In 1786, Benjamin Franklin observed that Americans were so busy reading newspapers and pamphlets that they scarcely had time for books. Alexis de Tocqueville took note of this fact in his Democracy in America, published in 1835: "In America, parties do not write books to combat each other's opinions, but pamphlets, which are circulated for a day with incredible rapidity and then expire." Both passage is from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman first published in 1985 Few centuries later, it is "Tweets" and "TikTok videos" that has taken over the main form of discourse. Headlines over headlines, video snippets over snippets. As long-form writing fades from digital culture and ‘memeified’ short-form content takes center stage, the seriousness, clarity, and above all, the value of public discourse dangerously declines.

As long-form writing fades from digital culture and ‘memeified’ short-form content takes center stage, the seriousness, clarity, and above all, the value of public discourse dangerously declines.

Swap whatever left to BTC? Or hodl?

New Code & Codex dispatch is out. "Spiders And Their Web"

Spiders And Their Web

Digital online web — sticky, addictive, inescapable

Code Base Liberation Day! We must impose an npm import tariff to reduce our reliance on foreign code. Bring back the code. Write the ISO date formatter from scratch. Make JavaScript Great Again.

The Amazon Kindle might just be the best hardware / software. I got mine almost 10 years ago around 2015. Had not charged it for months. Today I plug in to charge, and it just works. Books still there. After I connect to new home Wi-Fi it starts to sync. Everything just works.

I love Civ game, played a lot of Civ 5 back then, did not had the chance to play Civ 6 a lot tho. I was excited to play Civ 7, but it seems its getting not so good reviews from Civ fans 😓 View quoted note →

Your keys Your node Your hash power Any generous BTC whale want to sponsor me a Bitaxe Gamma? I want to try solo mining 😁 We can share the block rewards if I ever got one 😅 Zap ⚡️ me some sats 🙇‍♂️ #bitcoin #bitaxe #solomining

AI does not stand for ‘Artists’ Interpretation’.

People are bashing vibe coding, saying that AI will introduce unmaintainable, error prone, spaghetti code. Well buddy, I don’t need AI for that—I’m perfectly capable of pushing unmaintainable, error-prone spaghetti code to production myself.

I share my thoughts on how AI is the UI. Breaking us free from the prison of the desktop metaphor of the current Graphical User Interface. Code & Codex - codeandcodex.substack.com/p/ai-is-the-ui

#nostr folks, is there like a “go-fund-me” or “indie go go” kind of service that uses BTC or #lightning ? Like people can zap you any amount until you reach your set goal amount.

#nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay) is actually IRC (Internet Relay Chat) with web socket, only it does a bit more than just chat.

What is the beat place to write long form for #nostr ? Is there like a medium.com but for #nostr ?

New Code & Codex dispatch is out. This is a long one - 3000++ words. A story about the recent mysterious Ethereum transactions with the message about weaponise mind-controlling chip from China. Subscribe to Code & Codex newsletter and get it in your inbox -

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Has anybody put "vibe coding" on their resume yet?

So you thinking of killing time? Don’t. You don’t kill time, Time kills you.

When you do something shameful for pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame stays. When you do something difficult for good, the effort passes quickly, but the good stays.

If you are writing public words, Make sure it is for public good. If you are making public content, Make sure it is for public good.