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Massive overhaul, look at all those improvements, commits, and contributors. 💪 White Noise is steady crankin' and leveling up. View article →

Love this, kinda want to see more philosophical discussions around privacy. It sometimes is a bit much to only argue over objective protocols and methodologies for better privacy and security. Let's argue over the principles now 🤣 Just kidding, it really is about all angles... there is not really one without the other. Great piece @Hans Koning "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." View article →

@Zapstore badges published on GitHub!

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GitHub - YuurinBee/Nostr-Design-Resources: A collection of permissionless Nostr-based designs. Free for everyone.

A collection of permissionless Nostr-based designs. Free for everyone. - YuurinBee/Nostr-Design-Resources

Files are nice and organized, labeled, and the original design files have been included. This repo is not just for Zapstore or projects with Zapstore listings that may want to use the badges, but I will start to update it with other Nostr design resources. For now, if there are any questions about rights to use, please contact Zapstore or the respective project owners. I just want high quality assets easily accessible to the public. I'm happy to extend this to the community, if anyone would like to update or add their resources here, we can make things easier for designers, developers, and teams. Just let me know, submit an issue or a PR or message me. Hope you all enjoy them! Thanks again @Zapstore team for this epic experience and platform for Nostr users. @franzap @Pip the WoT guy View quoted note →

GM, Nostr! On behalf of @V E C T O R I wanted to give a special thanks to @Zapstore @franzap for such professionalism and efficiency for listing Vector. It honestly is one of the nicest UXs for an app store I've seen and really sets the bar for the Nostr ecosystem. Hats off to everyone involved. I went to search for some design assets to work on some announcement graphics and help promote Vector's listing on Zapstore and found the Zapstore GitHub with some design resources. I noticed some of them could use some polish and possibly upload the .svg versions for higher res and scaling across different resolutions. I saw the neat Zapstore Badge with "GET IT ON ZAPSTORE". Really love this. So, I decided to make some other variations both with text and colors. Specifically, I added the "Nostr" Purple that Zapstore uses on its website to keep branding consistent and also the Bitcoin orange. At the bottom is the Vector version for us, but anyone is welcome to use it. If you guys would like these assets, please let me know and I can find a way to export + organize them nicely in .png and .svg formats, then I could submit a PR or whatever works best. I'm more than happy to go through to process to export them and have them ready for production, but I will stay on standby in case you have them, don't need them, etc. just to be efficient with time. Thanks for everything you guys do. A rising tide lifts all boats.

FUCKING INSANE. I don't even know how you pulled this one off @JSKitty but 0 complaints from me. Thank you for this, this is what gaming needs. Open-Source it all and decentralize it.

Basic Error Logging Guide for Devs. Thank you, The Rest of the World View article →

Not that most of you here are probably Meta users (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp largely), but they have announced that on May 8, 2026 your private messages will no longer be encrypted. Additionally, your messages will be easier to read and scrape to train their AI for you can assume the worst purposes people can imagine. More so sharing for those who don't know and also people you care about. Strongly recommend to everyone to start pivoting from these apps and getting friends, family, co-workers, etc. introduced to Nostr and other methods where their metadata is encrypted and more secure. I would also go ahead and delete all of your messages (request a backup first, may take 1-5 days to hear back) get your data to save and then delete your messages and eventually account. There is a trick you can swap to a business account and mass delete messages faster (15 a time instead of 1). Either way, there are no guarantees your data is wiped from their servers as is (safer to assume it is not), but there's no need to keep it there and make their lives any easier.

Sharing this from X, Dystopia keeps arriving folks. Oppo (Chinese Phone Company), yes the name is literally a phonetic knockoff of how "Apple" would be said in Chinese, but that's another story. Apparently, they have implemented intrusive ads inside of their own File Manager on their phones. Incredibly out of place visually and horrendous looking. If you are going to violate people in such a way, at least make it pleasant on the eyes lol. Insane times we live in to even witness ads inside of a file manager, but that is the direction the world is headed. Never a better time than yesterday to start making software without ads. Together we will make this the standard it should've always been.

Want a deeper insight into nprofile1qqst37fwv8n363vx4eh7d9c0w0wslkufqyy43830g9a773zmhw5jergut5jp4? Check out my interview that was just republished, originally on Fileverse. Expect a couple of more perspectives and interviews with @JSKitty and Hans Koning soon™. ————————————————— [Disclaimer] None of these responses from me are AI-generated, nor will they ever be because I enjoy speaking straight from the heart and enjoy the art of writing. Yes, the em dash — existed way before AI and there are actually some writers that use it and enjoy it because we can break grammatical rules and combine two completely different trains of thought without being considered "improper" or a run-on. AI is a great tool for suggestions, ideas, and proof reading. It's unfortunate I even have to put this as a disclaimer and mention it, but relevant at this day and age. Remember to enjoy the process... View article →

⚠️PRIVACY NOT FOR COMPROMISE⚠️ // Evangelion-Inspired Art & Design I see a lot of people sharing today about Evangelion Interfaces, really some of the most inspiring and timeless designs. I still watch classic anime like Neon Genesis: Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell and pause to take stills when I see some unique design inspiration. This afternoon I just enjoyed spending some time to create a similar feeling (not necessarily the look) that I get from these classic terminal interfaces. It also allows me to be a bit more abstract and really do things I wouldn't traditionally do in design > minimalism + simplicity for one. Instead I enjoyed making this collage of the Privacy by Principle philosophy with @V E C T O R theme. Yes, this is a real app btw and now I'm thinking about making an EVA-01 theme for it. For me, one of the most classic visuals that stands out in these types of series are the "Caution" or "Warning" bars that often use a broken horizontal line with 45/60 degree diagonal cuts. It reminds me of industrial buildings or construction where they would have these bright yellow warning signs not to enter or wear a hardhat, etc. Whoever really popularized this design has silently won countless awards and well deserved, they really set the standard and feel for many generations to come. This is about as universal as you can get for design in my opinion. Anyways, hope you all enjoy it and excited to see more original work and not getting Claude or AI to design for you. Yep, I said it. Stand by everything that I say. For implementation? Great, but be creative and take time to work on your own designs and not just rely on AI to give you everything. That is where in lies the true joy of creativity and design, enjoying the process... The confusion, the clarity. The disarray, the synergy.

Playing around more with the "Vectorization" of Pixel Marmot. Privacy Mode: On (Default)