More thoughts on buzz from the frontline.
I've been diving deep into buzz internals, and running a fork of it at
GitLab
forks / buzz · GitLab · Relay Tools Code
code.relay.tools
The idea was to see how close it is to Nostr Native, and the surprising answer is, VERY. I am impressed with how much nostr was used to build this thing.
Buzz is also VERY buggy. In ways that you may not notice, until you have used it for a few days or a week. At some point, I almost grew exhausted of it because of this, I was like, mmmmm, did I just get suckered into yet another dev project going nowhere? But then, I came back and said, THIS IS KINDOF INCREDIBLE. THIS IS NOSTR.
Every day, I check the new commits and when I encounter bugs I check the issues, and watch them being fixed in real-time by agentic workflows that have been setup by block, or I fix them myself. Overall, this experience is cool because I get to see how block thinks development works these days with AI. I think it is working! PRs are being merged, commits are flowing, bugs being squashed in a timely manner, roadmaps fleshing out etc.
Buzz has self-hosted Git repos, issues, PRs, and even Workflows, all BUILT-IN to it's relay service. This is wild, because it means you need no extra service to host these things, you just need a Buzz server and you and your friends, and all of your agents combined, can ride off and code some stuff. This part gets me really excited, because NOTHING else was doing this. And it uses Nostr Native patterns.
So, that's just a 'quick' update for you on the buzz hypetrain. AMA, I'll be releasing some more stuff soon.
