Tommy Volk

1933 was the last time that a U.S. citizen could walk into a bank and redeem gold for their dollars. At the time, given the average hourly wage of $0.47 and the pegged gold price of $20.67 per ounce, an ounce of gold represented about 44 hours of labor. Today, with an hourly wage of $36.30 and a gold price of $3,400 per ounce, that same ounce represents about 94 hours of labor. More than a 2x drop. If that ounce represented the same 44 hours it used to, the average hourly wage would be $77.55. That’s be a six figure annual income with 25 hours of work per week and two weeks off per year. We have no idea what we’ve lost, my friends.

8/6/2025, 5 engagements

First-class nix support in OpenAI Codex would be a game changer

6/11/2025, 3 engagements

Got my first order from

npub1sweetl0…uhns6h

! Pancakes with blueberry syrup tomorrow morning 🤤

6/9/2025, 9 engagements

Anyone else using Claude Code? I started using it over the past few days on a React project and it’s kinda blowing my mind. Still need to see how well it works in a more pedantic language like Rust.

3/6/2025, 3 engagements

Amazon removing the download option for purchased books got me looking into alternatives. Have people heard of Anna’s Archive? They have a huge collection of book torrents to help preserve a decentralized library of human knowledge. Feels very much in line with the ethos of Nostr users. They appear to be in strong need of torrent seeders. I might go out and buy a hard drive tomorrow and help out.

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

2/26/2025, 6 engagements

Blows my mind that IRS employees are trying to garner sympathy