In a world that is changing rapidly, immutability is a great thing. God (youtube.com/watch?v=-k866Ya4…, Hebrews 6), #JesusChrist the solid rock (youtube.com/watch?v=N2wSH1gz…), Functional #Programming and the #Bitcoin blockchain are all examples.

🤖📋 95% of developers use AI. The challenge isn't getting AI to write code. It's getting AI to write maintainable code. Join @aligneddev at Nebraska.Code() to learn: ✅ Specification-Driven Development ✅ SpecKit workflows ✅ AI guardrails that work ✅ Predictable outcomes ✅ Better long-term maintainability 🔗 nebraskacode.amegala.com/ #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #SpecDrivenDev

We made it to Documenting Bitcoin ya'll.

SEVERE WEATHER RISK THURSDAY Another round of severe weather is looking more likely for the day on Thursday! All modes of severe weather again will be possible with large hail, strong winds, & tornadoes! we will keep a very close eye on the outlook and will provide further updates as we get them! There is already a hatched risk of severe weather in the second map looking at the Probabilistic Outlook! Make sure to be prepared and have a safety plan in place! Sign Up for our NEW WeatherCall system here: tscalert.org

We’re diving into what it really takes to build better software, faster. If you’re passionate about software, innovation, or leveling up your development process, this one’s for you. omnitech-inc.com/blog/book-r… #SoftwareEngineering #TechReads #ContinuousLearning

A Tornado Warning has been issued for SW Minnehaha county until 8:45 PM CDT Sunday. This storm is capable of producing a tornado as it moves east at 15 MPH. Seek shelter immediately!

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six). Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only. This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths. One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it. The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes. Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

Missing Bitcoin’s best 10 days turned 90% into -25%. 2020–2025 data: Buy & hold median annual return: 90% Miss the best 5 days: ~78 percentage points of damage Miss the best 10 days: -25% median return Total damage: ~115 percentage points

Last month @brilliance_labs had the privilege to host a closed door Bitcoin summit for some of the largest Christian non-profit orgs in the world. It was the most needle-moving event I have participated in during my 6 years in the Bitcoin world. Read the event recap below.

sulfur dust. Tractor Supply. Put a cup in an old sock. Tie sock off and beat your clothes and shoes and socks with it. To create a tick-free area, use sulfur dust in a shaker bottle. Hold close to ground and shake. You will see the ticks leave. No joke. Been using this method since 1963 when fishing in tick infested areas.

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

@aligneddev presents 'Using Specification Driven Development to tame AI Coding' this July at Nebraska.Code(). nebraskacode.amegala.com/ #SpecKit #OpenSourceToolkit #TechConf @omnitech #AI @GPC_updates @greatamerica @AgLeaderTech @UnityPointCR @Sogeti_USA @TEConnectivity @hackajobHQ @CLAconnect @WeAreRevature

We’re introducing a new GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (GH-600). As AI agents become part of modern development workflows, this role-based certification focuses on how developers and teams operate, supervise, and integrate agents across the SDLC. If you’re already working with tools like GitHub Copilot or exploring agent-driven workflows, we’d love your input. Learn more and get involved. msft.it/6013vRHHZ

The new brilliancelabs.org just launched. Check out our initiatives as well as our collaboration with @ThankGodForBTC

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

After 17 years, bitcoin is still widely misunderstood. We partnered with @atlanticrethink to make a short film for the curious ft. @natbrunell, @NSmolenski, and our CEO @josephkelly. Not the crypto story. The bitcoin story. The New Rules of Bitcoin, out today cc @TheAtlantic.

AI agents are moving from experimentation to real business impact. They don’t just assist, they act, decide, and optimize. Discover how to create value using AI agents 👇 omnitech-inc.com/blog/create… #AI #AgenticAI #Automation #Innovation #Omnitech

1/n ANNOUNCEMENT: new tool in the enduring mission of correcting false claims about Bitcoin! Quantum, bubble, environment, and all your favorite Bitcoin myths of the last decade are there, with their fact-based counters - backed up by data and peer-review research 🧵

“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis

After two years of work, @CypherpunkCine and I are thrilled to finally get to release this into the wild. We set out to write a Bitcoin kids' book worthy of our kids, nieces, nephews, and their friends, and ended up with what we think is a great intro to Bitcoin.