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William Casarin

Submitted a PR to strfry to allow a new kind of query that I don't see people talk about much:
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/pull/133
this will enable a simple "algo" feed on strfry that fetches the last note from each user in your contact list (or any list)

2024-12-20 10:11:09 GMT

There will be signs https://i.nostr.build/REOQFWmhvTa7X51z.jpg

2024-12-20 01:52:55 GMT

how to nostr effectively https://i.nostr.build/OxJPDH7d1yHrzfLu.jpg

2024-12-20 00:26:47 GMT

life without wine would suck. sobers ngmi

2024-12-19 15:04:30 GMT

Unsolicited giftwrap DMs could be ignored except for “chat requests” which is a giftwrap of that users device pubkeys and inbox relays. This would get rid of the remaining receiver metadata on giftwraps, and enable “device keys”, where each DM gets encrypted to each device. If your root key leaks, the messages are still protected.
Cool work being done in this area by @npub1gcx…nj5z and @npub180c…h6w6 :
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1306
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1647

2024-12-19 05:18:22 GMT

Managing subscriptions for potentially many apps is an interesting challenge: you quickly run into subscription limits on relays if you do it in a naive way.
An approach we're taking in notedeck is via a global "subscription manager" that all apps can share: it can identify redundancy in all of the active filters and replace potentially hundreds of queries with a single query across many apps.
For example, two different apps register two different subscriptions:
- appA: {"authors": [a, b]} for relay.damus.io
- appB: {"authors": [a, c]} for relay.damus.io
the subscription manager will only create one subscription:
- subManager: {"authors": [a, b, c]} for relay.damus.io
another optimization we're looking at is a bit more advanced. let's say you have:
- appA: {"kinds": [1], "limit": 0}, {"authors": [a, b, c], "limit": 0} for relays.damus.io
- appB: {"limit": 0} for relay.damus.io
The subscription manager would then replace all remote filters with a single one for that relay:
- subManager: {"limit": 0} for relay.damus.io
using a filter subset algorithm I described on here before. This works because app widgets only have to think about local subscriptions in the local relay model, and the subscription manager's job is to optimize and merge remote filters.
Lots of cool stuff happening behind the scenes to optimize things! Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

2024-12-19 05:01:25 GMT

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just a mail app within nostr for managing async communications (really just a design thing with pinning notes in an inbox and having archival states, etc), but a bridge to email would be cool

2024-12-19 04:50:17 GMT

Looking at the git nostr spec again. Dreaming of a github app in notedeck, where I can “share” pull requests to damus mail to do code review from there for later.
The idea is that you should be able to pin any threadlike nostr notes in your inbox, and track updates from there.
it would make sense for notedeck to have a “standard library” for ui widgets that different apps can use to render notes (like git patches, etc). So both the mail app and github app could render them.
nostr is slowly consuming all the apps i use #note1xt7…guf4

2024-12-18 17:49:50 GMT

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local search only works by keywords at the moment. try searching new zealand in the search:
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/bca44e565acf64e9.jpeg
we're gonna add more advanced ways to search locally in the future

2024-12-17 23:19:43 GMT

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Yeah can adjust it

2024-12-17 21:51:30 GMT

desktop experiment: quickly see the replied-to note simply by hovering
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/bef26a2caf09e952.png

2024-12-17 21:19:27 GMT

after mainly using notedeck for awhile, the performance of damus ios is jarringly bad in comparison. sometime next year I will switch ios over to using the local relay for everything to match notedeck’s performance.
Sorry for the delay… notedeck has been our testing grounds for building a client this way. once we’ve happy with the design we’ll port it to iOS.

2024-12-17 19:23:01 GMT

It's crazy most of the world doesn't know we're zapping digital gold dust over the internet
#note1zrd…x609

2024-12-17 19:13:14 GMT

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yes notifications is a grouped view. would be crazy otherwise. https://i.nostr.build/3lDSOE4jU3nqZmNH.jpg

2024-12-17 19:06:55 GMT

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reacts don't appear in your feed

2024-12-17 18:55:53 GMT

Starting to think non-quoted reposts were a mistake.

2024-12-17 18:38:59 GMT

just added stalker mode to notedeck, you can now add columns for individuals and their posts.
lists next!
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/19ae8f502083fe8b.png

2024-12-17 16:38:00 GMT

just had a nightmare about my database having performance/contention issues due to a mutex I added to the codebase. what the fuck.

2024-12-16 16:16:39 GMT

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wut

2024-12-16 15:59:33 GMT

Elements of a #nostrmail client i am planning in Damus Mail:
- encrypted, private, no metadata (giftwraps)
- threaded (nip10)
- titled threads (subject tag)
- to,cc,etc (sent to the npub’s inbox relays)
- replaceable event that refer to the “state” of a given thread: is it archived, labels, etc. archived threads don’t appear in inbox
This should be a solid foundation for a nostr mail client, and it could also provide an interface to nip17 dms as well.

2024-12-16 15:06:59 GMT

#dmail will be the second notedeck app and will work on all platforms! It’s nice to have a fast, native, cross-platform base to build these on now.
Cool thing is that #notedeck apps share same local db: contacts, profiles, dms, accounts. You can’t really do this on the web because web apps are isolated from each other. Notedeck is offline first which is also great for mail.
notedeck will provide a high level api for building nostr apps, will be able to rapidly iterate on new apps faster than before.
If you want to help us build “the nostr browser”, come hack on it with us!
https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck #note1h8v…fc4f

2024-12-16 14:54:38 GMT

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Dmail it is

2024-12-16 14:48:54 GMT

Maybe Damus Mail is a better name than the Notebook? I still prefer mail to be nostr based with an email bridge though. Looks like X is getting a mail client too.
Someone made this interesting observation which sounds a lot like the design i was thinking about for our mail client.
We could use nip05 as nostr mail addresses, although it would be optional if you have their nprofile. This would be way easier than setting up mail on some domain, and they can be end to end encrypted with nip17.
#nostrmail https://i.nostr.build/7HxRVlGCufX7wI3J.jpg

2024-12-16 14:24:44 GMT

What is with women’s obsession with owning dozens of bedsheets and changing them constantly.

2024-12-16 05:38:03 GMT

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https://zap.army to enable zap button. Apple doesn’t allow us to have one

2024-12-16 05:32:55 GMT

life hack: bitcoin

2024-12-11 20:54:15 GMT

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yup
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/browser-and-gui-chrome/

2024-12-11 19:19:11 GMT

started the process of breaking notedeck into two parts:
- the chrome (tab bar, location bar, back/forward button)
- the apps
so internally our columns app is called notedeck-columns. soon we will be adding notedeck-viz and notedeck-notebook.
These will be different apps that can exist alongside each other. For example, kieran's native zap.stream app can be loaded in a new "tab" when you click on a stream link in a column.
The browser will be responsible for the local relay, accounts, signing, possibly even subscription and connection management.
This means every app you use will be multi-account by default, and you don't have to worry about key security.
The everything app is coming.
#note1att…rt3l

2024-12-10 23:46:15 GMT

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whoa I missed this, interesting

2024-12-10 21:41:51 GMT

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Gets synced with negentropy when you come back online, but everything works by default

2024-12-10 21:37:15 GMT

What if building nostr apps took a few lines of code ? As easy as it was to build a website back in the day.
A new browser for interoperable apps without legacy web baggage. Built in bitcoin wallet, local relay, signer, outbox, for all apps.
Offline first, Cross-app coordination via the local relay.
This is gonna be wild #note18aq…cxc8

2024-12-10 21:15:20 GMT

Not interested in the next Twitter. I want to build the next netscape

2024-12-09 20:25:52 GMT

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Holy shit it’s snoyman! Welcome man. I was a huge persistent user back in the day when I did more Haskell stuff.

2024-12-06 03:44:36 GMT

gn nostr https://i.nostr.build/e16jiNaUAZVYFomX.jpg

2024-12-05 16:07:44 GMT

yes
#note1ydx…g63m

2024-12-05 16:02:32 GMT

nostr will be a new kind of web for interoperaple apps, not static and silo'd documents (www). we just need to build the browser for this.

2024-12-05 01:38:01 GMT

inter-app communication in notedeck is achieved by sending notes to the internal relay.
example: in notedeck-columns you can "pin" or "bookmark" a note into your notebook, which is a separate notedeck app. both apps only talk to the local internal relay, so everything just works and yet they are isolated.
this means any app within the notedeck browser can work together, even if you are offline.

2024-12-04 15:51:30 GMT

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还好吧

2024-12-04 15:05:59 GMT

nostr dev locked in https://i.nostr.build/ItUe0dAoq32kBKyN.jpg

2024-12-03 20:38:39 GMT

looks like damus is finally getting a built in wallet. more news soon 👀

2024-12-03 13:02:19 GMT

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hashtags will stop working after they start to get spammed, which is inevitable at a certain scale, especially if we push people into them. Would be ok in short term I guess

2024-12-03 12:52:31 GMT

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its better than us picking a list for everyone. The plan is to list starter packs on a users damus.io profile page which I’m working on this month. A starter pack can just be a list of users and a relay set, we just need a mechanism for a user to use one of these lists as an invite code. still brainstorming the best approach.

2024-12-03 12:43:31 GMT

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Starter pack is a list of people to follow curated by someone who is inviting you

2024-12-03 12:28:45 GMT

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Eventually. Bigger issue at the moment is that people leave the app after trying it

2024-12-03 12:26:57 GMT

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This nevent is so large it doesn’t even parse in damus 😂

2024-12-03 12:24:20 GMT

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i feel like i have barely started building what I want to build on nostr. iOS was a weekend project to implement a twitter clone. nostr is so much bigger than that. notedeck is a platform that I plan on using to showcase all the other stuff. I wanted to build something with a solid foundation that works everywhere before I started. A native nostr browser. nostr can replace obsidian, mail, github, calendars. We’re just getting started.

2024-12-03 12:17:49 GMT

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Yeah it took random note contents and injected random words and emojis to defeat repeated-content filters. Would probably need an ai spam algo to stop it

2024-12-03 12:12:11 GMT

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it syncs everything when you’re back online. This is much harder to do in a traditional app but it’s trivial on nostr.

2024-12-03 12:04:01 GMT

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because i want to be able to keep working regardless of my internet connection. I do a lot of code review on planes. I have to email myself patches from github to do this though which is crazy.

2024-12-03 11:37:39 GMT

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Definitely. Weird that so many apps these days require network connectivity. Sometimes i like to hack on code while on airplanes or camping. Seems the only things that work these days are my terminal email client and vim.

2024-12-03 11:19:42 GMT

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Doubt it, you would lose the native feel. I definitely want notedeck as an ipad app though.
the tech behind notedeck will come to ios, i built nostrdb in C so that it could be used in both notedeck and ios

2024-12-03 11:15:51 GMT

notedeck has an embedded nostr relay (nostrdb), which means every ui function will always work regardless of network connection. I call this the local relay model. It’s literally impossible for it to “go down” or “not load”.
Once we add an outbox (soon), all actions you have done since you were offline will be automatically synced to relays.
I think this is better because you never have to wait to start using it, you can use it on planes, and you can build powerful offline-first apps like nostr mail clients which I am planning to add as a notedeck app. #note1g79…gggp

2024-12-03 10:56:15 GMT

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The schnell model is so fast! I prefer it over dev which is much slower

2024-12-03 10:53:20 GMT

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I think the iphone would have a much lower assembly number than a person. She mentions an objects assembly number is defined by the minimal possible number of steps to create it, not just how we came up with the object in a particular case, so I don’t think you add the biological entities assembly number to it? An iphone would be a much smaller assembly number compared to humans if so.
The copy number is an important aspect as well that maybe I haven’t gotten to fully reading yet. I would guess the iphones copy number is also quite low in comparison to the number of DNA based lifeforms that have ever existed.
Some combination of copy and assembly number give you a point in life-object space if i am reading correctly so far.

2024-12-03 05:14:49 GMT

Probably the most interesting book i’ve listened to in a long time. A definition of life that doesn’t have a thousand edge cases.
Take any object that exists and try to count the number of steps it would take to assemble that object from physical realizable steps. Objects with many copies and larger assembly numbers could be a better definition of life.
https://books.apple.com/ca/audiobook/life-as-no-one-knows-it-the-physics-of-lifes/id1720088951

2024-12-03 01:28:02 GMT

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2 gb is smol https://i.nostr.build/LsKi8YulJgpq2euS.jpg

2024-12-02 22:36:04 GMT

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I don't see how that would work

2024-12-02 22:20:17 GMT

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whoa I missed this

2024-12-02 22:18:00 GMT

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what companies? this is all local to your computer.

2024-12-02 22:00:42 GMT

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from what I understand it just makes it easier to swap models, but it still uses llama.cpp under the hood.

2024-12-02 21:49:20 GMT

used open-webui for the first time with llama.cpp ROCM server + AMD RX 5700 + llama-3 8B instruct. very slick local ai workflow. speed is very fast. slightly dumber but its not too bad.
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/9cd2bd25b17cba21.png

2024-12-02 20:32:28 GMT

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yeah it wouldn't be hardcoded to me, you would just need a bunch of modules for fetching data from different places

2024-12-02 20:19:46 GMT

If you build infrastructure around LLMs to enable it to store and load data, you can build some powerful ai products. I want to build a local LLM that knows how to read my calendar events, email, github issues, nostr mentions, and DMs to have a personalized ai assistant.

2024-12-02 17:31:05 GMT

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Our rooftop patio in Vancouver. It’s cold but pretty. https://i.nostr.build/YyUpuMR7trZahCLL.jpg

2024-12-02 14:15:56 GMT

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this is a limitation in ios, the only way to force open in damus is via damus:nostr: urls or damus.io/npub… deeplinks

2024-12-02 04:15:06 GMT

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haha I used this for awhile. great app

2024-12-01 19:45:17 GMT

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It’s not very good yet but maybe soon

2024-12-01 19:39:28 GMT

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It’s a multiplatform nostr client so we are not restricted by apple appstore rules. It will run on android, ios, windows, linux, macos, ipad natively for performance and security. The tweetdeck column thing is just the first app. It’s more of a tech platform where we can build new stuff in a scalable way. Think of it as a nostr browser like chrome is a web browser.

2024-12-01 17:32:34 GMT

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thx boss 🙏

2024-12-01 03:25:10 GMT

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thanks!

2024-12-01 02:18:04 GMT

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ok good

2024-12-01 02:16:12 GMT

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is it strfry?

2024-12-01 02:10:13 GMT

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Would hit subscription limits after 16. Still need to compress subscriptions. Having multiple decks you can switch between will help as well so you don’t need to open so many at once. we already have this doneish, just didn’t make the cut for alpha.

2024-12-01 02:04:17 GMT

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amazing

2024-12-01 00:20:06 GMT

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soon

2024-11-30 22:32:07 GMT

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it worked!

2024-11-30 21:38:00 GMT

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It’s open source, you can compile it from scratch. Damus purple has early access to all our binary releases, thats the main point of it. General public releases are out a few weeks later typically

2024-11-30 21:34:05 GMT

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going to start working on android asap. not sure if beta but will try

2024-11-30 21:31:36 GMT

Its out! #note187y…nq8j

2024-11-30 18:01:53 GMT

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if I listened to you we would never have an android client and would forever be under the boot of apple and their restrictions.
the decision for notedeck was to be free and build a client in a more modern way that would better support the outbox model.
it was a team decision, so you calling me ignorant is calling everyone on the damus team ignorant. nice!
good thing I don't listen to random assholes on the internet who don't have any clue.

2024-11-30 17:56:32 GMT

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just resents the note to all the relays on your relay list. this happens automatically when you reply to a post or quote repost it.

2024-11-30 03:45:31 GMT

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yes

2024-11-29 23:56:39 GMT

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binaries will be out tomorrow, it's not out yet

2024-11-29 22:21:45 GMT

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We support zoom

2024-11-29 22:09:34 GMT

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all planned for beta release!

2024-11-29 21:57:40 GMT

what have i done #note17a8…0lfn

2024-11-29 20:26:48 GMT

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not browser based. native app for:
macos
windows
linux
next year I will release it for:
iOS
Android
iPadOS
Not planning a browser release of notedeck. I am working on a static/server-side rendered version of nostr for that. Kind of like a mix between njump and primal.net

2024-11-29 19:20:41 GMT

putting the final touches for the notedeck alpha tomorrow!
excited to get this out so we can start working on the beta release. so many cool things planned...
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/e11770e685c70cee.png

2024-11-29 16:49:09 GMT

bitcoin aka edging simulator

2024-11-29 02:31:45 GMT

men are down bad https://i.nostr.build/JIKd5L6KJ46woazG.jpg