2026-06-23T15:45:37Z https://nostr.now AVB https://nostr.now/npub1sec6degc3ae7warveuxaz6dlffnc2sutwtqjr7pmll7sf7ypjngsd4p0l7 https://blossom.primal.net/90f789c77de65ee183d50a025ba099bd24591c904c89c5956c74a832fd9a1054.png https://blossom.primal.net/90f789c77de65ee183d50a025ba099bd24591c904c89c5956c74a832fd9a1054.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs25lj23ykv5s6kurfxl9pqsmu0ly7xsks8d6wte6lzsxfc72qc7xgzyzr8rfh9rz8h8em5dn8sm5tfha9x0p2r3devzg0c80ll6p8csx2dzqjvay5 I just published a new read on Nostr!<br/><br/><br/>Story about a French company <br/><br/>and their culture<br/><br/><br/>Check it out: <a href="https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qq34xar0wfuj6ctzda6hgttp94r8yetwvd5z6cm0d4cxzmne94m85ut289mq0lxs9a">https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qq34xar0wfuj6ctzda6hgttp94r8yetwvd5z6cm0d4cxzmne94m85ut289mq0lxs9a</a><br/><br/>#french<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdau8gu3wv3jhvtcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qq34xar0wfuj6ctzda6hgttp94r8yetwvd5z6cm0d4cxzmne94m85ut289mqhjpk0j" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">naddr1qv…pk0j</a></span><br/> </div> <p>(*I changed some small details to protect the innocent)\ \ So the French company (let’s call them “Les Jeans Inc.”) had thousands of customers. \ These paying customers had a software-as-a-service contract with Les Jeans. \ Most of the customers just paid for the service itself (calculations/admin), and about 30% also took the full option to host all their stuff, including their websites and online shops, over there at Les Jeans. \ \ Now, this company has a bit of an ego problem. The priorities are mostly on having 3-hour lunches, and of course they have an in-house chef at some locations, as well as a very “cool” demeanor where technical remarks from testers like “this will be insecure” are answered with “if it goes wrong, the customer will call our helpdesk, and then-ah, we-ah just put back their stuff in 5 minutes.” \ \ A few months after I left Les Jeans, the company had a big (and largely untested) update of their software. Since they fired all the testers and the devs were mostly busy going out for lunch with their office hookups, the software went out, and immediately customers started calling in with issues. \ The hosted websites and shops were all still online, but all with blank pages. \ The content was just gone. So their usual reply was “yeah… something went wrong-ah, don’t know what, but-ah put back the old version again.” \ \ So the old version was put back. To no avail, the content of all these paying customers’ sites was still gone. The link to the backend and real data storage was gone, and the old backup didn’t help as the data itself was just deleted by the update somehow (don’t know the specifics as to why). \ Then, some clever Jean put away his baguette with &#34;salade de crabe&#34;, and went to “work.”\ \ These geniuses realized they had just deleted the actual data from their paying customers (in reality: photos of their products, portfolios, designs…). They decided to put back the “big backup,” or as they called it, “ze sauvegarde.” \ Some dude went to search for it, and after a while realized the most recent “full backup” was… six years ago. \ Before the hosting product even existed. Then, after realizing they had just screwed up on a giant scale, the CEO (a man who was known for snappy comments, high-value branded clothing and incompetence) came to the rescue. He told everyone (including sales, support…) to drop what they were doing and go to the Wayback Machine at archive.org. \ \ So moments later, people opened the Wayback Machine versions of their own customers’ sites and clicked “save as” on whatever images they could still find. Which was of course an absolute disaster. \ In the meantime, phones kept ringing with customers getting increasingly angry. \ \ (Nice detail: the planned marketing campaign for the raised pricing scheme for their products went out as scheduled that same week.) It’s only a French company that can raise prices in the same week they screwed all of their customers. \ \ The rest of the story I’ll leave out to protect the innocent, but let’s say it’s not going well. (They still have wonderful lunches, I hear.)</p> </blockquote><br/><a href="https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qq34xar0wfuj6ctzda6hgttp94r8yetwvd5z6cm0d4cxzmne94m85ut289mqqnq4qq">https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppn35mj33rmnua6xencd695m7jn8s4pckukpy8urhllaqnugr9x3qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qq34xar0wfuj6ctzda6hgttp94r8yetwvd5z6cm0d4cxzmne94m85ut289mqqnq4qq</a> 2026-10-12T20:53:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgzc852r48qce8g7suuz9acdv677q6gravv6wzwzg08gyfeew4rfgzyzr8rfh9rz8h8em5dn8sm5tfha9x0p2r3devzg0c80ll6p8csx2dzyqy8c3 My honest take on the conference y-day (we can only improve with good feedback) - I hope no one is offended or sour about this. Just trying to analyse and give my feedback.<br/><br/>- First of all: very well organized (congratulated the org. on that!) For real, it was smooth and well done. Except for small nitpicks you can always make anywhere.<br/>- as a speaker; I would have loved to have a clear tablet or screen in front of me as well (timing wise, I had no Idea I had time left)<br/>- acoustics in that beautiful place were horrible unfortunately<br/>- Some people on stage had not much to say from a real content standpoint. <br/>Maybe related to that : the main stage audience room was never filled for the actual talks, ... which is rather strange on a noderunners conference imho. Some talks hade like 20 or less people listening ... that&#39;s strange (maybe b/c the content? I don&#39;t know). Or maybe ppl don&#39;t come to a conference to hear someone talk? Then why not just go to a bar with your friends?<br/>- It was hard to get a non-coffee drink, as the LN taps prevented me from just buying a water/cola. It&#39;s downright stupid to push LN-drink taps while you just want to grab a drink without having to jump through hoops (I know it&#39;s for demonstrating LNpayments, but it&#39;s not 2020 anymore, people just want to be able to buy a drink, we know that we can scan a QR code by now, we really know that such things exists! Doing this for + 6 years now, stop pushing it). I personally don&#39;t like to order a drink like that, neither with fiat, or LN or whatever. I was thirsty and was glad to find a real bottle of water somewhere.<br/>- Not that much of a crowd unfortunately... when the corporate marketing teams and the fluffy stuff is not present, then it seems a lot of the audience stays away as well? Don&#39;t know the reason.<br/>- The Arnhem foodhall is cool, would actually spend my day there, rather than a conference<br/>- I&#39;m sick about hearing about the coldcard hack in general now. <br/>- Nice to see a lot of people again. 2026-09-20T10:38:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrn7dygkqdqp2sa32zjwqpy3e98xl7e5mmdlxk705jf3gn4d9anfqzyzr8rfh9rz8h8em5dn8sm5tfha9x0p2r3devzg0c80ll6p8csx2dzfucksv coinos.io seems to be down....<br/>hmm 😟 <br/> 2026-09-16T08:53:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxwad9z84xgs65wqyn600urp32dd95gtyhlh7w2er6htpphdd9xtqzyzr8rfh9rz8h8em5dn8sm5tfha9x0p2r3devzg0c80ll6p8csx2dz3nu4x4 the arguments of the Xanabu complexity bitcioners <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/605cac849db6999a5f96eaad9cf780374706add1562414e628451122d48bee90.png"> :) 2026-09-14T18:41:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrg4zcmt4dvkksnh6h57enmkqsp0xvkt8fnsksf8ucequdtkrzpzqzyzr8rfh9rz8h8em5dn8sm5tfha9x0p2r3devzg0c80ll6p8csx2dzwzf34u &#34;Bitcoin has split.<br/><br/>Not through a hard fork, not through a soft fork in the traditional sense, but through what we could designate as a “complexity fork.”&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoins-complexity-fork">https://allesvoorbitcoin.substack.com/p/bitcoins-complexity-fork</a> 2026-09-10T20:31:01Z