Is anybody aware of a nostr client that doesn’t connect your phone to multiple relays but instead connects to a server (preferably self hostable) which maintains connections to your desired relays and caches the notes you are interested in. I think this would be faster and save battery life. I thought about trying to implement this as a modified relay but the problem is that if you remove all but one relay in an existing client I’m pretty sure the client will broadcast those changes to your relay list. So I would have to use a modified client and relay

Anybody have tips for dealing with door to door salespeople that won’t take no for an answer? Should I just slam the door in their face mid sentence?

How many millions of dollars are wasted because of developers putting empty catch statements? I bet it’s actually in the billions.

If Bitcoin does nothing besides change the subscription model from a pull to a push system I would consider the project a success

Wait people actually thought that a firmware update could not steal your private keys from a hardware wallet?

I’m starting to think the most important thing you learn as an engineer is familiarity with unknowns. Specifically how to know when you don’t know something and how to handle yourself in the face of unknowns.

Really good article on passkeys. The way this is being implemented is very sketch.

Passkeys: A loss of user control?

Question for android users: Can you immediately tell when an app is using a web view instead of native scrolling? On iOS I can immediately tell when I’m using a web view and it feels horrible. Is it something Apple does to discourage web apps or is there something inherently worse about webviews?