Today, while working on the @NOICE website, I had a realization: traditional email subscription services like Mailchimp are probably on borrowed time. I just implemented a fully functional subscriber system directly on my site. You can subscribe at the bottom of the page, it routes through Proton Mail, and everything lands in my own admin dashboard. From there, I can manage subscribers, organize them however I want, and keep everything self-hosted. Next step is building an internal tool to write and send emails directly from the dashboard. No third-party platforms. No monthly fees. Full control. What’s wild is that this would’ve felt impossible not that long ago. Now, with clear ideas, a real personal use case, and the help of AI, you can build exactly what you need yourself. Managing your own website. Managing your own audience. For basically free. Hard to find excuses anymore. Few things left to do but poke around. Needing feedback still. What do you want to see? View on desktop and mobile

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I had a realization recently about what AI and modern tools are actually doing especially for creatives and artists. What I’m starting to see is that AI is giving us permission to be creative again. Not by replacing creativity, but by removing the technical barriers that used to block it. You no longer need to know how to code a website, master complex software, or understand every technical layer just to build something that supports your work. Now, you can describe an idea in plain language and let the tools translate that into something real. Words have become the interface. That feels incredibly liberating. What makes this even more interesting to me is the historical parallel. Socrates famously never wrote anything down. His ideas were spoken aloud - explored through dialogue - and only later recorded by his students, most notably Plato. The thinking came first. The structure followed. In a strange way, I think AI brings us back to that mode. Speaking ideas. Letting intuition lead. Capturing thought without immediately forcing it into rigid form. That’s essentially what I’m doing now, which is speaking freely, stream-of-consciousness, letting the ideas move naturally. I’m not diminishing writing at all. Writing is essential. But there’s something powerful about being able to think out loud again, without friction, and have those thoughts turned into something usable. I mention all of this because I’ve been rebuilding the website for my photography publication - something I’ve wanted to do for at least five years. I had the ideas back then, but not the technical knowledge, and definitely not the budget. Years ago, I reached out to a development team. They liked the concept, which meant a lot, but the quote came back at $26,000. The project at the time stalled. Today, with better tools and clearer ideas, I’ve built the same thing myself for under $500. Same vision. Same intention. Different tools. The cost of creation is approaching zero, while the potential for expression keeps expanding. If you’re a creative person, this moment is worth paying attention to. The barrier isn’t skill anymore - it’s imagination. What a time to be alive.

I have three copies left. Zap this note 12k and one shall be yours. I sent a copy to my photography teacher that I mention in the book and he was hyped 🤞🏼 View quoted note →

Cape spotted on Brave Browser. Anybody try this service? #asknostr

Good morning nostr fam. View quoted note →

I’ve been in the photography world for a long time now, and I’ve been running @NOICE since 2015. It’s become a fairly low-key, but recognizable name in the photo space. One thing I’ve consistently noticed though is that most photographers still don’t really understand #Bitcoin. As I rebuild the NOICE website, I’ve quietly integrated a bit of Bitcoin education into it (bottom footer section). It’s not loud or preachy - it’s subtle. It lives in the same place NOICE has always lived: curiosity. There’s a small page that gently walks the viewer through what fiat money is, how we arrived here, and why Bitcoin exists as a solution. I think it fits well. To my knowledge, NOICE is the first photography publication to meaningfully integrate Bitcoin into its foundation. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and it feels good to finally bring those worlds together. Just doing my small part. The site is still in progress, so that explains the vercel domain. I hope to have everything transfered over soon. Poke around the site on desktop and mobile. Still welcoming feedback.

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Talkin my language

Where are you right now?

Lil guys hangin

Touch grass they say…

Proof of hawk View quoted note →

Outside today. * Not pictured, a nice red tail hawk flying above me now

I wonder if Joe Rogan is stacking bitcoin...

Claude is GOAT

DeepSeek V3 or Sonnet 4.6 for coding? #asknostr

Soooo how are we looking? What’s my latest assessment? Is 58k in sights? Yeah. 58k has a 95% probability imo. View quoted note →

Spent the evening at the dock last night with a friend and his wife. Always love winter sunsets - there’s something about the colors this time of year that just hit differently compared to other seasons. Nothing overly eventful, just one of those calm, beautiful evenings. Used my #leica m262 / edited in Lightroom + Dehancer Film #photography #noicemag

Wishing you a beautiful evening

Kimi-k2.5 works pretty darn well

Drone views from yesterdays shoot. Beautiful winter day.