Its that time of year that I need my truck again. Its been sitting for a couple months, just collecting snow. I should have cleared it off a few more times while it sat... I got lazy with it and now the roof is dented in a lil.

I had a chance tonight to go hang my birdhouse style node in the forest. So far it is excellent! The place I found is reachable from all the other nodes, so messaging reliability will be pretty good now I think! My next one I hope to make look a bit nicer and also have it be a functional birdhouse, with no exposed antennas or anything. The drywall screw jar was just the only thing I had around, but really it is too big. View quoted note →

What a rushed hack job this was... Built this little solar #meshtastic node to hang in a tree just now, while my son is napping. Now I need to figure oit how to get it up there. It's an RAK board, with 12w of solar panels I got used, cedar shims, zip ties, a battery I modified from a pair of heated socks, a drywall screw jar, and a CV boot from a 2008 Hyundai accent I had spare.

Stupid skylights... Spent my morning crawling around the attic looking for a leak, and then diverting the leak out the soffit so it stopped soaking the insulation. Found out it is leaking because of a big ice dam under the skylight which is loosing too much heat I guess. Gotta melt all that ice now.

Setting up a couple #reticulum #rnode s to play with...

I just realized that Mr. Vain has been in my head because this song plays on the radio so often! Double earworm... View quoted note →

#asknostr I wanted to build a thing to check an npubs first note, kinda like to see how long I've been using nostr, but it doesn't work for everyone I try. What's the right way to do this? Running it here: https://notecheck.bspr.UK Code made by a robot: ❯ cat server.js 10:16:39const express = require("express"); const { nip19 } = require("nostr-tools"); const { SimplePool, useWebSocketImplementation } = require("nostr-tools/pool"); const WebSocket = require("ws"); useWebSocketImplementation(WebSocket); const app = express(); const PORT = 4747; app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true })); // Convert npub to hex function npubToHex(npub) { const { type, data } = nip19.decode(npub); if (type !== "npub") throw new Error("Invalid npub"); return data; } // Expanded default relay list const defaultRelays = [ "wss://relay.damus.io", "wss://nos.lol", "wss://nostr.wine", "wss://relay.nostr.band", "wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social", "wss://nostr.oxtr.dev", "wss://soloco.nl", "wss://nostr.einundzwanzig.space", "wss://relay.nostr.net", "wss://offchain.pub", "wss://relay.snort.social", "wss://eden.nostr.land", "wss://nostr.mom", "wss://relay.nostrview.com", "wss://nostr.plebchain.org", "wss://nostr.21sats.net" ]; // Get oldest kind 1 (note) timestamp from multiple relays async function getFirstNoteTimestamp(pubkeyHex, extraRelays = []) { const relays = [...defaultRelays, ...extraRelays]; const pool = new SimplePool(); let oldestTimestamp = Infinity; const promises = relays.map(url => { return new Promise((resolve) => { const sub = pool.subscribe( [url], { kinds: [1], authors: [pubkeyHex] }, { onevent(event) { if (event.created_at < oldestTimestamp) { oldestTimestamp = event.created_at; } }, oneose() { resolve(); } } ); // Safety timeout per relay setTimeout(() => { sub?.close(); resolve(); }, 12000); }); }); await Promise.all(promises); pool.close(relays); return oldestTimestamp === Infinity ? null : oldestTimestamp; } // Home page app.get("/", (req, res) => { res.send(renderPage()); }); // Handle form submission app.post("/", async (req, res) => { const npub = req.body.npub; const extraRelays = req.body.extraRelays ? req.body.extraRelays.split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean) : []; let message; try { const pubkeyHex = npubToHex(npub); const ts = await getFirstNoteTimestamp(pubkeyHex, extraRelays); if (ts) { const timestampStr = new Date(ts * 1000).toUTCString(); message = `First Note: ${timestampStr}`; } else { message = "No notes found for this npub."; } } catch (err) { message = `Error: ${err.message}`; } res.send(renderPage(npub, message, extraRelays)); }); // Render HTML page function renderPage(npub = "", message = "", extraRelays = []) { return ` <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Nostr First Note Finder</title> <style> body { background-color: #000; color: #ffb700; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center; padding: 2rem; min-height: 100vh; } h1 { margin-bottom: 1.5rem; } input, textarea, button { background: #111; color: #ffb700; border: 1px solid #ffb700; padding: 0.5rem 1rem; font-family: monospace; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0.5rem 0; } textarea { width: 100%; max-width: 500px; height: 3rem; display: ${extraRelays.length ? "block" : "none"}; } button:hover { background: #222; cursor: pointer; } .output { margin-top: 1.5rem; background: #111; padding: 1rem; border: 1px solid #ffb700; width: 100%; max-width: 500px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Nostr First Note Finder</h1> <form method="POST" action="/"> <input name="npub" placeholder="Enter npub" required value="${npub}" /> <button type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('extraRelays').style.display='block'; this.style.display='none';">Add Relay</button> <textarea id="extraRelays" name="extraRelays" placeholder="Optional: extra relays, space-separated">${extraRelays.join(" ")}</textarea> <button type="submit">Find First Note</button> </form> ${message ? `<div class="output">${message}</div>` : ""} </body> </html> `; } app.listen(PORT, () => { console.log(`Server running at http://localhost:${PORT}`); });

Testing battery life of these things. Using recycled batteries from things I find. One Heltec v4 running #Meshtastic and one Heltec v3 on #Meshcore Setting up #reticulum #rnode soon... I'm very excited to try it.

This song has been stuck in my head all day:

Making sure you&#39;re not a bot!

#Meshtastic node stuffed inside a flashlight. I was looking around for a waterproof case, and I had this thing, which is waterproof, has a decent battery, and its own charge controller. The heltec v3 fits perfect and there was room for the antenna internally as well.

Relay test

Caution, made in China Real sticker on an 18650 inside a Canadian Tire flashlight I just opened.

Had a nice walk this morning. My son fell asleep in the wagon as usual haha.

and a nice one from kathleen edwards i heard on the radio today. stuck in my head. she had a coffee shop called quitters near me, in stittsville, but quit to focus on music again.

Making sure you&#39;re not a bot!