Bitcoiners: "Of course we're all carnivores" Also bitcoiners: "Pizza daaaaaay!"

#NoorNote version 0.9.5 is out with lots of fixes and improvements under the hood. New feature: Silent Zaps. Still based on Lightning by the way. I'm not crazy or anything. To use it just flip the silent zap switch. This is what the zap then looks like for me, the receiver and anyone else in NoorNote. Some clients show nothing at all and some clients only show a random npub as the sender that was automatically generated for this zap. On top of that NosPress has come a long way. Everything you see on my website (

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can now be built with the simple NosPress block editor. NosPress has become so big now it could easily be an own full Nostr app and probably the most comprehensive one in this space. But I built it as an addon inside NoorNote so I could integrate a few Nostr features more easily like the DM block that links straight to NoorNotes DMs or notes and articles that can be added right into website. If you need any extra features or blocks just hit me up.

Every Nostr dev should read this. And probably every Nostr user too. View quoted note →

If you let a chip into your body you'll lose the last bit of sovereignty that you have. View quoted note →

What comes after Bitcoin and Nostr? - Augmented Local Communities (ALC) View quoted note →

Yeah I kind of agree with that. And I've even been a usability advocate myself at one point. But right at the very beginning Tim Berners-Lee said the web is a read/write web and that's why Netscape shipped with a composer right in the browser alongside the web page reader. People were only meant to learn 6-8 HTML tags and just upload their pages with FTP. Turned out that was too much for them so years later everyone just ran off to Facebook and Twitter. And now we're seeing what happened from all that mainstream laziness when it comes to learning new stuff. Nah you've got to be willing to get into new technology a bit every now and then. You got to earn your sovereignty. View quoted note →

It's interesting how AI formalizes CSS specificity. That's one of the biggest sources of UI problems. It thinks in this very formal and abstract way, like (1,0,0,0 inline vs 0,1,0 class). But a lot of designers tend to think more in terms of grammar and set theory. That was exactly the kind of topic I started with when I took my first steps as a publisher online: learning types, thinking models, and presentation patterns.

Developing software isn't just about pushing from one feature to the next. You also have to go back every now and then and check the basics to see if they're still solid and competitive, or if you can make them just a tiny bit better. It's like a star footballer who doesn't just spend all his time practicing flashy overhead kicks, but every day works on the basics like passing, receiving the ball, controlling it and shooting.

#NoorNote is now showing which products a user sells right in their profile. Your sales stand always with you. Already available on

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Desktop and mobile coming with the next release.

That's intentional. That's how they want to kill Bitcoin as a MoE. View quoted note →

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Kleine Einführung in #NoorNote in Deutsch. View quoted note →

0 Sats balance on my npub, yo. 🚀 View quoted note →

Before we even talk about whether some idea or feature could appeal to the masses, we should first figure out if we actually want the masses here and if we're even capable of handling them. Do we have the technical capacity for that? Are we culturally ready for it? Can we deal with the consequences at all? For example the whole developer cult would be over here, and devs would just fade into an even less appreciated background, not being the heros here anymore. And how much can we really simplify the complexity of a decentralized network anyway? If we do that we'd probably run into the same messy issues we see on legacy social media, even without any algorithm. More AI slop, rage baiting, spineless people selling themselves ... etc. And this time for zaps, not even for attention alone. It's not like we don't already see the first signs of that here too, but they're still pretty small and we can keep them under control for now. Then the OGs would just sit around complaining that everything was better before the undisciplined masses showed up. We've already seen long periods without algorithms on Facebook and Twitter. It only takes a few persons, like those npub zap fans, to come along with the idea of "algorithmic relays ☝" and everyone gets excited, and the same cycle starts all over again. What I'm getting at is that the problem is already baked into the desire for comfort itself. Or to put it more bluntly, into how much we're willing to cater to the masses' desire for convenience. That's where the real issue lies. I wrote about this some time ago. View article → Personally I don't see any real happiness or harmony in always chasing comfort and refusing to get your hands dirty. This craving for convenience is exactly what turned everything so centralized, corporate and fiat in the first place. It's all about your personal mindset and discipline. There's a reason that old Turkish saying exists: "Nerede çokluk, orda bokluk", meaning "where there are lots of people, there's a lot of shit". And that pattern has never changed.

Feel good post for all the devs with zero UX sense. View quoted note →

Let’s be honest, most people have shitty taste in music. And those criticizing this now are very likely part of the group of "most people". 😏

Looks like someone didn't understand Nostr at all. But hey at least the usual buzzwords at the end.