I added a bit of metadata to my website to enable Bitcoin Lightning “tips”. One line to indicate my Lightning address.
<meta name="lightning" content="lnurlp:thingelstad@getalby.com" />
In Chrome, with the Alby Extension you can easily send Satoshis.
Wish List: Micro.blog plugin to create the static file needed for self-hosted NIP-05 verification. I think this would be really easy to make? And would be a nice compliment to recently added Nostr cross-posting support. 🤞
My cousin Quinn Chrest just got a blog! He is starting his career in technology and I urged him (nudged?) to get going with a domain and micro.blog. I also set him up with quinnchrest.eth for decentralized services! Welcome @quinntchrest!
Today marks the 19th year of my blog at thingelstad.com! Over those 19 years I’ve written 8,186 posts totaling 493,751 words. My website is older than the iPhone, Bitcoin, and Instagram. I love having my own home on the Internet. You’ll note some posts from 2000 to 2003, but I …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Blog turns 19!Today micro.blog added cross-posting support for Nostr! I’ve been having fun playing with Nostr using Damus as the client. Now I’ll be able to syndicate my blog posts to my Nostr profile as well. 🎉
I recently threw the term “Bison & Bitcoin” out with some friends. I love bison. 🦬 The name kept bouncing back to me and I thought that would be a fun newsletter. Generative AI is an amazing brainstorming partner, so for kicks I asked GPT-4 to elaborate and DALL-E to make a cover …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: "Bison & Bitcoin"Just switched thingelstad.com to the new Tiny Theme from Matt Langford. I love the focus on simplicity and speed. The layout is really clean. I also appreciate how much he is focusing on supporting the full feature set of Micro.blog, as well as popular plug-ins. 👏
I applaud the Gnosis Chain Weekly moving to Ghost from Substack. 👏
Crypto and web3 projects oddly decide to have this extreme reliance on the most centralized platforms the Internet has — Twitter and Substack. Meanwhile we have perfectly good, open, censorship resistance methods like email and RSS sitting unused.
RSS should be widely adopted in Web3.
Update: Sorry to say that this session had to be cancelled. We had some travel plans come up and we will only be able to attend Minnebar 17 for half the day. We are still going to do the POAP session though. I’m going to host a session at Minnebar 17 on How to Newsletter: Lessons …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hosting Minnebar 17: How to NewsletterI’m done writing for the timeline. There is a concept in Indieweb communities called POSSE. The acronym stands for publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere. This approach is an attempt to give you the best of all worlds. You can own your own content. Solve the not your …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Not Writing for the Timeline