Silberengel

Once you get used to Asciidoc, Markdown seems literally retarded.
Once you get used to PlantUML, drawing diagrams seems literally retarded.
Once you get used to Gherkin, writing prose specifications seems literally retarded.
Once you get used to Nostr, logging in to normal websites seems literally retarded.
#JustSaying

2024-11-02 06:19:49

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What Nostr really shows, is the massive quality gap between hacking and engineering.
GM

2024-11-02 06:18:01

Noise, from people who don't even have a feature list or some manual tests. I don't have to convince them, tho, since I'm replacing them.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1445206681.0334/tst,small,845x845-pad,1000x1000,f8f8f8.jpg
#nevent1q…al5g

2024-11-02 06:17:09

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All the hating on software design, test, and automation, in here, is sort of ironic, since Nostr has almost only produced bad software.
By the third iteration, at the latest, "just hack it, bro" begins to break down and regressions creep out. Sometimes Nostr prototypes don't even work well enough, to demo the concept.

2024-11-02 05:57:17

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All you've done is tell us about your chaotic, atomized work environment, the lack of automation, a code base tied too closely to the feature set, and the fact that you can't refactor without regression.
Classic big, ball of mud architecture.

2024-11-01 06:33:06

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Ah, weird. You might want to ask Vitor about the discrepency.

2024-10-31 20:59:03

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Ah. It is rejecting the geyser wallet. Try gitcitadel@getalby.com.

2024-10-31 20:46:13

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Can you zap anyone else? Maybe your wallet isn't configured?

2024-10-31 20:28:13

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Yes, but I expect them to then be upfront about what happened and _immediately_ investigate it themselves, and openly self-report with their biggest npub.
They should be aggressively transparent.
Yeah, don't bother trying to change my mind on Primal. Waste of your time.

2024-10-31 18:52:54

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We can all learn from this. No judging.
https://media.tenor.com/Sfo7_u-zu_QAAAAC/its-life-so-mistakes-are-going-to-happen-amanda-holden.gif

2024-10-31 18:40:55

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The increasing follow-concentration is a direct result of their trending list and their preset follow-list for newbies. This was immediately obvious, from the get-go, but they have just left it like that.
Also, whilst the majority of the other devs and relay-managers immediately jumped on the ReplyGuy issue, Primal was lackadaisical. They are often AWOL, and they don't seem to use the relay, web client, or image server, themselves, on a daily basis, so they let the systems atrophy, and fill up with literal garbage, while performance crawls to a halt.
The other devs are eventually annoyed by their own stuff being broken, since they use it regularly themselves, but Primal devs are like vegan butchers. They can legit watch their repos rot for half a year and not give a damn. I've seen a lot, but that takes the cake.
Primal got way too much funding and way too much adoring press, from the get-go. They're front-and-center at the conferences, of course, talking a big game. They be like
https://media.tenor.com/GAPSxsTdaiwAAAAC/valentino-rossi-rossi.gif

2024-10-31 18:04:55

Making Nostr all about Bitcoin seems to have sucked in a bunch of grifters and finance-suits-in-hoodies, and it's turned newcomer's microblogging feeds into a cheesy, discount-version of Bitcoin Twitter.
Nostr has zaps, but zaps aren't the reason Nostr exists. Nostr predates the zap. Nostr has its own agenda. The real Nostr devs care about Nostr, for its own sake, and not just as a place to spend Bitcoin.
This note is signed with my private key and published to the relay on my laptop. GFY.
#nevent1q…eqfw

2024-10-31 17:06:27

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I suspect a lot of the problems Nostr has been having are a direct result of people onboarding through Primal, but it won't let up until Primal finally goes away or completely reforms.

2024-10-31 17:04:55

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I suspect that it's a majority of those onboarding, lately, unfortunately, but we manage to salvage some of them and get them to other clients.
This is one of their VC boards, FYI.
https://ten31.vc/team

2024-10-31 16:19:37

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https://image.nostr.build/7e0b02e97c0c26a6475eced36b7e964ebe590812398d82bc7b9181d3cc64d1b8.jpg

2024-10-28 22:09:53

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Yeah, client devs and long-time users think the problems are with the protocol itself, and/or that it isn't humanly possible to build a Nostr client that actually works.
People who don't understand software development believe them and repeat their nonsense.

2024-10-28 12:31:48

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Sad, but true.

2024-10-22 06:15:22

I've been thinking this, lately, as well.
Most newbies don't actually want to show up and see a feed full of #devs arguing about algorithms and tiered storage, or whatnot. That's an immediate turn-off, even if it sometimes gets more interesting for users, once they've figured out how all this stuff works.
Lots of devs actually have OtherTopics. They just rarely post about them because the dev-y stuff is what gets clicks (from other devs). Since devs are inclined to stay on Nostr, however, and there are so many devs, it would be better for all of us if they/we talked more about our OtherTopics and there be a dev community relay where we could talk our dev stuff.
So, I started one, that I will manually curate:
https://devs.nostr1.com/
It just picks up keywords that sound "devish", like "C++" or "NDK" or "devs".
#nevent1q…p87k

2024-10-22 00:10:32

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2 months. I can always add them back, if they return.

2024-10-22 00:02:03

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Yeah, I purge my list every month.

2024-10-21 21:59:49

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My goal is to actually find people and have a conversation, but almost everyone just comes here to talk at those people.
Today was the first day, in weeks, where there's been any sign of life. It's been really lonely and dead in here. Just sitting in a corner, talking to myself, most of the time. Friggin depressing.

2024-10-21 21:14:26

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Yes!

2024-10-21 20:34:27

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Nostrudel

2024-10-21 16:09:52

Just bored and fatigued, today.
https://image.nostr.build/d0f0bb84e91b1e4d2eab93609356c75bc3521221898602bfdf6bc5330df8dd11.png

2024-10-19 19:38:39

@npub1n0p…pfp6 I found an old war-time cookbook, from 1918, to try out as a more-advanced text about food, in #Alexandria. I used dark mode, so that the old pictures stand out, more.
Things I've noticed about the rendering:
* the large first chapter letter needs to be toggled on/off, since it sometimes doesn't make sense (like in the ToC)
* floating the image left/right, so that the text wraps around the picture, and pictures display in a row, isn't working, yet, even if the text and the pictures are in the same section
* the "NOTE" box is working, but not prettily
https://i.nostr.build/1Zhmk8cHSJC20uiA.png
https://i.nostr.build/zQdZOJZzdy3juiCX.png
https://i.nostr.build/IelMjxU3FMCAD4kQ.png
https://i.nostr.build/GRbu8j1InyNspBRk.png
To see what the NOTE: would look like, after we tweak the stylesheet, it'll be something more like this (scroll to the bottom):
https://github.com/ShadowySupercode/gitcitadel/blob/master/eBooks/cookbook/cookbook.adoc

2024-10-19 12:42:47

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It's usually a better market, than for developers, overall, but we're sometimes beating them on salaries, now, which I've never seen before.
Used to be a big gap.
Another thing everyone is looking for is DevOps.

2024-10-19 12:39:28

If you're a software QA engineer in Germany, and you are unhappy with your current position, now is a good time to apply for something new.
Better market than for software developers and lots of 💯 remote positions.

2024-10-19 11:00:26

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They make lots of promises they can't keep, like a bad boyfriend.

2024-10-19 09:17:30

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Yeah, but it's pure research and hacking for the fun of it; no development.
That's really fun, I know, but we need more engineers, to get production-quality systems. People who understand how to set a goal, break the goal down into stages, and then focus and work toward that goal over a medium stretch of time, like 6 months to 2 years, followed by years of further development and maintenance _on the same system_. And, ideally, that person should be capable of working together with other people, so that you can have more than one person maintaining one system.
Engineers are developers with a low time-preference, basically. They think things through, before beginning, they work cleanly and carefully, they are reliable, and they are empathetic with the end users. That's why they're craftsmen, instead of hackers. They build things that people are meant to actually use.
It's the difference between a fancy chair, some artist conceived of, that looks great standing in a museum, and a chair that a master carpenter built, who spends all day producing various chairs. Which one would you prefer to sit on, every day, for years? Who would you take the chair to, if the chair broke? The artist? The artist can't even remember building that chair, and he's moved on to making pottery.
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The research portion occurs when a company's R&D team tests the viability of a potential product. This is the act of discovering new sciences that can be used to create new products. The development portion comes after the research and is the act of turning the discovered science into a useful product that the company can market and sell.
<<
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042815/what-difference-between-research-and-development-and-product-development.asp

2024-10-19 05:01:44

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And, like, the governor isn't going to retroactively change the laws to make it easier to go back and sue previous, dead governors, for things that happened before most of the current staff were born. LOL
I mean, where's my 40 acres and a mule, right?

2024-10-18 12:24:57

OpenSats funding your idea does not make it a good idea.
OpenSats refusing to fund your idea, does not stop it from being a good idea.
Think for yourself.
Build for yourself.
Advertise for yourself.
Let the free market decide.
Do not put your faith in kings.

2024-10-18 10:02:03

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😅

2024-10-18 08:32:41

I don't know who needs to hear this, but female beauty correlates significantly with every positive trait, except high intelligence.

2024-10-18 07:12:43

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Great is as great does.

2024-10-18 07:09:49

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Had to empty my Phoenix wallet into the other ones, to get them setup, tho. 😭 Needed bigger channels.

2024-10-18 04:21:37

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Yeah. Wow. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Obviously, #Alexandria will soon be offering this sort of thing for 30040 collections (eBooks, audiobooks, academic articles, video chapters, etc.) So, you can write your own summary and index, or have one generated.

2024-10-18 04:04:40

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Broadcasted it to theforest.

2024-10-17 16:33:59

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Yeah, in German they have the saying "He is rich with children."

2024-10-17 09:08:35

That #TesterLife don't letcha go. 🤙
Once a tester. Always a tester.
#note1ets…geh5

2024-10-17 09:07:28

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I'm stuck doing software development, now, (including web clients, *shoot me, now* 😅 ) because of a lack of devs, but I remember where I came from.
https://media.tenor.com/txMeczHoDo0AAAAC/dont-forget-where-you-come-from-where-youve-been.gif

2024-10-17 09:01:44

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Yeah, guess they don't want someone evading the sales taxes by smuggling some in. 🙄
Never try to compete with the government, right?

2024-10-17 07:17:37

Don't know if anyone missed this.
#note1nan…t2dg

2024-10-16 14:10:07

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No, I removed it because I just look at global on my personal relays.
I am following about 20 npubs, now. About a third of them are also me. 🤣

2024-10-16 11:53:01

Dumb relays was too stupid.
Smart relays was too clever.
I'm here for the #MidwitRelays.

2024-10-16 11:46:59

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We got server monitoring running, already. There'll be a write-up from someone else on the team, soon.
Setting up bot-automation with Jenkins, at the moment. I'm refactoring it, to be more generic, at the moment, but the ReadMe already says how it'll work, hopefully by EoD. Trying to make this all Nostr-specific, but plug-n-play, so that even Lone Wolf Devs can set it up and try it out.
Will eventually have bots kicking off sort of randomly, 24/7, and moving through the various relay and GUI tests.
Then, we start with the Locust-style load testing. Maybe some penetration testing, etc.
Have to move slowly, so the other devs can front-run me, rather than their stuff exploding. I feel like ReplyGuy already made my point for me, so I don't have to tell y'all twice. 😅
https://github.com/SilberWitch/Nostrbots

2024-10-16 11:36:10

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Because then you could add people to your relay with listr.lol.

2024-10-16 11:31:56

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It's FOSS.
https://github.com/relaytools

2024-10-16 10:16:53

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I just login to the website (it's FOSS from @npub10np…tl5h ) and then click on "My relays" and select the relay I want to edit, and scroll down to this form.
He's actually working to auto-update the lists, so that you can link a list with a relay. With that, when you add someone to your list in #Nostrudel or #Listr or wherever, it automatically adds that person to your relay whitelist. Then you can edit the relay whitelist from any client where you can edit lists.
https://image.nostr.build/3313b3f4161a057e057a298d2abbcb916619344b0fc34d26cb988eef1f8d5202.png

2024-10-16 10:06:07

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Dungeons and Dragons. Analog. Vor über dreißig Jahren. Und ein paar RPGs.

2024-10-16 09:48:27

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We're lucky, that there's hardly anyone, on the other side, who could switch, and test our stuff. 😅

2024-10-16 09:47:48

I'm applying for the official position of Chief Quality Officer of Nostr Inc.
https://i.nostr.build/Y59A3q8Igvq0ePRn.png

2024-10-16 09:11:35

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For the record:
I am building an extensive, professional-quality, fully-automated, test landscape for our #Alexandria and #GitRepublic projects, and all associated relays. And my repos are FOSS, and I'm going to design them to be easily forked-and-customized. That means I can use it to expertly test our products, as if I were a crazy hacker.
It also means that a real, actual, crazy hacker can use those same tools to test ANY APP and ANY RELAY, so long as he has a computer, can read my clear instructions, and doesn't have shit for brains.
You're welcome.
https://media.tenor.com/5QtiZJSXiy8AAAAC/anytime-curtsey.gif

2024-10-16 08:51:22

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Yeah, but that's why database integration and migration is a nightmare. Using a communications protocol to structure the core intra-db communication, so, that it can transit over common relays, is next-gen document db. Especially, as the protocol increasingly branches into subdomains, with their own specialty events.
Turns the Internet into a real Internet of Databases, rather than mere web pages.

2024-10-16 08:27:47

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Well, it's a particular use case.
#Alexandria will probably also have a database, for some premium services (self-hosted or rented), but I don't want someone needing a database to use the basic app functionality. That's sort of overengineering it.
Running a database uses more resources and is more complex than just running a relay with a stringent whitelist, or rolling events off according to a deletion-schedule, or something.
Npubs could simply download events to cache or have a SQlite or whatnot DB, or a relay on localhost.

2024-10-16 08:20:22

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Yeah, can even do it with curl, now.
https://image.nostr.build/3ff2f93dfac69c5c69a71e065b43510287e05e20fc6b835470f4806318b8e614.png

2024-10-16 07:54:10

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👑

2024-10-16 07:53:55

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Yeah, we're living with Oma and spending vacations with Grandma and Grandpa. My sister and my nieces are near the grandparents' tho, so we sometimes stay in rentals, on visits, because it's three generations in the house, and the teenagers are dating, and sometimes other relatives are visiting, so it's starting to get rowdy.
Fourth generation will probably start arriving soon, in both locations, and then the neighbors will start calling the police about the clan next door, parking the up the entire street.
Proud to be THOSE people. 😅

2024-10-16 07:46:56

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What my son calls "chup", as in "indeterminate, but delicious, mass of meat and vegetables in some sort of creamy stew".

2024-10-16 07:25:10

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I mean, it's easier to load-test Nostr than most other systems because you don't have to create user logins and you can write straight to the data store.
You can just use NAK to auto-generate nsecs and go for it. Could generate hundreds of them on your laptop and have them all running a Jenkins script, asynchronously. With a good graphic card, probably thousands of them.
Not even just writing to the relays, but fetching, clicking buttons, typing, etc. So, you can load-test the apps, as well, and take down websites.

2024-10-16 07:18:48

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Yeah, I've already warned people that I've downloaded Locust. Got no response. Heh heh.
https://locust.io/

2024-10-16 07:01:26

Few know this.
#nevent1q…r3mc

2024-10-16 06:50:59

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There is no such thing as a "public" relay because we have no government, to take ownership. We just have private relays that are more or less restrictive.

2024-10-16 06:31:05

The politicians have been aiming policies at particular demographics since politics was invented, but one person realizes black men also vote and all hell breaks out. 😂
For the record, Trump was actually the first person to do this, not Kamala.

2024-10-16 06:11:27

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WoT is sort of worthless data, right now. Doesn't even keep out literal bots and spam, cuz y'all follow a bunch of crap. 😂

2024-10-16 06:07:59

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Just signed a contract to do this, professionally, again, in full-time.
See? People will pay me to be me, in their general vicinity. My personality is a Real Job.
Y'all don't appreciate me. 😂

2024-10-16 05:59:16

When the most merciless, shameless, spergy QA Engineer of all time invades your peaceful, happy, protocol safe space, it be like
https://image.nostr.build/93d18f8b820aac63e95685207f95647ad87ab8c3524fc68d0e99bda97db09a1a.jpg

2024-10-16 05:52:28

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#nevent1q…2mc6

2024-10-16 05:52:06

Following lots of people is technical debt, from the era before custom relays.
Make Follows Great Again. 💪🏼

2024-10-16 05:20:17

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Well, I hate to tell you this, but @npub1s3h…75wz is going to be doing Quality as Code. 😂
I'm from a continuous deployment background, so I'm completely addicted to pipelines.

2024-10-16 05:13:03

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The trend has been to put all use cases into one client, with one dev, paid by one company. Doesn't get much more communistic than that.
Single payer 🤝 Single product 🤝 Single supplier

2024-10-16 05:04:55

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I guess this is just triggered by build, right? Or are you running cron jobs?

2024-10-16 05:02:41

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Amazing that 42% of men want Kamala. (Including all of the American and German men I know IRL.) I'll never understand this.

2024-10-16 05:00:52

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Yeah, he's a German immigrant.

2024-10-15 19:40:23

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Use private relays.

2024-10-15 19:36:47

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They might cost her the election.

2024-10-15 19:35:50

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I check in constantly, but hardly ever push to remote. Hope nothing happens to the computer.

2024-10-15 19:02:00

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This is what I tell myself. 😁

2024-10-15 18:56:32

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Probably enough for one dev, but a Jenkins pipeline is less work.
Well, it's less work, if someone like me prechews it all for you. 😂

2024-10-15 05:50:09

The true meaning of "Stay humble. Stack sats." 👑
#nevent1q…5tk4

2024-10-14 18:41:14

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I know some js. I usually avoid it because I'm a backend dev. Sort of algorithm-heavy stuff.

2024-10-14 18:39:01

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Okay, I was trying to avoid adding another tag, but I guess I should avoid single-letter tags. I could call it "navigation", or something.

2024-10-14 18:32:40

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https://media.tenor.com/HxEbOG1AZbEAAAAC/nobody-cares-who-cares.gif

2024-10-14 17:24:50

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TBF, if you're married to someone of European descent, it usually ends up looking like that.

2024-10-14 17:13:53

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It's because we can't turn it off. Everyone expects us to eventually finish rebelling, but it's a personality type, not a conscious choice.

2024-10-14 13:27:27

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Are you subscribed to wss://TheForest.nostr1.com?

2024-10-14 05:27:20

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They have lots of different languages. Interesting.
https://github.com/DivinumOfficium/divinum-officium/tree/master/web/www/horas

2024-10-14 04:13:01

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German version
#naddr1qv…qg62

2024-10-14 04:06:21

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I have been doing a dev pipeline in PHP for Sybil, too.
It's like:
composer install
linter
PHP Unit
Allure
Send note to my devops npub upon FAIL
That last bit will come in handy, with #Alexandria, as it's a website we'll be monitoring with a Selenium smoke test that runs every hour, in additional to the normal service-status monitoring page.

2024-10-14 03:58:30

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It ran. 🥺🥰

2024-10-14 03:55:52

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I'll eventually have a python version, for #Alexandria, but I'm in charge of PHP implementations, so I'm doing a couple of small projects with that, to warm up. I was just doing databases for a couple of years.
I like the PHP Helper library, tho. Recommend.

2024-10-14 03:52:00

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Yeah, it's sort of traumatic. Usually caused by having different relays in different clients, and some of them not having the newest version of your mute list. Every time you mute someone, you make a new list.
I had to switch to relay muting.

2024-10-13 20:59:22

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I've been wanting to do this, for so long, and I was too out of sorts to make it to Mass, so I did this, instead. Really excited about it.
NOSTR NEEDED THE DIVINE OFFICE! 🤩

2024-10-13 20:43:49

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The finance bot is going to regularly post information about gold, stocks, etc.
#economics #finance

2024-10-13 20:43:15

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So, we'll soon have the Liturgy of the Hours running on Nostr, including information about the saints and stuff.
#catholic #biblestr

2024-10-13 20:38:29

Okay, finally got them all working.
Still need to add the content, but that's actually the easy part.
Going to bed. GN
#nevent1q…9fgj

2024-10-13 14:11:59

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https://media.tenor.com/pRk6fQ8pZqEAAAAC/hello-hi.gif

2024-10-13 13:33:29

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😅 GM

2024-10-13 13:32:00

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🙏 you find them, quickly 🫂

2024-10-13 13:06:59

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These are the ones I'm going to try running from my NAS, eventually.

2024-10-13 13:05:37

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I just need bots for testing, but I've actually been wanting to build these particular ones, for myself, so I decided to use them as a guinea pig.
They're not completely done, yet, but the concept works.