Just got my first Android phone. So this is how the other half lives. Or in this case it's like the other 80% :P

I spent some time looking at self-hostable crash reporting tools yesterday and decided to try sentry.io. Does anyone have experience with them? I’m especially excited about their performance monitoring tools. We have a goal with Nos to not have to say “this app shares data with third parties” on our App Store page. That means self-hosting analytics, support, crash reporting, etc. we are already self-hosting Posthog analytics and we are just using email for support right now.

Ok I’m hooked on kagi.com search. It feels like Google search circa 2016. The first result is the right one ~70% of the time. It has quickly taken over ChatGPT as my first stop for programming questions. I’ll probably drop the OpenAI subscription and put that money towards Kagi instead.

Testing photo upload from Nos…

Trying the kagi.com search engine today. ChatGPT has mostly replaced Google for programming questions for me over the past couple months. Google search seems to just keep getting worse and worse for my use case, and I already use DuckDuckGo for non-programming searches. I’ve heard several people talk about how good the Kagi results are in the past few weeks. Apparently their ranking algorithm penalizes sites with lots of adds, which cuts down on a lot of the garbage spam/AI generated results that Google shows. Does anyone here use Kagi?

Hah, typing “x.com” into Safari’s address bar just searches for the string. You have to type “https://x.com” to get to Twitter. I thought I read that one of the internet founders bought all the 1 and 2 letter domain names so no corporation could own a letter of the alphabet. Does anyone know what happened to that?

New release out with proper link previews! Now we show the same Open Graph Protocol previews that app like iMessage display. Enjoy! Full release notes: - Added link previews for urls in notes. - Added Dutch, Japanese, and Persian translations. Thanks matata, yutaro, and eru-desu! - Add a loading placeholder for note contents. - Fixed several crashes.

This is a great article from someone I met at #dwebcamp2023 that does a good job capturing the DWeb ethos and talks about how we can continue collaborating now that its over. I especially love the "Decentralization of the Tech Stack" she drew up. It touches on my favorite part about this year's DWeb camp, which was learning a lot from projects that are much stronger in the "People, Norms, and Relationships" and "Governance" layers of the stack than Nostr and most other decentralized social protocols.

DWeb Camp 2023: Coalition-Building Across the Tech Stack

Reflections, lingering questions, and frameworks for thinking about projects and partnerships in the decentralized web community

I’m curious if anyone has any active NIP-172 communities they like? I look through a few every few days but most just have one or two posts. Are there any you have noticed? @Stuart Bowman @Vitor Pamplona @Jingles

I'm going to try moving my Mastodon account to social.coop. I haven't had any problems with my current host but the tools and processes used to cooperatively manage social.coop are things I have been wanting to try! I think similar governance structures would work well for Nostr relays.

@Stuart Bowman can we get a direct link to the page on satellite with the upload file button? “

Satellite

satellite.earth

makes me wait for an animation to play. Which is very pretty, but I don’t want to watch it every time.

And a sneak peak at something I’m excited for in the next build: better link previews. I switched to using Apple’s system link preview component instead of rendering both the link and a preview in the note body. It isn’t perfect but it does a lot better than what we have currently, rendering previews for many types of links other than jpg images including gifs, videos, blog posts, and more. Eventually we’ll build custom link previews that better integrate with our design and UI. But baby steps are good.

Build 57 of Nos is out with support for push notifications! Now you can get a notification instantly when you are mentioned, even when the app is closed. This build has been in the oven for a while, there a quite a few more goodies in it as well: - Added beta integration with the Universal Name System. Edit your profile to link your Universal Name to your Nostr profile. - Added the number of connected relays in the top right corner of the Home Feed. - Updated design of the relay selector - Added a confirmation dialog when deleting a note. - Fixed several bugs around muting users - Fixed high cpu usage when the app is idle - Fixed a bug where expired messages could be published to relays that doesn't support them - Fixed an issue where Nos sometimes couldn't find the user's key on startup. - Fixed an issue where you could have duplicate relays: one with a trailing slash and one without.