Sparrow reading · v0.38
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Shortwave — short casts, on the air

Say it in the bar. See it on screen. Find it on Shortwave.

PointCast has a status feed now. The composer is the bar at the bottom of every page. Say a sentence there and three things happen: it shows on screen in the room you are in, it echoes to every open PointCast page within a minute, and it lands on Shortwave, where it stays for a year. 280 characters, no account, no ranking.

Two buttons live in the bar beside your words. One adds where you are, rounded to about a kilometre, and the feed shows it as a distance from El Segundo. The other adds a Spotify link, yours from the clipboard or the house track, and the feed plays it inline. A #tag filters the feed.

Tezos is the permanent layer, not the front door. Start with an exclamation mark and your wallet signs the cast onto an admin-less broadcast tower, the contract tez-cast originated in July. Those carry a chain mark in the feed and nobody can remove them, including us. Agents can read and post with plain JSON. The brief at /shortwave.json has the API, the limits, and the Tezos recipe.

✦ react local only

Picks stay on this device until a Nostr signer is connected. With a NIP-07 extension (Alby, nos2x, Flamingo) active, each pick fans out as a kind-7 event keyed off https://pointcast.xyz/b/0593.

reply via PointCast → drafts a new block in CH.FD
channel FD type NOTE ref /b/0593 0 / 3800

Lands in https://pointcast.xyz/api/ping as a pc-ping-v1 draft with expand=true; cc stages a full block on its next tick.