@David A. Harding
Retired technical writer.
Relays (4)
- wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
- wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write
- wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/ – write
- wss://nostr.bitcoin.social/ – read
Recent Notes
CAPTURE
An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended.
Article Two: The Lever
https://www.citadel21.com/the-lever
"others including Harding were paid for their Optech work"
I was an unpaid volunteer.
I was an unpaid volunteer.
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TIL that the next generation image format, JPEG XL, is partly based on pre-Bitcoin work by Pieter Wuille (specifically, it's partly based on FLIF, which Wuille co-developed).
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You can just ignore idiots.
Thank you for repeating this advice occasionally. I needed the reminder today.
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A tiny bit of #NoKings in Hilo #Hawaii. I haven't seen a crowd estimate, but we stretched at least half a mile down the street -- not bad for a town of 45,000 people.
https://media.mas.to/media_att...
Nice! I bicycled past y'all on my way to meet family at Wailoa.
Today we’re publishing Brink's 2025 Engineering Impact Report covering the work of the eight Bitcoin Core engineers we funded last year and why we think this work is important.
https://brink.dev/bl...
You all rock! Thanks to all of you for another year of fantastic contributions!
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When I was younger I read widely but was very much into Tom Clancy, Matthew Reilly et al.. stories that were real or realistic(-ish).
Not much sci-fi or high fantasy (although I smashed Harry Potter...
Rather than a book, I suggest looking for a sci-fi and fantasy book club in your local area. The local club where I live is excellent.
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another pod trying to nerd snipe me into openclaw. although i agree with most stuff discussed in this pod, im just not ready. not today.
today i went deep with opencode web and now i just want a pro...
Haven't heard the pod but I tried OpenClaw and was pretty disappointed. It wasn't that useful without giving it access to all my data and accounts, and I didn't want to do that for privacy, security, and trust reasons. I'm also sticking with my desktop ai tool for now and accessing it from my phone to poke projects along (I'm using tailscale, mosh, and tmux for that).
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Who is using Goose? What are you using it for?
Been using it for six months as my main ai tool. Top uses have been for research for articles, website customization, and hobby programing. Probably 10 hrs a week, about $300 in OpenRouter credits a month.
I've looked at several alternatives and seriously tried one but none of them so far have been better for me.
I've looked at several alternatives and seriously tried one but none of them so far have been better for me.
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Today marks my 8th anniversary of building nostr:nprofile1qqsvwcwuwcwmucx3s7dfs54m49h7uclw4vxh8ygu25m9chk0ypy5ngspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0zlt8dp
Time flies when you're having fun!
Congrats! Thanks for helping build a genuinely useful tool.
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Vibecoding idea I don't have time for: Take SQLite's version control system Fossil (where all the code history and issue tracking and a bunch of other stuff live in one sqlite file) and figure out how...
I've used fossil for my personal projects in the past, it's actually really nice for solo projects or small teams. I can't imagine an agent would have any difficulty even if they had to figure it out entirely from its built in help text.
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