"Many of the calamities from which science is expected to save the world were caused in the first place by science - which meanwhile is busy propagating further calamities, hailed now as wonders, from which later it will undertake to save the world. Nobody, so far as I have heard, is attempting to figure out how much of the progress resulting from this enterprise is net." Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle

In case anyone is hoping to contribute to flotilla, I have just moved the repository to my self-hosted gitea instance at

Coracle Git

flotilla

A discord-like nostr client based on the idea of "relays as groups".

It's time to get off github. This is an experimental migration, and unfortunately ngit just isn't quite there for me yet.

Just released a new version of Coracle, which shows a thumbnail for videos, 0.6.30

Sure it's cool for bots to have their own nsec, but I think it's way cooler to give each of my microservices an nsec and use NIP 42/98 AUTH to authenticate communication between them

So I guess Florida tested a bunch of candy for heavy metals, and found pretty insane levels of arsenic in half the candies tested. Then my wife pointed out that this sounds like an Agatha Christie murder mystery, where the murderer puts small doses of arsenic in someone's food to keep them sick and eventually kill them. It makes total sense, at least from the perspective of big pharma's business model. We are victims of munchausen by proxy.

Was pleasantly surprised by how useful my custom feeds implementation ended up being for building the new home page in Flotilla. If you want to use this, it's available at

@welshman/feeds | Welshman

The official Welshman documentation

Product Hunt has no non-big-tech login options 😬

Ok, should I spend money on Google Ads?

One thing you can do to help is upvote Flotilla on alternativeto: https://alternativeto.net/software/flotilla-chat/about/