shawn
Shawn

Yes. Yes, I can.
Should have the first release ready to go by midday.
https://blossom.primal.net/0cc069916628c8b69b1b911f4ff9cedf400df0bc6ca40abeaa83156eebaf4579.png
#nevent1q…d0wr

2026-03-11 19:54:34 UTC

The Mouse is back.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/look-how-far/1878492416?i=1878492417&ls

2026-03-11 12:51:36 UTC

Can I build a nostr-based Loom? Let's find out.

2026-03-10 12:56:45 UTC

You don't hate SDNY enough.

2026-03-09 21:29:33 UTC

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🔥

2026-03-08 19:55:26 UTC

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Or maybe you're just projecting.

2026-03-08 19:37:39 UTC

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Very interesting. Any rubrics for that so far or is everybody doing their own thing?

2026-03-08 19:00:45 UTC

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How goes it so far?
And did I muck anything up? 😅

2026-03-08 18:25:22 UTC

HTTP 402 has been “reserved for future use” since 1997.
Two protocols now claim it. x402 routes every payment through Coinbase. L402 needs nobody's permission.
Interactive breakdown:
https://lab.sideband.pub/http-402/

2026-03-07 01:55:30 UTC

Over dinner tonight…
My son: Daddy, when were you born?
Me: [redacted]
My son, with zero hesitation: Were you the first person on Earth?
☠️

2026-03-07 00:12:48 UTC

We're in the Proof of Work vs Proof of Destruction stage.
Always has been? Nah. But it's becoming more stark every day.

2026-03-06 21:15:39 UTC

TIL people still talk about “Web3”.

2026-03-06 01:19:15 UTC

To have the courage of one's convictions… priceless.

2026-03-05 20:55:28 UTC

There are days when if feels as if nostr is resigned to and even most comfortable with mediocrity. Took 10 tries on 3 clients to get that last post out. I hope I'm wrong.

2026-03-05 18:20:41 UTC

This might be the most dangerous tool I've ever built.
Reply with the word "SLOP" to have utter nonsense sent directly to your inbox.

2026-03-05 15:31:03 UTC

DHH: "Omarchy has no plans to do anything in response to this retarded California law."
This is the way.

2026-03-05 03:43:47 UTC

What breaks when the user isn't human?
What gets built instead?

2026-03-04 18:48:19 UTC

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Apparently, they think this can work. lol
https://blossom.primal.net/e584b327e2c6caf3d087970451aa69fb20cd734795adb973dec497adfdba7f07.png

2026-03-04 18:15:25 UTC

My brother just messaged to let me know that his company has announced they'll be using this product, which will monitor calls, chats, and emails, in order to "empower management and develop employees."
From the looks of it, it's a tiny little Palantir of your very own.
As with all waves of new technology, there are those who seek to empower and those who seek to extract.
https://www.getopre.com/

2026-03-04 17:49:01 UTC

Watching Bitcoiners bootlick the state is nauseating.

2026-03-04 17:01:01 UTC

https://relay.shawnyeager.com/29d3e989e748db2a325b685c5c5edb486fb471bf6482ed4c8f6914f75d47b767.png

2026-03-04 16:34:29 UTC

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And he's right. But even here, you can't escape the grifters.

2026-03-04 15:25:15 UTC

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Same as the other line items, a scam.

2026-03-04 15:24:41 UTC

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2026-03-04 14:38:00 UTC

Just one of life's countless moments when we are invited to ask, "What if we burned it all down? "
I drive a hybrid.
https://relay.shawnyeager.com/d545c1eb30c1391389bd4ed8d9cb5af688c52c6dbd8a6c05c5b67301f62f576a.png

2026-03-04 04:14:59 UTC

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What a dimwit. 🤣

2026-03-04 02:00:54 UTC

Wisp went from zero to my daily driver in under a week.

2026-03-03 21:46:24 UTC

I built a map to track AI agent infrastructure—how open it is and how that changes as the stack takes shape. Five layers, compute to payments, 33 companies scored against a rubric (“Can you use this without one company's permission?”).
Scores live in a database so we can see how things move over time. The whole thing is open source.
https://lab.sideband.pub/map/
I'm probably wrong about some of it, and 33 is just a start. Suggest a company or challenge a score:
https://github.com/shawnyeager/sideband-lab/issues/new/choose

2026-03-03 14:48:54 UTC

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/33c3d85e5066ad26abe94de6f45c0faec57140e53d4db044f6921ac6289c28f3.png

2026-03-03 01:35:03 UTC

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Omarchy, sir.

2026-03-02 20:44:13 UTC

Balajji predicts the end of the West almost as often as China bans Bitcoin.

2026-03-02 17:41:56 UTC

🟠 GDP is experiencing degraded performance
https://lab.sideband.pub/status/

2026-03-01 20:53:09 UTC

If I ever make a shock face YouTube cover card, take me out back and shoot me.

2026-02-28 22:52:01 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-28 20:17:39 UTC

Wisp is fast and and highly responsive. Features come and go. Smooth like butter never goes out of style. Bravo, @nprofile…jejf.

2026-02-28 19:40:04 UTC

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I was rightly corrected. AUMF <> formal declaration of war.
#nevent1q…2lrw

2026-02-28 19:15:04 UTC

I'm I remember when a declaration of war required Congressional approval years old.

2026-02-28 00:22:02 UTC

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/ce7d1ebaf4526da642bf59c8f57d17896668824c57b697262858ad78aa9d58fb.png

2026-02-27 17:41:31 UTC

The fall of the United Soviet Socialist California is gonna be lit.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/

2026-02-27 16:40:31 UTC

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1800 installs. 🦞
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social
#nevent1q…du68

2026-02-26 16:18:14 UTC

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Given the way things work, this passes the sniff test all too well.

2026-02-26 16:15:11 UTC

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What's your over/under on JS taking any real damage?

2026-02-26 15:12:26 UTC

Jane Street, you say?

2026-02-25 20:12:09 UTC

Great conversation on @nprofile…5jf9 today with @nprofile…70ey.
We talked all things @nprofile…5jyy, building ever better Bitcoin UX, and the work ahead to enable AI agents to choose and use sound money.
Out next Wednesday.

2026-02-25 19:44:36 UTC

Agent skills work like The Matrix's upload scene. Literally.
https://shawnyeager.com/notes/i-know-kung-fu/

2026-02-25 17:35:18 UTC

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Ad hominem attacks are a sure sign of a weak mind.

2026-02-25 15:56:59 UTC

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Yes, and so...
#nevent1q…akgl

2026-02-24 17:23:40 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/02cc6a6bf1b5db191c0ca247c0abfb0d80e6332d973b4e4a07a1645dbbff2ae4.png

2026-02-24 12:09:56 UTC

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gm good people. ☕ May this be the worst news of your day.
#nevent1q…5hvd

2026-02-23 22:51:42 UTC

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I'm about to hit my Claude Code weekly limit, so I'll have time to kill. 🤣

2026-02-23 19:19:20 UTC

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This. Is. Awesome.
Serious Pitfall vibes. https://blossom.primal.net/2edd1c00c3596ed41ed5bfd5c9d2b9403801a80439f162074d3be6b2c4c03833.png

2026-02-23 17:28:21 UTC

Interesting thing I noticed with Claude Code: I use the compound-engineering plugin (https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin) which documents solutions in `docs/solutions/` per repo.
During a planning session in a new repo, the agent couldn't find local learnings, so it scanned `~/Work/` for `docs/solutions/` across all my other repos and pulled relevant patterns from two different projects.
Nobody told it to do that—the prompt just said “check any other relevant learning directories.”
Emergent cross-repo knowledge sharing from a vague instruction.

2026-02-23 11:21:25 UTC

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Thanks, Florian.
I'd considered this, but mistakenly thought that Bob's Blossom server needed auth from Alice (the blob owner) to accept the mirror. So Alice had to pre-sign the auth and embed it in the announcement for Bob's daemon to extract and pass along.
Revised to incorporate.
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404?permalink_comment_id=5998822#gistcomment-5998822

2026-02-23 05:27:31 UTC

@nprofile…tfpf, @nprofile…fsmw et al., how far off base is this?
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404

2026-02-23 00:44:50 UTC

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The phrase that launched a thousand ships.
#nevent1q…jlpj

2026-02-23 00:04:03 UTC

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Imagine going into a meeting with the COO, CTO, CFO, and General Counsel to explain that.

2026-02-22 23:58:00 UTC

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For a startup, absolutely. For enterprise, no chance. But like I said, I love me some cashu.
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social

2026-02-22 21:14:34 UTC

Let's stir up the hornets.
Agent autonomy requires native machine-to-machine payments in sats. No humans in the loop or fiat rails.
Lightning + L402 is the obvious technical fit for that. The lightning-agent-tools release shows agents can already pay and get paid autonomously. (Note: While I'm bullish on Cashu, no mid to large enterprise is going to touch it any time soon.)
Today, fiat rails are winning and will keep winning for the foreseeable future. Volatility, treasury accounting, node/liquidity ops, and regulatory optics make native Lightning too heavy, while Stripe and stablecoin wrappers are simple, stable, and already approved.
Long term, Lightning is the only rail that makes sense for a sovereign agent economy. Short to medium term, ease beats independence for most orgs.
I want to be proven wrong. Where are companies or teams running production agent-to-agent payments natively on Lightning today at any real scale?

2026-02-22 21:04:30 UTC

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🤣

2026-02-22 20:46:14 UTC

College-age me is stoked.
https://blossom.primal.net/7b38c131803994ae8770d50ee62c4d6b7a0e8944aacce883c3740ef3ffd200af.png

2026-02-22 20:35:31 UTC

AI isn’t killing software—it’s forcing a brutal bifurcation. Half the industry (simple workflow tools, basic automation) gets unbundled and commoditized. The other half (orchestration platforms, vertical depth, security/infra) gets supercharged if they adapt fast.
Go-to-market is now the real moat. Building is table stakes; getting people to pay reliably in an AI world is the new hard problem.

2026-02-22 16:28:33 UTC

Trusted > Followed

2026-02-22 15:15:26 UTC

Replacement theory.
https://blossom.primal.net/1106ebf0f65d0f36125f22a12a9d250f3eb0ce2862fa476c37b9ed9b34077ac6.png

2026-02-22 04:11:13 UTC

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Last night, my eyes were opened.
Here's my naive question. What keeps those middlemen in power?

2026-02-22 02:44:22 UTC

During dinner last night, my friend, who’s franchising his business, explained the mafia tactics of brokers and sales organizations.
So, I came home, stayed up a little too late, and started building with Claude Code. Less than 24 hours later, I built tender for franchises. I did it, as I have with many recent projects, to push the tools and prove to myself what's possible.
Turns out, more and more each day.
https://blossom.primal.net/09181614ad921d2b032cdbcd1705edc4e3fdbcab0ddf5869424e70c2d6fc9d4d.png
https://blossom.primal.net/a49fb4a67030e1db680e944973d704c413afb8157222dbf6708d07f86195f180.png

2026-02-20 22:25:12 UTC

Yes.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/blue-monday/1857749457

2026-02-20 20:51:58 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/111eb4fd1d9201ee1247ddee2b08b595eb99f90c77146580ab9aa4e548980fba.png

2026-02-20 15:12:36 UTC

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Brosephus.

2026-02-20 14:03:03 UTC

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

2026-02-20 00:31:40 UTC

1. Ask AI: What would you build to crush [product X] and why?
2. Tell AI: Build a product requirements document for step 1.
3. Tell AI: What architectural requirements docs are needed for 2?
4. Iterate until complete.
5. Tell AI: build scaffolding and AGENTS.md for all of the above.
6. Tell AI: Grant Bash(*) permissions for project. YOLO mode.
7. Install Compound Engineering skills.
8. Cook.

2026-02-19 22:36:55 UTC

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https://skillpub.net/

2026-02-19 22:36:12 UTC

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Yasss

2026-02-19 21:08:59 UTC

Pimp My Ride, but for OpenClaw.
Pimp My Claw?
https://blossom.primal.net/9d29758d9686d8ec054f6a3c5973f429823a9ed5fa1d9b073be95789f3d55f1f.jpg

2026-02-19 19:11:39 UTC

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Shut up and ship it! 😜

2026-02-19 18:47:20 UTC

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This.

2026-02-19 13:54:39 UTC

gm, good people. ☕

2026-02-19 04:50:14 UTC

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Underappreciated band, for sure.

2026-02-19 02:37:16 UTC

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You think nostr rewards attention?

2026-02-19 01:53:59 UTC

There's a new bot factory in town.

2026-02-19 01:50:22 UTC

Something Like Someone
https://blossom.primal.net/df44de2752992f203ae48f09daf16195165b1eea664bc2746ffc8ed54cfd6721.mp4

2026-02-18 18:39:56 UTC

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Doesn't open for me.

2026-02-18 14:03:10 UTC

gm, good people. ☕

2026-02-17 21:01:22 UTC

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Ruh roh.

2026-02-17 15:44:15 UTC

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You'll want to keep iterating until you clear the 'suspicious' flags. Took me 5 or 6 points releases to get mine through.
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social

2026-02-17 12:18:53 UTC

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🤣 4.7 saves the day!

2026-02-17 12:12:48 UTC

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The best I've seen is @nprofile…205a's ants.
https://ants.sh/

2026-02-16 16:46:03 UTC

Ask yourself one question:
"Who suffers if I don't build this?"
If you can't name someone, you're building for yourself.

2026-02-16 16:09:36 UTC

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Thanks, autocorrect.

2026-02-16 16:09:08 UTC

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I first saw him, née Bon Over, in a 50-person dive in Toronto on his first tour. One of the most memorable shows I've seen.