Sidecar 1.15 is live on the Chrome Web Store. Four new themes: Wabi-sabi, Ukiyo-e, Constellation and Mycelium. Film Noir is recut in black and white. The Accounts tab gains On this day, a line of history for the date. Send now shows a pasted invoice before you pay it, and any payment of 10K sats or more takes a second press. Relay handling is improved, with added redundancy so profile data doesn’t get dropped. Client, relays, wallet: every handoff performed seamlessly. It looks easy, but that’s part of the act.

A Classy Nostr Signer — Sidecar

A NIP-07 Nostr signer with a built-in Lightning wallet, in your browser's side panel.

Which Sidecar theme are you? We now have sixteen in total, with four brand new themes rolling out in the next release. It’s time to class up this joint!

Sidecar 1.14 is out! ✨ Images you attach stay out of your prose. They sit with the thumbnails and are added to the end when you post, so Preview shows exactly what goes out. Alt text can now be added to your images, written in the shape other clients can read, so the description metadata travels along with the note. The composer opens into a full tab when a note needs more room, sharing the same draft as the panel, so you can start in one and finish in the other. A finished poll tells you which option won rather than how long ago it closed. You can pay a CLINK offer straight from someone’s profile now, and put one on your own. It’s a payment address you ask for over Nostr rather than over the web. And a critical bug was fixed: the wallet’s Send button had silently lost its function. It works again, and the sheet that broke is now included in every run of the test suite, so it can’t fail quietly a second time. Firefox: 1.14 is a signed download on the releases page at sidecar.top. It doesn’t update itself, so if you installed 1.13 that way, you’ll need to fetch this one by hand, at least until the Mozilla review team gets back from their extended lunch break.

A Classy Nostr Signer — Sidecar

A NIP-07 Nostr signer with a built-in Lightning wallet, in your browser's side panel.

Thanks to @ChadF and 33 others, @Derek Ross, and @cmdrkeen for their contributions to the latest version of Sidecar. Many of our best features come from user suggestions. The next release will contain an improvement asked for by @Nathan Day — built, tested, and deployed, all in about an hour. If there’s something that doesn’t work the way you think it should, or a feature that you’d love to see, drop a line, either here or through the support form on our website, where an email address or npub is always optional. Because harvesting user data just ain’t classy. 🍸

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Sidecar 1.13 is out, and what a doozy of a release this one is! A Square Deal for All: you can post a poll from the panel now, and read the whole tally there rather than being handed off somewhere else. Every option with its count and its share, who picked which, and the winner once it closes. Votes turn up in the notifications bell. A new Industrial Age is upon us: there’s optional proof of work on your posts now. Off until you turn it on, set per account, at 16, 18, 20 or 22 bits. It reports how long it’s been working, and the Settings panel tells you what to expect at each level. It wasn’t censorship, it was omission: some clients answer a kind 1 note with a kind 1111 comment, and Sidecar was only catching the first level of those threads. Everything underneath was invisible, and you had no way of knowing. Now you get the whole mixed thread, both reply types, the way it was written. Because following a conversation on Nostr shouldn’t be harder than following one anywhere else. And to all six Firefox users, you are not forgotten: 1.13 is a signed direct download now, so it installs from about:addons. The listing on addons.mozilla.org is a few versions behind and has been for a while (maybe they went on strike?), so take it from the releases page at sidecar.top instead. It doesn’t receive automatic updates, so you’ll need to do those on your own. Stay classy, #Nostr.

A Classy Nostr Signer — Sidecar

A NIP-07 Nostr signer with a built-in Lightning wallet, in your browser's side panel.

This is a classy signer.

This is me as a car. View quoted note →

Sidecar 1.11.0 is out, and that was fast! The Chrome Web Store is turning out to be a pretty classy joint after all. 🍸👌 We're up to 12 themes now, plus a new gallery with a live preview of each one before you pick it. Four are new. Cast Iron is our most based black-on-black look (prompted by @Bfgreen being a squeaky wheel). Metropolis is our new dark mode art deco style inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang cinematic masterpiece of the same name. (The original Art Deco theme is now named Industria.) Par Avion is a tribute to the airmail era, when world travelers jetted off to locations unknown. And Werkstätte draws on the Vienna art and design workshop founded in 1903 out of the Secession movement, which thrived until the Great Depression. Two more things. You can now check your relays: which ones answer, which are gated behind payment or login, and which are holding none of your notes. That last one is what you want to know before dropping a relay, and nothing else tells you. And zaps you send finally read as zaps, with the name and pic of whoever you're zapping. A signer you keep open all day should be a work of art. Something you enjoy looking at, that adapts to your mood, and becomes an active companion to your Nostr experience. Have you switched to Sidecar yet?

A Classy Nostr Signer — Sidecar

A NIP-07 Nostr signer with a built-in Lightning wallet, in your browser's side panel.