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HTLCs: How Lightning Moves Money Through Strangers
By @tobses [ 25 Min read ] How Hash Time-Locked Contracts let strangers route Lightning payments trustlessly across a chain of nodes, using hashes and timeouts to guarantee no one loses f Read More.
Books as Code: Writing and Publishing Books with Markdown and Git
By @thebojda [ 7 Min read ] Learn how PubDown turns Markdown and Git into a complete book publishing workflow, generating print-ready PDFs and EPUBs for KDP and other platforms. Read More.
AI Coding Tip 031 - Dont Write Prompts for a Model That Evolved
By @mcsee [ 7 Min read ] Reasoning models already verify and pace themselves, so drop those prompts and set real effort, scope, length, autonomy. Read More.
PicoTTY: A KVM Without the V (or the M) for My Homelab
By @morpheuslord [ 17 Min read ] PicoTTY is a KVM without the V or the M: a serial-plus-keyboard console over USB for headless mini PCs, with one hub driving a whole rack from the browser. Read More.
A Perfect Example of a Web3 Product Launch PRComms Disaster: Ledger Recover, 2023
By @sergeymagas [ 6 Min read ] A breakdown of Ledger Recoverys PR failure — poor crisis communication, founder overconfidence, and the commercial fallout that followed. Read More.
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