Exhausted from cleaning the house and the garage, and shopping for rooftop-terrace plants.
Touching some #coffeechain.
July 2024
It moves really fast. Every chapter leaves me worn out.
Let me take a break from programming and touch some grass.
*reads programming guide in the backyard*
We have an entire library of them.
I love writing semicolons at the ends of lines. So glad that they're not terrorizing me with the Scourge of Whitespace Syntax.
I was just sitting on the rooftop terrace, basking in the sun, reading this. Felt like a little mini-vacation from my screen.
Can #techboomers become honorary #scriptkiddies?
Yeah, nowadays we are actually sometimes better programmers than the developers, as we have to build all of the tooling and ORMs and stuff, and then all of the automation and test system administration, and the mocking and etc.
I see it on GitCitadel, where I have to build things into Sybil, to later test Alexandria. It's like we're the pre/post programmers, for every release.
It's always a real pleasure, to finally get to just click though a script, for an hour or two. Meditative.
It's the year 2025 and I've been a programmer for 27 years, and I'm giving up and learning Javascript... from a book. And it's really fun. 😂
#techboomer
In to see which city people didn't know this...
I was thinking that I could write a little acceptance test in my next PR description, so that everyone can pull it and know how to find the changes. Alex has gotten so big, already, that I'm sometimes like, okay, looked at the code, but what do I have to do to see this? 😂
Well, I do have to say that the release process is really fast because everyone knows everything about everything. I used to have to explain why we shouldn't release something, and get put on the spot, but now I just show up and everyone is like, Yeah, let's just not.
It's gotten like that with GitCitadel, too. Used to just read through the code and leave comments and now I'm like, "Hmmm... leave a comment or just fix it and move on with my life? 🤔" *commit*
Every PR merges bigger than it launched. 😂
Have a spec review. Everyone jump in and rewrite.
Have a code PR. Everyone push changes.
Testing phase. Everyone hack at everything.
😂
Extreme extreme programming.
I'm not actually a developer. I'm a tester.
I feel like I'm increasingly stuck in lots of different roles that I'm not actually specialized in, but software development is increasingly full stack or vibing, and nothing in between.
Chaos.
They said they might implement reads directly from relays, and then you could eventually circumvent any moderation by adding relays.
I guess that's in the cache.
Global moderation should always be on the relay, to prevent this possibility.
Why would could use anything other than npub to identify an npub? 🤔
I don't understand how the bounty even works, to be honest.
Most of us have been building and discussing in the open and helping each other out and stuff. In an interoperable environment, how do you decide which of the projects that were developed in unison, while honing the same spec and testing each other's apps and giving each other advice and cross-reading code, is "the winner"?
I'm assuming that there is someone in a hidey-hole someplace, hacking some hot mess together, based upon everything we've spent years figuring out and openly publishing, and they'll collect the money. But I doubt that will be the software professional develpers would want to use.
Well, hard money and avoiding usury are big Catholic topics.
Everyone talks about riba and usury and whatnot, and it's like,
https://www.btc-echo.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bitcoin-1.webp
If he comes to Chicago, you can orange-pill him, nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle
I don't know. More in Argentina, right?
I was just wondering if Pope Leo has heard of Bitcoin. Maybe, since he's a mathematician from Chicago.
Hard currencies are so important for the well-being of the poor.
Let’s pray for Pope Leo XIV. Journos have already began interpreting their ideologies in his speech.
They don't want to deal with the fact that our religion doesn't map well, to their politics.
It went so fast, too. I guess the other candidates were off-limits to either side, so they were like, "Yo, bros, what about Bob? Everyone likes Bob."
😂
My favorite encyclical. I've read it 10 times, at least.
Let’s pray for Pope Leo XIV. Journos have already began interpreting their ideologies in his speech.
Amen!
Okay, got the nostr:npub1229y50ruvq9hjdxsjknh43gq4n9ef7h3h5hc4ezzrkg0q7kgg0tsv9a402 npub setup. Do I login as theforest or as me?
Okay, good.
Need a different npub for that, tho. Hmm.
How is that less crazy than calling him the God King and Orange Jesus and stuff?
I think democracy was dying before Trump and what's left of the Constitutional Republic is in tatters, but let's not pretend the current US President cares about the rule of law.
He's always been a thug and he hasn't necessarily improved with age.
We first just did badges, but that's really easy to game and some people troll others with rude badges or wait until people add badges to their profile and then turn the images into porn. Very funny.
Then we thought a handshake method would be good, so that someone can give someone else part of their WoT, if they know them IRL.
And there are also ways to gamify the handshake at meetups, by using techniques that requiring seeing the same thing or connecting over Bluetooth, or whatnot.
That's why there's a subset of npubs with a sky-high and steadily-increasing number of followers, that hardly ever post anything.
I've been protesting the Tyranny of Follows, for a while; that's why I hardly have any. It pisses everyone off and makes me look rude, but
#PurpleKonnektiv is going to add attestation abilities to the meetup app. 🤙
Most follows aren't even the result of clicking the "follow" button, people just get onboarded with them.
You just claimed that I have superhuman powers and I'm owning that. No take-backs! 😂
Which relays does it look at?
Hi, would you mind telling me what notification this is? I can only see it on Amethyst and it's just blank, but the naddr seems to be wrong.
I keep getting these weird blank notes.
nostr:nprofile1qqsq7pslujvn5pp3ggzje3qqfua45lyrnrfrsj68emztfe7qpzvwt6qprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz9nhwden5te0vaex2etwwdhh2mpwwdcxzcm99ukv33hp is planning a meetup for March 15, near Lake Constance, Germany.
nostr:nprofile1qqsggm4l0xs23qfjwnkfwf6fqcs66s3lz637gaxhl4nwd2vtle8rnfqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz8rhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsjmvd7t has implemented NIP-62 style events and added 3 new people to the project team.
nostr:nprofile1qqsq7pslujvn5pp3ggzje3qqfua45lyrnrfrsj68emztfe7qpzvwt6qprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz9nhwden5te0vaex2etwwdhh2mpwwdcxzcm99ukv33hp is arranging a German-region meetup for March. It's our fourth.
I'm constantly struck by how unknown those two projects are. It's so weird.
nostr:nprofile1qqsq7pslujvn5pp3ggzje3qqfua45lyrnrfrsj68emztfe7qpzvwt6qprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz9nhwden5te0vaex2etwwdhh2mpwwdcxzcm99ukv33hp is arranging a German-region meetup for March. It's our fourth.
He excluded both of the projects I'm working on. 😏
We have Flotilla and Chachi, but they're still prototypes.
We're still stuck on Slack, which is really frustrating, but we hope to be able to self-host one of them when they mature.
We are Lego maxxing.