verbiricha
nostr CEO (Chief Emoji Officer)
Here's what I think the real skill of the AI era is. It's not prompt engineering. It's not knowing which model to use. It's not having the perfect workflow.
It's knowing when to stop.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
The tech industry has a burnout problem that predates AI. AI is making it worse, not better. Not because AI is bad, but because AI removes the natural speed limits that used to protect us.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
Creating is energizing. Reviewing is draining.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
After AI, my job increasingly became: prompt, wait, read output, evaluate output, decide if output is correct, decide if output is safe, decide if output matches the architecture, fix the parts that don't, re-prompt, repeat. I became a reviewer. A judge. A quality inspector on an assembly line that never stops.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
Before AI, my job was: think about a problem, write code, test it, ship it. I was the creator. The maker. That's what drew most of us to engineering in the first place - the act of building.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
AI reduces the cost of production but increases the cost of coordination, review, and decision-making. And those costs fall entirely on the human.
Source: siddhantkhare.com
ultimately all these social networks fight for network effects, and the actual tech is largely secondary. And for all the technical limitations, Nostr memed itself into some traction among crypto community, when boostrapping is the most important part.
Source: lobste.rs
I really dislike Nostr
Source: lobste.rs
For me Grimoire is a big deal, @verbiricha delivered an excellent power-user/dev client...if you have that set up the way you want, anything outside of the Nostr paradigm must feel frustratingly outdated.
nak + grimoire is my nostr dev environment
Perfect read client and somehow faster than all the others.
grimoire helped me troubleshoot an issue in my app and was able to fix it
grimoire is my chat client now
"Grimoire" the name is great.
I took a break for a few months because I was building a house
I love Grimoire
PRs are cheap, humans who understand them are not.
I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around
Source: softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
the confusion is the feature
Source: chachi.chat
Majority-owned by Tether Investments and Bitfinex, and with SoftBank as a significant minority investor
Source: www.perplexity.ai
No nsec login = it's not even nostr.
Nostr is for content, what Bitcoin is for value. Bitcoin doesn't need Nostr and Nostr doesn't need Bitcoin, but they work brilliantly together.
I’m developing Jumble in my spare time
give dev a zap for motivation
Source: chachi.chat
i'm so happy to be in grimoire
holy shit this client rules.
it compiles on my machine
Source: jumble.social
When people want to work with us—or even look forward to it—that means we have trust and respect. We’ll be on proper footing for working effectively as a group to solve problems. For developers this looks like coaching a junior developer, hopping on a quick call to pair with somebody, or understanding the business value of the next backlog item.
Source: matthogg.fyi
our users should be at the center of every problem we’re working to solve.
Source: matthogg.fyi
Empathy and humility are usually top of mind during situations of pain or distress, but they’re really aspects of emotional intelligence that should be activated at all times.
Source: matthogg.fyi
I go to work to solve problems, be creative, and build shit.
Source: matthogg.fyi
Developers have a clear tendency towards gatekeeping. For most, it’s an honest mistake. There’s a fine line between holding others to a certain expectation versus actively keeping people on the outside.
Source: matthogg.fyi
We're building toward a future where collaboration is continuous conversation, not discrete commits—where every discussion, edit, and insight remains linked to the code as it evolves, accessible to both teammates and AI agents.
Source: zed.dev
Coinbase outputs to P2PK keys go as far as block 200,000, so there are, at the time of writing, 1,723,848 coins that
are vulnerable from the first epoch in P2PK outputs alone. The majority of these have a block reward of 50 coins each,
and there are roughly 34,000 distinct P2PK scripts that are vulnerable. These coins can be considered
"Satoshi's Shield."
Source: bip360.org
A Long Exposure Quantum Attack is an attack in which the public key has been exposed on the blockchain for an extended
period of time, giving an attacker ample opportunity to break the cryptography. This affects:
P2PK outputs (Satoshi's coins, CPU miners, starts with 04)
Reused addresses (any type, except P2QRH)
Taproot addresses (starts with bc1p)
Extended public keys, commonly known as "xpubs"
Wallet descriptors
Source: bip360.org
P2QRH provides the same tapscript functionality as Pay to TapRoot (P2TR) but removes the quantum-vulnerable
key-spend path in P2TR.
Source: bip360.org
Nostr devs as a whole won’t come together anywhere regardless; each will insist on their own NIP-29 or NIP-29ish approach and mostly just refuse to collaborate.
Source: jumble.social
inevitabilism cannot be defeated purely as a
logical construct because it was not created as a logical construct.
Inevitabilism in our society is most often deployed as a way for people
to retroactively justify things that they have already decided to do for
other reasons - which often involve chasing political power or dollars.
Source: vitalik.eth.limo
A short ChatGPT session may help improve a good idea to a great idea. On the other hand, LLMs are amazing at supercharging self-delusion. These models will happily equip misguided thinking with a fluent, authoritative voice, which, in turn, sets up a psychological trap by delivering nonsense in a nice package.
Source: bytesauna.com
Language cuts to the core of what and who we are. Speech is so natural to us that we even think in speech. And when a machine credibly stepped into that territory, something changed. I’m not sure what it is — I don’t think anyone really knows at this point — but I think there is a sense of shifting tides. I think it’s something most of us are trying to make sense of.
Source: bytesauna.com
Combining weed and nuts is a great way to get a more sustained high with added benefits. Nuts are packed with healthy nutrients and essential fatty acids which help to increase the absorption of THC. THC binds to fat cells.
Source: vertsdispensary.com
Responses from Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini are not facts.
They’re predicting what words are most likely to come next in a sequence.
They can produce convincing-sounding information, but that information may not be accurate or reliable.
Source: stopcitingai.com
We should try to reduce the burden of building software.
Source: moxie.org
I’m hopeful that the creativity and exploration we’re seeing will have positive outcomes, but I’m not sure if it’s enough to prevent all the same dynamics of the internet from unfolding again.
Source: moxie.org
I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it. It is, at the very least, something new on the nerd level – and that creates a space for creativity/exploration that is somewhat reminiscent of early internet days.
Source: moxie.org
Once a distributed ecosystem centralizes around a platform for convenience, it becomes the worst of both worlds: centralized control, but still distributed enough to become mired in time.
Source: moxie.org
If something is truly decentralized, it becomes very difficult to change, and often remains stuck in time. That is a problem for technology, because the rest of the ecosystem is moving very quickly, and if you don’t keep up you will fail.
Source: moxie.org
We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.
Source: moxie.org
The “electronic cash” envisioned by Satoshi is cash; it is not notes, scrip or bank credits. We have come to think of bank notes as cash, but they are actually contracts for debt. The note holder is owed something by the issuer. Cash is a commodity with certain properties that make it useful as money.
Source: bitcoinmagazine.com
Bitcoin requires decentralization for survival. If there is only one team of experts maintaining the only implementation, the whole ecosystem is extremely weak. If that team ends up on one or two payrolls, or is perhaps co-opted by state actors, there are obvious implications.
Source: bitcoinmagazine.com