Announcing Plaza, a native Nostr client for macOS. 🎉 I built it because I wanted a feed that is already there when the window opens. Plaza keeps your notes in a local database and draws from disk first, then lets the relays catch up behind you. A feed query takes 0.28ms, so there is nothing to wait for. I wrote it in Zig. No Electron, no WebView, no browser hiding in the binary. It opens straight into a feed as well, with no sign-up or welcome wall, because reading Nostr never needed a key. Your key can stay out of it entirely if you want. Sign through Notary over NIP-46 and Plaza never sees it. Notary signs for other clients too, so it can be your signer everywhere rather than only here. It is early, and I would rather say so than have you find out: no DMs, no zaps, no search yet. If you are on macOS, tell me what breaks. And if you are not: what does your current client get wrong?

zig-nostr

zig-nostr: the Nostr protocol, natively in Zig

A native Nostr ecosystem in Zig: a foundational protocol library, utility libraries, and fast native apps like the Notary remote signer.

#nostr #buildinpublic

and a warm good morning from Plaza ☀️💜🫂☕️

Signet is now Notary. "Signet" already means a Bitcoin test network. "Notary" means something that holds your seal, never gives it away, and signs when you say so. That was always the more honest word for it. Same software, new name.

GitHub

Signet is Notary by sepehr-safari · Pull Request #35 · zig-nostr/notary

The name was always going to change, and this is the last moment it is cheap. The client that pairs with this has no tagged release yet, so nothing...

taking today’s entropy lesson seriously. dice are coming to plaza.

seriously guys, what would you like to be able to toggle off in a nostr client? #asknostr

gm nostr. stay weird. ☀☕ View quoted note →

plaza is coming together. It feels cleaner, calmer, and a lot nicer to use now. still plenty to tweak, but I'm really happy with where it’s headed.

spent half a week to polish #plaza's design. from this, to this. whatcha think?

gm nostr ☀ conversations work in #plaza now. tap a note, read the thread, reply from a pinned composer. the reply is a proper NIP-10 kind:1 that landed on damus with the root marker where it belongs. watched the reply count tick from 1 to 2 and felt things.

GitHub

feat: thread view and reply by sepehr-safari · Pull Request #42 · zig-nostr/plaza

The last item from the design-review feedback: tap a note to see its comments, and reply to it. Inspired by the redesign's 2f "Thread+&quo...

gm nostr. so I built one signer engine and gave it two homes. it comes baked into #plaza, nothing to set up, and it runs on its own as #signet for the rest of your nostr apps. View quoted note →

you should never paste your secret key into a desktop client. #plaza lets you bring your key in with one terminal command.