1. A tremendous news from Divine 🥳
Big news! TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list is out now, and we’re over the moon to be selected as one of three in the Apps and Software category this year!
But this award really belongs to all our Diviners who embraced that mission and made Divine what it is. You built this. 💚
We created Divine to put creative power back into human hands.
No ad-based algorithm, no AI slop, and no blackbox algorithm. Just people making weird, wonderful things together.
Check it out: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/
#TIMEBestInventions
2. The life is very short. Be kind and love your family. The time can't be reversible 👈🏻
GM Nostr.
Today would have been my brother’s 43 birthday, and we are choosing to celebrate it. We celebrate the life he lived, and the life we still have. Life is beautiful but incredibly short, time is a luxury that money simply cannot buy.
Moving forward, I choose to protect my peace, divide my energy wisely, keep my focus on what truly matters. Let’s celebrate life every day, because it’s the greatest gift we have! Happy Birthday in heaven brother. Forever loved, forever missed. we hold onto the beautiful memories until we meet again!!! Have amazing week/end and Enjoy life to the MAX ! 🧡🌟 Be kind and keep up the good vibes!🙏
3. Another must-watch episode of ‘You’re The Voice’ 🔥
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4. A lovely day of a nostrich’s life 💍
Gm nostr, she said yes ❤️
5. Is this well said? What do you think? 🤔
I'm getting more done than ever, but pride in my work is at an all-time low. The average quality of the work I do has improved dramatically over the last 6 months. Many of the engineering disciplines I neglected or never learned happen automatically now.
It used to be I would sweat to make something I was proud of, because I believed it was worthwhile to do so. The bad parts were bad, and many, but eclipsed by the purposefulness of the work that drove me to do it. And the good parts were good, because they were real — because I cared enough to discover them.
I'm not espousing the labor theory of value. I'm not talking about some essential, ineffable "good" in craftsmanship. What I'm saying is that sweat is an essential ingredient in producing something with a soul: something that people can love. People don't love commodities, they love singular things. The commodification of software is killing the love of it.
In other words: other people loved the garbage I used to craft more than the garbage I now produce.
Nowadays, all the parts of my work that used to be low quality are high quality, because Claude is a better programmer than I am. But the parts of my work that used to be good haven't survived. I might be trying to do something worthwhile, but because I haven't actually engaged with the problem I can't make anything better than slop materialize. The glory has departed.
Flotilla has greatly profited from me using AI to code, because the good parts only I could build were already there, and there was a lot of bad stuff that needed to be fixed.
But the way I feel about other projects that I haven't gone through that journey with is that they are garbage. Total trash. They are as valuable as the tokens I used to generate them. Because there's nothing really there. There is nothing to love. There is nothing singular. They are disposable, fungible.
When people refer to themselves as "idea guys" it means they suck at doing real work. But their ideas can only exist if someone takes the time to make their ideas a reality. But in the New Age of AI, idea guys can finally realize their genius, without being held back by a bunch of narrow-minded technicians!
But I think it will turn out that there wasn't actually any genius there in the first place, and everything that was of value about the original idea was actually discovered during the process of building it by the people who did the work to make it a reality.
Software as an art, or a craft — as a thing which is an object affection — is dying. This is fine, the affection was probably misplaced in the first place. A new kind of software — the stuff we create for ourselves, that no one else will ever see — will probably absorb some of that affection. The rest will be commodified.
I think this goes for every industry, by the way. An accountant can feel proud of his spreadsheet, a plumber of his solder, a salesperson of his pitch, even a developer of his agent harness. He can love the work of his hands and have affection for it. It can be singularly valuable to someone, and a conduit of love between the people concerned.
Does an assembly line worker feel affection for the parts he stamps out, or the people who receive them? Is oil extracted with heart? Are the foundations of skyscrapers filled in with love? Does the dollar store worker bask in the sunshiny faces of the children purchasing their very own extruded plastic disposable pseudo toys?
Maybe they do. I do think that wherever humans use tools, there will be affection. It reminds me of the nose art pilots used to paint on their bombers. "This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
Maybe means I should buy a mechanical keyboard, I don't know. DAU and MRR probably engender warm fuzzies in some types of people, but I'm not one of them.
Commodities are not necessary for a good life. A community can live without commodities, and survive. If everything were hand-made, pride and affection would ubiquitous - and its absence would be traceable to a character flaw in the worker. If every meal came from an animal who had a name instead of a number, every meal would embody gratitude and grief like no store-bought meal could.
I yearn to live that life and check out of this Terry Gilliam-esque Hotel California life, I say as I glance out the side of my eyes at the people I know who have just bought a couple dairy cows and moved out to some acreage, and keep typing.
Am I a coward for wanting to stay where it's comfortable and secure? Where my skills (or what's left of them) are in demand? Is my heart too bound up with the bounty of the market that I have become a commodity myself?
Or am I a whiner for being so sad about losing the drudgery of programming? For not wanting to live on a diet of petrochemical-derived macro-nutrients? For not wanting to spend hours a week in a car driving to an office where I work by myself?
"Better a handful with quietness Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind."
6. How do you call these Nostriches? 🤔
Another weekend, another experiment. Or weekend project? I'm not even sure how to call these things anymore, since all I do is think a little bit and talk a little bit, and out pops an app.
I didn't even want to do this. But after one too many slight annoyance of my favorite nostr clients I was like: "fuck it, I'll build one myself"
Less than 48h later, and I have something that covers my feature set reasonably well. And I didn't even have to sit down at the computer to build it. I just spoke into my phone, installed from Zapstore, used it a bit, spoke into my phone some more to mention all the issues I just noticed and the features I'd like to see, and so on, on repeat.
It was a normal weekend, which means time away from the computer, spending time with the kids, being outside, and so on. I truly built all of this on the side. (Yes, sneaking away for a quick 30-second "phone call" from time to time, but you get what I'm trying to say: I didn't have to sit in front of the computer, grunting away, staring into an IDE, borderline losing my mind.)
That's the best part about all this: development feels *effortless* now. Effortless development. Who would've thought?
At least it's for me, in comparison to all the development I did before. Before, it was actually hard work. A craft. Now, all you need to do is to talk (or type).
The limiting factor isn't software development anymore. It's taste. Taste, and maybe some imagination, and maybe drive on top of that. If you want to build the thing, you absolutely *can* build that thing now. One hundred percent. You just have to be stubborn enough.
It was clear to me that we'd arrive at this point at some point in time, which is why I posted "taste and values" over and over and over again in the last 18 months or so, ever since I entered into some state of AI psychosis.
But it's wonderful. Wonderful, I tell you. We can build anything now. *You* can build anything now.
Unhappy with something? Tell your clanker to fix it. Want to build an app? Tell your clanker to build it. You don't even need to sign up to anything, or join a walled garden, or anything of that sort. Look at Private Provider (npub1fet…jzfa) for some inspiration, to get an idea of what's possible right now. The permissionless future is bright indeed.
I'm typing all this in the compose view of Feather, while sipping my morning coffee. An app that didn't exist 48 hours ago. A view that didn't exist 9 hours ago. Is everything fixed and perfect already? Of course not. But there's no excuses anymore. If you *care* you can fix it. If you truly want it you can build it. No more "I don't know how to do this." Just say what you want and your clanker swarm will figure it out. Ask and you shall receive, and all that. What an incredible time to be alive.
Where to go from here? I have no idea. Apps will be superabundant, that much is clear to me. The cost of software is going to zero. There will be very little secret sauce left, if any. You can reverse engineer anything now, whether it's open-source or not.
Software development has forever changed. We used to stand on the fields with picks and shovels; now we have internal combustion engines, hydraulics, excavators, and Bagger 288.
We still need human ingenuity, that's for sure. Human spirit. (If you don't believe me, listen to every lecture John Vervaeke ever gave. I'm serious. You should.) But above all, we need taste. Taste and values.
Without the right value framework in place anything we build will be meaningless.
So here I am, 18 months later, still posting about taste and values. But it's not as vague anymore, and my hope is that it will be even more clear 18 months from now.
7. It’s great to have these kinds of Nostriches who work for the future of Nostr 👇🏻
I’ve made my decision. I’m betting big on Nostr. 🫡
I’ve already retired, and I have no source of income. Still, I’m choosing to invest my time, my energy, and a part of my life into Nostr.
Why? Because I love it. And I believe in its future.
My weapon of choice is nostrfy, my Nostr relay server engine. I believe it can help me build something bigger: a stronger ecosystem, more tools, and more reasons for people to join Nostr.
Am I scared of having no income? Absolutely.
But sometimes, building the future takes a little madness.
If you believe in what I’m doing, a zap, a repost, or even a few words of encouragement would mean the world to me. ❤️
I’m all in.
Let’s build something extraordinary together.
Who’s ready for the adventure? Let’s go, Nostr fam! 🫡⚡️
8. A music band expresses gratitude to Nostr & the community 🥁
We have officially been in #v4vmusic and on #nostr for a whole year now! And I (AlexNicol (nprofile…0733)) have to say, the experience has changed my life!
We have had our music heard by potentially hundreds of more people from around the world than was possible before! I have formed great relationships with other artists, fans and even got some session work virtually and IRL.
This feels like what the internet should be. You can enhance your connections to your passions, and friendships in a healthy way within a positive environment. How many online spaces can say that today?!?!
In less than a year, nostr has become the space where we have the largest following, and we have blown away our expectations for the space. So thank you to every single person who has shown us support, from technical support, sats, to a simple like or share. We appreciate it.
To close out the rest of the year, we will be releasing the remaining songs from our Self-titled album on both #rss and #nostrmusic. Our most recent release is a song called "The Moment We Leave". Check it out! https://podtunes.app/releases/2f7db41e-9245-469e-a2a8-28272c2f4baa
And oh, if you check out the featured track in the music tab of 2140wtf (nprofile…mpnv) you can also have a listen!
Cheers to all you Strange Lovers✌️
9. Is this the same for you too? 👇🏻
"nobody uses nostr" and yet I can't keep up with all the new stuff going on with the protocol and all the new software being dropped every day and I do nostr dev full time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
10. Will you join us to build the future? 🫱🏿🫲🏻
we can fix everything. we can build anything. we can take back control of the computer. we can take back control of the internet.
we consolidated power so the technology could prosper. it had consequences.
we're ready to take it all back.
omarchy is how we take back the computer. nostr is how we take back the internet.
join us. build the future.
#community_nostr_recap