If we had infrastructure for curating entries, allowing groups to vote on proposed additions and deletions and simple UIs for viewing the list of all items in a list then it would be easy to get rid of the NIPs repository. It's sad that after so many years all we have are "feed" views. And GitHub continues to be a better platform for browsing and updating text lists of things. Notice that I'm not asking for much. We would also have to get rid of the NIP numbers, but we could just say "the longform NIP", "the badges NIP" etc and it wouldn't be hard to know what were people talking about. But if you're reading this and thinking about a complicated system with events being published with votes, proposals, lists of replaceable events with other lists inside or whatever absurdity, please stop. Just use a relay and normal events inside, add and delete. Custom write policies, standard Nostr read API. #pyramid has a moderated subrelay that is probably 25% there already. If you disagree please let me know. View quoted note →

If you are a bored ex-programmer in this sunday evening here's something for you to look at:

GitHub

NIP-A5: WASM programs by fiatjaf · Pull Request #2281 · nostr-protocol/nips

Instead of writing a description for this PR I recorded a lengthy video: https://nostr.media/50da90a24726067baaa3e1285b0b8e1a098114f08d2ba859271dc3...

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I just realized people talk about "Android". They know that many different phones and even other types of devices all speak this same "protocol" called "Android". They know that there are many different apps that can be used in Android but not on iPhones. They know that there are many flavors of Android, but that there is something that is the same underlying all of them. It's not a perfect analogy with Nostr, but regardless of that UX specialists would have led us to believe that no one would be able to understand or care about such technical details, and that these technical details should be hidden at all costs, but they're proven wrong again. Are there other examples of this phenomenon? I guess there are also email, podcasts, SMS messages, web browsers and HTML (although this is a bad example it's still valid).

Beautiful. View quoted note →

YouTube has a subscriptions page that used to show me just videos from channels I've subscribed to in chronological order. It was great. Now most of the screen is filled with some recommended content "for me" (or "most relevant", who knows, they're still tweaking things apparently), which is basically just reordering the same few videos I have in my subscription, such that I can never get a clear picture of what is new and what isn't or what I have already watched or skipped and what I should take a look at.

Grimoire might not be the most pretty, might not have the best onboarding, might not be the most usable, might not be the lightest or the most native, might not be finished or stable, might not have a GIF keyboard, but it is the most important Nostr client. View quoted note →

This is so stupid.