Nate

I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and try vibe coding, if anybody's interested in checking out the results I made a Discord/IRC inspired Nostr web client. It's a single static html file and everything runs everything locally in the browser, so it's pretty flexible. Currently got a version running on Github pages: https://0n4t3.github.io/n_cord/ I've also got a git repo: https://github.com/0n4t3/n_cord/ For my very poor development skills I think it turned out pretty good, even if it's probably due for a bit more polish. At the very least I'll probably use it to keep track of tags I want to follow without needing to spam my timeline with them. It'll let you follow tags without an account and/or login with a Nostr browser extension. #vibecoding #ai #nostr

Testing my vibe code

https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-04-02_retro-gaming/ New blog post - a combination of how I got into emulation, that I pre-ordered the Retroid Flip 2, and some other notes about different handhelds and controllers I looked into before settling on the purchase. #blog #blogstr #gaming #retroid #emulation

Had the service engine light turn on in my car. Ran to the store and bought a car diagnostic kit and it's just a minor emissions alert and nothing major luckily. And, since I was at the store, I bought cookies. All in all I'd say that worked out pretty well.

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpyg2lyrsmlttamnr7r224tp4fdw6zexkhv3unjrkeh6jf3eqfendqqxnzde5xgenwdfsx5mnjvehly2ecy Made some progress on the book I was working on, getting everything written so far into one large document. The downloads page has pdf/epub versions of the work, though I also posted the entire contents to Nostr under NIP-23 to see how that would work. https://untitlednovel.dns7.top/download/ Posting on #Nostr seems to have mostly worked, although I noticed a few places where NIP-23 fell a little short. Since it's built on markdown things like images inline with text or being a specific % of screen size isn't possible. I had a few hyperlinks that led to images, and some clients show the link text + a clickable link, where some other clients just disgard the text and embed the image. Anchor links seem to not work in any client I've tried them in, although I'm not sure if that's the clients' falts or the NIP's falt. Also, it appears that anchor links (which include a hashtag as part of their markdown formatting) also are added to the post's tags. (lol, a bit of an oversight it appears) Reading on a web client seems pretty serviceable though. You might need to Ctrl + F to jump from chapter to chapter since markdown anchor links appear to be broken, and images might be displayed slightly unpredictably, but it seems to work. Reading on an app, though, would probably be nigh infuriating without markdown anchor links. Anyway, if you're interested in checking the project out the Nostr version or web/downloadable version might be worth checking out. It's free, so not much of an investment cost. #nostrwriter #writestr #scifi #bookstr #nip23

Mozilla’s New Terms of Use are out of step with Firefox’s Direct Competition https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-are-out-of-step-with-firefoxs-direct-competition.html #firefox

I have a burning hatred for traction control.

Tried some astrophotography again the other day, I think it turned out cool. Both images were taken with my Pixel 8a. To my fellow GrapheneOS users, it does now have the libraries built in to use Google Camera offline without Google Play services, which is the camera app I used to take these photos. If you're interested in trying something like this but can't/don't want to use G Cam: Deep Sky Camera or Open Camera + photo stacking software would also likely achieve similar results. Both are somewhat edited beyond the rather heavy editing + stacking the camera did. I upped the yellow and red saturation on the first one (it's actually the moon going below the horizon, but I think the yellow clouds look super cool) and brightened it a bit. The second image was mostly as is but a heavy croped - as might be evidenced once you notice the vignetting on the top left corner only. #photography #astrophotography

Meta Engineers See Vindication in DeepSeek’s Apparent Breakthrough https://archive.ph/cqpJP #news #ai #deepseek

Just finished the book "Son of the Black sword." Heard about it randomly the other day, apparently the last book of the series is being dedicated to George RR Matin with the text "See, it's not so hard" Definitely worth checking out. The world building is really spectacular, it starts out fantasy like but - without spoilers - there's a lot more about the world that slowly gets elaborated on. There's also a lot of political intrigue, although it's a bit slow to start, and the characters feel really fleshed out and unique. Definitely with a read/listen. #bookstr

Looking back on Open RSS in 2024 https://openrss.org/blog/looking-back-on-open-rss-in-2024 #rss #blog #blogstr

Took a few photos the other day I wanted to share: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/26.avif As you can see by the sign and frozen lake, they were taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/27.avif This one turned out real cool, I was waiting for the sun to rise a bit more after taking a few photos, only to see a bald eagle flying overhead. I took two snapshots as fast as I could and this one turned out really neat. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/28.avif Another really similar shot, but with a plane and long shadows instead of a sunrise. Had a lot more time since the plane was travelling slower (at least from my relative perspective) but turned out almost identical framing wise. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/25.avif A similar shot to the one above, just a lot more zoomed in. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/44.avif https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/portraits/45.avif I got a couple of very zoomed in shots. Unless you zoom in more or are on a laptop the birds will probably look like dust on your screen, but I think they turned out cool too. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0n4t3/photos/refs/heads/main/buildings/23.avif And last got a cool shot of a bench overlooking the (frozen) water. I think it really captured the quiet wait while the sun rose, although less so captured the hand numbing cold the second I'd take my gloves off to take a photo. #photography

Caddy against the Machines https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/caddy-against-the-machines/ I checked, and yup, it's the Bee movie script on Archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20250103005647/https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/caddy-against-the-machines/

Well guess it's 2025 now

Year end wrap up blog post: https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2024-12-30_2024-retrospective/

So a thing happened and I'm kinda flabbergasted. There appears to be a campaign to shut down the Mostr (Nostr <> ActivityPub bridge). Dunno how big it is, but apparently at least one DMCA complaint has been filed. This is all on account of the bridge duplicating posts and profiles on ActivityPub. For those unaware, THIS IS LITERALLY HOW ACTIVITY PUB IS BUILT TO WORK. Every Activity Pub server duplicates content. Without it there'd be no seeing posts from anybody on servers other than their home server. It's literally the thing that makes the protocol work. If being on a protocol that specifically is designed to duplicate content isn't permission enough to duplicate content then the Fediverse goes poof. Zilch. Zero. Nada. Convince Cloudflare, or worse - convince a judge - that a protocol designed around federating content isn't permission to federate content and that's that for #ActivityPub. I'd personally prefer to see both protocols do well; please, if anybody reads this, learn how things work before trying to break things for working as intended. #Nostr #mostr

Finished chapter 50, a bit of a milestone in the plot. As much as I'm personally not a huge fan of starting out stories far in the future and then jumping back to the start of the plot, I did kinda go back and fourth on using this as the prologue instead of what I settled on. If you haven't checked it out and were interested in a (very amateur) free to read/share novel, this chapter would probably make a good introduction into the ongoing work. Certainly a slower and more mysterious introduction rather than the somewhat-mysterious-but-way-more-frantic prologue I went with. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqgr662svqc4k0ra58tzdjd7ycq8t953vug87x56f2srn60nuefasqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcqypv207xh5057z0uuttv6znd9h58phe3ymglvnga53hrczfmvlf0gsamtga2 #nostrwriter #bookstr #fiction

I replicated the shot to see it was just a lens reflection thingy, but it was quite the double take to see a glowing orb in the sky in a photo I did not see IRL.