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I offended an open source maintainer with an @-mention on my PR. I got a stern response but his points were valid.

I got thinking on how AI tools are creating a new "Eternal September" for open source with more contributions, but more noise for volunteer maintainers who are already stretched thin.

What if AI could help their side too? Triage, first-pass review, quality gates, etc to protect volunteer time instead of just consuming it. A few already discussing this and putting it into practice.

My reflections: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/eternal-september-open-source-ai/

SeedSigner doesn't support message signing for multisig keys — it throws "Not implemented" for any m/48' derivation path. I raised this as an issue two years ago, no fix came, so I patched it myself.

The change is small (21 lines) and the actual signing function already worked — it was just the path parser blocking multisig paths unnecessarily.

I use message signing for key ownership and control verification in multisig SMSF custody setups via Gatekeeper (https://gatekeeper.dpinkerton.com). Coldcard handles this fine, but SeedSigner users were stuck.

Blog post: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/patching-seedsigner-multisig-message-signing/
PR: https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/pull/874
Patched image (Pi Zero): https://github.com/AusDavo/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.6-multisig-msg-signing

#seedsigner #bitcoin #multisig #opensource

Wrote up how my homelab proxying strategy evolved over four phases — from port forwarding with DDNS to a VPS running nothing but HAProxy for L4 passthrough.

The key insight: keep the VPS dumb. SNI inspection, encrypted passthrough, nothing else. TLS termination belongs on hardware you control.

Comparison table of L7-on-VPS vs L4-passthrough vs direct port forwarding, plus thoughts on Traefik for automatic Docker service discovery.

https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/evolving-reverse-proxy-strategy/

#selfhosting #homelab #haproxy #caddy #traefik #reverseproxy