mleku on Nostr: i've almost got 2 small and useful nostr tools built. first is mostly done. it's ...

i've almost got 2 small and useful nostr tools built.

first is mostly done. it's intended to be part of a bigger project involving decentralised git repository hosting, and includes generating bytes that anchor a commit to the Bitcoin chain:

https://github.com/mleku/signr

second one i'm just adding a little extra polish to, it's simply a NIP-05 hosting server app that you can run with just a command line. this evening i should finish with a basic SSH deployment facility that lets you run it with the defined command line arguments and it automates the full setup on the VPS for you automatically, given a password and/or SSH key.

https://github.com/mleku/namestr

i'd love to do more things but i need funding desperately to continue paying my ultra-minimalist living costs. really, if i had about 800eur/month worth of sats coming in, i'd be fully covered.

not sure how to get started on this because i did have a big project but without other people working with me and already existing funding it's difficult to put energy into it - it's just a big project. i could trim it back to the state of an earlier implementation with a less flexible API, but it would then need some substantial work anyhow to present it.

so i took a new tack in the last month, after liquidating my meagre possessions, a FHD 24" monitor, a second laptop, some bluetooth speakers, started trying to live off a milk diet, and doing small things at a time.

just not sure how to present this as a donation-worthy overarching thing. the name... i mean, mleku...

milk is GFY... golang bitcoin lightning nostr specialist, building little things to make bigger things easier to do.

i'm so close to the bone at this point that i have to start begging.

so far nobody's actually reported having used anything i've done and all of the work of my last year, for what it's worth, is not helping me right now.

i'm going to be thinking deeply about this subject.

one other optimisation i've had to make is to stop spending so much time "engaging" with nostr, in the sense of trying to figure out where i can position myself to get attention so some funding will come, by following the paths already existing.

so i'm aggressively thinning my follows out to eliminate all the other users whose content and engagements with other users is just making me waste my time.

i've got maybe one possible small task coming up helping someone with some network infrastructure optimisation, but other than that, there is no streams of sats coming in my direction.

if you need a Go programmer who knows the cryptography and protocols of Bitcoin, Lightning and Nostr quite well, to do something for you, and you want to pay to get the work done, i'm primed and ready to hammer something out on your behalf.