Johnathan Corgan

GM ☕ It's good to be back working on open source after so many years away.

I miss George Carlin.

running fips nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqg739mu828j7ufnlkc6p6lzph9p55xues60qyyhtxn2k4wmtzt52qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxg6t5w3hjuur4vghsq8mxd9c8xttkxqcnqtfdve5hyum594c82cnvd93j6un9d3jkzum99jr2fm

GM ☕ BIG PLANS

GM ☕ The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.

GM ☕ Another day of just doing things!

The FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System) repository is unavailable from Github currently. We've mirrored it here: https://gitworkshop.dev/npub1y0gja7r4re0wyelmvdqa03qmjs62… We were attempting to transition it from my personal github space to a new organization we had just set up for multiple fips repositories, which succeeded, but then the new org got flagged by some automated process, and the original is no longer in my account. It's under appeal. This is why we Nostr.

GM. ☕ Don't apologize for using coding assistants to increase your productivity, but remember--they aren't accountable for what you publish, you are. The difference between AI slop and 10x output is design, oversight, testing, and standing by what you make. Proper software engineering hasn't changed, it's just gotten...amazingly easier.

GM. I love the smell of packets in the morning.

Announcing FIPS, the Free Internetworking Peering System https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips Nostr gives you a sovereign identity. But the network underneath, the IP routing, the DNS, the infrastructure you depend on to reach each other, is still controlled by someone else. FIPS is a mesh networking protocol that makes a Nostr keypair your network identity. Nodes find each other and route traffic using npubs directly. No DNS registrars, no IP address allocation, no routing authorities. Just keypairs and encrypted links. Nodes self-organize into a routing tree without any global coordination. You address peers by npub, and unmodified IPv6 applications work transparently: Nostr relays, web browsers, whatever. Today it runs as a UDP overlay on the existing internet, in order to let you easily test its capabilities. But it is designed from the ground up to directly use arbitrary transports like Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth, Tor, and point-to-point links, without any IP stack. We're working on these next, but wanted to get the core capabilities out and tested in the wild. The FIPS design builds on decades of prior work in mesh networking protocols, traffic engineering and network security, and adapts and combines them to solve the problem of self-sovereign internetworking in a new way. https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips/blob/master/docs/design/… This is a v0.1.0 alpha. It has passed extensive simulation testing, small scale deployments, and is ready to be trialed in real world uncontrolled conditions. And if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces... Rust, MIT licensed, Linux for now.

No need to disengage, just stop arguing. Be an example, not an adversary. Bitcoin touches on so many convenient but sacred fictions that many people have to hit "fiat bottom" before they become willing to entertain alternatives to what everyone knows. 📝 946f338a…

Everything makes sense if you imagine the people in charge are fifth graders.

"If there is hope, it lies with the Nostriches." - George Orwell, 2026, maybe