Notes

Testing Things 👀

As good a day as any to crack this one open…

So SpaceX now own 𝕏

Not your keys, not your social network?

The only constant is change.

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My hope is AI accelerates an open source, local-first software renaissance. Real ownership of our data and tools. We won’t get there by accepting defaults.

With so many subsidised AI tools during the initial race to capture market share, you have a window to build something special that makes paying full price sustainable by the time the full costs are passed on.

Buidl.

The perfect coffee when an espresso machine is out of reach.

Publish More

“You can watch one more ok?”
Extended Christmas special starts…
🙈

Self-Sovereign Marketing:
Presented without comment.
https://www.selfsovereignmarketing.com

IPFS feels more powerful than Blossom for persistence as it’s a location-independent identifier that can be hosted and served by any node or gateway.

Blossom depends on both the file hash and your Nostr signed mirrors for discovery. If you can’t update your event, the reference dies.

It seems like IPFS would make sense as a Blossom mirror, but even though both are derived from content hashes, the current addressing architecture of both seems to prevent a universal identity.

Networked keyboard apps are security holes.

Finally saw a real person in #bitchat.

I may have spoken to them in person first and we both agreed to open the app, but it’s a start!

I’ve been doing some research into Nostr vs Bluesky recently working towards a cross platform self-sovereign publishing stack.

I can confirm that Nostr is indeed more decentralised 🫡

The feeling when you can literally vibe code a mini app in a single prompt is unparalleled.

Pure hype-free productivity!

ChatGPT 5.1 personality feels closer to 4o than 5.

It may be private but Proton’s AI agent is also the only model I’ve seen that constantly self-promotes in unrelated queries.

💫 Two-Way Sync Between WordPress & Nostr 💫

Introducing Nostr for WP (Beta) now live at: Nostroid.com

Nostr for WP brings seamless publishing between WordPress and Nostr:

• 🔄 Two-way sync between WordPress and Nostr
• 💬 Nostr Notes (kind 1) mapped to a custom WordPress note post type
• 📝 Long-Form Content (kind 30023) synced to standard WordPress posts
• ↩️ Automatic background syncing from Nostr → WordPress
• 🔐 NIP-07 browser extension support for publishing WordPress → Nostr
• 🗂️ Gutenberg block for displaying your Nostr notes archive
• ⚙️ WebSocket relay configuration built in

Download the beta at:
https://nostroid.com

Feedback and contributions welcome on GitHub:
https://github.com/danieljwonder/nostr-for-wp

Follow @Nostroid for plugin updates.
Planned Features:

• Follow Button to Grow Your Nostr Audience on Your Site
• Zap support for bitcoin donations over Lightning
• NIP-01 syncing Nostr Profile Data with WordPress profiles
• NIP-05 Support for User and Domain Linking
• Deeper integration with NIP 65 for relay management
• NIP-51 Support for Link List Pages

⚡Zaps welcome to accelerate the timeline⚡

What goes up, must come down. Sometimes.

Finally got my Nostr WP block working properly!

Finally got my Nostr WP block working properly!

I’ve reached the age where many of the “cool” music artists from my youth now look ready to pick up their pension.

Aim Higher ↑

Aim Higher ↑

People are nodes. Networks are roads.

TIL Open AI has KYC for it’s image generation API…

Kind of crazy that you just need to put 12 words in the right order and you can unlock Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin. https://t.co/o59hcb6d3y

When I get notifications from any of the @aztecnetwork team on here, I can barely tell who they are from the PFP filter they released.

But I guess that is the point…

Crypto, but private. https://t.co/nsbhAUXbae

Ah an email from my close personal friend…

Or a short reminder of why you should always test your marketing emails. https://t.co/vmzetxm1hu

Ah an email from my close personal friend…

Or a short reminder of why you should always test your marketing emails. https://t.co/vmzetxm1hu

Measure what matters

Good Morning

Working on a Nostr plugin for WordPress 👀

Sometimes we test things.

gm

Hi

The challenge with Nostr identity is a single key point of failure. I want to try a new app, but have to spend 20 minutes trying to verify it isn’t just out there collecting keys.

In a world where any question can be answered, the stand out skill is asking the right questions.

Move with wonder. Act with intent.

A Tale of Two Blogs

During today’s “internet” outage, my old personal blog went down. It’s running WordPress on Kinsta, which relies on both Google Cloud and Cloudflare, so it got caught in the disruption.

Meanwhile, my newer personal site stayed online. It’s powered by Nostr, hosted on distributed IPFS nodes, and accessible via Ethereum Name Service. Even though the .com version uses Cloudflare, the underlying setup doesn’t depend on Google.

Neither site is critical, but the difference is worth noting. This is exactly why decentralisation matters. A single bug from one provider shouldn’t take down half the web.

Added a Links page to my NOSTR powered site. Pulls links from kind 30003 using the `links` or nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzpxk8nnppzekzxz0txvwt4cntkhaaujauttmmxc6f77clss6fsr5v4hunvu label.

You can see it in action @ https://danielwonder.com/links/

You may have heard of Galt’s Gulch but have you heard of the Bitcoin Basin?

From the other side.
https://x.com/thebitcoinbasin/status/1925486127663997163

See it, say it, mean it.

The larger a neo-bank becomes the more closely they resemble what they attempted to disrupt.

Is AI turning Inception into reality?

Starting to wonder if this generation will grow up with false memories shaped by AI.

When you can insert yourself into any fictional world, how long until those memories feel real?

Append only onchain immutability means somebody is storing your typos and coding errors forever.

My personal site now supports profile data, status updates and long form content dynamically pulled from Nostr i.e. Nostr as CMS

Full blog debrief to come…

nostrudel.ninja is the Nostr power tool I was looking for.

Don’t let default be your choice.

This content is doomed.

Image hosting feels like one of the weakest links on most decentralised social platforms…

Most clients upload images to their own servers and serve them from their own domain.
That ties the longevity of your content to the survival of a single app.

Not very decentralised at all!

Getting carried away turning Nostr into a CMS for my personal website. Now I just need to work out how I can syndicate content to other platforms!
https://www.danielwonder.com/

OpenAI are collecting a trove of data that would make Cambridge Analytica blush.

The internet stole the future from a children’s book…

While reading a futuristic page of an illustrated children’s book, I noticed a QR code embedded in the artwork. Naturally, I scanned it.

It led to a random news site.

After some digging, I realised the author had let the domain expire. The connection between the physical and digital world had quietly broken.

We embed QR codes and URLs into print like they’re permanent. But most are destined to vanish or, worse, mislead.

The internet forgets faster than we think.
Let’s stop pretending it doesn’t.

Hello World