niallyoung
Niall Young

Software Engineer; Sceptical Scientist; Bitcoin Maximalist; Carnivore; Suspicious0bserver; Freedom Patriot. Protected Political Speech.

Public Key

npub1ydxa9ss3xkps49s2gck7lk6pptpx79uvh78p87ly8zg0setwaxps3edd7d

NIP-05 Address

bluemouse1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqszxnwjcggntqc2jc9yvt00mdqs4sn0z7xtlrsnl0jr3y8cv4hwnqcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsnqgels

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1ydxa9ss3xkps49s2gck7lk6pptpx79uvh78p87ly8zg0setwaxps3edd7d

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2026-05-08 09:18:18 UTC

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AGENTS with SKILLS
each on a different $model
save the expensive models and do most work via delegation (clean context) and 💥
my token burn is down 50%+ rarely hit limits now, I downgraded 🤣

2026-03-17 07:31:13 UTC

Well done Kraken 👍
`sign a non-transactional message to confirm you control the wallet's private key`
```
What's changing: Transactions involving private wallets will require a one-time wallet ownership verification. Once verified, that wallet address won't need verification again.
Two simple ways to verify:
- Self-Certification: one-click confirmation + Funding 2FA check.
- Digital Signature: sign a non-transactional message to confirm you control the wallet's private key. Learn more about Digital Signature here.
```

2026-03-15 07:14:54 UTC

copilot cli FTW

2026-03-14 08:33:21 UTC

I authored FAI-BootCD … 2002? 2003?
linux.conf.au 2003 live demo install of a freshly installed and configured Debian server in about 90 seconds. Re-image? just `rm /boot/vmlinuz; shutdown -r now` and grub default reinstall FAI on ***READ-ONLY BOOT MEDIA*** and boom there was our Corporate Dev, Test and Prod server build infra with verifiable sources, checksums, known builds and custom packages from our own infra, just manage updates 🫡
I think it probably lasted near to the end, another decade at least @ ii 🤷‍♂️
need that shit again but optical disappearing 😱

2026-03-14 08:20:37 UTC

if you think about it
we’re all PERL devs now
Pathologically
Eclectic
Rubbish
Lister
literally what LLMs do 🤣
auto-complete at scale
lisp is also nice, but perl got it done mid 90s 🫡
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg

2026-03-12 21:39:31 UTC

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well now you’ve done it, everyone will want on the leaderboard now!

2026-02-10 20:15:14 UTC

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generate it, it’s all rubbish

2026-02-06 06:54:26 UTC

?? 🍿
https://media.tenor.com/9KZuWEEK3XsAAAAC/dead-cat-bounce-neko-kun.gif

2026-02-05 21:54:38 UTC

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This is the Way

2026-02-04 21:50:53 UTC

58k incoming?

2026-02-01 04:36:43 UTC

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💯 this talk of ”delegating” your
Identity or authorising it …
https://media.tenor.com/wyr6octeS9IAAAAC/frank-reynolds-nope-always-sunny-nope.gif

2026-01-27 04:41:58 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/QkBeYuNqfUUAAAAC/jack-nicholson-creepy-smile.gif

2026-01-27 04:37:34 UTC

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Welcome Aboard!

2026-01-27 01:38:07 UTC

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*2008

2026-01-27 01:37:09 UTC

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I gotta get one of these Android thingies !!

2026-01-23 02:30:39 UTC

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#wakey lol
https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif

2026-01-22 04:36:55 UTC

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```# don’t be lazy, always fix and address root causes, don’t disable or remove code and existing features as a workaround - investigate and fix all issues as a Senior Engineer``` after `/init` and spec

2026-01-18 00:22:36 UTC

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adq0143?ref=stanfordreview.org
Cell damage is NOT limited to the Heart. The mechanism is FOREIGN GENETIC MATERIAL TRIGGERS HUMAN DEFENSES, this is inherent to mRNA as a platform, so it affects EVERY SINGLE MRNA VACCINE.

2026-01-15 23:04:39 UTC

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🤦‍♂️ another scam? he never stops

2026-01-12 03:15:04 UTC

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expose your eyes
to sunset & sunrise
#CircadianReset

2026-01-11 04:43:17 UTC

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BlueFy on iOS

2026-01-10 19:56:16 UTC

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was literally just thinking last night you should convert it to Swift and Kotlin, I’d buy it!

2026-01-10 19:34:03 UTC

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2026-01-10 01:22:07 UTC

starting not to mind the
Claude Code lockouts
sub-agent haiku ftw but it’s actually nice to go and contemplate, reflect and process in the garden, come back to it all fresh and with new creative insight and ideas to try
easy to forget how we used to dream and create
ah well time’s up - back to it lol
https://media.tenor.com/J4EkZdl14iUAAAAC/motoko-kusanagi.gif

2026-01-10 00:35:01 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/3rJxgLPOWTsAAAAC/coffee-twin-peaks.gif

2026-01-05 23:17:41 UTC

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“Analyse the code and extract all features, mechanisms into .Claude/*”
“think really hard here …” then get it to read and write its plan, and any ambiguity get it to “think harder” until it groks it all
then 👌

2026-01-04 02:16:23 UTC

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Exactly 👍

2026-01-03 20:58:29 UTC

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What are your thoughts on female circumcision?

2026-01-03 20:56:30 UTC

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uhuh 🥰💪 I’m having SO MUCH FUN 😆

2025-12-21 03:03:15 UTC

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Magnetic pole flip is one thing, but crustal displacement theory suggests the thin crust unlocks and freely rotated as the mantle warms up after sudden injection of high-energy (galactic current sheet). 90 degree flip of the planet’s surface would induce very large, global waves i.e. the great flood every ~12,500 years
Evidence record is now indisputable, across many different sciences.

2025-12-13 01:51:58 UTC

the level of retard in
Trending 24h and Global feeds
#bullish

2025-12-09 09:58:55 UTC

ooh tomorrow’s the day
we burn it all down 🎉
Australia, Dec 10th 2025
Papers please? ❌ DELETE 🤣
Exciting Times
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/dc/2a/bfdc2a67ec032e7e34c1ca8c1c76a5bc.jpg

2025-12-08 06:51:11 UTC

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it’s a transport in itself, endless possibilities 😁

2025-12-06 18:50:52 UTC

GM Sunday

2025-12-06 07:20:51 UTC

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where’s the original source? we should all be introducing Bitcoin with this as Slide 1 - suddenly people are OHHH

2025-12-03 02:35:40 UTC

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this is the way
#nevent1q…8kg6

2025-12-02 04:33:02 UTC

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Looks ok for a PoC, but yeah something less commercial is probably a better long term option?
Assuming you have all the events and blobs* locally, what’s the delta from reading the original file at various sized chunks vs. reassembling the file from events and blobs, and repeating the same sequential reads 🤔
*assuming that’s how it works, on my reading list

2025-12-02 04:18:36 UTC

cool now I need to build a proper client to see if I broke my DMs with gift-wrap testing, Primal crashes when I try to load active notifications 🤣

2025-12-01 10:01:23 UTC

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What are the alternatives? Any performance benchmarks?

2025-12-01 09:54:42 UTC

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also watch the sunset

2025-12-01 09:34:47 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/Zyv9Qr3OV5YAAAAC/mouse-click.gif

2025-12-01 09:22:38 UTC

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GrapheneOS?

2025-12-01 09:14:18 UTC

Q: #Android #NOSTR devs 🙏 🙇‍♂️ best (cheap) phone and OS to de-Google? Pixel 6/7/8 with iodé?
iPhone here but I want to switch.
Highly technical here 😂 Linux since 90s, developing Apps and complex distributed platforms 🤪 so it has to give me full control, it just needs to be cheap i.e. older generation hardware.
Because FUCK PHONES. Extra marks for something with hardware disable radios 😭

2025-12-01 05:09:33 UTC

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a big middle finger to us plebs

2025-11-30 19:53:29 UTC

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Any luck with goNDK’s client-giftwrap? I couldn’t confirm any relay receipt, thought no relay support but may be publish ack

2025-11-29 19:07:47 UTC

GM Sunday ☕️

2025-11-29 13:04:03 UTC

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now THIS is Git on NOSTR*
*future storage alternatives will come, if the first event version allows lists of Uris? 🤔
Shaping up nice from the sound of it. Lots of applications. I’m very interested but still know almost nothing about Blossom yet, will add all of this to my list 🙇‍♂️
#nevent1q…vz76

2025-11-29 10:04:44 UTC

another quick goNDK release, building upon v0.1.0's gift-wrap cli tool
v0.1.1: Event Validation & Documentation Improvements
https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK

2025-11-28 20:11:39 UTC

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any luck receiving / decrypting?

2025-11-27 22:24:55 UTC

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fixed - sorry entire sub-dir got caught up in .gitignore
Try:
git clone https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK.git
cd goNDK
git checkout origin/gift-wrap-part-1
cd examples/identity-generator
make build
cd ../client-giftwrap
make build
bash scripts/test-encrypt-decrypt.sh

2025-11-27 13:12:48 UTC

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DONE ✅ 2-3 hours ain't bad - appears to work but I'm too tired to verify or review GN
Maybe the commands below works? No real Code Review yet, or polish, or finish coverage, docs, review cli args, polish, ♻️ etc. but it is a starting point!
git clone https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK.git
cd goNDK && git checkout gift-wrap-part-1 && cd examples/client-giftwrap
make build
bash scripts/test-encrypt-decrypt.sh
https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK/pull/12 🙏
=== Sending Gift Wrap to jb55 ===
Recipient: npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s (jb55)
Message: successful vibed gift-wrap for you bro, see more at https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK
Relay: wss://relay.damus.io
1. Generating sender identity...
Sender: npub1hpe6yarmdqzcfskjac37ttnswz28wx2uh4txww7dskraa7974k7q0kt06y
2. Sending encrypted message...
🔑 Loading key from /tmp/giftwrap-send-56632/sender.key...
✓ Using identity: npub1hpe6yarmdqzcfskjac37ttnswz28wx2uh4txww7dskraa7974k7q0kt06y
🔌 Connecting to wss://relay.damus.io...
✓ Connected
📤 Publishing...
✅ Message sent to relay!
The encrypted gift wrap has been published to wss://relay.damus.io
Only jb55 can decrypt this message using their private key.

2025-11-27 11:17:37 UTC

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initial client merged to https://github.com/niallyoung/goNDK v0.0.9 is up
I'll start extracting gift-wrap support and smash out an overdue update to event/ - branch will be up shortly, but give me 24h and I'll have a well-engineerd cli
(may not be 100% compliant on launch, but maybe out-of-the-box if we can find some samples / known-good test data, then PORT!)
https://image.nostr.build/a7156974b620b3d90d8a2ff23c2de1c8db9a731bbb967183174dcc7f712e4141.png

2025-11-27 09:24:24 UTC

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🤪 ok maybe more than 1 hour lol
"Timeline
4 weeks for core extraction across 4 phases, with clear success criteria and risk mitigation."

2025-11-27 07:35:45 UTC

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Not yet, applying it in a larger piece but I can extract it, will have a stab for the next “hour” 👍 have draft NIPs too got some more ideas coming just got to get a basic client use-case ready first then extract and open up a lot of the foundations
Finally making progress AI assist, just never enough hours when working full time as well

2025-11-27 07:24:36 UTC

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vibed it fairly nicely in Go, will be looking for sample data next to expand test suite
haven’t even read NIPs or papers yet ust sat back to see where we’re at now and .. 😮 🙇‍♂️

2025-11-19 23:16:24 UTC

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the race is on, and few realise

2025-11-19 06:31:06 UTC

every day I am just wuuuuuuuu #VibeEngineer this is so incredibly liberating, I am buying 3 months of my time for less than $1/day
https://image.nostr.build/6df813b03fbeaf4c4e19efb8d498dfae96cf87b48b45b3562162cbf28bc087c0.png
#nevent1q…excc

2025-11-17 07:35:57 UTC

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🤣 it’s ALL I’m doing now, professionally at work, and home 10-12+ hours a day 🤪 🤣 I can’t stop OMFG
I’m now vibe coding EVERYTHING, especially the stuff that used to be in the “too risky / time-consuming for today” basket 👍👍👌🤘

2025-11-13 09:39:27 UTC

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🔨 👍

2025-11-12 10:57:03 UTC

ran out of free Claude 4.5 credits
#takemymoney
https://media.tenor.com/dpSpYy3d1_4AAAAC/tenset-10set.gif

2025-11-08 00:47:10 UTC

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I can’t .. stop .. prompting 🤣

2025-11-07 06:22:30 UTC

@nprofile…c3cq you got this 🫂

2025-11-06 21:31:04 UTC

still struggling with vscode:
window sliders, key bindings, core IDE features hidden away or behind an extension …
but CoPilot integration 👌
😬😭

2025-11-05 09:50:01 UTC

https://media.tenor.com/wyr6octeS9IAAAAC/frank-reynolds-nope-always-sunny-nope.gif

2025-11-04 01:54:44 UTC

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not just the color temp but provides full spectrum of light 💡 matching nature

2025-11-04 01:32:05 UTC

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👍 EXACTLY
git is distributed, this was intentional from inception, how we all used to work before GitHub. You either centralise, or keep it distributed 🤷‍♂️
Centralising will require accounts, or an auth mechanism as you pointed out. Decentralised is the way to go - but you’re right we’re missing another layer in here for NOSTR to leverage these underlying features.

2025-11-03 10:01:55 UTC

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Host your own repos? It’s distributed for a reason

2025-11-02 21:23:16 UTC

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LLMs don’t think. No intelligence, no thinking, it’s a fancy hammer.

2025-11-02 19:23:06 UTC

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you’re too late

2025-11-02 19:17:56 UTC

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Don’t fall for it. LLMs are a mirror.
It’s re-assembling the data it was trained on.
#nevent1q…f53f

2025-11-02 09:02:37 UTC

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It’s a Mirror - that’s our culture right there, thrown back in our face

2025-11-02 08:54:38 UTC

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Oh no you MUST test and review every line, but once you automate all of this .. it’s almost there, happening very fast now

2025-11-02 07:40:18 UTC

Vibe Coding full-time atm
My days now are literally 8-10 hours of swearing and shouting in anger and frustration, reverting the BS and logical rabbit-holes it gets fixated on …
but it’s AMAZING and I’m ADDICTED.
When it works well, I am incredibly productive and able to deliver the output of a small team. Only happens maybe 10-20% of the time but improving weekly now
https://media.tenor.com/H66mN-4Z0VUAAAAC/anchorman-fragrances.gif

2025-11-01 03:59:37 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/KZrxnOHNs5sAAAAC/hyper-x-keyboard.gif

2025-10-31 08:53:19 UTC

vibe coding all week
shit got real, quick

2025-10-07 08:36:13 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/aydNvFxTjW8AAAAC/trap-star-wars.gif

2025-10-07 08:17:39 UTC

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haha Every. Single. Cycle.
🪛 🧠 🔨 🤷‍♂️

2025-10-07 08:11:42 UTC

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terraform state management and the lack of temporary symbols bridging plan and apply forcing me to partition my ^H^H partition my .. re-partition my ... fuuuuuuu

2025-09-30 10:44:08 UTC

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🏃‍♂️ her vibe is off

2025-09-23 21:11:53 UTC

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Welcome back!

2025-09-23 10:09:33 UTC

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you still there mate?

2025-09-22 04:18:48 UTC

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woops
#nevent1q…zjk0

2025-09-19 23:25:36 UTC

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double-wall

2025-09-12 23:22:57 UTC

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Ask it to write unit tests for you.
Then to refactor into small functions.
Inject dependencies.
Once you see it working perfectly even for a brief moment, it’s jaw dropping to think how we can now scale out - as it actually becomes good and reliable in 6-12

2025-09-09 00:07:00 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/79e89c0de4c70684466167241bdca55443c43f1d6b9837309d8609bf8bd14b48.png

2025-09-05 21:40:22 UTC

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Yes, the Relay Interface is the protocol. I would aim to shift all this behind one side or the other of the Relay, rather than establish another interface or platform-specific standard, this early in NOSTR
Relay Extensions and additional ports and features negotiated via handshake would be a better target for us to aim towards.

2025-09-05 20:49:37 UTC

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ultimately a lot of this should either shift behind a Relay interface (local or otherwise) or be limited to the client impl right? Good short-term dev utility but 😬

2025-09-03 02:37:34 UTC

Sold my BTC for a Mortgage deposit.
I need somewhere to live.
No regrets.

2025-08-22 02:53:27 UTC

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🤔

2025-08-16 00:39:20 UTC

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Oh seriously? I had no idea, easy decision then Ty 🙇‍♂️

2025-08-14 05:02:12 UTC

or just a good 2025 meme vid?

2025-08-14 04:59:06 UTC

who’s got a good ATH video?

2025-08-13 05:42:14 UTC

@nprofile…jttu this new Vault arrangement in AmberApp seems dodgy as fuck
I switched to AmberApp to AVOID excessive 30k withdrawal fees. Now AmberApp slugs me 50k storage per month? Unless I keep trading? No opt-out?
Got all the emails, didn’t spot any fine print (my bad) but these fees seem almost hidden in the announcements.
“Total Peace of Mind” is the exact opposite.
I happened to login and WTAF not happy, the product is unusable now, I’ll be closing my accounts once I can migrate out.
I can’t be fucked going through Financial Ombudsman, so sick of this exchange bullshit 😥
My bad 😞

2025-08-11 08:29:57 UTC

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schnorr

2025-08-09 06:15:14 UTC

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snippets EXACTLY, I named them “starter-kit-bits” the other day when de-composing a repo of individual patterns
https://fountain.fm/episode/Da5pba5fG9WGO0KsPYm9
#nevent1q…glcv

2025-08-05 07:14:39 UTC

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👍👍
https://fountain.fm/episode/mRBFoMz8dQq6AEDcSObI
#nevent1q…upax

2025-08-01 04:05:03 UTC

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https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/harness-s-curves-chart.png
https://media.tenor.com/EK582P5SS3sAAAAC/cats-matrix.gif

2025-08-01 03:43:36 UTC

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any new Software Devs & Engineers:
This Course Material is REQUIRED LISTENING 👍👍⚡️
https://fountain.fm/episode/xa16yfcETLJVQIcUD5Y4
#nevent1q…g2fq

2025-07-31 03:14:37 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/UgDDuHqjocgAAAAC/matrix-agent-smith.gif
https://media.tenor.com/zBgvoEQRM2EAAAAC/pips-everywhere.gif

2025-07-30 03:28:27 UTC

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by which I mean more @nprofile…58qx more code more products more distributed services and tools and #LFG
https://media.tenor.com/eTqF4tm9Sz8AAAAC/fortnite-first-order-stormtrooper.gif
https://media.tenor.com/QAlqI4hoYDwAAAAC/dancing-stormtrooper.gif