Average Bitcoiner, Above‑Average Resilience: Mesh Networks + AI Ops

In this solo riff, I share a brain-dump from the bench: provisioning a batch of Heltec LoRa boards and debating whether to stand up a Meshtastic network or lean into MeshCore for its BitChat interoperability. From there, I zoom out to the bigger goal—helping a sovereignty-minded community learn off‑grid radio—and why asking users what they actually want beats building in a vacuum. I also sketch a path to self‑hosted services using modern peer‑to‑peer “hole‑punching” stacks, with Nostr for coordination and iroh as a dial‑by‑pubkey backbone. I reflect on spinning up an AI helper (code‑nam...