Some quick concept explorations with @Chris around beefing up the visual expression of @OpenSecret. Would you use it?

Nice to see another accessibility improvement merged in Blue Wallet. This one is around QR codes.

GitHub

Make QR code on receive screen accessible · Issue #5388 · BlueWallet/BlueWallet

A blind person has no indication that there is a QR code on the screen - it does not exist for them. A blind bitcoiner actually just told me this, ...

Another lovely update to the design docs, this one is a first draft for the snapshot (assumeUTXO) feature UX.

Bitcoin Core App design docs

Snapshot

Design documentation for the Bitcoin Core QML application.

Had a fantastic time at Advancing Bitcoin. Big thanks to the organizers. Super high signal with so many whip-smart and friendly people. Now, how do we make all this bleeding-edge tech easily usable...?

I'd love to see more designers help mentor in the Summer of Bitcoin program. Happy to answer questions if this sounds remotely interesting.

My weekly open-source work update is out with video ramblings on human-readable addresses and assumeUTXO.

#90 01100010 01101001

01110100 01100011

People always complain about CSS, but I find it an elegant system. But, it takes a really long time to learn to use it well.

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.

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 Satoshi

We 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. @npub1funq...gs0p https://bolt.fun/tournaments/legends-of-lightning-vol2/projects

Listen to Jonas, @Johns from Peak Shift Ltd. and I talk about @Saving Satoshi and @npub1funq...gs0p for an intense 54 minutes.

We put together a teaser and demo video for our submission of @Saving Satoshi to the @npub1funq...gs0p 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