Calling all stackers!
Leave a comment below to let the SN community know what you're working on this week. It doesn't matter how big or small your project is, or how much progress you've made.
Just share what you're up to, and let the community know if you want any feedback or help.
If you missed last week's thread, here are the updates stackers shared from all their latest work projects.
Myself.
I have for years now not been good to myself, or my relationships. Neglect of work, neglect of what I love to do, neglect of everything - due to my mental health. I have multiple times failed to combat this. I will not fail this time, because this is the last time if I don't want to lose the life I have now.
I have set up a basic plan I want to follow, to fix my sleep, my work ethics, my phone addiction, my overall lack of action. And I will do my best. If not for me, so for the future of my now hopefully expanding family.
Fuck this will be tough.
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Well said. Take care of your basic needs and the rest will follow
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Thank you. I believe they will.
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Good thing that you're fucking tough yourself. Stay on it, brother!
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I have not shown myself or anyone that I am tough yet. I will.
Thank you for the encouragement, I need it and it has helped me.
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  1. Surfacing time stamps for events in your SN wallet: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/pull/585
  2. Experimenting with changes on handling similarities between nyms to help combat impersonation attacks and the like: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/580
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Bringing the first non-custodial Lightning implementation to a hardware wallet companion app, the BitBoxApp.
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Quite some things, but the short answer would be: better understanding my current situation and plan for the next moves in life ;)
More specifically:
  • Finish reading the Bitcoin Standard: only ~50 pages to go! Super-interesting educational resource, I will definitely use some of its examples where orangepilling others.
  • Making a high-over financial plan for the next 5 years. I'm seriously considering to buy a small apartment with my girlfriend, so I want to know how the down payment and mortgage will affect my current savings/investments plan.
  • Collecting educational material and preparing for a leadership course that I enrolled in, starting from next month. I se this as a nice opportunity to further develop my career, fingers crossed ;)
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Incremental privacy improvement for SN withdrawal invoices
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Ooh details?
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Opt-in to have your withdrawal bolt11s scrubbed after 7 days... more details here and here
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I started my new job this week and I'm working hard to get up to speed and make a strong initial impression. Along with this, I'm cleaning up my sleeping/exercise habits and making more of an effort to take small breaks throughout the day and go outside + enjoy nature.
From a hobby/passion project perspective, I'm working with a friend on launching financial education courses that teach core financial concepts using first principles. Not financial advice, but rather detailed guides on key ideas & questions that we feel are especially relevant in 2023. We've noticed that formal education prioritizes information recall rather than comprehensive understanding, which does no one any favors when the topics can be as complex as those from the financial world.
One thing that always bothered me about public education was the implied but required acceptance of the lesson's conclusions and the minimal space and time to actively question them. A simplified example would be the following statement, "the Fed targets a 2% inflation rate because mild inflation is good for the economy."
Right from the get-go, students need to accept that the Fed knows what it's doing, the 2% inflation rate is rooted in some evidence or science, and inflation is good (which implies deflation is bad). When the most basic tenants of economic theory are assumed rather than justified, it's hard to reconcile what we experience on a daily basis with the material that we're told is effectively gospel.
So, my friend and I are looking to create content that teaches things differently and makes no bones about what should be passively assumed vs. what should be actively justified.
We're excited to get started and are taking the next few months to write the content and gameplan a launch.
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  • finishing up a digital course
I per-launched it about four months ago and sent it out monthly, quite fun preselling course! Not only did you get to test the market ( if there is not much demand, you can just end it and refund, guilty free ) but you also got more time to craft the product!
  • perfecting my living on Bitcoin standard strategy
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Experimenting with ClickHouse, the column-oriented DBMS.
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I continue to do the five movements mentioned in Peter Kelder's famous book, 21 times a day. I finished the 2nd month. The book says that results will be obtained in 5-6 months. As stated in the book, bad odors come from the body for the first 1-2 months. It has been stated that this is due to the toxins excreted. These smells came true. I showered frequently. Let's see if I can get positive results in 5-6 months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Tibetan_Rites
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The dev of my dreams. Will you be my imaginary team leader? (this will cost you $50,000 one time fee, side effects may include not having any benefits whatsoever)
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hopefully finally finishing image uploads today
waiting!
also where's the post you mentioned you were writing? still waiting - damn, stackers have great memory, be aware of what you are posting on the todo πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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hopefully finally finishing image uploads today
waiting!
really almost done, only refinement (as in testing and cleaning up some code) is left :)
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woohooo, if you need any volunteer to help with testing πŸ™‹πŸ½
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also where's the post you mentioned you were writing? still waiting πŸ‘€
Feature creep: I started to dig into SN history to see the evolution of ranking, trust, rewards, fees but that was quite a rabbit hole, lol. I think I need to write scripts to track all these changes down.
But it's still definitely planned :) Forgot to mention it here
damn, stackers have great memory, be aware of what you are posting on the todo πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
haha yes, keep me accountable! that's what I am also using these lists for :)
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I wish there's a @remind bot, then if someone failed to complete it, then he/she needs to contribute some sats to the pool πŸ˜‚
πŸ€–: you fail to complete this, time to pay πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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lol, we've got a ticket for a @remind, @remindme or @reminder bot
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great minds think alike!
@remind me in one year if @DarthCoin haven't finish his citadel πŸ˜‚ he must be too busy drinking beer.
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Moving assets from a sunsetting wallet to another
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working on getting api key access working on my app.
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Selling Lamongan rice
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Making POIs and get paid eQuad then swap into sats.🀭
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I just forked https://hamstr.to/, a Nostr client which looks unmaintained. Fixed the relay settings, it's fetching data again. Yay! Now it's my goal to use a self-hosted Nostr client where I can scratch my own itches on Nostr...
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Looking for podcasts to keep growing my list of Bitcoin related podcasts. Currently I have a little over 60.
Here is my current list of new and old ones:
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nice
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Working on Stacker News Territories.
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any more hints? what's this πŸ‘€
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If the name isn't a big enough hint, it might need another name.
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I remembered you were working on something called outer space, are they the same?
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I was. Stacker News Territories will be on Stacker News. :)
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Is it subreddits? You mentioned in another post that you've begun (gently) personalizing the feeds of people. I assume both of these projects are for the benefit of truth faster. Which I'm still dying to know what it means!!
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Yes. I haven’t heard back from my friend about the report.
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I write an article for a Japanese culture site called Tsunagu Japan. So, this week, I am hustling to finish writing top 10 onsen spots in Hokkaido. Wish me luck!
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Reading Lyn Alden’s Broken Money.
Like a lot of you, I’m a programmer. I will be the first one to admit I had no idea how money worked before finding Bitcoin, and my knowledge of the current system was still very limited despite getting very into hard money and Austrian theory. I’m halfway through this book and it has tied off so many loose ends in my understanding and be a great refresher of why I care about building on Bitcoin. Highly recommend.
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Getting my AWS Cloud associate certification! By doing a few udemy courses.
After being tasked with improving the decentralized computing (ethereum based) platform and hopeful-AWS future competitor https://aleph.im, I realized that I'm not a senior developer. I'm a complete noob. I know docker, but almost nothing of orchestration, auto-configuration, and most importantly network and cloud security. I'm going back to square 0, and i love it!
Also having a lot of interviews with recruiters, since I'm looking for a job. Quite productive week!
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Update, well I got a job! 6 figures, pretty good for a senior dev. Now I can stop living off savings. I'm so financially irresponsible its crazy lol
sadly job is not blockchain related but I do that stuff in my free time anyway:)
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