Sounds like a good idea. @BTC Prague

European elections are on. Use your vote, or others will decide for you. I’ll make my way to the voting booth on Sunday morning right when they open. https://elections.europa.eu/video/en/ov/en/

Let’s do that “translate war into peace” thing. Seems better, doesn’t it?

There's a lot in the Bitcoin UI Kit. @Chris put together a great video walkthrough.

Quick test using AI to identify and fix accessibility issues (here the reply buttons under Damus iOS notes, using Github Copilot in Visual Studio Code). Looks very promising and should safe tons of time and brain power. Why not always run this on UI PRs?

For accessibility awareness day, I tested several apps and it's not good. Amethyst Android - Grade B+ eNuts iOS - Grade D Mutiny iOS - Grade D Snort Android & Web - Grade E Damus iOS - Grade E Primal iOS & Web - Grade F You're pretty much left out in the cold as a blind user. I know some of these are super new, done by small teams, open-source contributions, etc. But there just seems to be a general disinterest in properly marking up UI elements. This stuff is easy to fix, just needs a few motivated hands.

Good read.

Result of a Bitaxe workshop yesterday organized by @WantClue and the Bitcoin Munich Meetup. Highly recommend it. Time to do a little bit of hashing now…

Nice post by Umami about how they balance open-source and running a company.

Challenges of Running an Open Source Company – Blog - Umami

Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.

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.

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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.