Nostr notes by Gustavo

Crank the price up to 11 (million).

2026-10-28T02:17:01Z

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Crank the price up to 11 (million).

Colorado?

2026-10-27T03:27:27Z

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Colorado?

Deception comes in many flavors. Half truths are demons' ...

2026-10-26T02:39:29Z

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Deception comes in many flavors. Half truths are demons' favorite gun.

False idols everywhere.

2026-10-26T02:26:20Z

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False idols everywhere.

Imagine that as a lockdown weapon.

2026-10-25T02:44:03Z

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Imagine that as a lockdown weapon.

The sovereign individual's thesis playing out.

2026-10-24T06:32:13Z

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The sovereign individual's thesis playing out.

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2026-10-21T01:54:04Z

What a time to be alive 🙌

Economically, politically? Yes. I'm talking beyond that 😉

2026-10-19T19:13:24Z

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Economically, politically? Yes. I'm talking beyond that 😉

No idea who would like that better, in the classical music camp. ...

2026-10-19T17:56:49Z

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No idea who would like that better, in the classical music camp. If you're going to build on it, do things like https://song.link/https://tidal.com/browse/track/271399549 , IMO. Great one.

I heard somewhere that 2027 will feel like the last ...

2026-10-18T19:37:55Z

I heard somewhere that 2027 will feel like the last 'normal' year in this planet. That resonated a lot. Prepare accordingly.

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2026-10-15T00:49:51Z

Max Richter assassinated Vivaldi.

They were the real early ones. Respect.

2026-10-13T23:37:05Z

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They were the real early ones. Respect.

That's how you identify the end of a cycle. The future is ...

2026-10-13T23:29:30Z

That's how you identify the end of a cycle. The future is bright.

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Modern propaganda has mostly given up on convincing anyone. It works better to flood the room with so many claims, counterclaims and manufactured emergencies that you eventually stop trying to sort them, because sorting has become exhausting and nobody can keep it up forever. A tired mind gives up on asking what's true and settles for whatever feels familiar or belongs to its own side.

That exhaustion is the real win for whoever is running the game, because a person too worn out to reason will hand over the job of deciding to someone else. Protecting your attention is how you keep the ability to think for yourself.

Love to see it! Need some real phone automated testing? Take ...

2026-10-13T21:52:42Z

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Love to see it! Need some real phone automated testing?
Take this, don't go out there alone: https://github.com/onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent

Think https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

2026-10-11T16:30:28Z

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Think https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

Turn the code into an Emacs mode, special kind of packaging (not ...

2026-10-11T16:16:42Z

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Turn the code into an Emacs mode, special kind of packaging (not standalone). No idea how easy, but...

Awesome. Speaking of UX, Emacs native mode besides the TUI? 😉

2026-10-11T15:24:19Z

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Awesome. Speaking of UX, Emacs native mode besides the TUI? 😉

She's not wrong. For the right definition of 'alien' ...

2026-10-09T23:17:44Z

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She's not wrong. For the right definition of 'alien' 😉

Under the hood, nostr is just a call for humbleness: 'no ...

2026-10-08T15:10:30Z

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Under the hood, nostr is just a call for humbleness: 'no star' ;)
It's just the new way people communicate. Big, yet invisible.

I spent a year thinking you had no hair. Now you have plenty. ...

2026-10-07T20:47:19Z

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I spent a year thinking you had no hair. Now you have plenty. Guess those things happen?

@nprofile…p6hx wink wink nudge nudge

2026-10-06T17:16:22Z

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River (nprofile…p6hx) wink wink nudge nudge

https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/06/myers-briggs-wbw-vs-us.html e a ...

2026-10-05T12:30:05Z

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https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/06/myers-briggs-wbw-vs-us.html e a distribuição parece ser bem desuniforme, que piração. Eu tava pensando em EUA. Confirma que concentração de NPCs é também desuniforme.

E que ironia que eles são o 'long tail'.

2026-10-05T04:44:37Z

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E que ironia que eles são o 'long tail'.

Sim.

2026-10-05T04:44:06Z

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Sim.

O problema é a dissonância cognitiva. Muito pouco perfil Myers ...

2026-10-05T03:35:46Z

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O problema é a dissonância cognitiva. Muito pouco perfil Myers Briggs lida bem com revelações que destroem bases de crença antigas completamente, e bola pra frente, reset mental. A maioria das pessoas tem o cérebro derretido e preferem acreditar no que 'funcionou' a vida toda.

I found random skills out there for the same issue. No idea which ...

2026-10-02T21:40:18Z

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I found random skills out there for the same issue. No idea which one is best, and if they work. Guess I'll try...

How did it go?

2026-10-02T18:05:21Z

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How did it go?

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2026-10-01T05:08:49Z

Test, test.

Oh hello, git on nostr: ...

2026-10-01T02:14:46Z

Oh hello, git on nostr: https://gitworkshop.dev/limachaves@iris.to

Does your AI harness detect flaggings and goes on on itself? ...

2026-10-01T00:54:25Z

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Does your AI harness detect flaggings and goes on on itself? Dream.

Let the winner make the rest obsolete, on these kind number ...

2026-10-01T00:40:13Z

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Let the winner make the rest obsolete, on these kind number clashes :) Or let let them live happily in their silos.

Gotta live those CC names.

2026-09-30T02:37:10Z

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Gotta live those CC names.

Not even Bitcoin has felt that to be the first priority, man. I ...

2026-09-30T02:35:05Z

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Not even Bitcoin has felt that to be the first priority, man. I feel you, but we'll get there. Git at least was designed as easily replicatable/movable from inception.

Fork of ...

2026-09-29T12:41:22Z

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Fork of https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqwxxmmd9eekjmt0dchxsctjd4hku6trdpskx6m9wfhx2amnqyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn6v9c8xar0wfjjuer9wcpzq7xwd748yfjrsu5yuerm56fcn9tntmyv04w95etn0e23xrczvvraqvzqqqr7pvk3g2h2 ?

Love it. Also NIP-5D?

2026-09-26T14:35:52Z

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Love it. Also NIP-5D?

Original tune, but beat-boxed by Frankie McDonald.

2026-09-24T12:37:21Z

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Original tune, but beat-boxed by Frankie McDonald.

👀👀👀👀 #naddr1qq…dllw

2026-09-19T16:12:33Z

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The last week of every cohort we take a ride on the Pirate Ship off Madeira, to see whales, swim in the Atlantic and talk about the pirating we did the past six weeks and the pirating beyond. We pass the mic around asking each participant for highlights of the cohort which is encapsulated in the No Solutions episode "Drinking from the Firehose".

The first response set the pattern for the ride, "Napplets, FIPS, runtimes, shells. More FIPS, more napplets, more shells. FIPS over audio. Zazafication. Better friendships, jams, walks, barbecues."

balas (nprofile…znag) , who was at SEC-01, had one word; "pain", and said this cohort felt closer to the first one than any since, everyone figuring it out from scratch again.

hzrd149 (nprofile…tfpf) commented:

A year ago we were talking about where we want to be and what tech we want to have, and there were always missing gaps. Now there don't seem to be many..

Totem is a case in point. Totem is a modular hardware platform running napplets on devices that connect in a mesh. We first imagined it at SEC-03, then shelved it for two years, not because people lost interest but because you could not build it right yet. Gzuuus, who has spent more time at Sovereign Engineering than any human alive said, "Totem never died, it was waiting for FIPS and napplets and runtimes to exist." This summer Totem got built, it had a friend and the two talked to each other.

SEC-08 ran 20 July to 28 August. Six weeks of pure unadulterated YOLO++ with half alumni and half new faces. After the focused sprints of SEC-06 and SEC-07 we went back to open exploration: mesh networking, maps, merchant payments, package distribution, a desktop pet, and a multiplayer game stuffed into one HTML file.

Do you even FIPS yet?

Native FIPS, public-key-addressed application traffic with no IP stack in the way, was reserved for FIPS v2. By the end of this year at the earliest. Then you put jcorgan (nprofile…sjfc) and jeffg (nprofile…n0n6) in the same room and it is a one-week problem.

The native datagram API eliminates HTTP, TLS, TCP and IPv6 out of the equation. No more npub.fips hostnames. The npub is the endpoint, and it looks close enough to a Berkeley socket. JeffG benchmarked it while wiring it into Wok and the relay got 8 to 58% faster depending on message size. By demo day Wok spoke native FIPS and White Noise was FIPS only. Encrypted group chat with no IPs, and no DNS.

FIPS was in the air again;

sandwich (nprofile…jml3) sent FIPS over sound. FipWave modulates packets into audio and two laptops hold a conversation across a room with nothing but chirps. Somebody on the pirate ship proposed dolphins next.

fips-exit-gate, fips-shield, fips2go and a FreeBSD port ( fr34aky (nprofile…vwwj) ) - reaching the legacy internet, filtering application-level abuse, putting Android and FreeBSD on the mesh.

JeffG's fips-mac installs and runs a FIPS node on a Mac and shows the mesh from the menu bar. Johnathan's fipsctl gives you the command-line view.

hzrd149 added FIPS support to nostr-relay-tray, putting your desktop relay on the mesh.

Arjen (nprofile…8d6t) demonstrated LUKS over FIPS, remotely unlocking an encrypted NixOS drive.

hzrd149's FIPS Pong bridged a game across three machines through a browser tab. His own review: "completely useless, but it worked."

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7ctww35hqunfd4skctnwv46z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrn45xzuqxwsjpyatl9su2dzejdl6qtwcrmd3yhunrm0lcqcrfyq6hetmjk (nprofile…tmjk) and julien (nprofile…xyae) worked on CruxCoach, which syncs a group's climbing playlist over a local BLE/FIPS mesh without internet access. The app itself can be shared over the same mesh. J also used Android's accessibility features to extract the user's MoonBoard logbook, because the MoonBoard needs to be liberated from its enshittification.

Napplets, runtimes and shells

Nostr is easy to use badly and hard to use well. Key handling, signing, relay selection, caching, encryption, expiry, and on and on. Every client implements all of it, and most implement some of it wrong.

Sandwich spent the past year working on NIP-5D, the napplet protocol. A napplet is a sandboxed, single-purpose app that asks a host shell to handle signing, relay access and storage. It never holds your key, never picks your relays, and doesn't know anything about storage. The hard, security-critical work is handled by the shell.

So to write a Nostr app, you don't have to be a Nostr developer i.e. you. Nostr already hands you self-signed structured data and a client was only ever the presentation layer, but until now, we kept making people rebuild the whole Nostr protocol to build clients. Now, a napplet can be shared over Bluetooth via FIPS, or fit inside a link along with its state which can be run on any of the napplet shells.

gsovereignty (nprofile…r7e4) 's RocketShell is a web runtime for NostrRocket.

yo (nprofile…nyzf) 's Uzel is a native Debian napplet runtime. PABLOF7z (nprofile…fg8w) 's nampplets provides a native Rust runtime for macOS.

hzrd149's Napplet Portal provides a server-backed host you can reach from your phone.

Rage of Empires (Gsovereignty and Yo) - decompiled AoE from the Windows binary and packed into a single 83 MB HTML file, multiplayer running once as a napplet and once as an nsite. As put by a participant, "I thought it was dumb. After a few days I got it. We can reverse engineer so many of the applications from the last generation."

Arjen's Myco is a meta sneakernet app over FIPS mesh to share apps and communications. Sherry (nprofile…ulqg) and Arjen worked on file sharing, think AirDrop over the mesh, and André brought it to the desktop with myco-desktop.

Nostrocket (Gsovereignty and Jeroen ✅ (nprofile…zddk) ) - G started this years ago around an absurdly ambitious question: how do you build a system resilient to psychopaths? Jeroen revived it this cohort, rebuilt as composable napplets. If you are curious, and you should be, go egg them on.

Nappagochi (Sherry) turns your Nostr activity into the changing life of your Nostr pet.

Anon&Mato (Balas) generates a playable world from your npub. It is beautifully created.

XR napplets (Sandwich) - remember Google Glasses? This is napplets on AR glasses! Think HUDs.

Blossoming Hashtrees

We didn't just FIPS, we Nix'd over Blossom(ing) Hashtrees. This one came off a walk, which is the least surprising sentence in this report. A Nix guy and a Blossom dude went up the hill, and came down with Nix packages over Blossom.

Nix addresses everything by hash. Blossom stores blobs by hash. Do you see it now? It was obvious, but the left foot, right foot rhythm was required for left brain, right brain juices to flow and synchronise. By Friday we had Nix packages distributed with no registry.

nixstr-cache (hzrd149) and Narwal with its publisher (Julien)- resolve Nix packages over Nostr and Hashtree, blobs pulled from Blossom, served to an ordinary Nix client. The packages arrive through a standard Nix binary cache interface, so you can keep using nix build. Nostr announcements identify the publisher, and Nix checks the cache signatures against the keys you trust. It barely worked by Friday - very promising, the correct state for a Friday before the BBQ.

Hashtree explainer (hzrd149) - if you always wanted to know what a hashtree is, it's IPFS without the rest of IPFS.

During the Hashtree talk, someone asked whether a map of the Earth could use one root, with smaller areas fetched as you zoomed in. raul_15 (nprofile…n6s8) and Franchovy (nprofile…f5yf) went and built Mapplets. They used a modified hashtree for the map and Nostr events for the map data, including Madeira's bus routes. Map tiles load as you zoom, and private overlays are shared with the people you choose.

Just works

Our favourite Poncha bar in Funchal knows us as the Bitcoin people. Its payment terminal had been broken for weeks, so we kept paying in euros. One week a bunch of participants decided to team up and fix the UX.

Just Works ( Thomas (nprofile…3mq9) , Yo and Zaza (nprofile…4fq8) ) was built. Just Works just creates beautiful nsites that just work. It has info, menu, schedules, reviews, news, PoS, payments, etc. and keys.justworks ( Gzuuus (nprofile…h9pq) ) handles the keys underneath.

Just Works takes every establishment in the area. Scrapes their site and their socials, generates a pretty nsite from it, links back to the legacy profiles so their customers still recognise them, gives them an npub, a QR code and a point of sale, and then it puts all of them on the just works map. And you can just start tipping them because you love your local dive bar so much. The owner ends up with a profile, a site, key management and a pile of sats waiting to be claimed.

It also looks good - which is not a sentence we get to write often. Work this far down the stack and you tell yourself beautiful is somebody else's job, right after the protocol is right. Zaza sat down with people one project at a time and showed them otherwise, ran a workshop and by the last demo day almost everything had been Zazafied.

Then we had Granola ( Breno Brito (nprofile…52y5) ), an idea since 2024. At SEC-08 he found people to build it with. It coordinates Cashu atomic swaps over Nostr. Other work explored escrow and dispute resolution in anonymous marketplaces.

Meza ( Gigi (nprofile…tf6v) )- lets you zap a highlighted passage and split the payment between its author, the person who highlighted it, and Boris, the reading app.

600 Billion Timelock TCG ( FLX (nprofile…w87z) and Breno) on Nappelin makes every card in a booster pack a Cashu token, with NUT-22 blinded tokens keeping your hand private. Coloured coins on Cashu, for a card game.

Clankers, data, and the strange stuff

Agents got treated as ordinary users of the network this time. They discover things, pay for things, remember things, and generally make great teammates.

whisperhash (nprofile…773h) 's Nostrology exposes Nostr ecosystem metrics over MCP, maps marketplace growth by geography, and accepts Cashu payments for Nutzap data queries. An agent finds a dataset, pays for a query and gets its answer.

Nectar explores structured, attestable datasets on Nostr.

si-eval explores auditable model evaluation for tasks such as key handling and privacy.

MDK and White Noise agents (JeffG)- used agents to generate thousands of test scenarios for MDK and built White Noise/Marmot connectors for the major agent tools. Other experiments involved shared memory in White Noise groups and short “mantras” intended to improve small models' tool calls.

Rahul explored agents helping with real-life tasks through Mappy, then put an agent inside a napplet with Kipina.

fips.email (Thomas) - accepts email addressed to your npub and forwards it as an encrypted NIP-17 message to your DM relays. He built it for agents, though people can use it too. No FIPS involved. People just love FIPS.

Mist (Julien) lets you explore Nostr conversations in clusters.

We worked on hardware too. Totems running napplets in shells connected in a self-healing mesh of other Totems over FIPS. Participants had flown in with cases of tools and equipment to build. Even so, they could not build the things they really wanted, because Madeira has no makerspace. This inspired two of the participants to start one, ready to fund it themselves. Nodesignal_Podcast (nprofile…6t7h) and other donors piled in behind them, now Nostr Office is giving the lab a home.

People came here to build things and left behind a place for building things.

Talks and workshops

Everyone's AI setup - a fixture now. Every participant shows how they actually work: harnesses, prompts, tools, learnings, etc. No two setups match. You steal two things on day three, then have six weeks to refine and upgrade.

In the spirit of Bitcoin (Gigi) - What does it mean to build it in the spirit of Bitcoin? What is the spirit of Bitcoin? Nobody can define the spirit of Bitcoin in a sentence, but you know it when someone violates it.

Nostr anti-patterns (Gigi) - the old internet is a habit, and habits follow you. The talk was about habits of the old internet and anti-patterns in Nostr, when deliberately avoided, allow us to be liberated from.

Other talks: A primer on Marmot (JeffG), Construction on Nostr (Felix), Everything is a Stream (hzrd149), TEEs (Gzuuus), History of Maps (FLX), and Messaging Protocols (JeffG and Gzuuus)

Cohort Experiments

We skipped the break week this time. By week four everyone was feeling it. SEC-05 had a detox week at that point, and we will probably bring it back.

In week five, Johnathan paired everyone up and asked them to announce their demos three days ahead. Participants appreciated this and took on more complex problems together. We have tried this before and want to keep refining it.

For one week, demos lasted just a minute. You had to decide what people needed to see and get straight to it. The discussions afterwards were better too, because the demos left more questions unanswered. Someone suggested shortening them throughout the cohort, from six minutes in week one to one minute in week six. We want to try that. G also built the Demo Day Command Center to keep us within our allotted time, which provided plenty of entertainment.

The final week was deliberately quieter. After five weeks of building, Gzuuus suggested leaving more time to take it all in and talk to each other. We rarely get six weeks in the same room with these people, and wanted to make the most of the time left.

Walks and barbecues are still the highest leverage R&D we do. Solvitur ambulando.

Paths forward

We didn't know what Sovereign Engineering really was when we started. We set out with a direction, an unshakable belief to "fix the internet". We didn't know how, and most of the tools did not exist. Eight cohorts on, ideas like Totem can finally be built. There is still plenty to figure out, but we can now build things we could only talk about only a year back.

Cohort after cohort of experimenting taught us what works, what doesn't, and how to run the loop that keeps producing ideas like these. Nix and Blossom happened on a walk. Spending six weeks together gives people time to understand each other's work, try something unlikely, abandon it and try again.

But six weeks is a lot to ask. People have jobs they cannot leave and children in school. Some have spent twenty years finding out how systems fail in practice, and we would love to have them here. Wanting to come does not make it possible.

So alongside the six-week cohorts, we are exploring shorter formats. Maybe a week in a mountain hut, working on one question and building towards a demo.

People have also asked about cohorts in other parts of the world. We want to explore that and work with people building local-first hardware/software and mesh networks who might never have considered coming to SEC.

If six weeks is why you have never applied, tell us what you could make time for. If you want to help organise something where you live, come talk to us.

Closing notes

SEC-08 ran on participants going full tilt for six weeks with no breather, and on the captains: Arjen, Gsovereignty, Thomas, Sandwich, Johnathan and Gzuuus, who each steered the ship for a week and took it seriously. Thank you to Zaza for showing us that our work could look beautiful, to SuperPopLimon (nprofile…haqa) for the BBQs and Ponchas, to the ladies at the Cowork for hosting us, to andreloja (nprofile…kxan) for the space and dealing with the unglamorous parts of running Sovereign Engineering, and to Gigi (nprofile…tf6v) for the heart he keeps putting into this.

Head over to the projects page, pick something off this list. Try it, break it, go tell the person who made it. Then come build with us.

The pieces be scattered, laddies, but they be ours. Lash 'em together an' sail.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions

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Woot. Bluetooth is such a disgrace, it needs rebuilding from ...

2026-09-17T03:38:12Z

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Woot. Bluetooth is such a disgrace, it needs rebuilding from scratch. LE audio profiles are there forever and *still are buggy*. Maybe audio over wifi is really good enough.

Turso?

2026-09-16T12:38:46Z

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Turso?

Should have told them you're vegan.

2026-09-12T00:44:20Z

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Should have told them you're vegan.

George Cunningham

2026-09-09T02:09:51Z

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George Cunningham

Checks with American tip culture.

2026-09-08T03:56:47Z

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Checks with American tip culture.

I've been hit by the bug myself lots of times, of course. ...

2026-09-04T20:56:03Z

I've been hit by the bug myself lots of times, of course. What a beauty. And kudos to Boris (nprofile…wzjf) , which I just listened this on: I just discovered it's a sink for links to read out loud. Bullish on the future.

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Jumble has been my go-to web client for more than a year, because of its versatility, customizability, and overall design. It’s built the way I like to use Nostr in the browser, doesn’t prioritize fluff influencer content, and supports features I actually use, like custom emojis and relay feeds. Cody (nprofile…hyat), its creator, has also been a pleasure to work with. He encouraged me early in my vibecoding journey, and has merged several of my feature submissions and bug fixes along the way. When I had the idea to attempt the first Breez_tech (nprofile…w55h) SDK integration into a Nostr client, I chose Jumble to build on first.

A few months ago, I had the idea to attempt a massively challenging project to build a best-in-class NIP-07 signer that sits alongside your browser window as an active companion to your Nostr experience. sidecar (nprofile…vwyw), as I named it, securely stores multiple nsecs to allow fast user switching in browser clients. This is ideal if you manage a brand account, or a fun alt (I have one for my dog dorado (nprofile…hkc8)), or you need a throwaway account to test while you’re building something. It also lets you connect an NWC wallet to each account, and stores backups of your profile, follows, and mute lists on your relays in case another client nukes them by mistake. It even warns you if something you’re about to sign will erase any of your information, so you can avoid even needing to recover it after the fact.

Anyway, for the longest time, I struggled to get Sidecar to work properly with Jumble. Reposts and reactions did absolutely nothing. I couldn’t find an error, just loading indicators that pulsed forever as if the client was waiting for something that never arrived. Relay authentication took 30 seconds or more, when it even worked at all. Clearing the cache and restarting the browser usually fixed it, and not long after, it was broken again.

I began to think the bug was somewhere in Sidecar. I went looking through the app’s signing queue, its relay handling, and its permissions. I found bugs in all three and fixed them, but none of it made any difference. Then I checked the relays themselves from outside the browser and every one of them answered almost instantly. The relays were working. Sidecar was signing normally. But there was something else in the way.

The answer turned out to be the browser’s network tab. It was full of connections to the same handful of relays, over and over, seven to one relay alone. Every one of them had connected successfully and then transferred nothing at all. Some had been sitting open for more than an hour. In that one session the browser had opened roughly 700 of them.

That’s when it all made sense. The problem had to be in the client’s own dependencies. Jumble, like many other Nostr web clients including Sidecar, relies on the nostr-tools library. When the client needs to talk to a relay, it opens a websocket, and when one of those connections fails, it stays open for the entire life of that browser session. Clients that use the outbox model connect to the relays of everyone you follow to find their latest notes, and that list piles up very quickly. A browser is only designed to hold a limited number of these connections, and once those are exhausted, nothing else can connect. Not Jumble, not Sidecar, not any other tab you have open. Signing still works, because signing doesn’t need a relay, so your client hands you a perfectly good signed event that can’t go anywhere. That’s exactly why nothing seemed to be happening.

I worked through these problems methodically using two different agent sessions, one with Claude Opus 5 and the other with GLM 5.3-Flash. We passed information back and forth, and ultimately, Claude came back with the fix. I opened an issue with a full explanation of the problem and a solution in code. Within half an hour, fiatjaf (nprofile…47w9) had already patched it, published nostr-tools 2.25.2, and commented, “Did you just save Nostr forever?”

The fix is one line, in two places, slightly modified from the original:
this.ws?.close?.()
That’s it. That’s the fix. Close the broken socket you left open.

Now, every client using the nostr-tools relay pool gets this with a dependency bump. Other clients that run on NDK or maintain their own networking layer don’t need the fix, and were never affected by this issue.

This is what I love about open source software, and it’s what keeps drawing me in deeper. I don’t have a strong background in handwritten code, but I have a career of solving complex problems in creative ways, and as any of you who know me well will probably agree, I am fucking relentless when I set my mind on accomplishing something.

In the past two years, I pivoted my entire career direction, for at least the third time in under a decade. In that time, I received two awards in the Breez </time2build> challenge. I got accepted into the pleblab (nprofile…0qlr) Startup School, where I’ve been building ZapCooking (nprofile…t5x0) with my friend seth (nprofile…ksk8). I joined RESOLVR (nprofile…3uqt), a company with deep roots in Nostr and the Bitcoin community, that has given me the freedom and tools to build and experiment alongside a team of absolute rockstars.

I choose to build on the Nostr and Bitcoin ecosystem because nothing else I’ve found has ever given me this level of ownership, and personal fulfillment, and I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else. Even if almost nobody gets it yet.

#NostrForever

Snake choice goes deeper that the average anon thinks.

2026-09-04T17:12:19Z

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Snake choice goes deeper that the average anon thinks.

Needs to be done. Also game of life.

2026-09-02T02:04:23Z

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Needs to be done. Also game of life.

Nice idea for a video-meme (if I find the time)

2026-08-31T23:58:42Z

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Nice idea for a video-meme (if I find the time)

What if you install loudspeakers playing Creed's ...

2026-08-29T20:12:03Z

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What if you install loudspeakers playing Creed's 'Higher' by the grapes, 24x7?

Nostr event nevent1qqsvuzuxh5yn6ptquqw2juewdjqk7qs8t08ckylf0rycv0yxqv7ue3czyrpu4w3qxyat3fz8mx4w2r69aag94pz5c46g7c8qecqn2s0cpcs0yarmtsm

2026-08-28T12:43:44Z

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Man, this brings memories.

Now 2026 has finally started. Let's go.

2026-08-24T23:35:32Z

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Now 2026 has finally started. Let's go.

Whoever thinks win98 UI is any good must have a brain tumor.

2026-08-24T19:01:57Z

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Whoever thinks win98 UI is any good must have a brain tumor.

I sure have felt the pain, especially with web-site based signing ...

2026-08-24T04:50:18Z

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I sure have felt the pain, especially with web-site based signing origin. But Fountain used to work there :(. Pocket Cast maxxing for a while, now.

Delta (https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta), by the Zed team: ...

2026-08-24T04:49:09Z

Delta (https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta), by the Zed team: very promising. But... why release without MCP config support?

Wow! What a banger use case for nostr/blossom. #nevent1q…w7ls

2026-08-24T03:38:57Z

Wow! What a banger use case for nostr/blossom.

quoting
nevent1q…w7ls
ncontainer is Docker images published over Nostr & Blossom: https://ncontainer.io/

I'm still working on this spec. Not sure the event format is right just yet. But it does it work, and it's a PERFECT FIT.

Internally, Docker (OCI) layers are already content addressed by sha256. Blossom is content-addressed by sha256! This is not an engineering marvel but rather a wingman of 2 already compatible systems that never found love.

Do you remember when Docker Hub shut down free hosting? We are so back. Now Docker image deployments are permissionless and FREE. Thanks Nostr!

ncontainer gateway: https://gitworkshop.dev/alex@gleasonator.com/relay.ngit.dev/ncontainer

CLI tool for publish and pull without any gateway: https://gitworkshop.dev/alex@gleasonator.com/relay.ngit.dev/noci

OCR + LLM == pure fun: #nevent1q…yxc7

2026-08-24T03:17:18Z

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OCR + LLM == pure fun:

quoting
nevent1q…yxc7
Fascinating 1600s book and my amateurish (hopefully not too sloppish) translation. Enjoy.

https://nostr.download/fc2014051b215ff8b47b9f1dc3bfcf3460e8d52b89a8b3aa1a8bdc258bbb87ca.pdf

I'll paraphrase one my favorite books in Bitty culture, The ...

2026-08-22T03:58:52Z

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I'll paraphrase one my favorite books in Bitty culture, The Gospel According to Bitcoin: "In [lots of Jesus'] parables, money is a canvas to paint spiritual truths about responsibility, value, and the nature of God’s Kingdom."

So no hard conflict there. And then, beyond the deep meaning of the verse, come some constants: An hour divided by *six* gives the frequency of the timechain. *21* times a million gives the total supply.

Nostr event nevent1qqs9udmgq6z7cg4jrgltdsc0amhatm69ym4zucss3d6w54atk34kzsczyrpu4w3qxyat3fz8mx4w2r69aag94pz5c46g7c8qecqn2s0cpcs0yu0a553

2026-08-22T01:42:56Z

Was Satoshi thinking of Matthew 6:21?

Hello from new YakiHonne. Looking good. And look, mom! A preview ...

2026-08-21T02:48:45Z

Hello from new YakiHonne. Looking good.
And look, mom! A preview button!

Fixed, ty.

2026-08-20T14:29:30Z

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Fixed, ty.

Meanwhile, @nprofile…ywap continues to malfunction against ...

2026-08-20T04:16:34Z

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Meanwhile, fountain_app (nprofile…ywap) continues to malfunction against Amber. Guess I'll jump into my backup podcast app :(

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y-Zow_XutWA You might wanna check if ...

2026-08-20T01:31:38Z

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https://youtube.com/shorts/Y-Zow_XutWA

You might wanna check if Canada offers this kind of service.

Bullish.

2026-08-19T12:31:48Z

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Bullish.

One day I'll try the cloudbuster thing.

2026-08-19T03:40:31Z

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One day I'll try the cloudbuster thing.

Me gusta. Anything that gets > 1% adoption in the notes edit ...

2026-08-18T16:55:26Z

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Me gusta. Anything that gets > 1% adoption in the notes edit realm, really. Rooting.

Bitcoin (these days) be like: The famous 'if in 2026 you ...

2026-08-18T16:15:18Z

Bitcoin (these days) be like:

The famous 'if in 2026 you still trust big pharma/medicine, there is a 100% chance you are retarded'.

quoting nevent1q…g3yd
state of the world

https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw instantly comes to mind.

2026-08-16T04:43:22Z

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https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw instantly comes to mind.

The k-shape the world deserves.

2026-08-15T15:55:08Z

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The k-shape the world deserves.

Influencers come in cycles like influenza.

2026-08-15T15:40:53Z

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Influencers come in cycles like influenza.

I must use https://github.com/printfn/fend every day. Such a chad ...

2026-08-14T15:28:52Z

I must use https://github.com/printfn/fend every day. Such a chad one.

Faces have not even remotely started to melt yet when it comes to ...

2026-08-14T12:44:05Z

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Faces have not even remotely started to melt yet when it comes to meeting a world they didn't expect. Soon...

Switch to 'honk' and you got a nice car sticker.

2026-08-14T02:28:13Z

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Switch to 'honk' and you got a nice car sticker.

Many choke points.

2026-08-13T16:41:11Z

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Many choke points.

I smelled it a couple notes ago. Agreed.

2026-08-13T04:13:09Z

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I smelled it a couple notes ago. Agreed.

Of course I missed --burn for subs, first timer. Bitcoin (these ...

2026-08-12T06:37:30Z

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Of course I missed --burn for subs, first timer.

Bitcoin (these days) be like (now with subs):

Bitcoin (these days) be like: ...

2026-08-12T06:06:36Z

Bitcoin (these days) be like:

Luke and Vitalik, same energy. Just different timelines.

2026-08-11T15:23:31Z

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Luke and Vitalik, same energy. Just different timelines.

Bluetooth BAP is nice. I just wished it worked out of the box on ...

2026-08-11T14:30:37Z

Bluetooth BAP is nice. I just wished it worked out of the box on all software, which of course is asking too much from Bluetooth.

So much for KYC-ing and gating the store that hard. Clear display ...

2026-08-09T17:48:13Z

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So much for KYC-ing and gating the store that hard. Clear display of intentions with that.

Few. #nevent1q…j409

2026-08-09T00:52:56Z

Few.

quoting
nevent1q…j409
You cannot raise your children the way your parents raised you. Because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.

Too many people named Luke in the Bitcoin's ecosystem. This ...

2026-08-08T22:01:16Z

Too many people named Luke in the Bitcoin's ecosystem. This is *not* a coincidence.

| Luke | Bitcoin role |
|---|---|
| Dashjr | Protocol / mining / engineering |
| Gromen | Macro / monetary theory / investing |
| de Wolf | Cybersecurity / education / culture |
| Stokes | Advocacy / ecosystem / decentralization |
| Martin | Trading / media / crypto markets |

Unlikely it ever catches up, right? Ded.

2026-08-08T20:59:28Z

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Unlikely it ever catches up, right? Ded.

Fascinating 1600s book and my amateurish (hopefully not too ...

2026-08-08T09:10:38Z

Fascinating 1600s book and my amateurish (hopefully not too sloppish) translation. Enjoy.

https://nostr.download/fc2014051b215ff8b47b9f1dc3bfcf3460e8d52b89a8b3aa1a8bdc258bbb87ca.pdf

Bitcoin is money for enemies. Even the enemy.

2026-08-07T23:42:20Z

Bitcoin is money for enemies. Even *the enemy*.

Mood: https://song.link/t/58086223

2026-08-07T22:53:39Z

Mood: https://song.link/t/58086223

s/internet/world

2026-08-06T20:25:53Z

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s/internet/world

Put your awesome detective skills into helping unfold the lies of ...

2026-08-06T19:09:48Z

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Put your awesome detective skills into helping unfold the lies of mainstream beliefs coming from Satan's little season deception 😉

One day I'll have the fortitude to replicate this here.

2026-08-06T02:37:55Z

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One day I'll have the fortitude to replicate this here.

Let's stop prentending operation Chokepoint 3.0 has not been ...

2026-08-05T21:29:05Z

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Let's stop prentending operation Chokepoint 3.0 has not been already unleashed, now behind AI bot farms.

Nostr event nevent1qqs26qajlckmy9gqyg9exznfszn6hxka7qgf5luaqj7k2xhegp6ylfgzyrpu4w3qxyat3fz8mx4w2r69aag94pz5c46g7c8qecqn2s0cpcs0ydxqpry

2026-08-05T18:10:25Z

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I use a gazillion, TBH. cargowatch, privacy-indicator, some ...

2026-08-04T18:44:45Z

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I use a gazillion, TBH. cargowatch, privacy-indicator, some custom ones by me I'll never make public, minimon...

Well Maré, of course. Great author.

2026-08-04T18:42:21Z

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Well Maré, of course. Great author.

Looking at https://github.com/switck/libngu, fuck... We gotta be ...

2026-08-04T18:42:02Z

Looking at https://github.com/switck/libngu, fuck...
We gotta be kidding ourselves that we trusted that shit (never a CC user here), but I'll still use the pronoun 'we'.

Faith in humanity: never lost.

2026-08-04T18:36:00Z

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Faith in humanity: never lost.

cosmic-utils.org

2026-08-04T17:09:47Z

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cosmic-utils.org

To each their own :) I like it for being fast, lean, memory ...

2026-08-04T16:44:17Z

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To each their own :) I like it for being fast, lean, memory efficient.
1.7GiB resident memory on a full ps and grep on anything matching cosmic.
Everything statically linked, so a lot of room going into duplication.
GNOME loses on that without the duplication and is full of bugs and is harder to make decent applets on.

Cosmic desktop detected. Respect increased.

2026-08-04T16:27:01Z

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Cosmic desktop detected. Respect increased.

When/if Bitkey integrates coin control, it will be a dividing ...

2026-08-03T15:44:50Z

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When/if Bitkey integrates coin control, it will be a dividing moment. Strong foundations, just needs better transactions UX.

Would coinbase prime have idenfiable UTXOs too? 😉

2026-08-03T13:46:50Z

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Would coinbase prime have idenfiable UTXOs too? 😉

CC = 33 também, então já tinha karma aí, hehe.

2026-08-03T12:42:31Z

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CC = 33 também, então já tinha karma aí, hehe.

https://youtu.be/Br_eHJ9fM54

2026-08-03T12:40:03Z

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https://youtu.be/Br_eHJ9fM54