hodlbod

a million percent true
- Onboarding
- Key storage and backup
- Cross platform signer + bunker if you don't want to install it everywhere
- Profile + relay manager
- Profile health check (do your lud16/06 contradict? Do you have DM relays? Do your relay selections make sense?)
- App store (not sure how this should look — maybe just something like nostrapps.com)
- Event backup
- Notifications (pokey)
Just all the stuff that clients do poorly or not at all now

2024-12-19 18:41:49 GMT

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Nostr with 6 cylinders is better than nostr with 4

2024-12-19 16:55:47 GMT

Scrolling is self-brainwashing

2024-12-19 16:55:07 GMT

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Surprisingly few

2024-12-19 00:38:05 GMT

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I blame Microsoft

2024-12-18 22:58:59 GMT

I love typescript
https://video.nostr.build/4b6112fc419d8b285d56b538935a4146863c3762f3d74b2211110d80aca22273.mp4

2024-12-18 20:55:13 GMT

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That's kind of wild, if that's the case for posting in general pretty much no one is safe for anything

2024-12-18 16:44:29 GMT

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Those are really good

2024-12-17 21:00:53 GMT

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RSS is fine, and it's not going away. Adding nostr pubkey links to RSS as a podcasting 2.0 extension is the way to go. @nprofile…fnw3 has done some work on this which you can read here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1465/files

2024-12-17 15:08:48 GMT

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You could have contradictory lud06/16 fields

2024-12-17 02:06:02 GMT

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Oh yeah, good call I'll release that in a bit

2024-12-17 01:31:12 GMT

Flotilla 0.2.0 is out, which brings provisional support for NIP 29 groups — this means that flotilla is now interoperable with chachi, highlighter, and groups.nip29.com! Check it out:
https://video.nostr.build/48bc525bb30a1a9de627a30a974dfa733f9677a97c14bb6912d67504b89cec90.mp4
Building support for NIP 29 while keeping my vision for flotilla intact wasn't easy, due to some assumptions relay29 makes about implementations. Thanks to @nprofile…nk43 for working with me to adapt the spec and relay implementation so that they can work for me. The necessary changes were much smaller than I anticipated.
I still have a lot of questions about how telegram-like ("pure") NIP 29 clients will work with discord-like clients like flotilla, especially from users' perspective. Currently, the groups.0xchat.com space looks like a junkyard in flotilla, because I encourage community organizers to host their own relays, and therefore treat groups as loosely related, while 0xchat is open for anyone to create a group.
For that reason, I think there will be some divergence between the different types of clients on which relays are preferred. It won't make much sense to use flotilla for groups created in other nip 29 clients, but it may make plenty of sense to use 0xchat for groups created in flotilla (if for example you only want to be in a single room for a space). It will be interesting to see how this evolves.
If you haven't already (or even if you have), give it a try at flotilla.social. And if you're a community organizer, I'd love to hear from you so I can make the software work better.

2024-12-17 00:20:48 GMT

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I was, but I stopped. It seems to have gone away now in the latest posts. I think that news item was just that popular. As far as inaccuracy goes, I'm not sure there's much anyone can do, LLMs are just unreliable. If you mean "community notes" or something, I think that would be awesome, but I haven't really gotten there yet.

2024-12-16 17:41:04 GMT

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Miscellaneous thoughts:
- Javascript and the web are easy/cheap to develop
- Javascript apps are easy to convert to "native" apps
- Phones are terrible for using software and bias towards dark patterns. People don't explicitly believe this, but a business application that only works on a phone is probably going to be a non-starter
- It depends on who your users are, and what your app is
- Web is more common when starting, and apps get built after a company succeeds. Early users are more engaged, and willing to suffer non-optimal tech for something that solves their problems.

2024-12-15 17:07:11 GMT

Shoehorns are a game changer

2024-12-15 02:32:36 GMT

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Not much of a bet because your sats won't be worth much if it does

2024-12-14 16:40:43 GMT

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Extremely true

2024-12-14 00:02:16 GMT

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Only if an LLM does it for me

2024-12-13 23:10:00 GMT

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And in the meantime, I'm learning how to use tsdoc

2024-12-13 23:08:59 GMT

Codebuff is making writing it so much easier to write documentation (or at least add tsdoc comments to utility functions).

2024-12-13 21:06:08 GMT

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Maybe some more sanity checks, like confirming the version number, when the build was created, etc

2024-12-13 17:51:04 GMT

I have a bad cold and laryngitis today and it's made me... unexpectedly loquacious in my online writing

2024-12-13 14:29:11 GMT

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Claymation Christmas

2024-12-13 14:11:41 GMT

In case you missed it:
#nevent1q…3urz

2024-12-13 14:11:13 GMT

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Nope, a new APK is also out (although I couldn't get the version number to update @nprofile…rp63)

2024-12-13 13:50:58 GMT

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> Has legs
😂 very good
I'm vaguely aware of spider chains but I don't know in detail how they work

2024-12-13 02:28:39 GMT

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💯

2024-12-12 23:12:38 GMT

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If the point is to be money though, it seems like you would need a token

2024-12-12 21:16:01 GMT

New release of Coracle is out!
#nevent1q…5p2r

2024-12-12 20:16:50 GMT

Life is just one big game of Chesterton's Fence

2024-12-12 20:16:16 GMT

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Ok that's a red flag 😂
My impression is that it's technically pretty good (with the caveat that I don't understand the trade-offs of ZKPs at all), but can't compete with bitcoin due to network effect.

2024-12-12 18:52:28 GMT

Alanis Morissette is what's wrong with the world

2024-12-12 18:07:25 GMT

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I'm not intimately familiar with zkps, but I am intimately familiar with the idea that all technology has trade-offs. I can totallly believe there are trust requirements involved 😅

2024-12-12 17:41:04 GMT

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Thanks, I'll give it a read

2024-12-12 17:21:37 GMT

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I didn't take it, this was just a test of blossom support

2024-12-12 17:11:48 GMT

https://cdn.satellite.earth/724554dbf617f166aa85e0bb75a345edf45462b6d3545832e6d6d031ea4a1ef9.jpg

2024-12-12 16:51:34 GMT

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😂 Predictable

2024-12-12 16:34:05 GMT

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Yep, and not just from a technological standpoint

2024-12-12 15:12:25 GMT

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Skepticism is the starting point

2024-12-12 15:12:04 GMT

Keep an open mind. No technology is sacred, including bitcoin and nostr. This position is consistent with the heuristic that most other similar projects are DINO scams, and aren't worth your attention.

2024-12-12 15:07:55 GMT

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Oh, that's interesting, why is my brain spending so much time in the "wondering what people think of me" loop?

2024-12-12 14:41:50 GMT

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Ok, XMR is the other one. But the privacy has trade offs. Kaspa seems much more bitcoin-like.

2024-12-12 14:18:59 GMT

Does anyone have any educated opinions about Kaspa? It's the first crypto I've discovered that isn't entirely composed of red flags on first glance.
What's interesting about it is they use zk rollups to support ~1 second block times (with parallel block construction) while keeping economic nodes extremely lightweight (<40GB). Of course a full transaction history would probably be immense, but I'm not sure how important that would be for anything other than chain analysis.

2024-12-12 13:56:22 GMT

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👀 28 Days Later is one of my favorite movies

2024-12-12 05:29:53 GMT

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That is so good

2024-12-12 05:24:04 GMT

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Filing this one away

2024-12-11 22:51:40 GMT

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Thanks, I'll think about that first gif every time I have to specify master instead of main. What movie is this?

2024-12-11 22:37:02 GMT

BRB forking another repository. This brings me to *checks notes* 53 repositories under the coracle org on github.

2024-12-11 22:32:23 GMT

Remember back in 2019 how github pressured everyone into renaming their master branch to main? I still have a hard time believing that happened.

2024-12-11 22:21:30 GMT

Just made a new feed for #coracle users:
#naddr1qv…8exk
This one allows you to keep up with people in a different timezone. Fork and modify the delta (you'll have to use the advanced editor for now) to adjust the offset!

2024-12-11 18:07:56 GMT

@nprofile…4ds2 would you be interested in coming on the @nprofile…vus3 sometime? I've been thinking over how nostr products can become self-sustaining for a while (either via VC, grants, business models, or some other option). I know you're involved with the nostr VC space, and obviously know something about money. I'd love to get your thoughts on that topic (and also meet you — I was at the TGFB conference in July, but managed to miss you. I've been listening to your podcast for years, in fact it was your first Bitcoin Fundamentals that finally got me into bitcoin).

2024-12-11 00:14:15 GMT

For more context on this note, take a listen to the latest @nprofile…vus3 here: https://fountain.fm/episode/A49mWX658yQqbvOU9M98
#nevent1q…kgxl

2024-12-10 20:41:01 GMT

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They too will go the way of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar

2024-12-10 17:32:27 GMT

Just posted a message to chachi.chat from Flotilla (dev version) via groups.0xchat.social 👀
https://image.nostr.build/c10bb8724a7ced86879506ae9b91c0edc10d965ac4119637207ad434193263b6.png

2024-12-10 16:29:29 GMT

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NDK has good support I believe, which powers a lot of smaller apps.

2024-12-08 16:26:12 GMT

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Oh look the establishment is rediscovering common sense

2024-12-08 15:07:26 GMT

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Tried that once 😂

2024-12-08 03:48:09 GMT

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No, I think your plane is really starting to take off

2024-12-08 03:47:37 GMT

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I haven't even started 😂

2024-12-08 03:39:20 GMT

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My prompt says to use the most common stories but it has a mind of its own

2024-12-08 03:38:46 GMT

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Magic

2024-12-08 03:38:34 GMT

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I'll take a look, I'm sure my promot engineering isn't up to snuff

2024-12-08 03:36:59 GMT

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Sure, if you don't mind something like this:
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Nq7vTCDcpofQsvuGHhFicf_8OY0=/0x0:416x277/1200x800/filters:focal(0x0:416x277)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/50366429/opera.0.0.png

2024-12-08 03:30:09 GMT

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Thank you for the kind words

2024-12-08 03:29:56 GMT

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I abstract too much, I'm too reluctant to deal with the details

2024-12-07 22:35:49 GMT

I suck at carpentry

2024-12-07 19:29:46 GMT

Ok, so currently cron isn't working for me, so I am manually triggering the bot. 🤖
#nevent1q…p65g

2024-12-07 15:35:50 GMT

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That's a good point, this approach doesn't allow for password resets

2024-12-07 15:35:06 GMT

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Every bitcoin node has a full copy of the blockchain, which is why it's so important to keep block sizes low. Nostr relays won't possibly be able to store a copy of the full multi-zetabyte network at scale (and don't have a consensus protocol anyway)

2024-12-07 14:51:01 GMT

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The whole network has to rely on that fact. If we can't achieve correct relay selection the whole project is pointless. Scaling the same way bluesky is (copying every note to every node) isn't meaningfully decentralized.

2024-12-07 01:08:32 GMT

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Just don't use blastr, problem solved

2024-12-07 01:01:07 GMT

Today I built my first LLM-based bot! Based on @nprofile…uvdz's news.utxo.one relay, it scrapes the relay every six hours and (attempts) to summarize the top 5 stories. Here's post number one:
#nevent1q…0j36
I attempted to use huggingface to no avail, then tried to use mistral via ollama, which brought my computer to a grinding halt, so I decided to go with the Mistral API.
Source code: https://github.com/coracle-social/condenser

2024-12-06 17:04:05 GMT

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Coracle uses bitcoin-connect. I've noticed some squirreliness with alby lately since the release of Hub. I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. @-mention me next time 😉

2024-12-06 00:47:26 GMT

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Birdemic is so good

2024-12-05 21:29:59 GMT

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I was thinking to authenticate further sessions, but you're right, you could do the email login every time, that's fairly familiar.

2024-12-05 21:16:01 GMT

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But I need a password on signup anyway in order to authenticate with the server. Having two passwords seems unnecessarily confusing. Otherwise I like the idea.

2024-12-05 20:03:59 GMT

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There are other value propositions nostr offers than owning your key. For example, a community member being able to run your infrastructure (a relay for use with flotilla). That's a more familiar selling point, and since the key storage is done in a trusted context, the small possibility of the key being leaked to the community admin can be overlooked. I'm looking at this specifically in terms of a group of people who are highly interested in one particular nostr application, and completely unaware of nostr as a whole. Even if they have to burn their key, it's an improvement because they learn what keys are, and that nostr exists.

2024-12-05 18:43:45 GMT

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That's a good call, encrypting an nsec is a very different thing. Hmmmm

2024-12-05 18:12:38 GMT

Thinking about email/password login further, here's a different approach:
Instead of encrypting at rest using a server key, what if the server never saw the key at all? Instead, the user would simply authenticate with the server, and retrieve an ncryptsec.
To avoid using the same password for the ncryptsec and the server authentication (since that would allow the server to decrypt the ncryptsec), the client could instead send the hash of the user's password to the server. (This would allow the user to avoid remembering two different passwords).
This would put key storage back on the client which comes with its own attendant risks, and benefits.
Is this better or worse than my other design?
nostr:#nevent1q…ndwu

2024-12-05 17:53:11 GMT

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That's true. But I think it's a well enough understood problem that it is the user's responsibility at this point. Are there user-friendly ways of ensuring high-entropy passwords though? The "at least one number" policies are both obnoxious and ineffective.