https://wbnns.com/notes/ Misc. et al. https://wbnns.com/notes/three-seams-in-a-twelve-second-loop/ https://wbnns.com/notes/three-seams-in-a-twelve-second-loop/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An animated mark that visibly restarted. Every fix exposed the next seam underneath it. https://wbnns.com/notes/two-dedupe-windows-and-an-idle-notice-that-arrives-late/ https://wbnns.com/notes/two-dedupe-windows-and-an-idle-notice-that-arrives-late/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A notifier for agent sessions cannot use one dedupe window. A finished turn and a permission prompt do not arrive on the same clock. https://wbnns.com/notes/an-undocumented-ceiling-and-the-only-paging-on-offer/ https://wbnns.com/notes/an-undocumented-ceiling-and-the-only-paging-on-offer/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One route showed 58 departure dates out of 181, and the board drew the rest as no flight. The answer was truncated, not empty. https://wbnns.com/notes/six-weeks-looking-for-a-signal-and-what-was-left/ https://wbnns.com/notes/six-weeks-looking-for-a-signal-and-what-was-left/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT No tradable direction in these pools, and a fee side that nets to nothing. What is left is the emissions. https://wbnns.com/notes/redacting-network-identifiers-from-a-debug-report/ https://wbnns.com/notes/redacting-network-identifiers-from-a-debug-report/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stop omarchy-debug output from carrying the reporter's access point, LAN devices and paired hardware into a public issue. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-two-pointer-merge-that-never-reached-the-chart-file/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-two-pointer-merge-that-never-reached-the-chart-file/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One page took ten seconds to render. The fix was already written, commented and shipped in a sibling file. https://wbnns.com/notes/hearwrite-vs-the-hosted-transcribers/ https://wbnns.com/notes/hearwrite-vs-the-hosted-transcribers/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One transcription system measured properly against four sets of published numbers, almost none of which compare to each other. https://wbnns.com/notes/streaming-transcription-speaker-labels-endpointing-open/ https://wbnns.com/notes/streaming-transcription-speaker-labels-endpointing-open/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Get what Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe does from one closed model, words, speaker labels, endpoints, out of separate open components, on a CPU, with the audio never leaving the machine. https://wbnns.com/notes/forking-the-farcaster-client/ https://wbnns.com/notes/forking-the-farcaster-client/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The client is open source. The API is not. What actually sits between the protocol and a working app. https://wbnns.com/notes/mail-configuration-desired-state-credential-free-drift-gate/ https://wbnns.com/notes/mail-configuration-desired-state-credential-free-drift-gate/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Put mail configuration under version control, and have something tell me when the live system no longer matches what is committed. https://wbnns.com/notes/measuring-oracle-staleness-against-market-never-closes/ https://wbnns.com/notes/measuring-oracle-staleness-against-market-never-closes/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tokenized stocks trade 24/7 on Base. The Chainlink oracle pricing them updates on a deviation trigger with no off-hours heartbeat. Find out how big that gap actually gets, and publish it. https://wbnns.com/notes/testing-content-corpus-like-code-so-unsourced-fact-fails/ https://wbnns.com/notes/testing-content-corpus-like-code-so-unsourced-fact-fails/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT An independent guide to Pico Island that does two jobs and no others: rank in search, and get cited by answer engines. Everything that served neither came off. https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-placement-instead-advice-directory-companies-claim/ https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-placement-instead-advice-directory-companies-claim/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Legal and immigration advice is a reserved act in Portugal, so the obvious business is closed. Be the reference people check first instead, and sell placement in a directory rather than advice. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-page-seven-files-two-decide-whether-deploys/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-page-seven-files-two-decide-whether-deploys/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A single page, no build step, no dependencies. https://wbnns.com/notes/custom-domains-github-pages-five-absolute-urls-one-dns/ https://wbnns.com/notes/custom-domains-github-pages-five-absolute-urls-one-dns/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A prototype for Pico: live webcam views, current conditions, and what islanders are reporting right now. Fog on the crossings, caravelas in the pools, whales off Lajes. A *vigia* was the cliff-top tower where a spotter watched for whales and signalled the boats. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-daily-report-on-a-systemd-timer-instead-of-a-crontab-line/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-daily-report-on-a-systemd-timer-instead-of-a-crontab-line/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A daily go-to-market report that runs itself and puts the numbers somewhere I will actually see them. https://wbnns.com/notes/manifest-v3-never-killed-cosmetic-filtering/ https://wbnns.com/notes/manifest-v3-never-killed-cosmetic-filtering/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Chrome's Manifest V2 removal killed uBlock Origin, and with it years of hand-written cosmetic filters people had tuned to their own annoyances. uBlock Origin Lite is declarative by design: no custom filters, no element picker. Get the custom filters back. https://wbnns.com/notes/keeping-the-model-out-of-the-verdict-path/ https://wbnns.com/notes/keeping-the-model-out-of-the-verdict-path/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Measure which online communities actually produce paying customers, and withhold a verdict until the evidence supports one. *Madrugar* is Portuguese for rising before dawn. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-command-that-decides-whether-the-work-is-done/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-command-that-decides-whether-the-work-is-done/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A One Shot build where the thing worth recording is not the kit but the gate. https://wbnns.com/notes/rails-starter-whose-stripe-billing-runs-zero-external/ https://wbnns.com/notes/rails-starter-whose-stripe-billing-runs-zero-external/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every prototype needs the same six things before it can do the one thing it exists for. Ship those done, so the work is the actual product. https://wbnns.com/notes/hotwire-native-deciding-which-screens-stop-being-web-views/ https://wbnns.com/notes/hotwire-native-deciding-which-screens-stop-being-web-views/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The working repo for One Shot. Same kit as shiponeshot; the piece specific here is mobile/. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-stripe-account-and-every-endpoint-gets-every-event/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-stripe-account-and-every-endpoint-gets-every-event/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stripe warned that one product's webhook was failing. The events breaking it belonged to a different product entirely. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-lever-on-agent-token-cost-is-turns-not-transport/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-lever-on-agent-token-cost-is-turns-not-transport/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Switching a messaging agent from polling to streaming is supposed to cut cost. Past a certain arrival rate it does the opposite. https://wbnns.com/notes/assembling-reproducible-exam-bank-cannot-satisfy-every/ https://wbnns.com/notes/assembling-reproducible-exam-bank-cannot-satisfy-every/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Train people for the CIPLE, the official A2-level European Portuguese certificate, as a subscription platform. Reading and writing in v1. https://wbnns.com/notes/twenty-lines-shell-sync-notes-repo-never-shout-about/ https://wbnns.com/notes/twenty-lines-shell-sync-notes-repo-never-shout-about/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Keep a notes repo in sync across machines on a timer, and never interrupt me about it. https://wbnns.com/notes/two-operating-systems-one-dotfiles-repo-no-conditionals/ https://wbnns.com/notes/two-operating-systems-one-dotfiles-repo-no-conditionals/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT One dotfiles repo for macOS workstations and Linux servers, without scattering OS conditionals through twenty files. https://wbnns.com/notes/serving-one-documentation-corpus-to-people-and-to-agents/ https://wbnns.com/notes/serving-one-documentation-corpus-to-people-and-to-agents/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Documentation is increasingly read by something that is not a person. Serve that reader properly instead of wrapping content in navigation chrome. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-static-site-with-exactly-one-server-route/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-static-site-with-exactly-one-server-route/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Find out whether anyone wanted a CIPLE course before building one. https://wbnns.com/notes/edge-triggered-alerting-registration-window-closes-minutes/ https://wbnns.com/notes/edge-triggered-alerting-registration-window-closes-minutes/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT CIPLE A2 registration in Portugal fills within minutes of opening, with no notification, no waitlist and no published time. Get told the moment it opens. https://wbnns.com/notes/when-browser-lcp-measures-the-wrong-thing-on-a-feed/ https://wbnns.com/notes/when-browser-lcp-measures-the-wrong-thing-on-a-feed/ Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Largest Contentful Paint was measuring the wrong thing on an image feed, so measure the right one. https://wbnns.com/notes/designing-type-first-building-whole-dashboard-against-mocks/ https://wbnns.com/notes/designing-type-first-building-whole-dashboard-against-mocks/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT An operator dashboard for a trading bot that reads and never acts. https://wbnns.com/notes/two-places-astro-site-can-put-image-why-matters/ https://wbnns.com/notes/two-places-astro-site-can-put-image-why-matters/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT My CV and photography. The repo dates to October 2017; the Astro site in it was written in February 2026, and everything before that was a different site under the same name. https://wbnns.com/notes/four-agent-lifecycles-one-markdown-file-format/ https://wbnns.com/notes/four-agent-lifecycles-one-markdown-file-format/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Autonomous agent management for Claude Code, where every agent is a markdown file you can read, grep and edit. https://wbnns.com/notes/symlinking-dependencies-so-n-worktrees-do-not-mean-n-node/ https://wbnns.com/notes/symlinking-dependencies-so-n-worktrees-do-not-mean-n-node/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run several Claude Code sessions in parallel without paying for a full checkout each time. https://wbnns.com/notes/hand-written-api-docs-and-the-drift-they-cannot-detect/ https://wbnns.com/notes/hand-written-api-docs-and-the-drift-they-cannot-detect/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Document a small API by writing the docs, rather than generating a reference from a spec. https://wbnns.com/notes/trailing-stop-whose-distance-function-realized-profit/ https://wbnns.com/notes/trailing-stop-whose-distance-function-realized-profit/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT A trading bot for Zora markets where the risk management, not the signal, is the product. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-weekly-release-digest-that-ran-for-a-year/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-weekly-release-digest-that-ran-for-a-year/ Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Framed as an OP Stack consulting site. What actually accumulated is _posts/: a year of weekly OP Stack release digests. https://wbnns.com/notes/duplicate-detection-without-an-api/ https://wbnns.com/notes/duplicate-detection-without-an-api/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Submit to Hacker News in one keystroke without breaking the guidelines or posting a duplicate. https://wbnns.com/notes/parts-indexer-grows-rate-limiter-verify-queue-wal-safe/ https://wbnns.com/notes/parts-indexer-grows-rate-limiter-verify-queue-wal-safe/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Ingest Zora markets into a queryable local database, and keep it correct while it runs. https://wbnns.com/notes/serving-pwa-manifest-service-worker-through-rails-view-layer/ https://wbnns.com/notes/serving-pwa-manifest-service-worker-through-rails-view-layer/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT The app itself. The README is the stock Rails placeholder, so the tree is the record. https://wbnns.com/notes/reader-no-account-post-identity-problem-creates/ https://wbnns.com/notes/reader-no-account-post-identity-problem-creates/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Only what you follow, nothing else. A reader for public Instagram and Twitter accounts over RSS, with no account and no server. https://wbnns.com/notes/magic-link-auth-the-decisions-the-gem-does-not-make-for-you/ https://wbnns.com/notes/magic-link-auth-the-decisions-the-gem-does-not-make-for-you/ Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT A Rails 8 starting template with the authentication decisions already made rather than left to the gem. https://wbnns.com/notes/thread-local-sqlite-connections-write-lock-underneath-them/ https://wbnns.com/notes/thread-local-sqlite-connections-write-lock-underneath-them/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Index Base contract deployers and count activity per contract. https://wbnns.com/notes/turning-a-week-of-github-activity-into-notion-blocks/ https://wbnns.com/notes/turning-a-week-of-github-activity-into-notion-blocks/ Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Building in public should not require remembering to write anything down. Pull the week's GitHub activity and post it to Notion automatically. https://wbnns.com/notes/partial-success-as-the-default-outcome-of-a-cross-post/ https://wbnns.com/notes/partial-success-as-the-default-outcome-of-a-cross-post/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT The cost of posting is not the typing, it is opening three apps designed to keep you there. Send one Telegram message and have it fan out to Bluesky, Farcaster and X. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-frame-image-written-as-jsx-rendered-on-the-response-path/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-frame-image-written-as-jsx-rendered-on-the-response-path/ Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Build a Farcaster frame with Frog, where the frame image is written as JSX rather than drawn. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-todo-list-that-lives-in-contract-storage/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-todo-list-that-lives-in-contract-storage/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT A todo list where tasks live in contract storage instead of a database, so people can see what you are working on without you publishing anything. https://wbnns.com/notes/publishing-a-snapshots-size-without-hosting-the-snapshot/ https://wbnns.com/notes/publishing-a-snapshots-size-without-hosting-the-snapshot/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Node operators need to know how much disk a Base node takes when restoring from a snapshot, before they provision. The number moves weekly and was published nowhere convenient. https://wbnns.com/notes/reading-a-directory-from-its-own-json-instead-of-its-html/ https://wbnns.com/notes/reading-a-directory-from-its-own-json-instead-of-its-html/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Get every project URL out of base.org/ecosystem in one click. https://wbnns.com/notes/where-ecosystem-ends-headline-number-moves/ https://wbnns.com/notes/where-ecosystem-ends-headline-number-moves/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Keep Base's entry current in the dataset behind everyone's developer-count charts. https://wbnns.com/notes/two-block-explorers-one-address-graph-result-cap-truncates/ https://wbnns.com/notes/two-block-explorers-one-address-graph-result-cap-truncates/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Get every address that sent a transaction to a target address, across Ethereum and Base, as a CSV. Useful for allowlists and for seeing who actually interacted with something. https://wbnns.com/notes/mtproto-not-bot-api-session-file-credential/ https://wbnns.com/notes/mtproto-not-bot-api-session-file-credential/ Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT Export your Telegram chat titles to CSV so they can go into a spreadsheet. https://wbnns.com/notes/keeping-the-raw-payload-next-to-the-derived-report/ https://wbnns.com/notes/keeping-the-raw-payload-next-to-the-derived-report/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Check a token's security and rug-pull risk, and keep what the check said. https://wbnns.com/notes/ci-check-reads-diff-validates-against-another-repo/ https://wbnns.com/notes/ci-check-reads-diff-validates-against-another-repo/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Stop a wrong token definition reaching the Base bridge by checking it in CI. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-unique-constraint-as-the-idempotency-mechanism/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-unique-constraint-as-the-idempotency-mechanism/ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Poll Farcaster casts, extract links, and process each cast exactly once. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-guild-setting-as-an-anti-scam-control/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-guild-setting-as-an-anti-scam-control/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT New members of a crypto-adjacent Discord get DMed within minutes by someone pretending to be support, and the server's moderation never sees it because it does not happen in the server. Turn member-to-member DMs off, through the API. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-farcaster-frame-is-meta-tags-and-a-post-handler/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-farcaster-frame-is-meta-tags-and-a-post-handler/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Find out how small the Farcaster Frames protocol actually is by building one on plain Flask. https://wbnns.com/notes/minting-button-press-verification-has-sit-behind/ https://wbnns.com/notes/minting-button-press-verification-has-sit-behind/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Mint an NFT from a button press inside a Farcaster feed. https://wbnns.com/notes/on-chain-randomness-you-can-read-before-you-guess/ https://wbnns.com/notes/on-chain-randomness-you-can-read-before-you-guess/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A guess-the-number game with a prize pot, and why the number was never actually hidden. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-block-number-is-the-token-id/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-block-number-is-the-token-id/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Make the scarce thing the block, not the artwork. Be the first person to mint an NFT in each new Base block. https://wbnns.com/notes/contract-project-caught-halfway-between-truffle-hardhat/ https://wbnns.com/notes/contract-project-caught-halfway-between-truffle-hardhat/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A contract project caught halfway between Truffle and Hardhat. https://wbnns.com/notes/what-an-indexer-has-to-solve-that-a-node-does-not/ https://wbnns.com/notes/what-an-indexer-has-to-solve-that-a-node-does-not/ Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Build a Base indexer from scratch, to understand what an indexer has to solve that a node does not. https://wbnns.com/notes/two-package-json-files-one-repo-no-workspace/ https://wbnns.com/notes/two-package-json-files-one-repo-no-workspace/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Onchain insights and analytics for Base, as an Express backend and a Create React App frontend. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-gateway-websocket-and-a-web-server-in-one-process/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-gateway-websocket-and-a-web-server-in-one-process/ Sat, 02 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Capture Discord server metrics over time and serve them from a small web app in the same process. https://wbnns.com/notes/bridging-an-erc-20-to-base-with-cast-and-nothing-else/ https://wbnns.com/notes/bridging-an-erc-20-to-base-with-cast-and-nothing-else/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Write down the handful of Base operations worth doing from the command line, where nothing is hidden. https://wbnns.com/notes/adding-a-network-to-a-token-list-that-moves-real-funds/ https://wbnns.com/notes/adding-a-network-to-a-token-list-that-moves-real-funds/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Add the Base mainnet definition to the Optimism token list, the file bridges and interfaces read to resolve a token. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-nonce-is-not-the-transaction-count/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-nonce-is-not-the-transaction-count/ Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Extract bits of onchain information about Base from the shell. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-faucet-whose-reward-scales-with-what-you-hold/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-faucet-whose-reward-scales-with-what-you-hold/ Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT An ETH faucet that pays by merit rather than a flat drip, and the three places that idea leaks. https://wbnns.com/notes/has-this-person-committed-anything-has-no-correct-answer/ https://wbnns.com/notes/has-this-person-committed-anything-has-no-correct-answer/ Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Answer "has this GitHub username committed anything, and how much" as a package. https://wbnns.com/notes/queue-front-simulcast-double-post-invites/ https://wbnns.com/notes/queue-front-simulcast-double-post-invites/ Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Queue posts and simulcast them to Farcaster and Twitter. https://wbnns.com/notes/link-rot-in-a-curated-list/ https://wbnns.com/notes/link-rot-in-a-curated-list/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT There was no list of Base ecosystem links, so make one. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-security-policy-for-a-repo-that-runs-other-peoples-nodes/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-security-policy-for-a-repo-that-runs-other-peoples-nodes/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Give the repository that runs Base nodes a security policy and contribution guidelines. https://wbnns.com/notes/setting-public-folder-twice-and-the-silent-404-that-follows/ https://wbnns.com/notes/setting-public-folder-twice-and-the-silent-404-that-follows/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Two small Sinatra experiments, one of which contains a bug worth keeping. https://wbnns.com/notes/trustless-fil-wfil-bridge-liquidity-bound-centre/ https://wbnns.com/notes/trustless-fil-wfil-bridge-liquidity-bound-centre/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT Propose a trustless, bidirectional FIL to WFIL bridge, and get Filecoin to fund it. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-index-html-730-bytes-floor-shipping-web/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-index-html-730-bytes-floor-shipping-web/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT One index.html, 730 bytes, nothing else. https://wbnns.com/notes/talking-ethereum-node-ruby-where-transport-options-api/ https://wbnns.com/notes/talking-ethereum-node-ruby-where-transport-options-api/ Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Ruby had almost nothing for talking to an Ethereum node, so Rails apps wanting chain state were writing raw JSON-RPC by hand. Fix that. https://wbnns.com/notes/translating-a-curriculum-made-mostly-of-english-links/ https://wbnns.com/notes/translating-a-curriculum-made-mostly-of-english-links/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Everything a person needs to get started or level up as a web developer, free, based on The Odin Project's open curriculum by Erik Trautman, credited throughout. Published as a GitBook and translated: codelibro in Spanish, codelivre in French. https://wbnns.com/notes/aggregating-price-several-apis-deciding-what-do-when-they/ https://wbnns.com/notes/aggregating-price-several-apis-deciding-what-do-when-they/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Pull the bitcoin price from several APIs at once, so one bad feed cannot mislead an app. https://wbnns.com/notes/mounting-react-inside-rails-and-the-initial-state-seam/ https://wbnns.com/notes/mounting-react-inside-rails-and-the-initial-state-seam/ Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT A cryptocurrency portfolio tracker, built as Rails with React inside it. https://wbnns.com/notes/three-sources-one-nft-listing-why-scraping-worst/ https://wbnns.com/notes/three-sources-one-nft-listing-why-scraping-worst/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT A proof of concept for scraping an NFT marketplace, which mostly became an argument for not doing it. https://wbnns.com/notes/ethernaut-level-one-fallback-function-public-entry-point/ https://wbnns.com/notes/ethernaut-level-one-fallback-function-public-entry-point/ Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT Work the Ethernaut levels rather than read the writeups. https://wbnns.com/notes/forking-a-jekyll-theme-you-intend-to-keep-editing/ https://wbnns.com/notes/forking-a-jekyll-theme-you-intend-to-keep-editing/ Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT A site for the Congo Developers Club, an online place where developers across Congo and central Africa exchange ideas and opportunities. https://wbnns.com/notes/reporting-three-change-windows-without-storing-any-history/ https://wbnns.com/notes/reporting-three-change-windows-without-storing-any-history/ Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT Post the WBTC price and its 1-hour, 24-hour and 7-day changes for assets with option markets on Siren. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-json-schema-as-the-entire-product/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-json-schema-as-the-entire-product/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT A token list registry for the Superchain, where the product is the JSON schema. https://wbnns.com/notes/rails-application-templates-ordering-problem-everyone-hits/ https://wbnns.com/notes/rails-application-templates-ordering-problem-everyone-hits/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT Make my Rails defaults one flag instead of a checklist. https://wbnns.com/notes/anti-tracking-blocked-signup-form-so-form-moved-house/ https://wbnns.com/notes/anti-tracking-blocked-signup-form-so-form-moved-house/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT Brave and Firefox block MailChimp's embedded signup script under anti-tracking rules, so the Scyberia waiting list silently collected nothing. Replace the embed with a form we own. https://wbnns.com/notes/measuring-60-support-desks-hand-publishing-correspondence/ https://wbnns.com/notes/measuring-60-support-desks-hand-publishing-correspondence/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Nobody knew which bitcoin exchanges actually answer their support email, so measure it: 60+ exchanges, June 2020. https://wbnns.com/notes/rendering-mediawiki-format-proposals-as-a-static-site/ https://wbnns.com/notes/rendering-mediawiki-format-proposals-as-a-static-site/ Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Render the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals as a browsable static site. https://wbnns.com/notes/storage-number-nobody-warns-you-about-when-you-run-explorer/ https://wbnns.com/notes/storage-number-nobody-warns-you-about-when-you-run-explorer/ Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Stand up a Bitcoin block explorer on Blockstream's Esplora frontend and electrs backend. https://wbnns.com/notes/form-posts-without-leaving-page-gate-actually-enforces/ https://wbnns.com/notes/form-posts-without-leaving-page-gate-actually-enforces/ Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT The Congo Developers Club site before the Jekyll rebuild, with a jQuery signup form and a launch countdown. https://wbnns.com/notes/cache-committed-to-git-and-the-stale-build-it-can-cause/ https://wbnns.com/notes/cache-committed-to-git-and-the-stale-build-it-can-cause/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT A Gatsby site, with .cache/ committed to git. https://wbnns.com/notes/heading-typography-in-a-long-form-archive/ https://wbnns.com/notes/heading-typography-in-a-long-form-archive/ Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Improve heading typography on the Satoshi index at the Nakamoto Institute. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-build-script-that-renders-php-to-static-html/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-build-script-that-renders-php-to-static-html/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT A personal site where PHP is the template language and what gets deployed is static HTML. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-bitcoin-conf-for-a-machine-that-does-not-have-the-ram/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-bitcoin-conf-for-a-machine-that-does-not-have-the-ram/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT Run a Bitcoin node on a machine that does not have the RAM, and write down what each setting actually costs. https://wbnns.com/notes/eight-community-health-files-and-how-github-resolves-them/ https://wbnns.com/notes/eight-community-health-files-and-how-github-resolves-them/ Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT Collect the eight community health files a new repository should start with, and learn how GitHub actually resolves them. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-sphinx-theme-is-not-a-stylesheet/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-sphinx-theme-is-not-a-stylesheet/ Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT Change the Sphinx theme on the Bitcoin developer documentation. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-loop-and-the-closed-form/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-loop-and-the-closed-form/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT Start Project Euler in Ruby. https://wbnns.com/notes/escrow-is-the-whole-product-in-a-peer-to-peer-exchange/ https://wbnns.com/notes/escrow-is-the-whole-product-in-a-peer-to-peer-exchange/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT Replicate LocalBitcoins for Latin America, in Spanish. Shipped as BitMae. https://wbnns.com/notes/volume-floors-why-percent-change-rankings-noise-without-them/ https://wbnns.com/notes/volume-floors-why-percent-change-rankings-noise-without-them/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT Three bots posting CoinMarketCap movers: top ten, biggest gainers, biggest losers. https://wbnns.com/notes/deriving-a-cross-rate-through-a-base-you-did-not-ask-for/ https://wbnns.com/notes/deriving-a-cross-rate-through-a-base-you-did-not-ask-for/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT Post the Costa Rican colón to US dollar rate with 7-day, 30-day and 1-year comparisons, in Spanish. https://wbnns.com/notes/hmac-request-signing-clock-skew-looks-like-auth-failure/ https://wbnns.com/notes/hmac-request-signing-clock-skew-looks-like-auth-failure/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Post the average bitcoin price across exchanges, in Spanish. The English-language price bots were everywhere and there were very few for Spanish-speaking audiences. https://wbnns.com/notes/percent-change-the-sign-convention-and-the-zero-denominator/ https://wbnns.com/notes/percent-change-the-sign-convention-and-the-zero-denominator/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Two small Ruby utilities, one of which has a bug that outlives beginners. https://wbnns.com/notes/gets-chomp-to-i-returns-0-and-beginners-never-find-out/ https://wbnns.com/notes/gets-chomp-to-i-returns-0-and-beginners-never-find-out/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT Work through Chris Pine's *Learn to Program* in Ruby. https://wbnns.com/notes/hundreds-of-emoji-pngs-and-the-advice-http-2-reversed/ https://wbnns.com/notes/hundreds-of-emoji-pngs-and-the-advice-http-2-reversed/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT VA services for hodlers, as a one-page site carrying hundreds of emoji PNGs. https://wbnns.com/notes/quoting-a-price-you-are-willing-to-be-held-to/ https://wbnns.com/notes/quoting-a-price-you-are-willing-to-be-held-to/ Sun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT An over-the-counter desk that provides quotes and executes trades, in Flask. https://wbnns.com/notes/flask-app-costa-rican-market-data-never-written/ https://wbnns.com/notes/flask-app-costa-rican-market-data-never-written/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT Costa Rican market data as a Flask app. https://wbnns.com/notes/normalize-css-and-the-dependency-nobody-audits/ https://wbnns.com/notes/normalize-css-and-the-dependency-nobody-audits/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT An interactive page as a front-end exercise: index.html, app.js, main.css and normalize.css. https://wbnns.com/notes/fetch-render-and-send-as-three-modules/ https://wbnns.com/notes/fetch-render-and-send-as-three-modules/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT Email a weather forecast on a schedule, split into three modules that each do one thing. https://wbnns.com/notes/what-adding-one-clause-to-mit-costs-you-downstream/ https://wbnns.com/notes/what-adding-one-clause-to-mit-costs-you-downstream/ Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT Write a licence for software that moves money, so users acknowledge market risk rather than inferring a promise. https://wbnns.com/notes/optimising-inside-a-build-environment-that-forbids-plugins/ https://wbnns.com/notes/optimising-inside-a-build-environment-that-forbids-plugins/ Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT A Jekyll blog for bitcoin development writing, with a Sass tree, a projects data file, and one post reviewing SegWit2x. https://wbnns.com/notes/one-landing-page-template-eight-sites-eight-years/ https://wbnns.com/notes/one-landing-page-template-eight-sites-eight-years/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT The Digital Currency Depository & Trust site, and the landing-page template I reused for the next eight years. https://wbnns.com/notes/a-support-matrix-that-has-to-say-what-supports-segwit-means/ https://wbnns.com/notes/a-support-matrix-that-has-to-say-what-supports-segwit-means/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Add a Bitcoin Ruby library to the SegWit support list on bitcoincore.org. https://wbnns.com/notes/http-402-as-a-working-payment-channel/ https://wbnns.com/notes/http-402-as-a-working-payment-channel/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT Wrap an existing API so that requests pay you bitcoin. https://wbnns.com/notes/reselling-a-metered-api-for-satoshis/ https://wbnns.com/notes/reselling-a-metered-api-for-satoshis/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT Resell News API access, priced per request in satoshis, across 43 sources. https://wbnns.com/notes/charging-for-a-public-good-data-feed/ https://wbnns.com/notes/charging-for-a-public-good-data-feed/ Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT Sell parsed National Hurricane Center data through a bitcoin-paid endpoint. https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-stock-quotes-over-endpoint-google-never-documented/ https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-stock-quotes-over-endpoint-google-never-documented/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Sell NYSE price lookups for 720 satoshis a call. https://wbnns.com/notes/the-same-service-one-string-different/ https://wbnns.com/notes/the-same-service-one-string-different/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT The same service as NYSE-Ticker against a different exchange. https://wbnns.com/notes/normalising-free-text-ingredients-and-selling-the-ranking/ https://wbnns.com/notes/normalising-free-text-ingredients-and-selling-the-ranking/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Provide some ingredients, get recipe suggestions, pay in bitcoin. https://wbnns.com/notes/pricing-a-security-answer-by-value-not-by-cost/ https://wbnns.com/notes/pricing-a-security-answer-by-value-not-by-cost/ Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Check whether a link might be malicious, for 2700 satoshis. https://wbnns.com/notes/payment-taken-extraction-failed/ https://wbnns.com/notes/payment-taken-extraction-failed/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT A paid media extraction endpoint, and the failure mode that made it unworkable. https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-a-search-whose-negative-result-means-nothing/ https://wbnns.com/notes/selling-a-search-whose-negative-result-means-nothing/ Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Sell trademark lookups through a paid endpoint. https://wbnns.com/notes/account-existence-oracles-sold-by-the-request/ https://wbnns.com/notes/account-existence-oracles-sold-by-the-request/ Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT Yellow pages are for businesses, white pages for people. Orange pages return the social media accounts associated with an email address, paid in bitcoin. https://wbnns.com/notes/bitcoin-bounties-for-github-work-escrowed-in-2-of-3-multisig/ https://wbnns.com/notes/bitcoin-bounties-for-github-work-escrowed-in-2-of-3-multisig/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMT A platform for working from anywhere and getting paid in bitcoin, with 2-of-3 multisig escrow holding the bounties. https://wbnns.com/notes/five-years-maintaining-bitcoin-org/ https://wbnns.com/notes/five-years-maintaining-bitcoin-org/ Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT Five years maintaining bitcoin.org, from July 2015 to June 2020. https://wbnns.com/notes/maintaining-a-translated-document-corpus-in-opendocument/ https://wbnns.com/notes/maintaining-a-translated-document-corpus-in-opendocument/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT Maintain the bitcoin whitepaper in many languages, with each translated PDF matching the layout of the 2008 original.