I'm updating the Converse promotional website and adding a link my Nostr account for social media 💪 I'm going to link to my profile page at

npub.world

. Thanks to whoever made that site!

I had a friend, who on a glorious day like today would joke, "just another shitty in Africa" ☀️

Video I took at Adopting Bitcoin, Cape Town, earlier this year showcasing a Bitcoin lightning ATM that's been developed. 15c USD was being spent here.

When the red pill kicks in 💊

I think AI and LLMs are only going to further accelerate and entrench open source software development, since open source provides more training data and LLM recommendations create a winner-takes-all flywheel effect. By recommending the most popular open source libraries to developers, LLMs will further increase their popularity, and thereby the chance that they'll be recommended in the future. Proprietary vendors can try to counteract this with excellent docs containing lots of examples, as well as by open sourcing what they can, like SDKs for their APIs.

I'm putting the finishing touches on a massive release of the Converse #XMPP chat client. 🚀 ✨ Here’s what to look forward to: ◾ Groupchat DMs: You can now DM with other groupchat participants without knowing their XMPP address. ◾ Blocklists for spammers and shitcoiners 💩 ◾ Accessibility improvements, like support for RTL languages ◾ Media enhancements, like embedding streams and the Spotify player ◾Big performance enhancements, particularly for chats with a long history and many participants. ◾Three new themes, Nordic 🗻 , Dracula 🧛‍♂️ and Cyberpunk 🌆 Stay tuned for the release 💬

UTXOracle is a really cool protect. It's a decentralized oracle that estimates the daily price of bitcoin, removing the nee d to rely on exchange data.

UTXOracle

Bitcoin Prices without Exchanges

I'm at Adopting Bitcoin conf in Cape Town, South Africa. Some things learned today: - The travel rule is coming to SA at around March - Eskom is being lobbied intensely to incorporate Bitcoin mining to facilitate grid management and renewables adoption. - Lots of circular economy initiatives are springing up all around South Africa. - 3% of Pick 'n Pay's sales is in Crypto (2nd largest retailer in SA). That's one million Rand per month and a sextupling since 2022.

I need a version of GNU "find" which lets you specify "-name" before specifying the directory to look in.