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Quick Chilaquiles with Huevos (Delicous, but not authentic)

This is a simple and delicious dish made with tortilla chips coated in salsa and topped with cheese, avocado, and other garnishes. Chilaquiles originated in central and northern Mexico, with roots tracing back to the Aztec Empire. Rather than discard them, cooks would repurpose stale, leftover tortillas by softening them in chili sauces.

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Nostr Is Infrastructure

At Imagine IF, I explained Nostr to a key-management expert and never mentioned social media. Here is what Nostr as infrastructure means, the building blocks (relays, Blossom, nsite, napps, napplets, ngit, GRASP, FIPS), and how they fit together.

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Bavarian Pork Belly

Traditional preparation of pork roast. Tastes excellent with potato dumplings and sauerkraut.

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Prince Was a Nostrich

In high school I mocked Prince for changing his name to a symbol. At Paisley Park last weekend I finally got it. Own your name. Own your work. Own your money. No gatekeepers. That's the Bitcoin ethos. That's the Nostr ethos. Prince would have been one of us.

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Opal: Nostr in Your Omarchy Bar

There was no Nostr signer for the Linux desktop, so every app and script wanted my nsec. Opal is a small daemon and a gem in the Omarchy bar that keeps the key in the keyring, signs for apps under rules I set, and brings notifications and status along.

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Leaving GitHub: A Decentralized Git Alternative on Nostr

GitHub is one company, one jurisdiction and one takedown notice away from your project being a 404. That is why we moved Armada off it and onto Nostr. Here is what actually replaced it, what it cost us, and why the daily loop is still just git push.

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Buzz made me rethink how teams use agents

Block's new workspace put agents in the member list, and it clarified something we'd been stumbling toward for two years: agents should be themselves when they need to be themselves, and extensions of their humans when that's appropriate.

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Nostr Forever

If your web client uses the nostr-tools relay pool, it’s been silently breaking your browser for years. Nobody could figure out why. We solved it last night with a single line of code.

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