@HODLween decorations are intense!

Update for those of you who have dropped Twitter entirely: Elon thinks this is a good UI. "... More"?! Are you f'n kidding me? 🤣 Imagine being the PM who's feature didn't make the cut: "Sorry Brian, just can't justify putting a 13th item in the list; gotta keep things short and sweet so we don't overwhelm users. 12 is the sweet spot."

A friend gave me some of her #sourdough starter. Biochem is neat! Next step: work in some dark rye and whole wheat flour to kick up the activity and flavor. #bread #baking #foodstr

@Ungovernable Misfits I think the word you were looking for is "apochryphal". https://fountain.fm/clip/K9AVAgOHjJEUkDQx7k6R

Quick FYI for any @HRF Global Bitcoin Summit attendees who are playing with their #Bitaxe: When I plugged mine in, the little display stayed blank. But everything else worked fine. I figured it was just a bad screen. BUT... IT LIVES!!! Turns out I just needed to do a firmware update on it. Initial Bitaxe connection: Plug it in and, even though the screen might be blank, check the available wifi networks on your laptop. One of them should be something like "Bitaxe_blahblah". Connect to it and the Bitaxe web UI should come up. From there you should be able to go to Settings in the web UI and I'd recommend updating the firmware FIRST. Update firmware: Click the links under Latest Release to save the esp-miner.bin and www.bin files. Ideally verify their hashes against the official releases. Then Update Firmware (select the esp-miner.bin you downloaded) and Update Website (the www.bin file). It'll reboot and you might need to tell your laptop to reconnect to the Bitaxe's wifi access point. Hopefully your Bitaxe's little display will now come to life. Once that's done, then you can enter your wifi SSID/password via the web UI to get your Bitaxe onto your local network. Also configure your solo mining pool, btc payout address, and worker name. Once those are saved, it'll connect to your local wifi and the previous Bitaxe wifi access point will be disabled. ps: I recommend configuring your Bitaxe to solo mine to

Solo CKPool - Anonymous Bitcoin Mining

-- its reporting UI seems to be a bit more reliable than the sexier looking public-pool.io pps: If you need to get back into the Bitaxe web UI once it's on your wifi network, you'll need to access it via its local IP address (watch the cycling display; one of the readouts tells you its IP) by typing that into a web browser on a device that's also connected to your local network (e.g. your phone connected to the same wifi). CC: @skot9000

OMG spent an hr or two on a draft doc, took @npub1kuma...z2v7 for a walk, then returned to discover that my laptop had unexpectedly rebooted itself. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I learned this lesson via constant Win95 crashes decades ago (CTRL-S is burned into my muscle memory). Stunning to be bit by it again in 2024.

I absent mindedly pet @npub1kuma...z2v7 while I code. But I mostly kind of forget that she exists when my mind is elsewhere. But eventually she'll remind me that there's an actual being next to me. And sometimes when I look over to re-engage with her, it's clear that she never forgot that I was there. Dogs are the best. #dogs #dogstr

Translations for @SeedSigner getting closer. Currently working with a Frankenstein branch that's using some early translations from two years ago but now stuffed into our v0.7.0 code (from Nov 2023). Have a few bugs to fix at this interim milestone. Then will get this v0.7.0 + multilanguage branch up to parity with the v0.8.0 release (Aug 2024). THEN we'll work with translation experts (leaning on @My First Bitcoin) to fill in all the holes and rework text that doesn't fit in the UI. At which point we'll be very close to a de facto v0.9.0. Hopefully in time for a debut at @Adopting Bitcoin next month!

One of the amazing items in the @HRF Global Bitcoin Summit swag bag was a copy of Resistance Money. Even better: got to meet the authors @Andrew M. Bailey, @Bradley Rettler, and @Craig Warmke! But since I already had my own copy of the book, this one will be donated to Chicago BitDevs. (sorry nostr folk, twitter handles are still easier to go by)

Love hearing these brief Unsung Hero testimonials. This one caught my ear on my morning walk with @npub1kuma...z2v7. Simple human kindness can mean the world to someone. https://fountain.fm/clip/cgUwwnnFl3PPrpV1LipD

Hoping to clarify what seems to be a misunderstanding by @ODELL about how the Pi Zero hardware shapes the @SeedSigner security model. (see: @RABBIT HOLE RECAP #320) I'm not about drama, certainly not looking to increase it. Please give this a read and hit me back w/any questions:

Gist

SeedSigner "firmware" isn't what you think it is

SeedSigner "firmware" isn't what you think it is. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Perfecting my Bart Chart runs. #run #running #exercise #intervals

Okay, I'm about 3 days into learning how to make #bread and I'm now pretty sure that "no-knead" approaches are bullshit cheats. NOT where beginners should start. Learned how to slap and fold and HOLY SHIT it's amazing how the sticky gloop transforms into dough in just a few minutes. The other key technique is "walking the dough" with a circular pull turn with a scraper. Learned it all from this tutorial: We'll see how it bakes, but feels like a huge progress milestone. #baking

TIL that my oven mitts are NO F'N MATCH for cast iron @ 435° F. Youch. 🔥✋😢

I know it's dumb to look at short-term price, but #58kgang has brainwashed me so thoroughly that I cannot comprehend any kind of green candle.

What do the anti-seed oil folks think about algae cooking oil? I've been using avocado oil + cast iron for years. Started reading up on oxidation in olive oil (tldr: basically hopeless if you buy it at a grocery store) and apparently avocado oil can / does(?) have similar issues. This stuff claims to have more oxidative stability (when heated; dunno at rest) and the aluminum bottle is better than the typical plastic or glass. see: https://algaecookingclub.com/about #seedoil #food #foodstr #cooking

Always a good day when I have an excuse to use my planer! From rough, splintery 1x3 stock... ...to finished-enough boards ready for building! #woodworking #diy