ChipTuner

https://www.vaughnnugent.com

Building software they don't like. Free, as in freedom.
Low-level and server engineer: libnoscrypt, NVault, vnlib.

Public Key

npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7

NIP-05 Address

ChipTuner@gitcitadel.com

NIP-57 Address

ChipTuner@coinos.io

Profile Code

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relay.primal.net

nostr.bitcoiner.social

relay.damus.io

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2025-02-26 18:07:45

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It's to avoid repeating yourself actually. And yes, to get people to use your stuff you need to make compromises that help other developers and may take extra work. That's what it takes to make a good product.
Sorry doxygen didn't get bundled inside my compiler toolchain. C developers already know this. It's not complicated or difficult to make it part of the build process, or just write read useful docs. People who consume code regularly know actually hand written docs outside the source code are superior anyway. That's the focus.

2025-02-25 19:11:08

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Whats that, my cgit server?
https://git.vaughnnugent.com

2025-02-24 21:26:05

Lol I slimmed and vendored Brotli and zlib this weekend into VNLib.Core, and now GitHub shows it as 49% C and 48% C#
https://github.com/VnUgE/VNLib.Core

2025-02-23 20:27:04

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Unfortunately not yet although I'm really trying to orange pill them. His family runs the site and their old timers. They'd prefer gold up there XD

2025-02-23 20:21:02

Helping a good friend sell some bad ass knives. Hand forged on their homestead in Alaska. Some handles are made of moose antler or bone so you know it's authentic :)
https://commongroundalaska.com/product-category/common-ground-bladesmith/
I think this one is my favorite style
https://commongroundalaska.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/6-1536x864.png

2025-02-22 21:23:37

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lol relay and server devs GFY

2025-02-22 21:17:36

I could pine for hours, but no one would listen
#nevent1q…0fja

2025-02-22 21:15:10

Look how snazzy things are becoming
#nevent1q…5dh7

2025-02-22 21:14:17

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Anything but eclipse.
I paid for a commercial license for Visual Studio a while ago (not vscode) so I use that for 90% of my work and VScode for most other things. I like netbeans too (MPLab variant for working with TI hardware, sims, and debuggers). I used to use netbeans very often for Java at one point.
Python is for toddlers, so I fiddle with Idle on the rare occasion I whip out python the shell isn't enough XD.
Notepad++ with extensions was the go to before I got a VS license.

2025-02-21 02:25:10

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Please read the and papers yourself to make an actually informed decision. I find most normies look at signal or WhatsApp. Whatsapp is more mainstream (they run ads everywhere including televison). If your choice is between signal or whatsapp please convince them to consider signal. Both can be a trust-me bro model but one is owned by a company who has absolutely no incentive or history at preserving user's privacy, in fact their business model relies on the complete opposite.

2025-02-20 16:34:20

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Not at all and I've never made anything near that. But I also think $1m isn't a lot of money either.

2025-02-20 16:26:34

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It's the learning how to do that part that's tricky.

2025-02-19 20:52:08

I finally added some contributing guidelines to noscrypt.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/articles/62ca932f68b8e0b1b99dca6e1c9ffe5538205efb#contributing

2025-02-19 19:06:59

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Where's the gif?

2025-02-19 18:59:32

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Did they put the cap back on the budget yet? Or are they still adding more printers to the treasury department

2025-02-19 18:57:48

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My computer is mounted in a rack :) I'd need a lot of cables to take it outside

2025-02-19 00:02:34

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Very good!

2025-02-18 20:25:39

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Gotta keep the sats coming in brother! Hope everything is going as well as it can be, I haven't been on nostr much lately to check in on ya.

2025-02-15 03:18:49

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hahahaha. I mean I hold on to some disks if they're still working in an array, assuming I have the space in a non-important application, but my rotations typically knock them out. I used to resell them. Ones that had good smart data I run some DBAN (I have an old copy if you need it btw) for a couple bucks just to see them move on. I sold a bunch of 3tb drives for $15 a piece on markeyplace a few years ago with almost 40k hours on them. They sold out basically over night it was wild.

2025-02-15 03:15:16

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There are much smaller models and ones that are trained off R1 that need much less hardware, but they seem to be big stinkers, so I was hoping others may have actually be able to do some real work with them without $6000 worth of hardware. I spend that much on far more hardware for my application, doesn't involve GPU's though and hard to justify the price of them for how many CPU's I could buy for the same price.

2025-02-14 21:21:30

What local LLM models are you using that actually seem to be useful? Please describe a successful use case you've had with it!

2025-02-14 17:06:00

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2025-02-13 19:07:41

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Thank you sir

2025-02-13 19:05:44

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That's the way. I use it as a mirror and was wondering why my CI server was notifying me a failed builds lol.

2025-02-13 01:51:00

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nip07, where possible is the way
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/NVault

2025-02-12 17:13:08

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That's my point exactly. That's the way it used to be, and so far it's not hateful which made me quite happy. It's like the DMV (if you've ever heard those stereotypes) except jail time instead of bad service XD

2025-02-11 19:26:06

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He just dropped support for SQLServer. So all the others Hibernate supports are still supported (MySQL specifically). I asked him about it on the issues page for the release.

2025-02-11 16:34:57

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Not exactly new, I guess the news just feels like covering it now. Take a look at the blancolirio youtube channel. I've been watching for years. There's a new crash or incident basically every day in the US lol.

2025-02-10 19:42:52

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That would be nice, but there is a reason there are so few competetors to Shopify. We swapped between them and BigCommerce a few times. Both publicly traded companies with, until very recently, pretty, objectively crappy software and tools, and not great internal testing. Their stocks tanked during 2020 and we felt it. Offshore customer support if any, AI chatbots, cancelled or slow to integrate features. Tools that just flat out didn't work. APIs that have poor documentation or closed off. Plugin systems with terrible partnership terms and bad app stores with unmaintained or poorly advertised projects. An absolute wasteland if you ask me. Shopify got much better at the middle of 2023 because they just started axing things and changed their focus. Increased ad spend and so on. They could actually be doing better, or it could be a bubble idk.
My point is, these are both massive public companies and still can't get it right. Unless one of those players takes a change in direction I'm not sure the money is there to compete. Shop owners fought hard to get Shopify how they wanted it, they may not want to give it up. Stores care about selling things, they don't want the other stuff, and ownership and freedom of speech matters quite little imo, most of them won't touch bitcoin with a 20ft pole.
Nostr can't fix the SEO or ranking yet, but it could allow shops to own their review's a little easier while the public can still have trust in the reviews being public.

2025-02-09 06:18:48

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https://github.com/cline/cline

2025-02-07 16:32:15

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Yeah possibly, while skilled people running actually successful business are often quite smart (in my experience anyway), their goal is quite simple. Give people what they want. If the stats show they're more likely to xyz, then give them xyz. I don't think much more action goes into it.

2025-02-07 03:40:49

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You can even make the hello world much, much smaller:
https://4zm.org/2024/12/25/a-simple-elf.html

2025-02-07 03:11:22

A friend sent over some marketing statistics he was sent from a pretty large internal marking agency, in the order of a few 100m probably. So I think their stats are pretty reliable. After studying the material for a bit all I can think is:
Were just walking wallets.
Every action most people make is so predictable it can be targeted and optimized to get you to make a purchase. I'm not righteous enough to argue the morality, but the psychology is still fascinating to say the least.

2025-02-06 19:32:11

The idea of creating an alternating an electric field is still one of the coolest concepts to me. Continuous signals specifically. I never liked discrete time once understanding continuous.

2025-02-03 17:54:59

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~3 hours 5 days a week fren.
- Mon leg strength,
- Tue upper push,
- wed rest,
- thur leg hyp,
-friday pull
- sat full body hyp focus

2025-02-02 20:15:00

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As other's have mentioned. A secret key is just a securely random 32byte number. That's it. The reason that libraries don't include this, is because there is no safe, unified, and guaranteed place to get random data from on all platforms.

2025-02-02 20:08:44

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Ah shit time to buy the dip. Apparently checking the price a few times per day isn't enough.

2025-02-02 19:45:39

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Yes. but I've really been liking Daisy-UI since you shared it a while ago.

2025-02-02 18:49:11

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What's up with your nip05?

2025-02-02 03:22:01

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This is my major argument against deletion events.

2025-02-01 23:54:08

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That's one takeaway. That's crazy.
The other takeaway is my bias. Available attention is far more scarce than media availability. When I read between 6 figures and $0, it translated to, attention is easily controlled and directed.

2025-02-01 23:35:14

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I sure hope it doesn't feel like 100c on your hand XD

2025-01-31 19:38:26

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100*C OOF bother

2025-01-30 06:27:11

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>Or invade your neighbor. LOL
XD

2025-01-30 00:17:30

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When I was customer facing, there is a certain paranoia that can really wear you down, never knowing if any call or email was a legitimate customer or the one they would use on the warrant to kick your door in. It's good for weight loss though XD.

2025-01-30 00:14:05

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Well you're not the only one :) Don't forget where I came from. From one door kicking hobby to another.

2025-01-29 22:06:58

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Often in business over investment, requires large (if not larger) risk of liability. Some people (me) care more about that than losing money.

2025-01-29 22:04:43

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A friend sent this to me, you might appreciate it.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dd05454f1a7771855d537b7/t/5deed4a0ab886c6b1e431011/1575933092462/Hershfield_Shu_Benartzi_Temporal+Reframing+and+Participation+in+a+Savings+Program_2019.pdf

2025-01-29 03:14:45

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I saw the release from Google this morning. Keep in mind the source is incomplete and won't compile but at least most of it's there. I had no idea someone would actually try to re-create it and get it working.
I had one of the first-gen models, I forget which one. I broke a strap attachment (the metal shaft piece) and they wouldn't sell replacements so I stopped wearing it and well they disappeared.

2025-01-28 00:47:04

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I like LXD in certain circumstances. It's just not as easy to run podman-compose build and be done lol

2025-01-28 00:19:50

I can't express how much I dislike docker compared to Podman or just running bare metal. What a sysadmin nightmare.

2025-01-26 16:50:40

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> be bored,
I've started to work a little more on this part.

2025-01-26 16:49:47

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That's the dream. I will never stop building until I'm dead.

2025-01-26 02:36:53

I'm sure I'm not the only one who leans on music to get through the toughest parts of life. A little over a decade ago these guys shot to the top of my favorites list by a mile and have yet to be dethroned.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/public/resources/downloads/cms/c/7ovetbo5vh3vuubwhv3vhcbjoi.webp

2025-01-25 20:04:15

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And many of us work full time and nostr on the weekends so your doing good!

2025-01-25 19:44:13

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two devs is more than most XD

2025-01-25 18:56:45

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2025-01-25 18:34:32

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Yes I did ;)

2025-01-25 18:31:22

Relay software without administration isn't relay software it's an unsecured database. No it is not acceptable to restart a production relay process when I need to update ACLs.

2025-01-25 18:28:57

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In terms of nostr, I think I would consider transport optimizations as a microoptimization. Many high speed data transfer protocols are run via TCP and don't consdier it to be enough of an issue to build a UDP enabled application layer.
However the other foundational principal for nostr is that it's primary focus is simplicity and availability with existing technology. Most applications/frameworks can more easily have access to websockets effectively giving them access to the transport with the help of http.
However I'm with @npub1wqf…qsyn relays that have the option to support or upgrade connections for clients that can receive them is a great direction to head in, but were still early, nostr needs working and tested software not optimizations at this stage.

2025-01-25 05:37:33

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I'm just gonna keep fucking building till there is no one left or life gets in the way somehow.

2025-01-25 01:08:17

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I've never used it.

2025-01-25 00:54:57

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Isn't that just fiat with extra steps?

2025-01-25 00:54:27

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Standalone or is it a plugin for a proxy? I motly use nginx for load balancing.

2025-01-25 00:52:53

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Love that.

2025-01-25 00:52:13

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Happens to my too. Any users agents you can start filtering? Bummer if not.

2025-01-25 00:43:53

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I was going for mutually exclusive but I like your analogy better XD

2025-01-25 00:43:23

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Agreed. Unfortunately it's probably going to require fiat for end users, at least for a little while. Some of us have been discussing this for a while now.

2025-01-25 00:41:43

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To be fair, it;s because lightning is underdeveloped in so many ways and it's not obvious joining a nostr app, because normies don't join nostr, they join an app (probably mobile) that tells them this is kind of nostr.
The search results for lightning wallet blow. Almost as bad as finding lightning development.

2025-01-23 17:10:33

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I have no idea, this is the first time I've even been able to voice that concern XD.
I only ever dealt with SEMA with aftermarket things like emissions and testing, but even then their mostly California born lawyers and believe in most of the climate justice stuff they just want to see less corruption among the federal agencies, and clear compliance guidelines.

2025-01-23 16:49:30

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They were adding $15/mo/vehicle to my premium unless I got the OBDII tracker. At some point when premiums started to go up for inflation they got rid of it. I also protested that 2 of my vehicles are pre 1996 and don't have OBDII.

2025-01-23 16:42:33

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Second note on how retarded government is. Will it ever be possible, **and this is a rhetorical question** for any government body to force compliance/penalties that can actually solve the root of a problem not exactly the 1 symptom that is up for discussion?
"data that can be used to set insurance rates"
It's only the data that can be used to affect insurance rates that's is bad, all other data collection isn't our problem.

2025-01-23 16:37:18

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Did anyone question why insurance companies stopped pushing the OBDII and phone monitors (app required location active)? I guess they realized they had enough data. I known people in insurance that use this data to make decisions. They buy it from a 3rd party aggregation company so the insurance company doesn't really know where the data is collected from. When a customer applies for a new coverage the report is requested automatically and it's a humans job to review their risk score and determine their eligibility and premium, sort of. I heard rumors the underwriting staff was mostly getting replaced with automation so it's probably not a human anymore. They do have legal obligations when reviewing that risk score depending on the state. Most historically liberal leaning states usually have "better" legislation for reviews and guidelines for denial etc. So the risk report isn't usually allowed to sway the decision too much.
That said, I'm sure insurance companies will go back to taxing customers that refuse the OBDII monitors like the used to.

2025-01-23 03:19:09

My file replica/backup server back in service. I decided to decommission all of the old disks as they should have over 60,000 hours on them.
Wanted to give Truenas scale a try since this machine is not a primary replica (I've been using core for a long time with SAN configurations). So far I'm pretty happy with it and it seems to be performing fine, I have a very simple disk setup without any caching, and I've sort of downsized these days.

2025-01-22 18:48:33

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Are you interested in systems programming or application programming? I assume application.
I personally suggest starting with C then quickly moving to C++. C++ is a superset of C with fun fancy features. When in doubt you can always fall back to functional/procedural programming if needed. Others will disagree because they think C is just fundamentally broken or unsafe (propaganda imo) and you may pickup bad patterns. Yeah there is a lot of sloppy C in examples out there for sure. Deeply understand your fundamentals, don't skip anything in the syntax and you'll be alright. Learn "defensive programming" and you're unlikely to make an unrecoverable mistake. Mistakes will happen, you will cause a buffer overflow now and then, probably a segfault and a stack smash, but youll get better and there are tons of tools to help with that.
You can trust your compiler but don't rely on it. I test myself on every line/edit catching errors before I try to compile it, trying not to become reliant on the compiler like they try to teach you in CS school. In CE school bugs can be far more time consuming on hardware.
As Michael mentioned, were working on a C++ development kit for nostr, and I'm working on a cryptography library called noscrypt.
https://github.com/ShadowySupercode/aedile-ndk
https://github.com/VnUgE/noscrypt

2025-01-22 04:55:27

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Nah, they mostly write code for smartphones. Far from OG XD
Some of work with computers though

2025-01-21 22:19:59

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So you want to purchase software to run on your servers. Do people still make that anymore?

2025-01-20 23:03:05

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Yup, balancing those decisions was work all on its own with retail customers. We probably turned down over half our customers at our peak.

2025-01-20 20:00:47

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No please dont XD

2025-01-20 18:35:13

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100% Makes it feel immediately like the network is mostly bots.

2025-01-20 16:59:13

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I knew most of the people reading this would assume I'm speaking dev. Really I would repeat this 10 times a day on the phone to my automotive customers that had over 300k miles on there vehicles and never replaced a part besides an oil change wanting me to make more power in firmware but their clapped out pile couldn't do it because it lost 3/4 of its compression or was leaking oil internally so bad it was a miracle it was running at all.
Customer: "It was running perfectly yesterday then I put your firmware on it and it runs like shit"
"Running perfectly yesterday" = "misfires, smokes when its cold, doens't want to start, has no power"
But it was always my fault XD

2025-01-20 05:53:21

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Good argument. Although I think everyone should disable refer headers when possible.

2025-01-19 22:12:11

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Just curious how "involved" you were over there. I heard about the whole learn to code thing but never actually saw it, so I assumed most had to be rather involved on twitter to experience it.

2025-01-19 22:10:14

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I'm not talking about extra requests, uBlock does indeed block that, I'm talking about intercepting the click event when I click on a link and redirecting me to a DDG domain before their server redirects me to the actual url I clicked on.

2025-01-19 20:11:34

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Yeah that I'm aware of, tmk so does Brave and many others :/
While they may not say explicitly.
Don't worry, I don't use. Just testing

2025-01-19 20:03:01

Does anyone know why Brave Search and Duck Duck Go intercept clicks and redirect??
When you hover and inspect the page they show a proper href link, but the page use JS to intercept the click and redirects you to a Brave/DDG url before redirecting you to the target domain. I only found this out because I keep getting http errors from Brave or DDG when I click on literally any result.
If I "open link" from the alt menu I can forcibly navigate.
I wanted to ask before I judge how super sleezy this is.

2025-01-19 19:42:56

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I'm curious your follower count on twitter if you feel like sharing?

2025-01-19 18:44:59

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XD well get there

2025-01-19 18:27:18

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Yes. Yes.

2025-01-19 18:18:00

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Should be fixed now!

2025-01-19 18:12:07

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Chances are that arrogance helped you more than you remember though.

2025-01-19 05:41:50

Marked safe from Tic Toc ban because I've never used it.

2025-01-18 03:38:36

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Someday NVault fixes most of this.
https://www.vaughnnugent.com/resources/software/modules/NVault

2025-01-17 18:40:33

Just because it works does not mean it works correctly.
-ChipTuner 2018

2025-01-16 04:15:18

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Yeah and the problem was I felt that this was necessary.

2025-01-16 03:56:30

I recently realized I need to start doing less in order to do more. Whack.

2025-01-16 01:27:18

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Also what matters is you're trying!

2025-01-16 01:00:00

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Your're right, and I say this because I'm not trained developer myself! But I'm learning because I care that building gets better any my tools get used!

2025-01-15 22:15:02

Unless #nostr developers really start working toward more "professional" software development and testing, commercial closed-source products are going to dominate. Users demand products that work, and work consistently. They don't care about how much work you put into this shiny thing or how exhausted you are. They will use what products work. Those are the rules, it's not up to me or you.
I say this as someone who has not made a dime from nostr, loves open source, and is invested the community.

2025-01-15 19:35:53

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#nevent1q…mn7q