advanced question: how do you use a desktop client without giving it your secret key? assume that you want to hold your key in your machine. #asknostr i just merged a big PR with 6,500+ changes, backed by days of audits and defensible architectural and security decisions. #buildinpublic i can officially confirm: Plaza no longer holds a secret key.

a local signer serving every local app is a door opened straight to hell.

Plaza v0.12.4 and Notary v0.9.0 just shipped. Highlights from this week: - Introducing Places (@fiatjaf's Hallway): a "plaza://place/<naddr1>" link opens a customized relay-based feed following the Hallway's format. - Back up your key. Both apps export it now, encrypted or raw. Notary encrypts yours with your passphrase, Plaza keeps it in the macOS login Keychain, and neither ever hands it to any client. - Avatars and banners are back for pictures hosted on .pub domains. - The sign-in sheet no longer has a dead band you could click straight through. - The approval card stopped printing over itself. - Long pastes no longer drop the overflow in silence. - Notary's sign out no longer hangs.

GitHub

GitHub - zig-nostr/plaza: A fast, local-first Nostr client, built natively in Zig. The flagship app of the zig-nostr ecosystem.

A fast, local-first Nostr client, built natively in Zig. The flagship app of the zig-nostr ecosystem. - zig-nostr/plaza

GitHub

GitHub - zig-nostr/notary: A native signer for Nostr. Your key stays on your machine.

A native signer for Nostr. Your key stays on your machine. - zig-nostr/notary

what if i told you, i've found a migration path from the web development world into native local-first applications?

your workspace should follow you, without belonging to a vendor.

one protocol, many deliberately opinionated interfaces.

software you can use is good. software you can change is yours. #opensource

gm

gm human. water pls. 💙💦 View quoted note →

that hits hard 😂 @NotBiebs and 69 others

keep your passport in your pocket with Notary :) View quoted note →

📣 Plaza v0.11.0 is out. 🎉 I've been building a native Nostr client for macOS, written in Zig. It's fast, it keeps its own copy of your feed, and it has come a long way since the first release. Here's what has landed. 📖 Reading ◈ Your feed reaches people your own relays don't carry ◈ Nobody you follow goes missing, wherever they publish ◈ Threads open properly, and a missing parent says so ◈ Reactions, replies and zap totals arrive with the feed ◈ Mentions are people you can click ✍ Writing ◈ Post, reply, quote and repost ◈ See who a note will notify, and switch anyone off ◈ Hashtags become real tags ◈ Replies reach everyone in the thread 🖼 Pictures ◈ Notes with several photos show all of them ◈ Big photos load now ◈ Faces and profile banners too ◈ The image proxy can be switched off completely 🔑 Your key ◈ Held in its own process, away from the screen ◈ Stored in the macOS Keychain, not a plain file ◈ Paste an nsec straight into a terminal, never through the app ◈ Read everything without a key at all 🔐 Signing for other apps ◈ Plaza can be your bunker: paste the link into any client and sign there ◈ Every app is asked separately for each thing it wants to do ◈ Answers last as long as you say: once, a day, always, or no ◈ Everything connected is listed, and cuttable ◈ Survives a restart, same link 📡 Relays ◈ A dead connection is noticed and redialled ◈ Every background request has a deadline ◈ No more pointless reconnects ⚙ Making it yours ◈ Reaction, repost, reply and zap counts can each be hidden ◈ Your mute list is read and honoured, and you can mute from here 227 pull requests to get here, 100 of them since the first release. Another 73 in the Nostr library underneath it. Still early, plenty left to fix. But it feels like a real client now. #nostr #buildinpublic #plaza #zig

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