Have not had the time recently to work on Nosta because I am so swamped. There's a long list of things I'd love to add and improve, I'll have to find some time to squeeze that in.
I deploy the site with Netlify and it told me a few days ago that I reached the limit of the free tier for cloud functions (or something like that). I have not had any tracking on the site, but wanted to get a sense for what's happening so I can take appropriate measures. So I enabled Netlify metrics (server-side and GDPR compliant).
It backfilled the last 30 days, which shows 178,000 page views by 8,100 unique users. A bunch of that is probably bots (e.g. 98 page requests for /wp-login.php), the analytics are not good enough to tell how much.
I have no sense how to place those numbers in the context of the Nostr ecosystem, but it's super cool that the site is being used. It can be so much better and more useful, too. If you run a Nostr site/service, what do you see?
And what is everyone's perception of privacy-respecting tracking services like Umami? I'm considering implementing it and making the dashboard public.
Christoph Ono
gbks@nosta.me
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Designer & developer. Helping improve bitcoin design with many others at https://bitcoin.design . I write a weekly update at https://gbks.substack.com . ✌️
The future of bitcoin UX once the AIs replace designers.


Saving Satoshi chapter 6 is now live. In this one, you learn how to write Javascript or Python to construct bitcoin transactions. Story-wise, you're scheming to find out what really motivates your nemesis Vanderpoole.

Saving Satoshi
Saving Satoshi
Explore the mysteries of Satoshi and learn about bitcoin along the way.
If you give it a whirl, we love hearing feedback.
@Saving SatoshiWe refreshed the website of the Bitcoin Design Foundation (we only had a placeholder previously). Let me know what you think.
Bitcoin Design Foundation
We support designers who improve the bitcoin user experience.
Weekly update time. Quite a bit going on in @Bitcoin Design and the projects I'm helping out with. 

#86 200x
In fees.
My latest weekly update with design stuff I worked on this week. 
#85 Treeception
For scale.
We have a Bitcoin Design huddle coming up in a bit over an hour. I'll probably work on diagrams to illustrate different key management setups. 
GitHub
Design Huddle #1: Getting our crayons out · Issue #609 · BitcoinDesign/Meta
UTCTime: 2024-01-12 14:00 UTC Duration: 1h Agenda This is a new call format focused on designing together hands-on, complementing our other calls t...
Block clock layout diagrams. This should look great from huge screens to tiny smart watch screens. Prob still needs some tweaks. https://bitcoincore.app/block-clock/#layout-logic
Happy HODL day. 10 years ago today, a drunk forum user unintentionally coined this abbreviation in this post: I AM HODLING
I AM HODLING
If I adopt the projects I reviewed, I can earn sats by streaming video, going to restaurants and sharing links, and convert them to synthetic stablecoins and Ecash for coinjoin payments to AI to help code Miniscript, transcribe videos, and organize my japanese bitcoin community.
A glorious potential future to behold. But seriously, lots of interesting explorations and capabilities in those projects (and I only looked at a fraction). https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects
Reviewing Legends of Lightning hackathon projects right now. Tons of great work there, congrats to all the participants. Make sure to take a look and support your fellow builders. A little bit of feedback can go a long way. @BOLT🔩FUN https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects
Listen to Jonas, @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd. and I talk about @Saving Satoshi
and @BOLT🔩FUN for an intense 54 minutes.
We put together a teaser and demo video for our submission of
@Saving Satoshi to the @BOLT🔩FUN Legends of Lightning hackathon.
Can't believe the project is already a year old. We have a great team working on it and making good progress with the lesson content. Also, we're just hackathoning for fun and glory and not competing for prizes.
Congrats to all the other teams that participated and put their hearts and minds into their projects. You can check them out here:
https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects
The Bitcoin UI Kit now has its own plugin to easily change the theme and keep the design system tidy. Here's a walkthrough.
You can get it here on Figma Community:
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1254869452790045259/bitcoin-ui-kit
And the source code is here:
Wanna help with the UI Kit project? Let me know.

GitHub
bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit/figma-plugins/bitcoin-ui-kit at main · GBKS/bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit
A design system and UI kit for Bitcoin wallet applications. - GBKS/bitcoin-wallet-ui-kit

Bitcoin UI Kit
Bitcoin UI Kit
This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.
Just submitted a talk proposal for FOSDEM about open-source design and sustainability in @Bitcoin Design. Proposals are due tomorrow if you'd also like to present something.
Open Source Design
Open Source Design
Connecting open source & design! 🎨
This is my default easing curve for page transitions. 400ms with a (0.5,0,0.2,1) bezier curve . What do you use? 

Easings
Easings - Generate, test and share custom easing curves.
Test common easing curves on a range of interfaces. Or generate and share your own cubic-bezier curves.
The song I listened to most often this year, according to Apple Music.
My wife started a podcast where she chats with her 2 sisters about moving to the US from Japan as kids, now living on different continents, and lots of other things. Big part of the motivation for doing this is to capture stories to leave behind for the kids eventually. We're naturally also testing out Value4Value, so you can find the show on @Fountain if you'd like to peek in. https://fountain.fm/show/sFWdFizgfYi4yXdeQr1m
Some changes I am looking into for the Bitcoin UI Kit (
First, expand the color palette from 4 to 12, with one primary color, to make the use of color more flexible.
Second, replace light/dark mode with style sets that can affect color, type, and other properties. This should make it 100x easier to style the kit to your preferences. See it in action in this video.
Third, publish a custom Bitcoin UI Kit plugin with various helper tools. Watch the video to see a work-in-progress version in action and how it enables the theming system.
After that, we'll need to update the website to reflect the changes, and also create some how-to videos and explainers. I'd love to have more contributors on these efforts and make this the best UI Kit in past, present, future across the multiverse.

Bitcoin UI Kit
Bitcoin UI Kit
This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.
Second, replace light/dark mode with style sets that can affect color, type, and other properties. This should make it 100x easier to style the kit to your preferences. See it in action in this video.
Third, publish a custom Bitcoin UI Kit plugin with various helper tools. Watch the video to see a work-in-progress version in action and how it enables the theming system.
After that, we'll need to update the website to reflect the changes, and also create some how-to videos and explainers. I'd love to have more contributors on these efforts and make this the best UI Kit in past, present, future across the multiverse.We've had over 400 calls in the Bitcoin Design Community since the inception mid-2020. About 250 those are recorded and on YouTube & BitcoinTV. Creating covers for the videos is always a fun little exercise, making something that looks interesting somehow without much meaning to it. Here are some from mostly recent design guide jam session.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BitcoinDesign

https://www.youtube.com/c/BitcoinDesign
BitcoinTV.com
Bitcoin Design
Videos created by the Bitcoin Design Community, mostly recordings from our calls.