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trying to make native android feel as elegant as swiftui. to borrow a phrase from satoshi, it's bloody hard.

i just paid 8 cents for asking fable to "commit and push". lesson learned.

there was a period from 2008-2010 where you could accurately judge someone's degree of metacognition based on how they felt about lil b. you either got what he was doing: embracing the speed and absurdity of memetic culture by breaking the 4th wall of rap or you didn't see it.

cynicism and pessimism are traps that some people never escape.

sometimes at bitcoin conferences i catch myself wondering how many ppl here would significantly lose something if this project fails. how many of you will will lose your entire retirement? a huge chunk of your net worth? how many of you actually live this? i know a few.

working on a flow for paying a cashu request that only accepts specific mints. in this example the user selects one of the payee's specified mints and it processes the payment in one sweep. inb4: why not just use ln? this paticular flow assumes a cashu request was scanned. if it was a bolt11 invoice or bip321 it would default to a ln payment and this would be very simple. i'm smoothing the animations next. they're very jarring and unpolished right now.

receipts used to be for you.

i love phoenix. but even after years i've never built muscle memory with it. imo the receive options are overwhelming. trying to consolidate on cashu me. such a hard problem to solve. i think one thing phoenix does right is immediately defaulting to an amountless bolt11 invoice with the qr displayed. it's nice to instantly provide the payment affordance after tapping receive. we can do a better job of that on cashu me.

it's kinda funny that cash is anonymous by accident and now we have to make digital cash anonymous on purpose. for some people this is controversial. so we'll do it controversially.

gm. you don't owe a database your personal info just because you bought a coffee.

“oh my god, that's such a beautiful line! familiar faces i've never seen, i love it!” ifykyk

been working on a unified send flow for cashu me. one field. paste a bolt11, bolt12, ln address, cashu request etc... or scan someone's key to lock ecash to them via p2pk. you can review your own keys in settings now.

finding myself getting comfortable with my current vibe coding / ai design flow. not a great sign for growth. never get comfortable with your tools. want to put my current setup to the side and try new stuff. tools i find myself constantly reaching for: claude cli impeccable plugin grill me skill mobbin mcp i usually cycle through some combination of these to build a design. what are you using?

when a cashu mint supports onchain + bolt11 + bolt12 you end up with four ways to receive. here's a wip on how i'm thinking of laying them out in cashu me. no jargon. only descriptions telling you when to use it. the two bolt12 offers became "reusable" and "flexible".

ot icloud backup + recovery working on the next cashu me swift build. restoring via icloud is pleasant experience. usual caveat emptor on cloud backups but damn it feels good.

every hour spent building extractive bullshit is an hour stolen from building productive tools. you can spend your time gamifying someone into riding a scooter more or you can build money that the state can't censor and communications it can't surveil.

some notes and quotes i wrote down during trevor paglen's berlin talk tonight. "palantir is not so much a military technology company, it's a vision technology." "slop is the media that the attention economy forces people to create." "do you subscribe to the sublime idea of things that are beyond yourself?" "this is where it turns to magic. instagram. telepathy. some of it feels supernatural." [context: talking about getting a targeted ad right after having a conversation about that exact thing.] topics to follow up: - vilém flusser on technical images - the politics of llm training data - cia & russian psyop manuals buy his book:

Verso

How to See Like a Machine

Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generat...

everything i love about cyberpunk is found in neuromancer and ghost in the shell.

the gov just restricted fable 5 under export control law. we've been here before. in the 90s strong encryption was classified as a munition and placed under arms export controls. the cypherpunks fought and won. read the cypherpunk library.

The Cypherpunk Library

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.