Fun things you can do with internet identifiers like alex@gleasonator.com: Webfinger (used by ActivityPub) Nostr NIP-05 Bitcoin Lightning (dumb method) Bitcoin Lightning (other dumb method) Email??? These should probably all be part of Webfinger, since Webfinger was designed to do all of it. Also it would be neat to build a little React app where you can enter an internet identifier, and it pulls all these URLs to give information about what it all supports.

There are so many holes in the Lightning network, it is actually still very porous and possible to change. For something with so much money at stake, maybe it's easier to break into than one would think?

I wonder if Nostr could just replace Lightning as the Layer 2 instead of trying to be a Layer 3. You have users with keypairs who publish signed events, so they should be able to do all the things like opening "channels" directly in Nostr. Right?

This is wacky.

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I chilled water in a cocktail shaker and poured it into a chilled glass over a pure water ice cube. Oh my god... perfection. The ultimate cocktail.

Lightning Zaps on Nostr are of event kind 9735. This is a reference to the Lightning protocol, whose default port on nodes is TCP port 9735. This is itself a reference to the UNICODE LIGHTNING SYMBOL, which has an ID of 9735! Not the High Voltage emoji, the meteorological lightning symbol: ☇

Mostr bridge now supports setting a lightning bolt emoji ⚡ on your profile to enable zaps. Previously it was the text "lud16". That is now considered deprecated. The bolt supports both internet identifiers and LNURLs:

GitLab

Support lud16 zap emoji (!80) · Merge requests · Soapbox / Mostr · GitLab

Allows putting a lightning bolt emoji ⚡ in profile fields instead of the text lud16 to support lightning addresses.

Should I hack Nostr support into Pleroma just to enable zaps?

I made a pomegranate mezcal cocktail

Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities. People are resistant to it because they're afraid. Their heads are full of doubts, of tropes like "how will artists make money?" For that reason, brave people are able to benefit from Open Source while fearful people don't. If you want to be a successful software person and you're not already a millionaire, I would highly recommend building Open Source software.

Do you ever drink water and it tastes so fucking good, like you've been trapped in the desert for four days?

I made a coffee margarita because the YouTube man old me to. I can't say it was a good idea.

Fun fact, maraschino cherries are bleached, removing just about everything from them that makes them cherries except for the shape, and then re-dyed with red food coloring and sugar water. Literal candy in the corpse of a cherry.

Been going back and forth on how I want to write JavaScript. And I'm enjoying writing static classes with all static methods because there's no naming clashes and you can reuse the interface. Kind of like Elixir modules.

Wut?

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