Nostr notes by Constant

Is this a riddle? The answer is obviously Ostrisch. What did i ...

2026-10-27T18:38:08Z

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Is this a riddle?
The answer is obviously Ostrisch.

What did i win?

Nostr event nevent1qqsqqq80p7czj5n39cluxl2xnqhkcj48pgxav8xac8p7axj9rrcrfagzyp02geyqgka3lu3zv4wa6dhxmnkacs6epsnqjrzgd0hn3m69pkjm6yzjgtl

2026-10-27T15:14:15Z

Raking......

Start of day 2 ...

2026-10-27T10:59:24Z

Start of day 2

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Welcome to the jungle

Most people don't actually think that way, at best it is a ...

2026-10-26T22:34:58Z

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Most people don't actually think that way, at best it is a performance that they think that way. But by expression of their behavior it would be hard to explain that they would not believe otherwise; how else became the wealthy person wealthy to begin with, of the poor person poor, if not as a result of the demonstrated behavior of their percieved value by "most people" around them.

When attacking the propaganda of the enemy, don't needlessly presume they won already when they haven't. How people signal and how they think could be worlds appart.

Its the context, or lack thereof. The price you pay for being ...

2026-10-26T22:22:44Z

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Its the context, or lack thereof. The price you pay for being able to reach those you try to inform. The responcibility that comes with you trade and craft is to conciously put in the effort to contextualize for yourself; your unhappiness is a mere indication of a failure to do so.

Bleep bloop, this might have been written by a robot, the gnostic prison has no exit, woes on woes, the abyss is staring back.

You mean like this? ...

2026-10-26T14:04:15Z

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You mean like this?

Welcome to the jungle ...

2026-10-26T12:33:54Z

Welcome to the jungle

" Now how to build a mesh relay network that doesn't rely ...

2026-10-26T07:21:32Z

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" Now how to build a mesh relay network that doesn't rely on ISPs in order to connect 🤔... "

If you want something that closely resembles the internet as it is today, then you can't. Neither in terms of reach (global), nor bandwidth. The amount of infrastructure out there in terms of viber cables and specialized network servers is beyond non-trivial. Its like saying ''how can we dig this massive hole without any industrial machines'', while all you have access to is a spoon.

This was partly a choice though, they could have laid redundant interconnected fiber instead of the hub-and-spoke stuff we have now, atleast in certain areas like for instance here in the Netherlands. This country by itself could have bascially been one giant super computer as a result. There even were voices at the time (late 90s) to do this, but alas.

I don't think the pipes are that much of a problem though, but yes i tend to agree with your assessment of what the angle is in terms of banning the open models and maffia protection money the rest of the world.

this is so much oof that even my oof is oofing 😢

2026-10-26T07:06:39Z

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this is so much oof that even my oof is oofing 😢

That episode has been out for a while now😅 its S2EP4

2026-10-26T05:57:32Z

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That episode has been out for a while now😅 its S2EP4

From what i understand, the php exploit is very crude and there ...

2026-10-25T22:08:17Z

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From what i understand, the php exploit is very crude and there is no guaranteed way to pull it off(atleast yet). You have to overload some system which creates this opening, so you both need to successfully overload the system (something which ironically is impossibe on very low compute systems for example) and then prey the exploid got in.

That is not to say the attack itself can't be optimized, which is where the actual worry is.

In terms of attacks a lot of these overloading attempts have been identified, but that by itself does not say any of those attacks were successful.

Rapporting this crime, this is a clear violation.

2026-10-25T21:56:53Z

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Rapporting this crime, this is a clear violation.

so what you are saying is we need loads of yellow paint🤔

2026-10-25T20:22:45Z

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so what you are saying is we need loads of yellow paint🤔

Honor is all mine Havok, after all, you can only lead a horse to ...

2026-10-25T16:46:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…ezdy
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Honor is all mine Havok, after all, you can only lead a horse to the water. I am happy to witness your determined embarking down the rabbit hole, Nostr is nothing without people.

If you guys are every shy on guests, any time.

🫡

Ok bro. Well dude, then you come up with a marketing angle my ...

2026-10-25T06:09:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…32fe
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Ok bro.
Well dude, then you come up with a marketing angle my guy.
Perhaps that using Azzamo (npub1jjn…vknm) will get you big titty bitches🤔

Every so often you get this question of who will pay for the ...

2026-10-25T05:27:09Z

Every so often you get this question of who will pay for the relays...

Since VPN's marketed their stuff based on bullshit claims about privacy and safety, and managed to get people to pay for a geo-proxy and a worse experience...
What bullshit narative could paid relay providers come up with?

The Fishcake🐶🐾 (npub137c…k37w) , does nostr.build have electrolites? I think you should tell people it has electrolites.

well...guess there are three things here: In principle there is ...

2026-10-25T05:17:31Z

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well...guess there are three things here:
In principle there is no need for them to support millions of new users in the first place, due to how Nostr works;
Scaling a relay to support millions of users is not rocket science, servers are a completely solved problem in general;
No comment on whatever it is Primal is doing, in a way i hope their stuff just breaks down.

They are loadbearing

2026-10-24T16:05:18Z

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They are loadbearing

I already sort of knew this, but the robot's production of ...

2026-10-24T12:38:40Z

I already sort of knew this, but the robot's production of the TEPP stuff was stupidely inefficient. I decided to just bite the bullet and grind through it with time and more subscriptions, because what was being build would be the foundation. I'd rather suffer the inefficiency than risk cutting corners.

Now that is done, and i am starting to build on top of that foundation, i decided to have a look at where what all these inefficiencies were....hahah absolute horror.

Not building slop is rough.

Agency

2026-10-24T12:21:40Z

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Agency

The ''fediverse'' is just balkanization of ...

2026-10-24T10:57:15Z

The ''fediverse'' is just balkanization of otherwise larger empires.

You starting to get it now? How this Nostr thing is amazing etc.?

2026-10-24T02:44:14Z

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You starting to get it now? How this Nostr thing is amazing etc.?

what are these differences that are hidden in the background?

2026-10-23T23:01:44Z

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what are these differences that are hidden in the background?

interesting perhaps, but i think this is immoral. The only ...

2026-10-23T22:28:18Z

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interesting perhaps, but i think this is immoral. The only purpose of the uh-ah-bot is to fool you, be it conciously or unconciously.

The same goes for the silicon face humanoid robots and what not.

The bottom line of all this crap is always ''how can we trick grandma into thinking it is real so we can leave her with the robots and just forget her''.

Besides we already have the perfect robot voice.:

https://blossom.primal.net/d0a6f52381a9ee426a363f1ca672e929cf025f40dda49a8406496d16d0671ba8.mp3

How much work went into the bluetooth aspect of this? Because i ...

2026-10-23T22:00:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…kudv
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How much work went into the bluetooth aspect of this? Because i have a robot grinding out a bluetooth engine that dynamically adjust the network topology based on the purpose and circumstances. Well, the robots are busy working on other stuff at the moment, but i have a small fleet of android devices that run live tests.
An early version of the engine is inside the current version of table mesh.
Unless you already nailed the bluetooth stuff, i could add any uses/scenarios you have in mind into the lab runs so you can eventually use the engine as well

I am in the 100th percentile in terms of hours playing Starcraft ...

2026-10-23T21:49:11Z

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I am in the 100th percentile in terms of hours playing Starcraft Broodwar. What is your favorite game?

So....was is the tone or the content of the remark, should she ...

2026-10-23T16:29:57Z

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So....was is the tone or the content of the remark, should she have joyfully declared you to be are a whore? 🤔

Might be me, but i still dont know what it is you are building

2026-10-23T16:19:07Z

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Might be me, but i still dont know what it is you are building

excellent! After i wrote this post i thought of threads shows as ...

2026-10-23T15:12:02Z

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excellent!

After i wrote this post i thought of threads shows as network graphs, or people's own post as a rolodex or whatever.

All the funky and quirky ways have to be explored, there is probably some use for some one out there :P

Perhaps one of the more difficult things to communicate ...

2026-10-23T12:22:10Z

Perhaps one of the more difficult things to communicate (verbally), and getting to a point where someone experiences it for himself such that the point gets across and an intuition starts to build, its the matter of ''perspective'' irt Nostr.

This is because, among other stuff, Nostr changes two things, compared to the legacy platforms and two variables makes for complex systems.

With Nostr, both WHAT you look at, as well as HOW it gets presented to you, is completely flexible, whereas on platforms, mostly these two things are extremely rigid.

The rigidity has a reason, which is the 'purpose'. The content and the presentation of that content go hand in hand in order of an ''app'' to communicate to the user what the app is for. Pintrest is this moodboard type of thing, so it presents pictures in a moodboard kind of way.

Perhaps the initial reaction from a lot of people to Nostr's flexibility is disorientation, rather than recognizing the opportunities this creates.

Telling them that the same content can be shown a bunch of different ways is meaningless to them, because they lack a mental framework/understanding to comprehend.

Maybe I should frame it differently, from an angle they do understand which is how the web experience over time became bland, similar to how mcdonalds buildings became boring. The more your focus is ''the masses'', the more you seek out the lowest common denominator. Any bold, opinionated choice simply undermines your ''masses'' ambition. The ''UI/UX" landscape of the legacy platforms is not such because it is the best, and/or the most appealing; they are such because they are the least offensive to the largest share of the users.

And they need to be, they can't afford to be anything else, their whole model/architecture depends on mass adoption of their app.

With Nostr, no such pressure exists (network effect in the protocol not the location/platform blablabla), so all the sudden, liberated from this pressure, things can be hyper opinionated, hyper outputting to anyone but a few. Hyper specialized for purpose, hyper bespoke depending on the use-case.

The point is not that you can look at anything in any way, it is that you can look at what you want in the way you want. The point is not the infinity options available, the point is that within that infinity you can pick the one particular to you.

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nevent1q…ydca

What are you building?

2026-10-22T23:01:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…xw47
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What are you building?

Why?

2026-10-22T22:29:39Z

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Why?

You took a robot in the knee?

2026-10-22T15:44:40Z

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You took a robot in the knee?

Don't get me wrong, i am not praying for the apocalypse (or ...

2026-10-22T09:19:04Z

Don't get me wrong, i am not praying for the apocalypse (or am I), but what if ''the web'' just starts to break down and crumble under the pressure of hacks and exploits.

Are "we" ready? Can we say 'sorry your favorite platforms are down or unreliable for whatever reason, sorry things happened to your account and/or content.....here is something that was better to begin with but also just works'

What if it was never about us winning a popularity contest, what if our job is to ensure we are the last survivor?

Maybe, timing is not ideal for me rn but perhaps I can juggle ...

2026-10-21T13:53:46Z

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Maybe, timing is not ideal for me rn but perhaps I can juggle some stuff. If you have any plans then let me know.

I think i ended up with something that i can experiment with. ...

2026-10-21T12:37:14Z

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I think i ended up with something that i can experiment with.

Most android devices allow you to provision your phone; its this hidden mode right after a factory reset where you have to scan some QR that contains all the provision instructions.

Ive used this for my device fleet, and its pretty sweet. You can't get rid of all the google stuff, but it does make for an as clean as possible instal with non of the clutter (either simply not installed or hidden).

It should be possible to make an nsite/client, that just generates this QR locally based on some event that lists all the apps and what not. The flow then is pretty simple where you firstboot or factory reset the device, do a trick, scan the QR and it mostly is just all automatic from that point.

I can use this client anyway for playing around with my testlab/fleet, so when i come around to it il publish it. Its not some fancy root hacker OS or anything, but it should work on most android phones, and you still get regular OS updates for whatever it is your phone is running.

Oh and it gets rid of most/all the anoying alerts and blockers when you try to install an app outside of the appstore.

man.... we really should be more in the loop with this stuff :/

2026-10-21T12:07:16Z

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man.... we really should be more in the loop with this stuff :/

I just had an idea, so its fresh and i know where it came from. ...

2026-10-20T15:34:14Z

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I just had an idea, so its fresh and i know where it came from.

Working on my stuff, i wondered how i could leverage the fleet of android devices that i have set up that my robot has full control over, for production work.

So i discussed some things with my robot, and then i started to think on how relatively cheap you can now run actual automated test laboratories; for instance giving you the results on how your phone app runs on various devices and what not.

And then i started to wonder some more, and came to the hypothesis that perhaps a cheap smartphone is the best personal server. They should be powerfull enough in terms of compute to be minimal viable; they have a familiar interface (touch screen) and backup power/battery.

If we are building an interwebz where running for instance a signer and/or relay, blossomserver, gitserver whateverserver, can be meaningfully leveraged into the day to day use; what is a sensible way to go about that for most people?

Perhaps a cheap new phone, old phone or second hand phone whatever, could, within our Nostr realm, make you minimally viable Super Saiyan.

I am not saying its a new idea, also not saying it is a good idea....but given the subject concerns where it came from, and not the idea itself; i feel more comfortable sharing a potentially stupid idea. :)

You are just now waking up to the horror of the midwit? Haha

2026-10-20T02:03:54Z

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You are just now waking up to the horror of the midwit? Haha

I was expecting some elaborate fotoshoot of an ostrich, now i am ...

2026-10-20T01:57:59Z

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I was expecting some elaborate fotoshoot of an ostrich, now i am disappointed

He has all the jungle critters running on mills to power his ...

2026-10-19T23:57:49Z

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He has all the jungle critters running on mills to power his newly aquired datacenter

Ok, this version is a lot better already. Tuin, our collective ...

2026-10-19T18:21:01Z

Ok, this version is a lot better already.
Tuin, our collective decentralized network of gardens as our children's online environment.

https://npub1xre6736ae3m7nlfkx2sgxj4saul4t0jcmadstz2yuvffzssk874qnkhef8.nsite.lol/

I know i am an asshole for pointing to the information/data thing ...

2026-10-19T15:00:50Z

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I know i am an asshole for pointing to the information/data thing from a moment in a normal conversation, and are well aware you are aware.

Gigi explaining the horrific nature of spam. Information does not ...

2026-10-19T14:58:54Z

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Gigi explaining the horrific nature of spam.

Information does not ''only'' spread, it is data that does that. Spreading data, especially these days, is cheap; turning it into information is where the cost is, where the friction starts to occur and where things will shriffle quickly without a tremendous amount of upkeep....or worse, turn against you.

can you explain it to me in english?

2026-10-19T13:12:33Z

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can you explain it to me in english?

I think the question to you would be: Look at how trivial the OTS ...

2026-10-19T09:41:57Z

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I think the question to you would be:

Look at how trivial the OTS verification is, at worst a hand full of mb worth of chain headers and you can verify all the OTS proofs under the sun in an instant.

What does it take to actually verify those eth based state claims?

getting ''mom can we have grok? ; we have a grok at ...

2026-10-19T07:15:41Z

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getting ''mom can we have grok? ; we have a grok at home'' vibes.

A lot of the anti american sentiment pushers don't want to ...

2026-10-18T23:17:39Z

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A lot of the anti american sentiment pushers don't want to wave their country flag, they are pushing for waving the EU flag instead...or the tranny one, or both to the extend they are not the same fake and gay thing to begin with.

The guy was always into product maxing, figuring out what was the ...

2026-10-18T22:40:31Z

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The guy was always into product maxing, figuring out what was the best or the most optimal thing he could get for a particular category. Keyboards, speakers whatever.

Ive had a look and there is still a lot of the technical parts ...

2026-10-18T22:15:49Z

Ive had a look and there is still a lot of the technical parts bleeding through. Tasking the robots to try again on something more straightforward.

Going through the current site though, it sort of feel surreal that all the functionality supposedly is real (i have not actually tested it, i am just praying the robots are not gaslighting me)

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Ive thusfar approached the Trust Extended Permissions Protocol (TEPP) from a "negative" perspective of preventing things. Obviously so because from a technical perspective it is a permission system.

But now that the alpha build of the engine is done, and i need to start implementing it, i tasked myself to look at it in a' 'positive'' manner, as something that is created and facilitates.

I ended up with Tuin. Tuin means garden in Dutch. In both languages (perhaps in others as well, but i only knew these two), a yard or garden already carriers this connotation of a shaped, maintained, safe and accomodating space. As such it already has explicit relation to childer; a kindergarten(hehe guess that is German), a school yard and in Dutch a playground is a play garden.

The point of TEPP is that as parents, you are able to craft a garden and connect it to other gardens. I imagine this large network of interconnected gardens that 'our' children are able to roam.
The idea is not so much that you go and inspect other gardens in their precise lay-out etc., but that you mostly base it off the other gardners, the other parents or organizations that crafted their space.
If something goes wrong, you know where in this interconnected network of gardens that is open to your child it occured and you can take action.

Now, I took this perspective and gave it to the robot. My brain is cooked so i will look at it in the morning if it is any good, but please have look and tell me if any of it is making any sense

https://npub1axgj364mgguu44vqm4q728zcvx6pj3yuzhluxay099ht3kjx9qfq7s8ckj.nsite.lol/

Ive thusfar approached the Trust Extended Permissions Protocol ...

2026-10-18T21:41:32Z

Ive thusfar approached the Trust Extended Permissions Protocol (TEPP) from a "negative" perspective of preventing things. Obviously so because from a technical perspective it is a permission system.

But now that the alpha build of the engine is done, and i need to start implementing it, i tasked myself to look at it in a' 'positive'' manner, as something that is created and facilitates.

I ended up with Tuin. Tuin means garden in Dutch. In both languages (perhaps in others as well, but i only knew these two), a yard or garden already carriers this connotation of a shaped, maintained, safe and accomodating space. As such it already has explicit relation to childer; a kindergarten(hehe guess that is German), a school yard and in Dutch a playground is a play garden.

The point of TEPP is that as parents, you are able to craft a garden and connect it to other gardens. I imagine this large network of interconnected gardens that 'our' children are able to roam.
The idea is not so much that you go and inspect other gardens in their precise lay-out etc., but that you mostly base it off the other gardners, the other parents or organizations that crafted their space.
If something goes wrong, you know where in this interconnected network of gardens that is open to your child it occured and you can take action.

Now, I took this perspective and gave it to the robot. My brain is cooked so i will look at it in the morning if it is any good, but please have look and tell me if any of it is making any sense

https://npub1axgj364mgguu44vqm4q728zcvx6pj3yuzhluxay099ht3kjx9qfq7s8ckj.nsite.lol/

The idea behind it is that it runs over bluetooth between all the ...

2026-10-18T11:52:52Z

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The idea behind it is that it runs over bluetooth between all the devices locally. You can use a tablet or whatever as an additional screen for the board of you want.

Its fairly under tested so there might be a bunch of quirks here and there, but there are a bunch of games you can try.

Latest addition is a remix of dixit

well, case in point hahaha: #naddr1qv…7ecz

2026-10-17T12:28:57Z

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well, case in point hahaha:

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naddr1qv…7ecz

Last night, I spent time with people who traveled from different parts of the world to be here in central Pennsylvania. Builders, Bitcoiners, technologists, and friends. Some familiar faces. Some people I’d only known through a profile and conversations online.

After those conversations, I’m pretty confident this is going to be our best Nostr Valley yet.

Today is year three. We’re gathering at Happy Valley Brewing in State College to share what we’ve been working on, exchange ideas, and continue building relationships that carry on long after the event ends.

When we started this, we didn’t have everything figured out. We had an idea, a place to gather, and people willing to show up. Each year, we’ve learned a little more and built on it.

There’s something satisfying about seeing that become a tradition.

It also gets to the heart of my talk today and this week’s episode of Connection: Nobody Joins a Protocol.

People need a reason to care. Something useful. Something interesting. Other people they want to spend time with.

For me, that’s been food, and building on Nostr.

Food gives us common ground. We gather around it for holidays, weddings, funerals, and ordinary dinners after a long day. Everyone has a favorite dish, a family recipe, or something they remember someone making.

That’s where Zap Cooking started, and it’s where I keep coming back.

I can spend plenty of time talking about Nostr, Bitcoin, wallets, relays, and all the technical pieces that make this possible. I enjoy that stuff. Put enough of us in a room and we’ll happily spend hours on it.

But when I’m talking to someone who just wants to figure out dinner, I need to meet them there.

Can they find a recipe? Save it? Share what they made? Connect with the person who posted it?

Over the past year, we’ve put a lot of work into making those things easier.

Last year at Nostr Valley, I talked about building niche communities. This year, I’m talking about the work of making one easier to join.

Some of that work came through building alongside Daniel. Some came through our experience with PlebLab and conversations with people who brought fresh eyes to the project. They helped us look more closely at our message, our assumptions, and the experience we were asking people to navigate.

We simplified how we explain Zap Cooking: We simplify your cooking experience.

That gives us something concrete to deliver.

We’ve worked on easier sign-in, an integrated wallet, mobile apps, and useful kitchen tools. More recently, we’ve been bringing together the food conversations already happening across Nostr.

There are years of people sharing meals, gardens, recipes, and family traditions. Our new food relay brings that history together, with around 40,000 food-related posts and topics people can explore.

Yes, we have a pickle feed.

We also have cakes, cheese, soups, and plenty more. Behind those posts are people who took the time to make something and share it. Helping others discover that work has become a meaningful part of what we do.

Our code is open source. Other people can build on it, and I hope they do. The relationships, trust, and care that make a community worth returning to take continued attention.

Today is part of that work.

You can talk with someone online for a year, follow their progress, and exchange messages. Then you sit across a table together, shake hands, share a meal, and the relationship gains another dimension.

That’s why I keep helping organize Nostr Valley. I want more of those connections, and I want people to leave with someone they can call, collaborate with, or ask for help.

This week’s Connection episode was recorded ahead of today’s event. It’s a preview and practice run of my talk, along with some reflection on what we’ve learned building Zap Cooking over the past year.

It releases tonight at 7 p.m. By then, I’ll have given the presentation and probably found a few things I wish I’d said differently. That’s part of showing up, too.

If you’re nearby, join us today at Happy Valley Brewing in State College, starting at noon.

And wherever you are, think about the people you’re building for. What would help them? What would make them feel welcome? What would give them a reason to come back?

Those are the questions I’m bringing into year three.

See you at the table.

The world is full of ''communities'', where ...

2026-10-17T12:27:41Z

The world is full of ''communities'', where people share a particular interest and organize themselves around that interest.

Oldtimer cars, or jigsaw puzzles. Lets take the latter. You have the market for jigsaw puzzles, with people designing and selling them, you have people creating content around the puzzles discussing or solving them. There are tournaments of all sorts where puzzles are done competatively.

It does not really matter what the ''community'', or perhaps you can call it ''hobby'' is. The thing i want to draw attention to here is the interaction and organization surrounding it.

The internet facilitated a lot of these things, allowing people with shared interest to find eachother regardless of where they are on this earth, as well as give them to tools do perform these interactions and manage organizing things.

Youtube channels, websites, reddit stuff, tweets, we use what these platfoms provide in order to do all these things. Nostr is an obvious (to me/us) answer. You can create whatever bespoke app/client/enfornment for your hobby/community, on this interoperable substrate. The infrastructure won't be dependent on a particular company, and the community is never forced into some migration. Ofcourse, within that infrastrure things may shift in terms of both actors, relays and apps used, but there are always these interoperable tie-ins that generally keep things ''together''.

utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻🍁 (npub1utx…50e8) mentioned it in its interview with seth (npub15u3…05rq) that "Bitcoiners" are just the first ''community'' to addopt Nostr. As a result ''we'' (partially) molded the environment around this interest.

In a way, what Nostr needs, or perhaps could use/benefit from, is taking whatever particular interest/hobby you have and ''community'' you are in, to take the environment that Nostr provides and build an infrastructure for it and convince the others in the community to use it.

Not saying that it is easy/trivial, but it atleast is a somewhat clear ambition.

An agenda nip/standard becomes more valuable to more clubs of whatever kind use it to organize their meetups and competitions.

The more standards become more standard, the more the standard which these standards function becomes move valuable.

Where do we want to build and acrew the value?

I hosted a dinner last night, and abused the situation to test ...

2026-10-17T11:19:59Z

I hosted a dinner last night, and abused the situation to test the new update of Table mesh with 5 people and 8 devices. It worked! There were some rough edges as well as a catastrophic failure right at the end, but that was because i intentionally tried to break things.

That was from a technical perspective, but i also observed what actually happened at the table. People were mostly focussed on their own screen/phone. They did share the experience, but the attention was not focussed on the center of the table where normally the board would be, eventhough i had a tablet that displayed the board; all the information the player needed was on their phone as well, and as such never bothered to look elsewhere. This part needs some reflection as well.

That is all well and good but is the thing ready for its purpose ...

2026-10-17T11:09:14Z

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That is all well and good but is the thing ready for its purpose and is it already used for its intended purpose.

In this case iirc it was your/a local church community right?

This is the reason for the phrase ''there is no ...

2026-10-17T11:06:38Z

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This is the reason for the phrase ''there is no global''. Yes the purpose of ''a'' blockchain is to produce a global shared state; i happen to be of the school that such that ''money'' is basically the only thing you can organize such a system for in a decentralized manner, and that that ''a'' blockchain is actually ''the'' blockchain, which is Bitcoin.

For everything else remains ''best effort'', which then ties into the point of my post that makes the point that there is enough there to facilitate such an effort, while accepting it will never be more than what a best effort can provide.

If you need assurances, you can get those in form of making some particular dude responcible and hold that dude accountable whenever something goes wrong.

This is also because, and this is related to all of this, there is this unbrigdeable gap between reality and adminitrative reality, which introduces the oracle problem. You can't get around the oracle problem, not even Bitcoin gets around it. Instead with Bitcoin, it picked a domain in which we already achieved practical global consensus; the thing it has to brigde this gap between reality and adminstrative reality for is time.

Bitcoin picked the oracle problem for which we already have a sollution, all it needed to do was introduce some margin of error, and it could lean on the fact that all the computers out there, to significant degree, already agree on what time it is. As such, each oracle claim, i.e. the supposed timestamp in the mined block, can be subject to a local/decentralized/distributed sanity check.

What you trust on when you sync the blockchain's history, which you were not there to witness its creation, is that this distributed judgement occured for each block in the moment/section of time it occured in.

The accumulation of PoW subsequently cements this distributed judgement in order to produce plausability: eventhough you have no actual way of verifying the non-triviality of the history (i.e. was the difficulty of the past actually difficult to where it took ~10 minutes to produce a block), the running process of the network resulted in this unbroken chain that leads into the ''now'' where appearently it is non-trivial (the difficulty seems such that it does take ~10 minutes to produce a block).

This is also my objection to notions that Bitcoin is time, or a clock or whatever, because Bitcoin leans on an existing consensus of time, and uses the clock in order to be what it is.

From where I stand, the only thing we are (practically) able to borrow from ''the'' blockchain, is its time-anchoring, but not its global state.

oh, ik dacht dat ze het in die nieuwsbrief over Nyves hadden ...

2026-10-16T09:18:38Z

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oh, ik dacht dat ze het in die nieuwsbrief over Nyves hadden hahaha, laat maar

wauw, nice!

2026-10-16T09:17:00Z

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wauw, nice!

hate to be that guy Rabble, but....neither does the rest of the ...

2026-10-16T01:50:53Z

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hate to be that guy Rabble, but....neither does the rest of the world:

"Original Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath, a.k.a. Rabble, hopes to bring more smiles to social media with Divine, a new take on the late, lamented Vine, once known for its chaotic but jubilant videos with a strict limit of six seconds. Divine has already recovered some of the original clips that disappeared when Vine was shut down in 2017 and so far remains blissfully slop-free. Users must film clips within Divine’s open-source app, meaning it’s impossible to upload content that was created using AI. “People can experience joy and [are] empowered to participate and contribute to the platform,” says Rabble. "

In this interview i thought i would attempt to explain perhaps ...

2026-10-15T23:20:52Z

In this interview i thought i would attempt to explain perhaps the most arcane insight behind Nostr. I think i failed, but thats not the end of the world.

I won't do a full attempt here and now, but the point is that verifiability on the one hand, and context on the other is what makes Nostr ''work'' eventhough theoretically it should not. A pubkey or a hash are just meaningless strings. If i would hand you such at string, it would just be a random garbled mess. And it is, it very much is a random garbled mess, that is very much the point of such strings.

It is only because there are things associated to those strings, be that an event in the case of the eventID/hash, or an actor in the case of a public key, that it gains any meaning.

This begs the question as to how you would find out what that associated thing is, where you would find it. And it is this question that is the reason that from a theoretical perspective the unsolveable problem comes in; there is no full proof method or insurance you ever will.

It just so happens that in practice, we have all these servers that make an effort of indexing this association. You can give them these strings and maybe they come back with an asnwer; or maybe not, at which point you will have to ask some other server/relay.

But these random strings, in practice, rarely stand on their own. Each event always stand in the context of its publisher in the first place, but may also itself be referenced by other events from other publishers. These publishers also reference eachother (chief among such references is a follow list), so in actuality there is this lively network of active references that quickly scatters among the relays.

Once you find the association, you know you found it because you can verify, so each attempt, each quest for context atleast carries this promise that you know you arived at your destination once you get there, eventhough there is no promise you will ever get to the destination.

So regardless how scattered the data may be, in its fragmentation it is indexed, and in its 'liveliness' it is interconnected through reference, and in its answers it provides context, and in its context it delivers meaning.

And thats how you go from a meaningless string to meaning. The reason for all of this is so that everyone can permissionlessly operate on the same interoperable plane and we don't need a cental party, a platform, to provide context and therefor meaning for us. It is the method by which we liberate ourselves from the silo, whatever it is we are doing.

It is how we solve for coordination, be that on Nostr itself, be that for Blossom, be that for Ngit or whatever else. It is how we flipped the script, so that instead of all going to the exact same place to interact, we can manage to go wherever the other happens to be to interact, in order to fullfill the promise of the internet that everyone potentially can get into contact with anybody else.

Ok, maybe i sort of did do an attempt to explain it again, and frankly I don't think i did much of a better job than i did during the interview, but...i dunno, bite me.

Nostr.

quoting
nevent1q…tx6r
ignore the clickbait title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiO7itdNJw0

Ngit/grasp

2026-10-15T05:16:54Z

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Ngit/grasp

Well, Nostr, obviously. But looking at all the decompiling ...

2026-10-15T02:39:02Z

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Well, Nostr, obviously. But looking at all the decompiling jailbreaking stuff going on with proprietary software getting undermined, i am wondering if these silos/platforms can even be maintained in the first place anymore.

If there is no form of exclusivity that acts as a unique selling point for a platform, the whole notion of creating a platform becomes pointless.

My prediction is that for a short while, people will just erect simply more adhoc platforms for the now, lets call it, ''liberated'' stuff; simply out of habbit. But it will get silly quickly that you'd think that at some point it will dawn on people they might as well use some sort of protocol instead.

Above all, Nostr needs broader awareness, the outside world is doing most of the work in terms of being relevant for us already.

is it inspired or based on Nix? Ive been thinking about this for ...

2026-10-15T01:57:59Z

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is it inspired or based on Nix? Ive been thinking about this for a while

it is a bit disorienting at first, but if you play around with it ...

2026-10-15T00:55:37Z

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it is a bit disorienting at first, but if you play around with it a bit, it quickly unveils a bunch of superpowers, despite its rough experience.

Nostr event nevent1qqsw77f0jq3kju2qx6ft4uhtaz9sduu3ws3z9wknkc8k890x7wfsyzgzyp02geyqgka3lu3zv4wa6dhxmnkacs6epsnqjrzgd0hn3m69pkjm6l0fxj5

2026-10-15T00:02:25Z

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Sir, building games IS the new gaming. It will make for an ...

2026-10-14T23:54:38Z

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Sir, building games IS the new gaming. It will make for an interesting GamesDoneQuick eventually.

Isnt that everything we are doing though?

2026-10-14T13:10:01Z

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Isnt that everything we are doing though?

ignore the clickbait title ...

2026-10-14T08:54:30Z

ignore the clickbait title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiO7itdNJw0

And it can easily be replicated with minor tweaks like other ...

2026-10-14T02:23:46Z

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And it can easily be replicated with minor tweaks like other languages.

They could use Amber or an iOS signer. Probably offer them two ...

2026-10-14T02:22:09Z

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They could use Amber or an iOS signer.

Probably offer them two tiers; first innitial flow being some client/app created specifically around this campaign (which aids in the keybackup, but also a default feed and default relay, default group etc.. And then from there ways that leads them to stuff like amber and 'regular' clients.

Fyi, Alex is not a Bitcoiner, he is just recently learning all of ...

2026-10-14T01:14:29Z

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Fyi, Alex is not a Bitcoiner, he is just recently learning all of this stuff, among which appearently this bit of info

Oh, no, the nfc card is just empty. The idea is that they use ...

2026-10-14T01:05:13Z

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Oh, no, the nfc card is just empty. The idea is that they use some Nost client and generate their own keys obvously, but have a way to back it up.

As for password bruteforcing...well, yeah...whatever. you can add some password best practices on the letter, but with these things i think you should not overthink it. Its just so that if someone grabs your card you are not instantly pwned as would be the case with a raw nsec

Or associate with whomever, use the relays of your choosing, ...

2026-10-13T23:53:37Z

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Or associate with whomever, use the relays of your choosing, ignore grifters etc etc.

Nost is just the internet at the end of the day, its not some place, its a method

I was not refering to other usecases. I was talking about the ...

2026-10-13T23:52:08Z

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I was not refering to other usecases. I was talking about the fact that no outside force can all the sudden force you into a certain experience, given you can just use whatever client that suits you.

I have said this before, but an ncryptsec on a nfc card/tag is ...

2026-10-13T23:49:07Z

I have said this before, but an ncryptsec on a nfc card/tag is probably the best minimal viable nostr-key back-up solution i can think off.

To expand on that. If there is any bazillionaire willing to trow away money on something stupid: how about just sending a physical letter to a whole municipality or province or state or country or whatever that includes such a nfc card.

The letter simply explains to people that digital liberty finaly has arived, they don't have to sign any contract or pay anyone anything. A couple of onboarding steps and the remark that its not a service and there is no service desk so if they need help they should ask their neigbour or nephew or whatever.

Frankly, just as an object of study i would like to see something like that happening. So send money to my foundation and who knows, i might do it🤷‍♂️

you mistunderstand Nostr if you don't realize that ...

2026-10-13T23:14:20Z

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you mistunderstand Nostr if you don't realize that ''it'', as such, can never change ''from'' that; ''it'' can only come to *also* contain that. You are free to act and engage in whatever how you see fit

i think both are correct at the same time. In terms of scale ...

2026-10-13T23:11:33Z

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i think both are correct at the same time. In terms of scale there are many order of magnitude differences between the number of people leveraging Nostr and many of the platforms out there. This difference in degree in itself constitutes a difference in kind.

As a result, atleast in this phase, the only option you have is to actively engage, in order to get some interaction, because neither happenstance nor algo will get you there.

I have started to include this heads up into my messaging, because some people might simply not be aware.

What does honestly confuse me is why some people appear to be smug about it, mocking Nostr's current numbers (whatever they may be, who knows). Who do they think they are dunking on, except themselves?

Don't worry, we will put all the platforms on spikes and line ...

2026-10-13T21:10:16Z

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Don't worry, we will put all the platforms on spikes and line them up on the side of the digital highway in due time

so....what? You spend an hour staring at the keyboard looking for ...

2026-10-13T00:01:50Z

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so....what? You spend an hour staring at the keyboard looking for the ''any'' key?

ahum, fairytale police here: Only can only be 1 mystical ...

2026-10-13T00:00:33Z

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ahum, fairytale police here:
Only can only be 1 mystical creature, not multiple at the same time. Your registration tells me you are a dwarf. Now i will let you off with a warning here, because you only implied to be witch, but don't play me for a fool; the next time i will be forced to write you a ticket.

i'm not going to make an account there. But you might want to ...

2026-10-12T22:56:40Z

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i'm not going to make an account there. But you might want to inform this person it is not a service:
''Say whatever you want about Armada as a service''

these damn words, these damn fucking words. Account, Platform...Service; all an expression they don't comprehend, grapsing at the familiar.

agreed, they are rodents, not dogs

2026-10-12T15:12:44Z

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agreed, they are rodents, not dogs

oh hey look, the dwarf is dumping her written off mining ...

2026-10-12T15:10:12Z

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oh hey look, the dwarf is dumping her written off mining equipment🧐

Sweden send me a physical letter with an invoice for 48 cents of ...

2026-10-12T13:37:56Z

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Sweden send me a physical letter with an invoice for 48 cents of toll costs because i drove throught their country 1 day

Don't forget to make your own app store to keep track of all ...

2026-10-12T00:55:13Z

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Don't forget to make your own app store to keep track of all your own apps.

Nostr event nevent1qqsvz377vy8x38453he74s7tdjsy973tqp6m0jlhrkks9slm5d5zyqszyp02geyqgka3lu3zv4wa6dhxmnkacs6epsnqjrzgd0hn3m69pkjm67636pl

2026-10-11T18:07:59Z

Normies lack entropy🤔

2026-10-10T22:10:34Z

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Normies lack entropy🤔

ok my robot dude, you do you

2026-10-10T21:18:08Z

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ok my robot dude, you do you

meanwhile: I-R finished at e98be65: six merges landed, the ...

2026-10-10T21:17:40Z

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meanwhile:
I-R finished at e98be65: six merges landed, the restate-isolation rule passes everywhere, RS-18/40/47 are now asserted, and 77 of 87 re-applied mutants are killed, leaving 5 RESTATE-OPEN findings and 8 pending adjudications. I-X is now merging the three recipe lanes, regenerating the corpus, and will run the full gates — next check in ~75 minutes.

Ive had it run for a while for other projects as well, and that ...

2026-10-10T01:57:16Z

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Ive had it run for a while for other projects as well, and that mostly worked, so i figured i'd go next level.
i spend a lot of time in creating the spec, going over every stupid question the robot had about it, issues it came up with etc. and it then delivered this formal spec, which it has now been building an implmentation of for a long while now (most of the time is in the endless amount of tests it runs each phase of the build). I must say, its not just stickly building the engine, but an entire test environment around it as well at the same time.

This is basically 3 20x claude subsciptions running ultracode opus 5.5, each burning through their token budget in 2 days, and then the 7th day my system has a day off as God intented

(i went to bed, could not sleep, so i went out again :/ )

🙄 i am almost tired enough to go to bed, i think, i hope. ...

2026-10-10T01:05:20Z

🙄 i am almost tired enough to go to bed, i think, i hope.

Always was a night owl. I can remember that when i was i kid, i and i was send to bed, i spend hours awake. One of the ways i killed time was by drawing maps on a wooden panel beside my bed and draw armies on them, and then wargamed battles. By the end it was just a mess of scribles and crossed out tanks and a whole lot of arrows going all over the place.

These days i just post on Nostr i gues...

That me side-eyeing my computer for weeks now, checking if its ...

2026-10-10T00:56:14Z

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That me side-eyeing my computer for weeks now, checking if its done already....

Since we all have no clue what we are doing, i decided to try a ...

2026-10-10T00:31:01Z

Since we all have no clue what we are doing, i decided to try a thing....this particular thing has been running for 163 hours of session time, or 354 hours if you add all the parrallel agent work up together. Around 26 Billion tokens, whatever that means.

AND ITS STILL NOT DONE FFS.... I have no idea if the result is going to be any good, it better be.

No quarter. Look, i don't disagree ultimately the people ...

2026-10-09T13:12:14Z

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No quarter.

Look, i don't disagree ultimately the people orchestrating the gay-op deserve more attention and scrutiny, and can appreciate the call to recognize the humanity in the other....but.

This is not how it works, however lost these people may be, they, as a group, will just double down, and keep doubling down untill every bit of civilization is consumed, at which point they will double down some more.

Its all well and good some individual here and there can change their mind, and to some extend i will go allong with them being victems. But ultimately we can't 'excuse' their degeneracy, there must be consequences. Pointing at them as an example of degeneracy as a means to disgust any sensible person into what way NOT to go, is totally valid.

You can be sympathetic all you want, and the point is not that non of this is not tragic, but tragic or not, does not change that as a phenomenon, it can't be reasoned with. And to the extend you can, you have to ask yourself if we even have the time/energy/resources to do so.

Hope @npub19mu…jnft will get active with Nostr again and look ...

2026-10-09T11:11:59Z

Hope unclebobmartin (npub19mu…jnft) will get active with Nostr again and look at what all the kiddo's are doing with Nostr, development and AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLPGC-tvgk

people talk about the internet and platforms etc all the time. ...

2026-10-08T19:20:09Z

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people talk about the internet and platforms etc all the time. There is an entire paradigm of words they have understanding of in their heads that get thrown around in conversation all the time in order to communicate.

So no, we don't need to stop talking about Nostr, we need to normalize it in peoples heads. The fact you even relate the matter to a list of platforms is already a sign you might be missing the point, and could benefit from talking about Nostr some more

Honest question: what else would you have them do, given they ...

2026-10-08T16:48:03Z

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Honest question: what else would you have them do, given they supply every living idiot soul with their OS.

in this situation for like a week now

2026-10-08T16:36:29Z

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in this situation for like a week now

Nostr event nevent1qqszpylgje7lpynw6msvqpt427lj7xqt2zmte3rn6rgt24angjuv5jszyp02geyqgka3lu3zv4wa6dhxmnkacs6epsnqjrzgd0hn3m69pkjm6arvpej

2026-10-07T08:16:37Z

The more i think about proximity-net, the more it makes sense