Don't vibe specs, kids

Just released a new relay implementation:

Coracle Git

punt

A relay implementation that only serves NIP 59 gift wraps to authenticated and tagged users.

This is a narrowly-focused DM relay. It supports negentropy, enforces recipient auth, 16 bits of pow, and evicts events after 3 months. Free for you to use, and free for you to self-host as a personal relay (there is a pubkey whitelist option as well). The goal is to make DMs somewhat more deliverable by providing a sane default — the relays I had been using have slowly been failing to serve messages. Add it to your (or your client's) NIP 17 messaging relay list at: wss://messaging.coracle.social

"When you're building the temple, you're not supposed to hear the tools that are being used." Chris Wiley

Just finished up the Summer of Bitcoin internship program — thanks to Saksham, Aditya, and Varun for participating!

Summer of Bitcoin

Summer of Bitcoin

A global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin open-source development and design

If you're interested in seeing what was accomplished, take a look at the participants' reports below: Saksham (and Varun):

Summer of Bitcoin

How did I Find Product Market Fit for a Decentralized Communication Platform based on Nostr

1. What I Set Out to Do

Aditya:

Summer of Bitcoin

Building Reliable Real-Time Features for Flotilla: My Summer of Bitcoin 2026 Final Report

Who I am and what I worked on

These guys all did great work. Saksham and Varun brought a lot of expertise in product development that I lack; Aditya pounded out a lot of code and contributed some design polish to Flotilla that's still beyond my reach. If anyone is looking for India-based hires, let me know and I can put you in touch.

Nobody: Claude: "Three things are tangled in that one flock, and only the first needs to be serial."

@Alex Gleason I've lost my shakespeare project for https://highlights.shakespeare.wtf/, how do I get it back?

I told claude to register for my gitea instance using a nostr nsec, and it did it. At one point it reported: > Success — the captcha OCR worked on the second try. Verifying the account was actually created and I'm logged in. The internet as we've known it is melting before our eyes. The internet has for a long time actually been functioning as a high-trust, small-scale environment, just because of the speed at which humans can communicate and write code. Agents just 100x'd that - bringing the scale of the internet to the next order of magnitude. With all the degeneracy leaps in scale imply.

I'm going back through Communication as Culture and copying down my underlines. I keep finding absolute bangers like this: View quoted note →

I'm curious if people on nostr would agree with this skepticism of technology's ability to restore a natural balance within society, or whether you think that the technology we're all working on here can actually accomplish that mission: "An increasingly prevalent and popular brand of the futurist ethos is one that identifies electricity and electrical power, electronics and cybernetics, computers and information with a new birth of community, decentralization, ecological balance, and social harmony... The manifest consequences of electricity are clearly in opposition to a decentralized, organic, harmonious order." This is a quote by James Carey from his book "Communication and Culture."

"Reality is, above all, a scarce resource." James Carrey

Coracle 0.6.36 is out, with some bugfixes, improvements, and breaking changes: * Publish kind 1 replies as comments * Show highlight details in notifications * Strip tracking query params from links * Fix a tag parsing error * Fix ratings * Wrap long words to avoid compose box stretching

This is actually interesting. I saw these posters all over Seattle: View quoted note → The home page shows icons representing BLM, gayness, NPR, and some kind of feminist BLM insignia, and yet the text includes sentences like: > While the public elects a new President every four years, buried within the bureaucracy is a permanent layer of management with its own agenda — arguably none more powerful than the CIA. We effectively have a secret cabal within the halls of power that takes its orders from the eugenic elites. and > The role of the Rockefellers, Moderna and the US Military in creating Covid, as documented in our video reports, verifies the elite’s ability to weaponize disease. They even cite @Whitney Webb's work. Is this some kind of psyop, or are these crypto-histories going mainstream on the left?

Are the leftists finally catching on? Or what is this?

Big Picture | War On Us

War On Us static website, independent reporting, sources, and calls to action.

Took my son to Seattle for a few days. What a beautiful place.

Superhero movies are just gnosticism, pretending to be christianity, pretending to be paganism

Interesting post on AI blindness. I definitely feel this, lately I've been using claude more and more, but also having an increasingly hard time focusing on reading what it's saying. It's actually kind of like reading code — my eyes skip around looking for salient information, but that doesn't work nearly as well on unformatted prose as it does on indented, syntactical code.

I'm becoming AI-blind | Hacker News

Even revenue is subject to Goodheart's law — just like "lines of code", once a metric becomes a goal, it ceases being a good metric.

Laws of Software Engineering

Goodhart

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Guys, rust is such an amazing language for domain modeling. The way you can use traits as glue between semantics and functionality is sweet.

Stayed up late last night and made a nice website for Calcifer:

Calcifer - AI-Powered Calorie & Macro Counter

A simple, easy-to-use AI-powered calorie and macro counter. Private, fast, offline-first with zero accounts required.

Also submitted to the app stores with a purchase price of $1. You can use it for free via Zapstore or web though.

Salesforce just cloned Buzz:

Salesforce

Introducing Slack Code: Agentic Coding for Teams

AI coding is now a team sport. Introducing Slack Code, where teams and AI agents write, review, and ship code together in the open in a dedicated c...