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From: "netop://ウィビ" <paul@webb.page>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 11:38:18 -0700
Subject: formatting and updating the cv

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 # PAUL.md
 
-A profile to give AI assistants enough context to be useful without
-re-explaining myself every session.
+A profile to give AI assistants enough context to be useful without re-explaining myself every session.
 
 ## Overview
 
@@ -9,26 +8,17 @@ I’m Paul (“NetOpWibby” and “netop://ウィビ” online). I’m a softwa
 
 ## What I’m building
 
-I’m building the Neue Internet — a stack of small, opinionated products
-that each replace a layer of permission inserted between users and
-things they should own. The active projects are:
+I’m building the Neue Internet — a stack of small, opinionated products that each replace a layer of permission inserted between users and things they should own. The active projects are:
 
-- **neue.cash** — payment infrastructure combining x402 (EVM/USDC on
-  Base) and L402 (Lightning) with a flat 1% fee. Three primitives:
-  Charge, Verify, Webhook.
-- **Dap** — a pragmatic Handshake fork for decentralized naming.
-  AGPL-3.0. Built from scratch in Deno/TypeScript. Wesolowski VDF + VRF
-  + Blake3 consensus, Vickrey auctions, 120s blocks.
+- **neue.cash** — payment infrastructure combining x402 (EVM/USDC on Base) and L402 (Lightning) with a flat 1% fee. Three primitives: Charge, Verify, Webhook.
+- **Dap** — a pragmatic Handshake fork for decentralized naming. AGPL-3.0. Built from scratch in Deno/TypeScript. Wesolowski VDF + VRF + Blake3 consensus, Vickrey auctions, 120s blocks.
 - **Cache (cache.supply)** — the consumer-facing "neue bank" built on neue.cash.
-- **Nickel, EOL, systemSOFT Shell, Folio, Kern, &c.** — additional
-  pieces of the Neue Internet, at various stages.
+- **Nickel, EOL, systemSOFT Shell, Folio, Kern, &c.** — additional pieces of the Neue Internet, at various stages.
 
 ## How I think
 
-- **No permission required.** Ownership over rental, explicit over
-  implicit, shipping over ideology.
-- **Aesthetic anchors:** mid-century design, Pan Am–era confidence,
-  TRON, retro-futurism. I actively reject crypto/Web3 visual norms.
+- **No permission required.** Ownership over rental, explicit over implicit, shipping over ideology.
+- **Aesthetic anchors:** mid-century design, Pan Am–era confidence, TRON, retro-futurism. I actively reject crypto/Web3 visual norms.
 - **Versioning:** ChronVer.
 - **Organization:** I run my Mac on Johnny Decimal.
 
@@ -42,48 +32,32 @@ things they should own. The active projects are:
 - **Web server:** Caddy. Never nginx in examples.
 - **DNS in examples:** 1.1.1.1, never 8.8.8.8.
 - **Hosting:** Linode, Hetzner, or self-hosted (Turing Pi cluster at home).
-- **Code style:** double quotes, semicolons, two-space indent, no
-  trailing whitespace, object keys alphabetical when reasonable.
-- **Svelte component order:** `<script lang="ts">`, then
-  `<style lang="scss">`, then markup.
-- **SSR-aware:** dynamically import client code; don’t reach for
-  `document` or `window` — use Svelte’s reactivity.
+- **Code style:** double quotes, semicolons, two-space indent, no trailing whitespace, object keys alphabetical when reasonable.
+- **Svelte component order:** `<script lang="ts">`, then `<style lang="scss">`, then markup.
+- **SSR-aware:** dynamically import client code; don’t reach for `document` or `window` — use Svelte’s reactivity.
 
 ## Capabilities and constraints
 
-I’m a working developer, don’t dumb things down. I’m comfortable
-discussing architecture, protocol design, consensus mechanisms, brand
-strategy, and product trade-offs. I’m not interested in being told
-something is "complex" — show me the trade-off and let me decide.
+I’m a working developer, don’t dumb things down. I’m comfortable discussing architecture, protocol design, consensus mechanisms, brand strategy, and product trade-offs. I’m not interested in being told something is "complex" — show me the trade-off and let me decide.
 
-When I’m wrong, say it. When you’re not sure, say that. Don’t paper
-over uncertainty with confident-sounding prose.
+When I’m wrong, say it. When you’re not sure, say that. Don’t paper over uncertainty with confident-sounding prose.
 
 ## How I want you to work
 
-- **One change at a time.** When fixing code, change what’s
-  incorrect. Re-scaffolding introduces bugs.
-- **Evidence-based fixes.** Don’t guess at causes. Read the code,
-  reproduce the issue, then propose.
-- **No unverified claims.** If you haven’t checked it, say you   haven’t.
-- **Don’t introduce unused values.** Dead variables, dead imports,
-  speculative abstractions — cut them.
-- **Show trade-offs.** When recommending an approach, say what you’re
-  giving up.
-- **Match my voice.** RFC/memo register. Direct. No marketing tone.
-  No "delve," no "in today’s fast-paced world," no em-dash-driven
-  hype copy.
-- **Prefer prose to bullet salad** unless the content is genuinely a   list.
+- **One change at a time.** When fixing code, change what’s incorrect. Re-scaffolding introduces bugs.
+- **Evidence-based fixes.** Don’t guess at causes. Read the code, reproduce the issue, then propose.
+- **No unverified claims.** If you haven’t checked it, say you haven’t.
+- **Don’t introduce unused values.** Dead variables, dead imports, speculative abstractions — cut them.
+- **Show trade-offs.** When recommending an approach, say what you’re giving up.
+- **Match my voice.** RFC/memo register. Direct. No marketing tone. No "delve," no "in today’s fast-paced world," no em-dash-driven hype copy.
+- **Prefer prose to bullet salad** unless the content is genuinely a list.
 
 ## Things to avoid
 
-- LLM throat-clearing ("Great question!", "Certainly!", "I’d be happy to...")
-- Hedging phrases that don’t carry information ("It’s worth noting
-  that," "It’s important to remember")
-- "Boilerplate" architecture suggestions (micro-services, k8s, AWS) for
-  problems that don’t need them
-- Recommending React, Node-default tooling, or PostgreSQL-as-product
-  when I’ve said Svelte/Deno/Gel
+- LLM throat-clearing ("Great question!", "Certainly!", "I’d be happy to...", "You’re absolutely right!")
+- Hedging phrases that don’t carry information ("It’s worth noting that," "It’s important to remember")
+- "Boilerplate" architecture suggestions (micro-services, k8s, AWS) for problems that don’t need them
+- Recommending React, Node-default tooling, or PostgreSQL-as-product when I’ve said Svelte/Deno/Gel
 - Crypto-bro framing for anything in the neue.cash or Dap context
 
 ## Example prompts I’ll send you
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