The Age of Reason: a period of time where everything needed to have a reason.

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. — Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

GM! What's the killer Nostr app for replacing Spotify? It seems @tunestr is focused on video content... but who's tackling pure audio?

Uncle Bob — The Scribe’s Oath 1. I will not produce harmful code. 2. The code that I produce will always be my best work. I will not knowingly allow code that is defective either in behaviour or structure to accumulate. 3. I will produce, with each release, a quick, sure, and repeatable proof that every element of the code works as it should. 4. I will make frequent, small, releases so that I do not impede the progress of others. 5. I will fearlessly and relentlessly improve my creations at every opportunity. I will never degrade them. 6. I will do all that I can to keep the productivity of myself, and others, as high as possible. I will do nothing that decreases that productivity. 7. I will continuously ensure that others can cover for me, and that I can cover for them. 8. I will produce estimates that are honest both in magnitude and precision. I will not make promises without certainty. 9. I will never stop learning and improving my craft. GM!

GM! Hiking — "I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them." - John Muir

A Practical Definition of [Software] Design Every application is a collection of code; the code’s arrangement is the design. Two isolated programmers, even when they share common ideas about design, can be relied upon to solve the same problem by arranging code in different ways. Design is not an assembly line where similarly trained workers construct identical widgets; it’s a studio where like-minded artists sculpt custom applications. Design is thus an art, the art of arranging code. - from Practical Object-Oriented Design - An Agile Primer Using Ruby, by Sandi Metz

GM! Great thinkin' for non-technical user-facing Nostr design: "Omacom stands for Omakase Computing. The word Omakase means "I'll leave it up to you" or "chef's choice" in Japanese. "It's the idea that most people don't actually know what they want, at least not at first. That they're better off getting something beautifully curated and integrated from someone they trust to make competent, tasteful decisions rather than suffer from the paradox of choice. "It's the same principle that Ruby on Rails was built on. "It doesn't mean there isn't room for substitutions. It doesn't mean you can't develop your own taste and opinions. It just means that when you're starting out, you don't even have to know what all the different options are to enjoy an integrated, cohesive computing experience. "Once you develop your competence and knowledge, you may well want to tinker and tailor your computing environment to your specific liking. Or not! Plenty of great programmers prefer to stick with a set of well-maintained defaults. But you always have the option. "In some ways, this is anathema to some branches of classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, and that they should preferably configure every last one from them from scratch. "The irony is that this atomized approach is exactly what's allowed Omacom, and Omarchy in particular, to put it all together in a delightfully integrated way! And what's allowing you to make tiny substitutions on the parts where you have a strong opinion without having to give up on the rest of the omakase menu. "Besides, the wonderful thing about Linux is that there's always another option. If you don't like my opinions, my omakase menus, you'll find a hundred other chef's catering to your liking. Isn't that great?"

Omakase Computing · Omacom · DHH

GM - And this is why we must fight digital ID paired with CBDC

“Working 100% remote sucks. Working 95% remote is amazing.” I’m actually quite apt to agree! #hottake #opinion

GM! A whole damn host of words to live by. DHH for the win, again!

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An obligation to independence

We have no investors, no board of directors, no eyes on an exit. We feel a moral obligation to exercise our independence. To do things no one would...

GM! I learned about atomic-level data storage research at IBM today for the first time. As an artistic experiment, they made a little movie using 65 atoms with stop-motion animation: "A Boy And His Atom"... This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

A Boy and His Atom - Wikipedia

OP_CODE… so hot right now

GM! @Eric FJ 🪬⚡️ snagged us some wicked-cool Conduit shwag, like this killer baseball cap that my lil’ daughter is sporting! Keep building, Nostr. We build for the next generation. With our effort, our children can know freedom of spirit, sovereignty of choice, and be free from control by those that would set the will of the Machine above the will of The Self. Know Thyself, Love Thyself, and Govern Thyself

GM! Any Quenya / Sindarin speakers in the house?! 🧝‍♂️ 🖊️ 🧝‍♀️

GM! Just removed 8,000 lines of code from the micro-frontend I own at my fiat job. Scrapped an old, highly-custom build pipeline (in favor of Vite 🥳), and a bunch of old legacy crap that used a deprecated config + deploy system. Feels damn good! #no-longer-constipated #i-can-see-clearly-now

♠️ The spade is a deceptively simple symbol, but its roots reach deeply into human myth, spirituality, and archetypal imagination. Let’s unfold its layers: 1. Earth and Labor At its most literal, the spade is a tool — a shovel, meant for digging. It touches the soil, turning what is hidden into what is seen. This links the spade with: The Earth element: grounding, fertility, the hidden depths of matter. Labor and toil: the dignity of work, human survival through cultivation. Burial and rebirth: the spade is used in funerals as well as farming, making it a threshold instrument between life and death. 2. Tarot and Playing Cards In the Tarot’s distant ancestry, the spade corresponds to the suit of swords, and with it: Air element: intellect, conflict, clarity, discernment. Trial and struggle: the spade/sword cuts, defends, pierces illusion. Mortality: in popular playing card lore, the Ace of Spades came to signify death, fate, or profound transformation. The spade symbol itself — an upward-pointing leaf or spearhead — can be read as a flame, blade, or seed. 3. Death and Resurrection Culturally, the spade gained a mystique through war, gambling, and folklore: Soldiers in World War I and II nicknamed the Ace of Spades the “death card,” often leaving it on fallen enemies. Yet, paradoxically, death here isn’t just an end — the spade’s role in burial also makes it a midwife of transformation. To be buried is to be planted. 4. Esoteric and Archetypal Symbolism In esoteric traditions: Spade = Spear/Blade: a symbol of willpower, penetration, and the uncovering of truth. Heart inverted: the spade is literally an upside-down heart with a stalk, suggesting the descent of spirit into matter, or love inverted into struggle. Alchemical work: the spade embodies the “nigredo” stage — digging into darkness, decay, and soil, the necessary first step toward gold. 5. A Personal Reading For someone who takes on the spade as a sigil, it can mean: To dig relentlessly, seeking what lies beneath surfaces. To accept mortality as part of life’s game. To wield clarity and discernment like a blade. To honor both the farmer and the gravedigger, knowing creation and destruction are twinned. ✨ In short: the spade is a threshold symbol — tool and weapon, grave and garden, descent and ascent. It reminds us that to uncover life’s mysteries, one must dig deep, through soil and shadow, to touch the roots of being.

Relays are like radio stations. Tune in, get the signal, jam the tunes, and when you’re finished, turn the dial. There’s a world of signals to explore out there.

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