My first app is now on Zapstore!!! 🎉 It's a very fancy contact app, a personal CRM with features I've often wished existed, for anyone who intentionally keeps in touch with many people. Thanks to @PayPerQ and @Zapstore for being so helpful, building great tools and pointing me in the right direction when I got stuck. And to all the developers and vibecoders who inspired me to start building what I've wished I could, and to @npub1p4kg...cxf8 for the tutorial that helped me get started. If you find bugs, navigation oddities, or things you expected would work differently, you're welcome to let me know! I'll be improving things as I continue to build!

Connections - Zapstore

Connections helps you strengthen relationships through organized contact management, prayer request tracking, gift recording, and trip planning. Th...

#crm #vibecoding #beta #Flutter #freedomtech

Makes me want to put down my phone and read a book, the good old-fashioned way. There's so much value in what is real.

It's 2026. We can send rockets into space and back again. But software still can't figure out leading zeroes.

#FOSS vs. #FLOSS... Choosing an open-source software #license was a little trickier than I expected. Some explanations encouraged #copyleft licenses, to make sure the software will always be free. Sounded like a good idea - when given a bunch of options, I tend to choose the most thorough route by default. #Linux has a #GPL license, and clearly made an impact. The #AGPL covers all the bases. But it's quite long, and strangely authoritarian, imposing a lot of rules in the name of making the software free. It wasn't what I was expecting to find in an open-source license. Then I found a video of Linus Torvalds actually arguing against GPL v3. He used v2 for Linux, not "v2 or later", and didn't think v3 should have been considered the same licence. The #MIT license is wonderfully short, just a few readable paragraphs. I'd have gladly chosen it, except that it doesn't explicitly cover patents. I landed on the #Apache licence (v2). It seemed the best fit for my project, to let people use it as freely as they like, and didn't impose anything arduous. I would've been happy to guarantee users the right to the code no matter who builds what with it, but I want people to be able to use my ideas without having to choose the same license for everything they touch, and without jumping through hoops. Maybe it's odd to say permissive licenses are freer than strong copyleft - I don't know. It just seems more free if people can use it easily without red tape, whoever they are, for whatever they like. If this is part of the difference between FOSS and this new term "FLOSS", I'm happy with the former.

When I start feeling black-pilled when I check Nostr, I figure out who to unfollow (often to follow again when times change). You know, the feeling that the walls in every country in the world are closing in on us, and we just hope we can outrun the corruption long enough to live our lives. I get scared too. But I'm always looking to point people to hope. It's the value of an algorithm we control - I can choose whose notes I see, mute npubs I really would like to never see again, and mute words that don't need to be part of my day. I'm not complaining or rebuking anyone, only expressing that balance between awareness and sanity, and the importance of knowing truth without losing joy. Thanks to all who bring a wholesome, productive, cheerful contrast to the important news we know we also need. It helps us be aware and still enjoy the life we've been given. @Contra mentioned helping each other find new follows... I'll mention a few who brighten my day: @Kat, @Bitcoinbonden, @npub1028y...ffe8, @JLHoffmanGuitars, @The Babylon Bee (even if it's only a bot), @GlobalTraces, @SeedVaultMarket, @Delta Kid.