as you comprehend the concept of Bitcoin, you should promptly set up your node. I’ve been aware of this for almost three years now, and I’ve been procrastinating for far too long. There’s no better time than the present.
Now it says two days lol… that’s better
It looks like an anole, I had some when I was a kid. They don’t like to be held sadly lol
Cute little guy
Only 2 years and 29 weeks to go.
If you run a bitcoin node, how do you handle the 600 GB initial hurdle?
My hands got messed up for a few months from a bad nail infection and then a bad reaction to antibiotics so I’ve been wearing gloves four a few weeks now 😅 tonight was the first time throwing since those last trick videos a few weeks back
Combo of combos :) merry Christmas!🎄
https://blossom.primal.net/f6ac8f06f67ec32c6005e780e1bb37e5ad7cf23f5fb45e0ccad6885bcb7d1e02.mov
An attempt at horizontal.
https://blossom.primal.net/b4e9d7f68b076d9cd6eb8913e64c1ccbe034c93f60c7a5b3082a6353a6e77a48.mov
Slowly working through the process of rigging up the new cat model 🙃
I put it into autosort mode, it worked :)
Still working on the auto sorter but we’ve made progress 🙂 at least the most confident match is the actual card 😂
The kids had me generate coloring book pages for them. My son asked me to have a pet turkey eating with us so his doesn’t have a cooked turkey 😂
Finished reading The Price of Tomorrow, now on to The Big Print.
Today with Gemini 3 (Googles AI) I was able to get the image warping/homography working perfectly. Then the square cropping working perfectly. And then we ran into an issue with OCR (optical character recognition) to grab the names off cards so their processed pictures could be moved into folders. Luckily there’s another way to accomplish this, download pictures and json data for all the sets and compare my photos to them to identify the card and get the name that way. So I’m currently waiting for the library of card data to download and then we’ll move forward with automating identification. Once that’s all working I’ll begin working on having a script use all this organized data to create eBay drafts automatically (I hear it’s possible) and if not that, a csv list to import the data manually but still make all the drafts at once.
Just finished reading The Price of Tomorrow by nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvs07wc22. Very good book, and some of it a time capsule from when it was written. 😊
Gemini 3 was able to come up with a python script after a few back and forths of the console output/image outputs that could identify the rectangle of a Pokemon card and use it to straighten the image how I wanted. There’s still a small bug to fix but progress was made finally.
My new ai benchmark is “can it write a script that warps a photo of a Pokemon card to be flat”.
I find funny that most of the retail interfaces for bitcoin go down and the price recovers.
I don’t want to get too hopeful here, doesn’t congress have to pass this for it to be legit?
HODL breaking his way out of a corner:
You never actually wanted to “go viral”, you just wanted to feel appreciated.
I too am known to be something of a party animal.
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Blocking still not working
I have a few as well. The only one I really like and recommend is “the richest man in Babylon”. You’re right to distill the rest down to what you do though.
I doubt I’ll use that feature, but it’s a better rate than pawning something or getting a payday loan.
Me too, I hadn’t been using it until I saw nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle discussing how he was using it for btc backed loans to avoid the taxable event of using btc a few weeks ago. That said I’m using the “taxable event” as motivation not to touch my savings 😂
Will we one day be able to follow our friends to different chats?
I kinda hate how true this is. I saved it to send to family next time I’m asked to fix something.
Had a buyer send me a series of lowball offers until one finally auto-accepted at my threshold. Right after, they asked for a refund, saying they hadn’t noticed the condition.
The listing had 12 photos and a detailed description, all of which showed the card accurately. They messaged asking if I’d split the difference or take a return. My reply was simple: I gave them a full refund, while also pointing out that the description and photos clearly represented the card — it just seems our definitions of “lightly played” differ.
In the end, it’s easier to move forward cleanly. But this reinforced for me the importance of clear listings and standing by them.
Additionally, I removed the ability for offers.
Okay I have been motivated by yesterday’s feedback to record another vlog. Time to edit 😅
