In a world where any question can be answered, the stand out skill is asking the right questions.

Move with wonder. Act with intent.

A Tale of Two Blogs During today’s “internet” outage, my old personal blog went down. It’s running WordPress on Kinsta, which relies on both Google Cloud and Cloudflare, so it got caught in the disruption. Meanwhile, my newer personal site stayed online. It’s powered by Nostr, hosted on distributed IPFS nodes, and accessible via Ethereum Name Service. Even though the .com version uses Cloudflare, the underlying setup doesn’t depend on Google. Neither site is critical, but the difference is worth noting. This is exactly why decentralisation matters. A single bug from one provider shouldn’t take down half the web.

Added a Links page to my NOSTR powered site. Pulls links from kind 30003 using the `links` or @Nostree label. You can see it in action @ https://danielwonder.com/links/

You may have heard of Galt’s Gulch but have you heard of the Bitcoin Basin? From the other side.

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See it, say it, mean it.

The larger a neo-bank becomes the more closely they resemble what they attempted to disrupt.

Is AI turning Inception into reality? Starting to wonder if this generation will grow up with false memories shaped by AI. When you can insert yourself into any fictional world, how long until those memories feel real?

Append only onchain immutability means somebody is storing your typos and coding errors forever.

My personal site now supports profile data, status updates and long form content dynamically pulled from Nostr i.e. Nostr as CMS Full blog debrief to come…

nostrudel.ninja is the Nostr power tool I was looking for.

Don't let default be your choice.

This content is doomed.

Image hosting feels like one of the weakest links on most decentralised social platforms… Most clients upload images to their own servers and serve them from their own domain. That ties the longevity of your content to the survival of a single app. Not very decentralised at all!

Getting carried away turning Nostr into a CMS for my personal website. Now I just need to work out how I can syndicate content to other platforms!

Daniel Wonder

Daniel Wonder

OpenAI are collecting a trove of data that would make Cambridge Analytica blush.

The internet stole the future from a children’s book… While reading a futuristic page of an illustrated children’s book, I noticed a QR code embedded in the artwork. Naturally, I scanned it. It led to a random news site. After some digging, I realised the author had let the domain expire. The connection between the physical and digital world had quietly broken. We embed QR codes and URLs into print like they’re permanent. But most are destined to vanish or, worse, mislead. The internet forgets faster than we think. Let’s stop pretending it doesn’t.

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