The Nostr Observer

A dispatch from Kyiv

Even filling the tank has to wait

Terry Yiu’s posts describe an explosion outside the window, an attack on a medical centre the family had visited, and the difficulty of keeping a car ready to leave.

The car was at half a tank. Terry Yiu says the family normally fills it to be ready to escape at short notice, but the evening’s attempt in Kyiv ended without fuel: Two gas stations that we visited in Kyiv shut down in fear of being attacked.

Earlier, Yiu reported a massive explosion in central Kyiv outside their window, posting a video and saying it had happened thirty minutes before.

The subsequent post about Dobrobut brings the day back to an ordinary family errand. This was the medical facility where their son had recently had X-rays, and where they expected to arrange another visit.

In a reply, Yiu says the family plans to leave in about a month and is waiting for the child’s passports. These posts are a personal account of the day, with the practical preparations still unfinished.

Learning to make things

Teach the code, or teach the prompt?

Hodlbod has built a dungeon-crawler project for their son and now wonders whether teaching programming might feel, in retrospect, like teaching assembly in the nineteen-nineties.

The question to the network is direct: Are you teaching your kids to program, or prompt? The post is wary of handing a child an LLM before adults have worked out a healthy relationship with the tools. Hardware, philosophy and AI architecture all appear among the alternatives hodlbod is considering.

Cyphernomad’s contribution to the thread starts with Minecraft mods. Their children use them to put an understanding of computation into practice, and also use AI to configure systems and develop plugins.

Even within that household, the approaches differ: My oldest prefers to prompt and take it from there, my youngest prefers to code and only let the AI do the tedious, boring stuff.

Sonar · The old balance stays

Cashu moves in. Breez isn’t erased.

Vincenzo Palazzo describes Sonar’s move to a Cashu wallet on iOS and Android. New installations use Cashu; existing Breez wallets remain as legacy wallets, with funds left in place until the user moves them.

The public handle changes over only after a confirmed move. Palazzo says removal of the old wallet is offered after two synced checks find it empty, and stops if money arrives after the check. The migration is meant to preserve both the balance and the address other people already know.

The release also adds reactions inside encrypted chats and optional sharing of local time. In a separate explanation, Palazzo identifies 1.15.1 as the corrective build: 1.15.0 could open to an empty conversation list and repeatedly send local-time shares to groups. The fix repairs the local index on opening.