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Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
I chilled water in a cocktail shaker and poured it into a chilled glass over a pure water ice cube. Oh my god... perfection. The ultimate cocktail.
25 January at 3:08 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Business idea: an all-water cocktail bar. You can choose from Fiji, Voss, Evian, and other premium water brands. Water can be served cold (optionally with snow), room temperature, or steamed. Steamed water enhances the water's flavors. Water is never infused - it's JUST WATER. There is a water tasting club where wealthy British men take turns taking sips of different kinds of water and going "I say!" There are water sommeliers who make a living specialized in tasting water.. but they can only find a job at The Water Bar. Actually, let's give it a French name: Bar à Eau. I think this could work.
Business idea: an all-water cocktail bar. You can choose from Fiji, Voss, Evian, and other premium water brands. Water can be served cold (optionally with snow), room temperature, or steamed. Steamed water enhances the water's flavors. Water is never infused - it's JUST WATER. There is a water tasting club where wealthy British men take turns taking sips of different kinds of water and going "I say!" There are water sommeliers who make a living specialized in tasting water.. but they can only find...
25 January at 3:27 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Lightning Zaps on Nostr are of event kind 9735. This is a reference to the Lightning protocol, whose default port on nodes is TCP port 9735. This is itself a reference to the UNICODE LIGHTNING SYMBOL, which has an ID of 9735! Not the High Voltage emoji, the meteorological lightning symbol: ☇
25 January at 1:55 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Mostr bridge now supports setting a lightning bolt emoji ⚡ on your profile to enable zaps. Previously it was the text "lud16". That is now considered deprecated. The bolt supports both internet identifiers and LNURLs: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr/-/merge_requests/80/diffs
24 January at 20:48 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Scammer on an insecure web server. Many such cases.
24 January at 19:15 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
It's incredible how the majority of people scamming people online are novices themselves. There must be some way to exploit that in a more automated way.
24 January at 19:16 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Electronic music is objectively the best genre of music.
24 January at 14:32 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Should I hack Nostr support into Pleroma just to enable zaps?
24 January at 5:29 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Global crime statistics have gone down since the release of Palworld.
24 January at 2:58 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
I made a pomegranate mezcal cocktail
24 January at 2:52 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
bro why are node.js projects like npm run start -> entrypoint.js -> cmd.js -> server.js -> start.js -> app.js -> process.js -> run.js, I should not have to dig 7 layers to see how your project works
24 January at 0:40 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities. People are resistant to it because they're afraid. Their heads are full of doubts, of tropes like "how will artists make money?" For that reason, brave people are able to benefit from Open Source while fearful people don't. If you want to be a successful software person and you're not already a millionaire, I would highly recommend building Open Source software.
Open Source is the secret of my success. Every great opportunity I've ever had was the result of Open Source. I skipped all the job interviews. I contributed patches and they hired me on the spot. I built open source and they found me. Without it, I would be just a regular man with precious ideas. Ideas aren't precious, no matter how good they are. Even the best creations aren't precious on their own. You could die an unknown Shakespeare. OPPORTUNITIES are precious. Open Source maximizes opportunities....
23 January at 15:06 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
As much as I value open standards, RFCs are really fucking annoying.

No, you do not need to define MUST, MAY, and SHOULD.

If your spec doesn't start with "Basically, " I'm not reading it.
23 January at 3:08 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Excited for the possibilities of Nostr+git integration. I want nothing more than the people to be off GitHub, and for self-hosting to actually be feasible.
23 January at 3:01 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Someone please create a weird bech32 commit hash identifier that we can content address to relays.
23 January at 3:01 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Do you ever drink water and it tastes so fucking good, like you've been trapped in the desert for four days?
23 January at 1:19 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Zaps are fun. I've got things pretty much ironed out now in Ditto.
23 January at 1:08 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
I made a coffee margarita because the YouTube man old me to. I can't say it was a good idea.
23 January at 0:04 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Fun fact, maraschino cherries are bleached, removing just about everything from them that makes them cherries except for the shape, and then re-dyed with red food coloring and sugar water. Literal candy in the corpse of a cherry.
22 January at 23:15 | Open on gleasonator.com
Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason
Who is funding them? Very high quality open source software.
22 January at 21:58 | Open on gleasonator.com
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