Alexandria Catalogue - Articles

Introducing the Banyan relay concept. A personal nostr relay built on web-of-trust to collect notes from your most trusted contacts using your engagement with others as a trust metric.

The different types of references in nostr long-form content

A new editor for Habla

In Geometric Unity (GU), chirality is not fundamental on the ambient space $Y$. It emerges on the observed $4$-manifold $X$ from three intertwined ingredients: (i) an immersion (observation map) $\iota: X \hookrightarrow Y$ and pullback of fields, (ii) a gauge-equivariant torsion that generates a $\gamma_5$ coupling, and (iii) the signature/orientation data that fixes which chirality survives upon pullback.

All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.

Bad actors can easily fool personalized PageRank using the link farm attack. Well-placed NIP-56 reports can pick off bad actors like a sniper rifle, effectively cleaving away an entire link farm with only a small handful of well placed reports.

Personalized, portable trust metrics on Nostr require standardized protocols to communicate trust metrics from Web of Trust Service Providers to Nostr clients. Open, shared protocols will empower users, prevent vendor lock-in and accelerate adoption, just as they did for email and Lightning.

It all stinks.

Everyone’s eager to blame Vail, crowds, or fancy gondolas for $300 day passes, but that’s just noise. The real issue is the monetary system itself, which distorts prices and drains purchasing power while pretending everything’s fine. Skiing didn’t get pricier—fiat just keeps lying to you.

Are you heading in the right direction?

Create your own social platforms, communities, and applications with Soapbox's open-source toolkit. Tools for Nostr, ActivityPub, and the decentralized web.

Yes, we actually managed to get this working. It was a crazy idea, but we #GitCitadel residents-and-frens are crazy enough to get it working.

Bitcoin Infinity Academy - Course 2 Part 10

Are You Off Track?

Why making everything cheaper means we occasionally have none of it.

Just a short story.

Most people treat AI like magic. I treat it like engineering.This post breaks down how I use ChatGPT in an iterative, system-oriented way — just like writing and testing code. It’s not about hype or hacks. It’s about building with intention, clarity, and conviction.

Listener Types

We also can be used by God even after failure

It can be tempting to lump the ceremonial sacrifices of Israel into the same category as that of the pagan peoples of the ancient Near East that neighbored them. In this paper, I show that the sacrifices performed by Israel were very different from their ancient pagan counterparts.

There are two commonly proposed dates for the Exodus. In this paper I give the biblical and archaeological support for the early date of about 1446 B.C.

Is the call to be a minister similar to that of any other vocation, or is it wholly unique from secular careers? This is a short seminary paper I wrote on the subject.

How does the Bible's teaching on the Sabbath in Exodus 20 inform our view of the days of creation in Genesis 1? This seminary paper is my brief exploration of that topic.

Keeping track of things in the informational realm requires keeping track of time.

The words we use can cause a lot of confusion if the concepts behind them are not clearly understood. Particularly when we use the same words to refer to different concepts. This is certainly the case in the recent arguments about whether Primal is a Nostr client or not.

Bitcoin Infinity Academy - Course 2 Part 8

This is the only way to solve the systemic issues of our day.

In a world buffeted by rising debt, inflation-stress, weakening institutions, and geopolitical risk, the question of who controls money is no longer abstract: it is existential. Financial sovereignty - the ability to hold and deploy wealth free from manipulation, confiscation, or devaluation - is emerging as a foundational civil right. At the heart of that shift stands Bitcoin.

We treat zaps differently than every other purchase, hoarding sats for “future value” while freely spending on coffee and Netflix. If content is worth $1 to you right now, zap the equivalent in today’s sats and stop doing mental gymnastics about what they might be worth later. Value-for-value means paying for value in the present, not extracting free content while pretending you’re being strategic.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If speech and the free exercise thereof is sacred, then Bitcoin is sacred, because all that Bitcoin requires of you is to think and to speak.

We traded craftsmanship for quarterly earnings and built a disposable economy where everything barely works. Big Tech promised innovation and delivered surveillance. The gig economy killed pride in work. Now Nostr developers are proving you can build quality software without VC millions, platform games, or selling your users. Your code is your reputation. Forever. On-chain. This is how we rebuild.

A story of purple text, orange highlights, and plenty of hallucinations.

A veteran broker says America’s $37T real estate market is breaking, and Bitcoin may be its only way out.

In this article I explain the trouble with Nostr relay payments today and how eCash is the best solution. I'll cover how relays currently earn revenue; the speed, storage, and unit-of-account benefits of eCash; and paint a picture of the new user experience.

I spent waay too much time on this README