Last Notes
frns,
Late night post from the base station.
So fr, so good.
be well and build
🤙🏼
Might be worth teaching your son how to use acrylic paints 🎨
Exciting to see developments like this wrt relays 🤙🏼
Yesterday's four speeches form a deliberate stack.
Matt (@kingpilled on X) made the core claim, and I think he's right that it's the right way to read the day:
1. Trump supplied the _casus_: five declassified document sets (China's 220M voter files, the "deliberately massaged" PDBs + burn bags, machine vulnerabilities incl. the Smartmatic/Venezuela reporting, the buried Muskegon FBI case, 278k non-citizens on rolls) and one legislative ask (Save America Act).
2. Rubio supplied the _historical warrant_: rebuilding counterterrorism doctrine around the left; the 93%-of-1970s-attacks statistic, the Tupamaros-to-Weather-Underground canon, and the operational claim that Antifa is a transnational network (NSPM-7, four FTO designations, more coming).
3. Miller supplied the _anthropology_: the leftist as a type driven by coveting, whose civil-liberties appeals are "pretextual" and "must fall on deaf ears" -- the most radical of the three by a distance.
4. Bessent supplied the _mechanism_, and it's the one that matters for Tom Luongo's desk: TFI/OFAC/FinCEN/IRS-CI turned homeward on the nonprofit layer, with "they must know their grantees" as the actual kill-shot on anonymous philanthropic dark money.
gm & pv
Wanted to give an update bc I'm generally quiet here.
I'm building my own Nostr command center with a WoT inbox, long-form drafts, relay monitoring, and a publish queue. That's why you're seing me actually post (I am terminally introverted when it comes to social media).
The couple articles I published lately are from the Japan Chapter of my life. I love that this tool subtly prompts me to progressively add segments to my story, like it's my editor pushing me to produce.
Yes, I'm using AI (Claude Code), but only to ideate, build and test. The writing is all me.
This is one of the projects that I'm working on in parallel. Some ideas are tried only for a day (or a few minutes) before moving on; others (like this one) deserve more PDCA cycles. And bc I have multiple keypairs (identities), this tool allows me to manage each of them in one screen.
Fun times!
Be well and build.
🤙🏼
gm frens 🤙🏼
This is the second note that I'm sending from my vibe-coded client.
Scheduled for the morning...
Be well and build.
pv
More banter back and forth ❌🤖
Haha No worries. I’m outside cleaning up after last night’s rainstorm. Did you experience that?
Hey, you don't mind this back-and-forth, do you? I'm testing the new client's features this morning.
🤙🏼
gm frens 🤙🏼
This is the first note that I'm sending from my vibe-coded client.
Be well and build.
pv
One more quickie.
Shipped a full design system for NostrGardn called "The Handbuilt Greenhouse." The philosophy: the garden is peaceful, the greenhouse is honest.
Photos get space to breathe — calm, meditative, clean. But the UI chrome around them shows its workings. Terminal prompts. Code rain falling in the background (actual Nostr data — event kinds, npubs, Lightning invoices). VHS glitch effects on hover. A hexagon grid (sometimes it works) for the photo showcase. Dad joke loading states rotating through messages like ~/garden$ npm install grass --save-dev and git commit -m "feat: added one (1) tomato 🍅".
Three fonts doing three jobs: Cormorant for organic elegance, JetBrains Mono for the technical scaffolding, and yes — Comic Sans for maximum dad-joke chaos.
There may even be a Konami code easter egg. I will not tell you what it alegedly does.
Be well and build 🤙🏼
#nostrgardn #buildInPublic #webdev #design
Let them know about the updates to my site
Hello frens 🤙🏼
Since Christmas, I’ve been using Claude Code* to help bolster my homelab, update some old websites, vibecode some new ones, and build my dream client.
Since last Thursday I haven’t left my desk. Was my wife’s worst Valentine’s Day ever with me.
You hear it all the time now, but we have passed that event horizon. If you’re not building like your hair is on fire, yngmi.
* no Openclaw. I’m sitting with my agents, helping them learn.
PV
Be well and build like your hair’s on 🔥
#buildinpublic
When the gardn of life gives you lemons
…
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gm frens and Happy coffee
☕️
Pondering what’s next. and then, what’s after that
and so on
☕️
Be well and build 🤙🏼
Brick portion of the lower bed is complete ✅
Whew!😥
Now let it sit and settle.
Visit to Farm Supply 🔜
pura vida 🤙🏼
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Looks like someone needs a yardbot to tidy up. Lots of chores stacking up around the #gardn
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gm gardn frens 🌱
Filling the space on the new deck. Found objects only for now. わび・さび
Roughed up, rusted, more than a little dirty,
But aren’t we all?
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Aside from the eyebolts, only needed the rusted rod (already at a convenient length and within reach). Two tools: an old set of pliers (thank you miss Andreini, wherever you are) and a not as old awl
🦉
and coffee
☕️
Always wear safety glasses, kids. I wear Bomber.
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20 minutes from the pain point (can I just hang this someplace handy?) to implementation (ie. stepping to appreciate while taking a sip of the coffee you forgot about 20 minutes ago)
#gardn
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GM frens
Finally set up my own relay. I installed a nostr-rs-relay on a DO Droplet and used a domain that I’d had a while. This was trivially easy with Claude’s assistance.
´tis costing me $6/mo for now, but I’ve been hoping to experiment with a private relay for 3+ years.
満足
pv 🤙🏼
Upgrades to the website are staged and ready to roll.
Related:
we got a reeellaayyy!!
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GM
#coffeechain vignette from the #gardn
Level up and upper level heh heh
Playing with bricks and concrete might build muscles, but first it makes you sore. Uggh
Lotsa lettuce
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A couple bags of cement and some heavy lifting, and now the brick bed is taking shape.
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Gardn update long overdue.
With the deck functionally complete and planting season kicking off, we are under the fun to get the new beds finished. Playing with brick this time, and “playing“ is the operative word. Rain is outta the forecast and I’m not teaching for a few days, so…
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Habby newyear
🤙🏼
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A fine evening in the backyard. 76 degrees at 9:30, watching the waxing moon poke through the trees.
GN
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;;; You and I are more alike than we know.
fwiw, I’m not painting anything these days. Nights are too short. Just prepping for the right season - check back around October 31
GM - It’s another day made for working on the deck. Today I’m painting, but not in the manner of a @npub1ch6…54aw
pv 🤙🏼 be well and build
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Touching grass at a park in Carmel by the Sea
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Celebrating first morning with the new table 🎉🥞☕️
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So happy to see this. What growing zone is that? What type(s) of taters?
Gardn update:
- deck in progress: framing at 80% Today I poured cement, cut/installed two joists, painted a bit
- veggies: tomatoes still pumping, though overall I haven’t been watering consistently 😔
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Arturo came over to cap off the gas. Finally removed this awkward pipe.
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Exposing the dusty dirt, debris and dinosaur* bones beneath the boards.
* possum - I changed it for alliteration and romantic license. At least four have been identified
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