GM af 🌞

Genuinely curious what everyone's thoughts are on product analytics in the apps you use. I think most teams building in the nostr/bitcoin/freedom-tech space are a hard-no without thinking about how you could do them well (i.e. privacy-first, opt-in only, etc). A lot of people complain about the quality of Nostr apps but, the truth is, it's nearly impossible to build a high-quality product that delivers real value without having at least some idea of how folks are using a thing. Trolls, gtfo. I'm only interested in thoughtful or thought-provoking responses.

* From Matthew Green's recent post on WhatsApp:

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinati...

** Oh, and Instagram just announced they are removing the option of E2EE

GM 🌞 An amazing use for LLMs is to give them github URLs for open source projects you're unsure about the quality on (or whether they might be unsafe) and ask them to do a full review. GPT 5.4 on extra high is a phenomenal reviewer.

Open your terminal and type "banner hello". My son just showed this to me. 😂 Still finding terminal easter eggs after all these years.

Quietly released Nostr Doctor yesterday evening. The hope is that this simple tool will help everyone to do the basic housekeeping on their accounts and data to make sure they continue to have great experiences using nostr as the protocol and clients change over time. Would love to hear your feedback if you think there are other tools we should add to it. Huge thanks to @hzrd149 for doing all the heavy lifting!

Nostr Doctor

Nostr Doctor

Diagnose and fix your Nostr account health. Check your relay list, profile broadcast, DM relays, search relays, and more — step by step.

GM 🌞 I've been dying to play with Karpathy's autoresearch tooling so this morning I installed Pi and the autoresearch plugin and put it to work on optimizing roundtrip encoding time on my already tweaked fork of @jb55 's notepack binary note encoding... It found a ~28% improvement in ~1 hour of experimenting. 🤯

Super cool looking. Can't wait to play with it View article →