We're getting a partial eclipse of the sun in the UK on Wednesday evening. Around 92% of the sun will be obscured at maximum. It will be happening right in the middle of the Ventnor Carnival Parade 😂

Fun fact: If you expanded an atom to the size of the observable Universe, a Planck length would be around 100-150 metres long (330-500 ft). View quoted note →

I've become a dev again. I have been building something in stealth mode up till now. PageHold is a distributed version of the Wayback machine (Web Archive).

Archive search - PageHold

Holding page for now, it only contains a copy of mikehardcastle.com The wayback machine (web archive) is a great historical resource for the web, giving snapshots of the web going back to 1996. It suffers, however, from capacity and funding issues. As well as being under regular attacks, both legally and technically. So I figured it was time to decentralise and build an app that allowed anybody to take web snapshots to store locally and share them globally. I have just published a standalone version of this tool on GitHub:

GitHub

GitHub - snurge/pagehold: A self-hosted website archiving service for private, local snapshots.

A self-hosted website archiving service for private, local snapshots. - snurge/pagehold

Feel free to download, play and contribute however you like. The next stage will be to launch a global federated service that allows individuals to add their personal archives to a global, searchable resource and provide a public search engine. I have already built this infrastructure, but I wanted to test the standalone service first before launching a fully federated service. Apart from the technical challenges, there are many legal, copyright and other issues surrounding a public service. I am considering building in revenue stream options; Either for myself, by offering pre-configured VPS versions that can be spun up and run as a paid for service. Or by using a high search usage charging model, charging individuals or companies fees for bulk archive searching. This would collect and distribute fees among content contributors. These are all options ready to go, depending on the feedback. Before you ask, this isn’t a Bitcoin or NOSTR model, but I expect it will evolve into both over time.

True, I've recently become the CFO, "Chief Ferry Officer" and photography influencer on NOSTR and because of my heightened position, I sometimes give uneducated opinions on Bitcoin 😂 View quoted note →

Instead of focusing on the BIP-110 fork, I've been having fun. Here's the results of my fun. A circular walk to Bonchurch, with shots of Hummingbird hawk-moth, Ventnor Wall Lizard, Heron, Turtles and a Duck and Carp, swimming tother. #Photography

GM Migrating my nodes from Knots to Core today. Chatty is helping, as I was lazy and should have done this before the fork. My temporary WoS LND address is quite apt right now 😂 poorerclient65@walletofsatoshi.com

When both sides reach consensus on the opposing side 😂

I saw the Bear market for myself at our local zoo today 😂

A day out to an Animal rescue centre on the Isle of Wight