Fully in event planning mode at the moment. Between the Designathon, Oslo Freedom Forum, BTC Prague, and Presidio Bitcoin events, there's a lot to organize in the Bitcoin Design Community. If you're looking for opportunities to tinker on fun bitcoin stuff with fun people, take a peek at the Designathon (global), Bitcoin 2025 hackathon (global), and the upcoming BTC++ (Austin) one.

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

Presidio Bitcoin Design Week

We’re bringing together designers from the bitcoin community and designers from across Silicon Valley’s tech community to tackle how to beautif...

Bitcoin 2025 Official Hackathon

Bitcoin 2025 Official Hackathon

Virtual Hackathon for the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas

bitcoin++ ATX || May 7-9, 2025

Join us in Austin May 2025 for the bitcoin++, the premier FOSS conference for bitcoin

Thanks to all who chip in on making these events happen.

Nice one.

Penpot released design tokens. Another great iteration of this open-source design tool.

Penpot Design Tokens | Small decisions to master complexity

Small decisions to master complexity

How about a comment screener (like Hey)? New comments on your posts are first in an inbox. If you accept it, or whitelist the person, it shows up for you. Others can choose whether to see all or only approved comments.

Hard to make a better case for bitcoin as a credibly neutral global money than the global news section of the HRF financial freedom report.

Turkish Lira in Free Fall, Cubans Unable to Access Remittances, and Pakistan Plans to Regulate Digital Assets.

Is this good UX?

To all the Nostr builders, how is the Nostrability project working out in helping improve interoperability? Is it something you participate in?

GitHub

nostrability/nostrability

Left curve nostr broken stuff and interoperability tracker + json schema validation - nostrability/nostrability

It was a pleasure presenting the Open Design Guide (http://opendesign.guide) last week at FOSS Backstage. It's an effort to provide a smoother path into open-source for designers. Interestingly, there were 3 other talks at the conference that brought up the same problem. The Canonical team did a survey and found that most designers don't realize open-source is a thing, many of the ones that do have no idea how to get started, and many who give it a try don't get far due to the steep learning curve. Let's make that a little easier.

"We've been successfully removing all friction from our apps — think about how effortless it is to scroll through a social feed. But is that what we want? Compare the feeling of doomscrolling to kneading dough, playing an instrument, sketching... these take effort, but they're also deeply satisfying. When you strip away too much friction, meaning and satisfaction go with it." Beautifully done:

Our interfaces have lost their senses

Almost every time I post on here, some insult ends up in the comments. And I’m not even posting anything provocative. Would be nice to keep things civil. Thank you very much.

The Open Tech Fund got killed over the weekend. It supported Signal, Tor, VPN access and lots of other good initiatives. I met some people from their team last year at a conference and asked if they were resilient to a second Trump term (they got almost killed during the first). Sad to see this happen now.

Bloomberg.com

Trump Order Gutting Agencies Cuts Tools to Fight Censorship Worldwide

President Donald Trump’s weekend shutdown of the US Agency for Global Media has among its casualties a small — but influential — fund that he...

I used Penpot (http://penpot.app) for a presentation at FOSS Backstage last week. It worked great, with a few small hiccups. If you're not ready to go 100% Penpot yet, I'd recommend trying it for smaller design tasks (and give the team feedback). One step at a time.