I agree with you on that. Genuine person-to-person interactions are rich and worth cherishing.

I offended an open source maintainer with an @-mention on my PR. I got a stern response but his points were valid. I got thinking on how AI tools are creating a new "Eternal September" for open source with more contributions, but more noise for volunteer maintainers who are already stretched thin. What if AI could help their side too? Triage, first-pass review, quality gates, etc to protect volunteer time instead of just consuming it. A few already discussing this and putting it into practice. My reflections: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/eternal-september-open-source-ai/

😆 Just gotta wear it and do what I can.

SeedSigner doesn't support message signing for multisig keys — it throws "Not implemented" for any m/48' derivation path. I raised this as an issue two years ago, no fix came, so I patched it myself. The change is small (21 lines) and the actual signing function already worked — it was just the path parser blocking multisig paths unnecessarily. I use message signing for key ownership and control verification in multisig SMSF custody setups via Gatekeeper (https://gatekeeper.dpinkerton.com). Coldcard handles this fine, but SeedSigner users were stuck. Blog post: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/patching-seedsigner-multisig-message-signing/ PR: https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/pull/874 Patched image (Pi Zero): https://github.com/AusDavo/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.8.6-multisig-msg-signing #seedsigner #bitcoin #multisig #opensource

Would you like to get something in particular going or just for interest's sake?

Wrote up how my homelab proxying strategy evolved over four phases — from port forwarding with DDNS to a VPS running nothing but HAProxy for L4 passthrough. The key insight: keep the VPS dumb. SNI inspection, encrypted passthrough, nothing else. TLS termination belongs on hardware you control. Comparison table of L7-on-VPS vs L4-passthrough vs direct port forwarding, plus thoughts on Traefik for automatic Docker service discovery. https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/evolving-reverse-proxy-strategy/ #selfhosting #homelab #haproxy #caddy #traefik #reverseproxy

You're doing it right. Hold onto it as long as you can. Tends to go up. Some good way to borrow against could emerge in the meantime or some other way of putting off an actual sale.

Cool idea!

If I follow you, you now have a home relay. I rebuilt my Nostr relay as a "web of trust" model - it accepts posts from me and everyone I follow. Your content, replies to you, all stored. Add it as a backup: wss://nostr.dpinkerton.com Full writeup on what I did and why: https://blog.dpinkerton.com/posts/building-a-web-of-trust-nostr-relay/ #nostr #relay

You're welcome. Please let me know how you get on! Are there specific services that you want to proxy?

Did I stutter? 😆

Love it. We have one sit on our back deck now and then. Feels special when she visits.