Ian
Ian Vaughan

You’re right, it is everywhere the ‘move fast and break things’ attitude. But it makes a person want to work in the life and death serious areas so you can escape it. And like you say, it’s the support staff who get burnt by bugs or data issues in Prod. I suppose I saw Bitcoin as the kind of refreshing antidote to that mainstream approach - building its own reputation by it being rigorous and rock solid. Maybe I’ve just romanticised it to myself? But I do hope NOSTR can take its responsibilities as seriously as Bitcoin.

2025-10-23 22:18:08 UTC

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Amen brother, life is one hundred percent about us all striving to be better until we can’t anymore. Peace.

2025-10-23 22:15:31 UTC

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Not mad at all, just concerned at the loss of professionalism or duty of care I see. You’ve taken on the developer mantle and I truly applaud you. But I think you all will need to adopt higher standards as NOSTR grows.

2025-10-23 22:10:20 UTC

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What do you mean? Microsoft have not cared for their users in years?

2025-10-23 22:05:50 UTC

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I don’t know what this even means?

2025-10-23 22:03:25 UTC

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And I hope you are taking this on the constructive spirit I truly mean it. And I thank you for engaging. And yes, I have had a few glasses tonight, hence the typos🤣

2025-10-23 22:01:51 UTC

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If developers can’t be bothered to build a test environment, it only means that there aren’t consequences worth the expense/hassle to bugs going out into live Prod, which can only means that, sadly, NOSTR production is still a live sandpit. I would dearly love this to change by the way. But it’s so not Bitcoin standard yet is it?

2025-10-23 21:55:22 UTC

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Not at all, I’m calling people who are prepared to test in production fools and stating that it is indicative that they don’t have a valuable production environment or care much for their users.

2025-10-23 21:50:19 UTC

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Sadly the essence of vibe coding amateurism is testing in production. It means Production is worth shit if you’re prepared to be testing there.

2025-10-20 18:07:31 UTC

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Nutzap?

2025-10-02 17:56:21 UTC

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Same, it’s kind of fizzled out for now it seems.

2025-09-27 21:03:03 UTC

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Totally get that. But anger’s not a very useful energy, this is a time for clear heads and not giving them what they want or expect. But a humbling is called for and must be delivered, these people are out of their tiny minds.

2025-09-27 20:41:58 UTC

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Don’t be so defeatist, Joe, life’s just getting interesting!

2025-09-27 12:48:44 UTC

Dear UK, shut up already about democratic due process or it not being in a party manifesto anyone voted on and just be grateful for this free digital id that’s kindly been arranged for you - It’ll fix everything, pinky promise! Tony Blair’s son’s already built it, it’s going to be great, you’ll love it! The automated lottery war conscription function is a total peach. Enjoy your servitude you ingrates.

2025-08-28 09:54:07 UTC

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Amazing response, thank you.

2025-08-28 09:15:57 UTC

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Actually, just seen there is a new version of the app and have updated so will see if the latest version still does it.

2025-08-28 09:03:27 UTC

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Since yesterday I’ve been finding bitchat iOS app crashing repeatedly. It seems to happen at times if you teleport to a channel where someone has posted a hyperlink. The app crashes and then when you restart it, the app tries to load that link again and crashes immediately. The app seems broken until that content then is off screen again once more posts have occurred.

2025-08-14 08:39:38 UTC

In recent weeks, I’ve returned to learning some guitar pieces that I learned (some incompletely) over 20 years ago. It’s amazing to experience how the brain slowly remembers something that it previously knew - the magic of muscle memory as it recovers the ability to play passages I’d thought completely forgotten and to string the movements together. But it’s also made me think a lot about the passing of time and the past. I’ve found my mind serving me up memories of people and places from around that time that I hadn’t thought about for years, I guess the brain keeps it all stored together?
I remembered a line from a Vonnegut book I read around then too ‘Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time’.

2025-08-14 08:14:19 UTC

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This does sound like a great experience. Family camping and outdoor holidays are the best.

2025-08-07 16:34:44 UTC

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I’ve not tried OxChat yet, sorry, I’m playing catch-up here! Has that got a mobile app version?

2025-08-07 11:31:06 UTC

I’ve been trying out @nprofile…xrjy and that is a really great NOSTR messaging app and already much more. It’s exciting to see where this goes.

2025-08-05 15:12:59 UTC

Only found out about @npub1wht…r3ec today and am trying it out, looks promising.

2025-06-21 12:41:13 UTC

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No worries, thanks for the feedback. Working in isolation there was always a risk of me taking it in a different direction I guess. But yes, it was a lot of fun to do - thanks for posting the stems.
I programmed the drum part and the piano too. I heard so much rhythm in your vocal line that I was trying to play into, but guess that was just to my ears.

2025-06-21 11:55:25 UTC

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It’s fine if you don’t like it, or think I went too far.

2025-06-20 11:22:51 UTC

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Here you go. Let me know if you have any problems downloading it. Hope you like it 🙏
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/374e2b89eb5cde0eebac616a8139da5820250620111518/7308fde3b604b7a38f8ac28eb8112e0720250620111551/db9869?t_exp=1750504518&t_lsid=b02493ae-7370-4048-96c7-2bfc6d11db94&t_network=email&t_rid=ZW1haWx8YWRyb2l0fDAxMDlhMGVjLWFmMzYtNDJiMC04NDdkLWNlNDcwNmQ4NTBhMQ%3D%3D&t_s=download_link&t_ts=1750418151&utm_campaign=TRN_TDL_01&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&trk=TRN_TDL_01

2025-06-19 11:57:42 UTC

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Hi @npub1w3m…jh9z, sorry for the prolonged silence. I think I’ve got a mix! What’s the best way to share it with you? WeTransfer or something else?

2025-05-21 14:47:16 UTC

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I’m really enjoying working on this track. It’s a superb vocal track. I’m not finished yet though, sorry! I’m slow anyway, but currently have a tonne of things to juggle. Any chance of an extension to the deadline?🙏

2025-05-08 12:18:56 UTC

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Great. That link seems to have downloaded the files fine for me (but I haven’t checked them all yet).
Two weeks is long enough I reckon. I am already trying to fit too much in these next few weeks, but I’ll hopefully make the time to have a go at a mix. Hope you get a lot of others interested in this too.

2025-05-08 07:37:44 UTC

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This is a great track, the vocal is awesome. Well done for doing this! And having partly suggested this, I’m definitely keen to have a go. But what’s the timescale? And also, what’s the scope - are you looking for someone to just tweak the mix or would you be happy for someone to take it in a totally different direction etc?

2025-03-30 12:23:47 UTC

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I’m due a trip down that way soon enough, so I’ll try to make it work with other plans.
What about the others on the bill, are you all solo sets? You could maybe do with a good house band to sit in with you all.

2025-03-30 08:50:32 UTC

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This will be epic! I’ll try to make it down if I can. I used to play at this venue all the time back in the day.
Are you taking your band, Joe, or playing a solo set?

2025-03-27 09:05:22 UTC

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Thanks, I needed to hear this. I’m out on a limb on my own trying to build or create things people might want. It definitely doesn’t feel safe. But what waters to get to swim in!

2025-03-15 15:28:05 UTC

My new guitar body has arrived, it was a real bargain. Time to start to build a classic Telecaster. I’m really looking forward to this project.
https://m.primal.net/PgrB.jpg

2025-02-13 18:21:11 UTC

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Nice. Yes, I think it’s best to have options all set up to fall back to if nothing else.
I have found that the backend server service on my S9 for Matrix has been rock solid. All the issues I’ve had were in getting the flaky front end clients to connect or stay connected over Tor. That said, I started using Schildi chat instead of Element (it was forked but improved) and hit a sweet run of no issues for months. Then Element seemed to get sorted by a better release too. And the issues I was having using Orbot to get Element to connect on my mobile were resolved by an Orbot update too I think. But not used it much the last couple of months so that could be out of date again now.

2025-02-13 08:30:59 UTC

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It’s tiresome isn’t it?
It’s the total number of sites and the percentage of sites functional over time that is important to understanding the actual impact. For example, if 90% of the sites in a network of 1000 sites had been put out of action once over three years, but each time a site had been repaired and back working within 2 days, it’s quite a different picture.

2025-02-12 21:32:23 UTC

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Cool. And sounds like you’re already quite decentralised.
I’ve heard Max say he’s running Start9’s. Element / Matrix works great on those if you aren’t already using that - your own group chat is on your own hardware then and backed up etc.

2025-02-12 20:59:41 UTC

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Thanks, Jon, that’s a great clip. It does sound like a very useful and valuable group you’ve got going there. But surely too valuable to be on a centralised 3rd party service like Telegram was what I meant.

2025-02-12 11:47:41 UTC

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This was a really good episode, very enjoyable chat.
I’ve been listening to the show for a few months and wondering what the hell the Meshtadel was that you keep talking about, it always sounds amazing. I was thinking ‘maybe these guys are doing something really cool with meshtastic nodes or some real, resilient off grid comms kind of stuff?’ But the wonderful irony of Max saying that the Meshtadel is in fact ‘just a Telegram group’ about 2 minutes after calling most bitcoiners LARPers, was too good not to pass comment on.
https://fountain.fm/episode/xVgogW64mi1ILPxGDOpd
#nevent1q…r9k5

2025-01-31 10:39:44 UTC

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You could maybe do this as a sort of competition format? Post the stem tracks and give a bounty in sats for your favourite submitted mix? Or post your favourite couple of mixes with different splits and see which one does best etc?

2025-01-23 09:15:41 UTC

Yesterday I heard @npub1lt8…zt5y on @npub1jcy…2890. It was a very interesting episode, so I went back and listened to the first two that I hadn’t heard either - all really great chats.
I want to buy some of that timber!
Also, can you CNC and is that a service you’ll offer? I’m keen to make a guitar this year and would really like to see it cut all the way from being a plank of wood this time.

2025-01-15 12:44:45 UTC

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You’re totally right. That’s what this song is about.
https://wavlake.com/album/8f3dedd2-071a-498a-a5ae-860b436eacc1

2025-01-14 16:04:48 UTC

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This was a great interview, thanks for deciding to post it. I’ve read Jeff’s book, but he seemed to explain it even better here? Maybe it was just the repetition of the message making it clearer for me?
Anyway, I’m glad I chose to listen and not watch as I see now the video is like an optical illusion. Jeff’s house seems to be experiencing clock inflation and guitar deflation!

2025-01-01 11:07:13 UTC

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Seriously, you’d never heard of the nudge unit before?! And not one question about the role of this unit during Covid etc? You can do much better than this, Pete.
Read Laura Dodsworth’s ‘A State of Fear’, we were all nudged massively.

2025-01-01 00:40:22 UTC

Happy New Year all. Here’s to 2025 and to regular people rediscovering their own agency and taking control of their lives.

2024-12-30 17:36:29 UTC

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It’s such an honour to have made the top 40 artists on Fountain, for 2024
Can’t wait to help grow this in 2025.

2024-12-30 17:20:58 UTC

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This is awesome, Oscar, well done to you and all at Fountain. It’s very inspiring to see you just solidly getting on with building the tools and circular economy for creators in Bitcoin. All the best for 2025.

2024-12-26 10:44:05 UTC

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Absolutely, the future is what we make it, and we can only ever control our own actions.
I’m similarly thinking to myself recently, what am I going to do with my hopefully 30 useful years left.
I’ve got about a nine month runway carved out left for myself to help try to make something out of value for value music on Bitcoin.
Here’s to 2025 and what we make of it, all the best, cheers!

2024-12-26 10:16:41 UTC

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Nice to meet you too.
Well done for making a living at it for 25 years, that’s not easy. I’ve seen so many good musicians either walk away from it or not make much to live on and have to compromise on things etc.
I agree there are a lot of talented youngsters still learning to play - and they are really good! I just hope that the Bitcoin effect could be to allow some of the older generation musicians to be able to support viable live venues or studios to help guide and produce the talent coming through.
I hear the term ‘generational wealth’ thrown about on podcasts and it is like they mean ‘sit on it forever, Laura, so my great-grandkids will think I was a fucking genius’, but I think generational wealth really should mean ‘wealth that generates something’, including great-grandkids too of course.

2024-12-26 08:21:31 UTC

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I agree, but also think/hope it is an unmet need in people. Maybe it is just that there is so much low quality, ignorable music out there, people just don’t invest in it in the same way. But I’ve seen with giving my kids access to the whole Spotify catalogue, they have ended up reaching back into the past and listening to older music that I also like, but haven’t pushed on them at all. This makes me happy that we can bond over music I like, but also sad for them that it seems like they don’t have generational records/sounds of their own. The people in the family most knowledgeable or invested in current chart music are the grandparents- it makes no sense!
Early 80s records are like a teleport back to my childhood for me now. But what sounds will do that for them? The endless Ed Sheeran shit we hear playing in the shops?🤷‍♂️

2024-12-26 00:09:56 UTC

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You’re good there, I think future generations will judge that work kindly on its merits.🤣

2024-12-25 23:59:30 UTC

Merry Christmas all.
A Christmas wish - no more AI shite music. If Bitcoin is going to be at the root of a renaissance, I hope it helps support a revival of the music studio, with pools of talented people being paid for working with bands to make truly great records again. Music for the future generations of humanity.

2024-12-19 10:08:35 UTC

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This is a great idea. I couldn’t find anything that actually made me laugh in the ‘comedy’ categories on my TV the other night. Reminded me why I try to never watch TV anymore.

2024-12-18 22:36:31 UTC

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This is correct. If Saylor’s pitch is to be believed and Bitcoin is energy, then this practice is electric arse kissing.

2024-12-17 17:35:16 UTC

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This looks cool. Going to be a real step forward and quickly make most hardware wallets looks dated.

2024-12-17 09:26:28 UTC

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Well done for putting this out.
Malhotra sounded too much the luke warm apologist for my liking.

2024-12-06 11:19:35 UTC

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Nice one, Danny. Looking forward to seeing you make this show your own now. Best of luck.

2024-11-23 16:10:53 UTC

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This is a great idea, Joe.
I would always appreciate you playing one of mine if it fits in, how about this one? It has the benefit of being quite short too 😀
https://wavlake.com/track/c9c53615-23a0-4a27-9024-d6dd6f3d7dea

2024-10-21 14:12:32 UTC

Nearly Halloween and the timeline is full of spooks being spooky.

2024-08-01 19:29:25 UTC

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I always enjoy your episodes with Douglas Macgregor. I laughed out loud at this one when he suggested people might want to get a crack habit to see them through the next few years.

2024-06-21 21:08:59 UTC

@npub19r9…eukr hi Joe, it was me that wrote the V4V pdf you were sent. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a while. If we can get this Liverpool music festival to fly next summer, you are definitely invited, all the best!

2024-05-04 23:54:52 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/6a204eccbd8d486a8b1c49e28bfcdb18dd16f6d5e9e0d6f03365cf6e9f9deebc.jpg

2024-05-04 23:53:55 UTC

I’m really enjoying this book - still a chunk to read yet though. Should I be worried by the 666 in the ISBN code @npub1a2c…w83a?

2024-04-16 18:13:58 UTC

Why are people excited that Google are opening a site in El Salvador?
What bit of building decentralised systems for self-sovereign individuals is that going to be good for?

2024-04-07 22:07:08 UTC

Breathing Space was played as the bonus track in episode #29 of Lightning Thrashes and I’m very pleased. Thanks @npub15z2…6q95
https://sirlibre.com/lightning-thrashes/lightning-thrashes-episode-29/

2024-02-08 11:36:26 UTC

@npub14mc…frlx I think you should only use lightning as you want to if that helps maintain your perspective as an interviewer. But I think the missed opportunity is that lightning is in many ways a social network that relies on interactions with known trusted parties to succeed and that is where your involvement would greatly benefit the network. Most businesses have dedicated IT staff, the CEO is too busy and not down in the technical weeds - how is this different?
What I mean is, you sell merchandise to lots of bitcoiners. If your trusted brand had lightning node(s) that allowed people to open channels with you and make purchases, that might open up a lot more routing options and inbound liquidity for others with lightning nodes or whatever. I suppose what I’m saying is, your presence is too large in the space to just be a neutral bystander and you seem to sincerely want lightning to be better.

2023-12-06 22:52:39 UTC

I'm using Iris for Nostr now, and self-hosting a relay too.

2023-09-13 19:13:05 UTC

Can anyone recommend a good open source document management software? One with a good security model that would allow the document to be kept along with its metadata and also, ideally with different versions of the document, for example an original and a public facing, redacted copy?

2023-08-12 23:14:31 UTC

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The beard discussion is an important one. It can surely only be settled by an experiment with volunteers growing beards and submitting themselves to before and after scorings?

2023-08-12 21:06:59 UTC

I’ve released Cell Division on Wavlake. Hope you enjoy listening to it.
https://www.wavlake.com/album/555ddded-216a-46e0-9b82-4faec576a852

2023-08-12 11:02:00 UTC

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Well done. You should upload this song to Wavlake if you want to see a change in things.

2023-08-02 07:44:28 UTC

Value for value paid music use in podcasts has arrived and it’s awesome. https://www.boostagramball.com
#boostagramball

2023-07-31 14:40:09 UTC

I made some bread this morning and it turned out well. Might try my hand at rebranding and ruining a social network next.. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3d07b20b1ea61dc920fe78f29b37d7af0c2dcabaaf501cebed571db050d3f700.jpg

2023-07-19 14:32:25 UTC

Fantastic visit today to Beeston Castle in the sunshine, with a view for 40 miles all around. Thousands of years of human history at that site.
It’s always been adversarial. Builders always have and always will build.

2023-07-07 13:34:14 UTC

Taking a break from repetitive, overlong and dull Bitcoin podcasts and listening to a Dostoyevsky audio book instead. What a welcome upgrade in density and quality it’s bringing me.

2023-05-28 08:46:19 UTC

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His response appears to be that 10 hours of time invested is not enough, serious critics need to part with money, personal details and get a book into their homes.

2023-05-19 23:57:40 UTC

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Two hours of waffle to prove he is only a camo shit poster. Psychopaths lost this war from the genesis block onwards.

2023-05-11 21:52:46 UTC

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Sorry, Joe, this was originally listed as Friday and Saturday, but is now only Saturday and I can’t make it that day. Hope you have a good gig though. I’ll look out for other times to come and see you play, cheers.

2023-05-11 10:05:43 UTC

I finally made the time to go back and complete the Bitcoin for Developers course on the Saylor Academy. It’s a great course. Useful module summary videos now too from #[0]. Thanks to all involved in putting it together.

2023-04-19 21:32:47 UTC

Sisu is now available on Wavlake.
Please give it a listen.
https://wavlake.com/track/a0f8d937-4d84-4e2f-8061-a271b1bc4f99

2023-04-16 20:16:35 UTC

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Yes, Spotify have already set a value of close to nothing on your music. I have nothing much to lose as I’m invisible on Spotify etc, and being early in a like minded community is valuable in itself and I’m interacting with other musicians in that group in a way that Spotify gave me none of.
Once someone blows up big on the V4V side, the same people will likely complain about missing the boat 🤷‍♂️

2023-04-16 19:39:00 UTC

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Thanks, Peter. I’ve been trying Wavlake out and it they are doing a great job. It’s still early, but I’m loving the way it can be integrated with the podcasting 2.0 index and the tracks appear in Fountain and on Music Side Project. Hopefully, the audience for consuming music this way will grow.
Going to put some more tracks on there soon. It’s the advantage of being fully independent!

2023-04-15 22:10:05 UTC

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There are lots of people on here already, maybe it’s just not a good search experience yet? And the bubble is perhaps just because the bigger accounts are obvious and visible and most other people are kind of invisible? I make music and post it here. Maybe that makes me an artist? Im not daft enough to describe myself as left or right though.

2023-04-15 20:27:58 UTC

Had a great day in Bedford - well worth the 350 mile round trip to get to see Real Bedford smash in 7 goals and to meet some cool people. Thanks for the pizzas #[0]

2023-03-19 19:08:49 UTC

I’ve added my Wavlake hosted tracks to the podcastindex and now they have appeared in the music side project listings. This is exciting stuff!

2023-03-18 18:09:51 UTC

I’m really enjoying Wavlake and the value for value music service they are building. I’ve uploaded a song called Breathing Space today.
https://player.wavlake.com/track/c9c53615-23a0-4a27-9024-d6dd6f3d7dea

2023-02-22 16:39:18 UTC

Trying this out, hoping Nostr doesn’t disappoint…