After witnessing firsthand rockstar developers doing ‘vibe-coding’ with spectacularly phenomenal result, I no longer feel so bad about doing similar for what I am calling ‘vibe-blogging’ - having a conversation with AI and then issuing a very specific directive to write a blog entry on what we discussed. The…...

weapon = tool + intent…...

I came for the censorship resistance, I stayed for the unintentional breakthroughs. #nostr…...

How Nostr’s Self-Signed Events Became an Unintentional Conceptual Breakthrough Sometimes, the most profound innovations happen by accident. Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) was originally designed as a simple, censorship-resistant social media protocol. But in its design, it unintentionally solved one of the biggest problems…...

The Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) movement began as a decentralized, user-controlled approach to digital identity. It aimed to reduce reliance on centralized authorities, allowing individuals to control their own identity credentials without constant oversight from governments or corporations. However, over time, the movement was co-opted into supporting state-...

Self-Validating Data vs. the Issuer-Holder-Verifier Model When verifying data authenticity, two primary models exist: self-validating data and the issuer-holder-verifier model. Both use cryptographic techniques, but they differ fundamentally in how trust is established and who has control over verification. Issuer-Holder-Verifier Model: Trust…...