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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

Props to the creator “sesseor” on Github! not sure of their npub here

In addition to those, I've used rsslay.nostr.moe to generate nostr profiles of the rss feeds of a bunch of my favorite sites:

The Verge: #[2]

Phandroid: #[3]

Ars Technica: #[4]

Auto-generated relays list is now at 1800+ relays. Love the momentum!

https://github.com/sesseor/nostr-relays-list/blob/main/relay_list_type_2.txt

Get that practice boys 🇺🇸

Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel Corporation, died at 94. His work on microchips laid the foundation for the digital era.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html

I love how wholesome and lighthearted Guy Fieri is, especially on Diners Drive Ins and Dives. Just a dude who loves the art of good food

Ortelius World Map (1570), from the first modern world atlas

https://void.cat/d/8XHYBq142Ysvu2ySn6HVnj.webp

The graphics they're pulling off are astonishing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCYMNmkjRS4

Fun fact: Cleopatra’s grandson Ptolemy of Mauretania and Jesus Christ were only a few years apart in age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_of_Mauretania

That's not a protocol thing, every client handles images differently. The client you're using probably has a setting to blur images from people you're not following, to prevent random spammers from subjecting you to whatever garbage they post lol. You can usually turn this setting off though.

Does #[2] count? :P