Yikes, that's a bad ngu. Too much travel the last few months. But pretty uneven 2025 in general. Looking forward to staying home for a while and getting back to some discipline. 12-13% is my usual comfortable target. Pretty easy to get there without doing anything extreme.

Plane landed safely in Panama City, but seeing this while boarding did give me a few doubts.

Wha...? (no, I don't actually want to know)

Chilling in a cafe in São Paulo* and just as I'm about to leave, the opening riff to Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" starts playing. Had to stay the extra ~4 minutes. Of course. So f'n catchy. --- *(yes, that's Japanese text; huge Japanese community here)

BREAKING: There are banana vending machines in São Paulo! 👀🤯

Find yourself a girl who looks at you like @npub1kuma...z2v7 looks at bread.

Laundry day for @npub1kuma...z2v7 is always kind of hilarious. When she's at home she always has a toy in her mouth. So pretty quickly they all reek of dog saliva. 🤢 --- Bonus: Kuma with her croissant overlooking Nashville last week!

Really f'n fun to watch a Chicago Bears game at a hardcore Bears bar in Nashville! Crowd thinned out a bit as, unusually for the Bears, the game was well in hand by the time the 3rd quarter ended.

Gorgeous hiking at the Narrows of the Harpeth river trails with @npub1kuma...z2v7, just outside of Nashville.

@npub1kuma...z2v7 being weird.

Ha, ungovernable hikers in Tennessee.

@UNCLE ROCKSTAR earning @Derek Ross some sats in @D++'s LN-supercharged Mario Kart game! Gaming is better with Lightning! At @Bitcoin Park's "Imagine If" conf.

"Friends, Romans, Bitcoiners, lend me your ears!" @npub1kuma...z2v7 holding court at @Bitcoin Park.

I'm grateful that dog vomit doesn't smell.

The best reason to stay on twitter is to be able to name and shame bad actors. This is serious bullshit. Lightspark needs to move the fuck off of "sp1" addrs.

Holy cow, this is gorgeous AND so intimidating! Fusion 360 tutorials, here I come. (that's a 3d model for a Tesla/NACS charging plug holder)

YO, this slim @SeedSigner build is so f'n sexy! Really hard to appreciate it in photos. It's so much nicer! --- Video tutorial: Step 1: * 2x20 header pins * soldering iron * wire snips * empty proto board You're going to have put in a little more effort to solder the gpio headers on. But it's not terrible. --- Step 2: Solder! ps - Pi Zeros are only sold in bulk WITHOUT the headers soldered on. Anyone who thinks you can make mad profits by selling preassembled @SeedSigner hardware is OUT OF THEIR F'N MINDS. This is 8x speed. Yeah, with practice I could get faster. But still. GTFO. --- Step 3: Inspect your work. Hey, look, something went wrong. Because of course! Pro tip: I did the soldering with an old broken display hat, not knowing if the heat or anything else might screw it up (I think that loose pin was due to a flaw in the old hat's connector). --- Step 4: Inspect again, trim solder cones. Off camera I did find one more bad solder (the pin came loose) that I had to repair. --- Step 5: Final assembly, boot up and test!

I'm in a coffee shop that somehow has an infinite remix of this song. It is NOT just the song playing on repeat. It's literally never ending. The grating, wavy, derivative chorus (it wants to be Mazzy Starr and Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" all at once) just keeps returning and returning for like 10min so far. Absolute torture. This is hell.

Step 1: Buy a 3gb eSIM for travel to Riga. Step 2: Meet lots of European Bitcoiners and follow them on nostr. Step 3: Get warnings about data usage. Step 4: Cry. Step 5: Top up eSIM so I don't run out on my last day. wtf.

Kind of a glass half empty / glass half full situation. Was searching the house to see if I had a cooler bag to bring cold stuff with me to Bitdevs tonight.