This is a great article from someone I met at #dwebcamp2023 that does a good job capturing the DWeb ethos and talks about how we can continue collaborating now that its over. I especially love the "Decentralization of the Tech Stack" she drew up. It touches on my favorite part about this year's DWeb camp, which was learning a lot from projects that are much stronger in the "People, Norms, and Relationships" and "Governance" layers of the stack than Nostr and most other decentralized social protocols.

DWeb Camp 2023: Coalition-Building Across the Tech Stack

Reflections, lingering questions, and frameworks for thinking about projects and partnerships in the decentralized web community

I’m curious if anyone has any active NIP-172 communities they like? I look through a few every few days but most just have one or two posts. Are there any you have noticed? @Stuart Bowman @Vitor Pamplona @Jingles

I'm going to try moving my Mastodon account to social.coop. I haven't had any problems with my current host but the tools and processes used to cooperatively manage social.coop are things I have been wanting to try! I think similar governance structures would work well for Nostr relays.

@Stuart Bowman can we get a direct link to the page on satellite with the upload file button? “

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makes me wait for an animation to play. Which is very pretty, but I don’t want to watch it every time.

And a sneak peak at something I’m excited for in the next build: better link previews. I switched to using Apple’s system link preview component instead of rendering both the link and a preview in the note body. It isn’t perfect but it does a lot better than what we have currently, rendering previews for many types of links other than jpg images including gifs, videos, blog posts, and more. Eventually we’ll build custom link previews that better integrate with our design and UI. But baby steps are good.

Build 57 of Nos is out with support for push notifications! Now you can get a notification instantly when you are mentioned, even when the app is closed. This build has been in the oven for a while, there a quite a few more goodies in it as well: - Added beta integration with the Universal Name System. Edit your profile to link your Universal Name to your Nostr profile. - Added the number of connected relays in the top right corner of the Home Feed. - Updated design of the relay selector - Added a confirmation dialog when deleting a note. - Fixed several bugs around muting users - Fixed high cpu usage when the app is idle - Fixed a bug where expired messages could be published to relays that doesn't support them - Fixed an issue where Nos sometimes couldn't find the user's key on startup. - Fixed an issue where you could have duplicate relays: one with a trailing slash and one without.

One thought I can’t shake after watching Apple’s VisionOS stuff is how much I want the eye tracking functionality in their headset. From what I’ve heard from the few people who have actually tried the device, it works amazingly well and some described it as the most magical part of the whole experience. For anyone who hasn’t seen it there are four infrared cameras on the inside of the headset that are pointed at your eyes. They can very precisely track exactly the point your eyes are looking at in the VR/AR world. In VisionOS to click on something you look at it and then touch your thumb and pointer fingers together to “click”. I don’t want the whole headset, or a whole new OS. Just give me some eyeglasses with the infrared cameras and let me replace my mouse with them. Imagine a world in which your hands never have to leave the keyboard because left and right click are just keys on your keyboard and your computer knows which element you are looking at to click on. You can sit with better posture because you don’t have to move your arms between the mouse and keyboard. You can fly around your operating system with incredible speed, because your eyes move way faster than your arm and fingers. You don’t need to learn as many keyboard shortcuts because looking at something and pressing one key is much faster than contorting your hands to get that arcane shortcut. It feels like a desktop power-user’s dream. Apple made a good point that what your eyes are looking at is traditionally private information, and they took pains to conceal what your are looking at from the applications your are interacting with (of course their closed-source OS has access to that data). In my ideal device I think I’d be ok with forgoing the “hover effect” on the element or button you are looking at in exchange for my eye position only being transmitted to the operating system when I click. I did some web searching for people working on this and found a few products, but the consumer priced ones like the Tobii Eye Tracker 5 are apparently not accurate enough to replace a mouse. There is some medical-grade hardware aimed at making computers accessible for those with motor disabilities that looks better but it costs around $15k. I also found that Apple has a head tracking mouse built into macOS as an accessibility feature, but it wasn’t precise enough to be quicker than a mouse in my testing. I think it will take a couple years but surely this is the future of pointer devices for general computing. The unfortunate casualty will be FPS games, but it’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make for the greater good.

A recent photo of my garden Testing out the new reddit-like communities on satellite.earth! Here is a photo of my garden from a few weeks ago. The snap peas have grown up about a foot and a half past the trellis now which I'm not totally sure what to do about (should I prune them?). They have been producing a lot - I can pick a handful of pods every few days. Other than that I haven't harvested much besides some spinach and arugula. Looking forward to maybe the first tomatoes when I get back home next week. What are you growing? If you are seeing this in a Nostr client that doesn't support communities yet you can view the community this was posted in here:

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Trying to get one final build of Nos released before I head out for #DWebCamp.

I’m looking for some data on how donations are being used on Nostr. I recall someone’s trip to Nostrica was funded with zaps, but I’m having trouble finding any notes about it. I think there was some similar funding happening at Bitcoin Miami. Can anyone point me in the right direction?