@arkinox How stable is https://github.com/arkin0x/nips/blob/master/XX.md ?

Damus on Mac has been my default desktop nostr client for almost half a year. I like it more than any web based nostr clients, including the one I was making. I’ve been reflecting on why Blowater was a failure. I believe it has some technical advances but as a product, it’s a failure. Nice try but failed. But I am not giving up. I am making something better in secrete.

amazing talk. I never liked to use Rails but DHH’s got insightful stuff

epic

types are just interpretations of bits. they are not special.

Let’s all celebrate the release of strfry 1.0.0, the most important software in the nostr ecosystem.

GitHub

release 1.0.0 · hoytech/strfry@2da619e

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Has anyone done a full relay sync with the Damus/NOS/Primal relay in strfry? How long does it take? In other words, how long does it take to sync 1 million events?

@Alby how to sign up Alby as a new user? Do I have to get an invitation?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First

The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means ...

There are many people outside of Nostr who are aware of the problems of centralized platforms.

Basically all declarative/reactive UI frameworks in the Frontend/Mobile world are trying to provide an API similar to Immediate Mode UI such as ImGUI / Egui / Raylib Maybe people should wake up and reflect on that retained ui has been a bad decision for the history.

I respect Deno and the master minds behind it

my favorite talk so far. The ending is **ucking epic and fun

Wether Nostr is struggling or people who develop on Nostr are struggling, it does not matter. Nostr solves the problem of distributing immutable unencrypted textual data in a decentralized, censorship-resistant way, aka kind1. I believe it’s the best design for this kind of problems. However, people try to solve other problems that are either or all of 1. Encrypted data (DMs) 2. Non-textual / multi-media data (images / videos / streaming) 3. Mutable data (configurations, lists, collections) Then we see an ocean of ineffective hacks. A better approach for an application vendor, indie or group, open or close sourced, solo or funded, is to just use Nostr for its strength and implement other parts in more suitable ways. Nostr does not need to become the carrier of everything. If it does one thing extremely well, it will flourish. View quoted note →

As much as I admire Evan Vue’s effort and creativity of inventing Vite. I consider is not an essential software for the web development and in fact it introduced unnecessary complexity. If build/bundling is essential, then esbuild is more essential than vite. Of course, bundling should never be essential. It is artificial.

Is NIP-46 always connected via a Relay? Can the client and the remote signer connect directly via a http request?

2 months ago @zoé recommended me this book. On my trip to Thailand, I accidentally walked into a bookstore with English books, found and bought it. I never opened it, coming back from my trips. Yesterday night I had a bad sleep and felt miserable today so that I finally started to read it. I love it and will finish it in the coming weeks.

@reya One problem Blowater has is that it heavily uses IndexedDB which is slow and has horrible APIs. As much as I can optimize it, it’s a bad foundation to be built on. I believe your investment in native desktop technology is very worth it in the long run. Web is very good at presenting / displaying things but very bad at everything else. Tauri is a good approach. We can use Rust to implement a performant storage layer. I look forward to see what you make with Coop

Rob Pike looks like a director instead of a computer scientist