Every app these days...

3 years later an we still don't have a client that has no follow list... where all feeds are algo feeds based on likes and zaps and users don't bother building a follow network. These days you can just ask Claude to implement the famous tiktok algo, which is open source, for any note event if you like... Building follow lists is ok, but maintaining follow lists over time as the users interests change, is really annoying for most users.

Next step is making these test scripts a game so that humans don't die of boredom while running through them.

Testing WhiteNoise vs Amethyst, for instance... View quoted note →

One of the coolest things AI gave me was the ability to build (and constantly review) test scripts that humans can follow. It's funny how much of "let's comprehensively test feature X with Amethyst against client Y" there is now in my day-to-day. AI builds a shell script that walks me through both UIs on Amethyst and on other clients so that I don't lose time learning how other clients work and don't miss branches of code without tests (like multiple settings that affect the feature). The "comprehensive" word is the key. The script controls all test cases, in a combination of all settings, that need to pass without the human having to keep track of which special cases were tested. And since this is Nostr, the script can just watch for an event from either client to verify the results. The human just clicks around.

Fun fact, StrFry is still the favorite relay software. But it still only controls ~30% of the network. Far from any centralization. Fun fact 2, Popular clients combined don't reach not even 15% of the daily new events. I don't think we understand how truly decentralized Nostr is.

I finally got to move Amethyst's secp C lib out of our main repo. Feel free to play around. It's as well tested as I can and the 20-800% performance gains on single and batch verify seem quite real. I still think we can make it faster. https://github.com/vitorpamplona/libschnorr256k1

Brazilians training to beat Artemis 4

HLS upload incoming! View quoted note →

Bottleneck of civilization has always been reading speed. Now with AI producing so much text, it's more bottlenecked than ever. And yes. We can all see you didn't read shit.