gm, good people. ☕

Coming soon to the US. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/1061951895900047

The new White Lies album is an absolute banger. #tunestr

Saturday night launch. 🚀 Nostr's UX problem isn't a secret. 30-day retention trends to 0%. Daily active users stuck at ~10k. Posts disappear. Followers vanish when you switch apps. Every app feels like beta software. I've spent 2+ years arguing that great UX wins. So I designed a meta-study, threw a few hundred dollars at Claude, and put together what the evidence indicates. tl;dr: Ship working experiences, then add features. 🔗

UX Patterns for Nostr Apps

Evidence-informed patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use

6 critical patterns backed by 100+ citations: ‣ Onboarding, content discovery, core interactions ‣ Performance, progressive complexity, cross-client consistency ‣ Anti-patterns to avoid + validation checklists I'm not a designer, but I know what good looks like. This is opinionated, evidence-based, and focused on retention. What am I missing? What did I get wrong? Send PRs this way:

GitHub

GitHub - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns: Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use

Evidence-informed UX patterns for building Nostr apps people actually use - shawnyeager/nostr-ux-patterns

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gm, good people. ☕

The inverse Inverse Kramer.

Futurism

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

Last night's opening act was new to me; so good live and criminally underrated. #tunestr

Funny, that. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-employment-report-will-not-be-published-again-government-shutdown-drags-2025-11-07/

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.