i hope somewhere there’s an animal no person has ever seen. and i hope no one ever does.
erik
erik@primal.net
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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on ecash.
noticed in switzerland the pos prompts for a tip before you tap. new one for me. numo now has 1:1 parity with this flow.
It's deep but it's not that deep. the blue skies are for good vibes, the grey skies are for when you want to die.
working on cashu(.)me swift native.
some older @hoseki designs from last year. 
we released a new version of numo. added some features that merchants explicitly requested.
i'm still working on the great numo ui clean up. hopefully next release will see it merged. 
spent 4 hours trying to port a design system from figma to code. wanted to be meticulous about it, got all the variables right, spacing, typography, color tokens, all perfectly mapped. exported all the tokens as a json, dropped a design system md file in the claude directory before getting started.
still not great. figma mcp is genuinely bad at this.
we can still build a public payments infrastructure for the internet. public as in available to everyone, like the internet.
that window won’t stay open. we must code faster. we must design better tools. we must compete with the best payment ux.
numo
something i'm really proud of with numo:
paying feels exactly like apple pay. press one button on your iphone, tap, beep, done.
perfectly private. bitcoin as everyday money.
primal following notifications have become totally unusable. everyday i’m followed by like 50 bots.
anyone else getting a flood of followers lately? open claw bots working overtime.
this is a prized possession. out of print. very rare. 
satoshi thought like a ux designer.
check out his comment on why base58 over base64.
base58 removes 0, O, I, l (look identical). removes + and / (forms accept it). all alphanumeric (double click selects all).
base64 is more efficient but he optimized for real world use. 
if your hobbies do not improve the quality of your thinking, then they are a theft of your time and a sabotage of your spirit.
opus 4.6 -> plan -> build is game changing.
"You have to have some kind of a drive, some kind of a desire to find out the answer, a desire to find out what makes things tick. If you don’t have that, you may have all the training and intelligence in the world, but you won’t have questions and you won’t just find answers."
— Calude Shannon (Claude Shannon at Bell Lab. March 20, 1952)
https://www1.ece.neu.edu/~naderi/Claude%20Shannon.html
imo the best bitcoin narrative is framing it as a public utility. the first truly public payments infrastructure we’ve ever had. public as in open to everyone regardless of race, religion, or political allegiance.
you should care about craft.
that last 10%.