Woh U.S. colleges will finally pay there athletes!?! This is huge.

It is super sad to see a rising athletes career get cut short because of injuries at the college level. At least now they should make it out with a big paycheck.

Also interesting what this will mean for the NBA draft. If you are projected to be a second round pick, why not stay in school as long as the money is flowing.

Living in Germany I'm exposed to FIBA basketball (not that I watch it). Paid college players could further weaken European basketball by attracting more talent to the US.

#basketball
#ncaa
#nba

Didn’t realize how dominant the US Woman’s basketball team is!?

“They have no Olympic losses since 1992”

How is that even possible!?

Looking forward to watching them this summer (on TV, I may live in Europe but actually going is out of my budget)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_basketball_team


#Paris2024 🇫🇷

Here is the source code for the fetcher AWS Lambda functions I use to poll for nostr posts and save them to PocketBase.

https://git.sr.ht/~travisshears/micro_blog_repo_fetchers\

Also supports Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky. Why pick when you can use them all.

#tech
#nostr

My nostr posts are now on my personal site!

They are now joined in a feed with Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky, and my old Pleroma posts.

https://travisshears.com/micro-blog

#nostr

I want to try one time pad encryption. Seems so cool! Perfect security, KGB sleeper communication, and flash burn paper?!?

Just need to convince my partner to decrypt my message.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

Watched my first football game of the year, just to see Germany get knocked out of the UEFA European Championship.

Wirtz was impressive though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Wirtz

#football

Looking for a way to stream my Nostr posts to my personal site.

https://travisshears.com/micro-blog

#nostr
#webdev
#tech

Finally beat Gaston. It only took spamming the heal the entire party potion a million times.


https://octopathtraveler.fandom.com/wiki/Gaston

I’m not deep into EDC, but faraday bags are cool. I already have a RFID blocking card case; now I’m eyeing something I can slip my phone into.

Also if I could find the special fabric, it is something I could incorporate into my sewing hobby. Inside faraday pocket on my next fanny pack / shoulder bag project?

#edc
#sewing

Been enjoying Octopath Traveler until today. Having three party members, I picked up Olberic as a forth. Trying to complete his intro quest and I’m stuck on the boss fight. Now I can’t take the other three and leave!?!

under bridge
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june 2024 street photography challenge (15/15)

#photography
#streetphotography