MichaelJ

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Building the library of Alexandria

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2024-11-05 00:48:34

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Unless you share the prompt data you used to produce these results, the analysis is meaningless.
This looks like an appeal to authority fallacy, where the authority is OpenAI.
I genuinely appreciate your posts about other protocols, but calling those who disagree with you propagandists is not likely to convince anyone.

2024-10-31 19:10:13

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I think because a lot of trains are already largely self-driving.

2024-10-31 13:38:38

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Tbh Luce is growing on me, and I didn't expect it.

2024-10-30 12:51:17

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This breakdown is quite helpful!
The RPC layer is an odd one, since, at least thus far, it only exists for NIP-46.

2024-10-26 14:55:43

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The Brothers Karamazov is amazing.
Russian literature is a rabbit hole, but it's so good.

2024-10-25 17:12:46

This is a good playlist for all the prog metalheads out there:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3eEcIOf7ujidYSbnIO1TYs?si=7097NvXURbOkQvr2rNjX7w&pi=_-eg_c0gSKmZj

2024-10-25 17:11:40

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Requiring an extra signer app or extension is not much different from a service like Gmail requiring a two-factor authentication scheme when you create an account.
We should work to create a "pit of success" for users to fall into, and I'm concerned that raw nsec signing doesn't do that.
UX research and future development in the Nostr space could probably produce low-friction identity creation that guides users into creating an nsec and storing it securely in just a few clicks/taps. It's not an easy problem to solve, but could provide huge value to users.

2024-10-25 16:46:18

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Thanks for the announcement.
Do you plan to deprecate raw nsec login in future versions? Signing extensions and remote signers are the security habits we should be encouraging users to adopt.

2024-10-23 20:37:31

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Wet and sticky dough becomes much more pliable if you work it enough.
I tried a slap and fold technique for a while, like a more aggressive stretch and fold. It worked a bunch of air in and developed the dough so it was less sticky. It would take 15-30 minutes of work, though, so I've since been playing with water content and an easier stretch and fold to save time and effort.

2024-10-23 12:12:55

"O Lord of my life, draw me to Yourself, but do it in such a way that my will may ever remain so united to You that it shall be unable to leave You."
— St. Theresa of Ávila
#catholic #quotes

2024-10-21 20:06:41

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Yup, this nails it for me lol https://image.nostr.build/6a094c0cb9acadb6a52d88eb70965027275a115771cc56b73f1d420d164a9dc0.jpg

2024-10-21 13:07:11

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They don't make uniforms like that any more.

2024-10-20 15:43:53

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Just like Boeing and the banks.

2024-10-20 15:40:53

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Creating a formal structure makes us accountable to each other. That accountability keeps our momentum up even on the hard days when progress is slow.
Adding you to the company means not only that you have something that we want, but also that we want to be accountable to you.

2024-10-20 15:37:51

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We can allow tea for a founding member 😉

2024-10-20 15:27:42

There is power in a well-ordered organization. I have confidence in my friends and partners working in #GitCitadel, and that we'll succeed, and it's precisely because we took the steps to make it real.
#naddr1qq…kgg4

2024-10-20 06:23:12

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I would have imagined there are more competitors doing endpoint security, but your point about regulations in the space is a good one.
Thanks for the explanation!

2024-10-20 03:06:59

How has CrowdStrike not gone out of business since their fiasco earlier this year?

2024-10-18 15:34:19

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Is kind 2 reserved?
Do we want hypernotes to be editable?

2024-10-18 13:41:13

Lots of projects popping up in the comments; take a look!
#nevent1q…vwgk

2024-10-18 02:08:32

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That's hype! Looking forward to seeing it in action.
I'm curious to know how it weights different factors. Do you plan on doing a write-up?

2024-10-18 02:07:12

Imagine taking a video and generating a Twitter-style thread from it in just a few clicks.
@nprofile…m52f has made that possible.
#naddr1qq…8pe4

2024-10-18 00:59:09

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What kind of algorithm are you working on?

2024-10-17 19:44:41

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Embeddings and vector search are the way to go, I think.

2024-10-17 15:27:37

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I don't know of anyone...yet.
I've been mulling some ideas with my team, but it's not our top priority at the moment.

2024-10-16 15:40:55

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A WASM VM sounds promising! It would isolate code for security, but still run on the browser, correct?

2024-10-16 15:40:13

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My biggest hesitation with WASM is that a compiled WASM application or library may be quite large. We can't rely on loading them every time a web page loads like we do with JS.
WASM libraries could perhaps be stored locally and only redownloaded when there are version updates, sort of like PWAs.

2024-10-15 22:24:09

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Atomic commits can be small or large. A whole PR should be atomic, but single-line changes can also be atomic. It doesn't require tons of attention but it's pretty helpful in managing git history.

2024-10-15 18:21:39

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"Task failed successfully" 🤣

2024-10-14 17:38:05

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The university I attended reopened campus and was back to mostly in-person classes in fall of 2020, but campus social life was curtailed. I spent more time with a small group of friends who weren't Covid paranoid, and less time with everyone else. So "back to normal" still resulted in a significant change. I was kind of demoralized there for a while, too, and didn't want to engage as much with the larger community.

2024-10-14 13:37:45

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Kind 1111? Might be fun to try out the new comment kind. Unless that's not allowed as an OP.

2024-10-14 13:20:22

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If we just want to get started, then it should be Lauds, Vespers, and Compline, as those are the ones laypeople pray most often.
However, if it's not hard to do all of them, we might as well do all of them.
I think the Invitiatory goes before the Office of Readings, but I always skip that myself 😅

2024-10-14 04:08:13

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Selenium will be huge for stability.

2024-10-14 04:07:19

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I've been having that realization over the course of this year. I graduated college in 2021, and this year feels like my life is having so much more movement than the previous years since college.
Always focus on the next step.

2024-10-14 04:03:17

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So Jenkins is scheduling Liturgy of the Hours reminders now?

2024-10-14 01:27:36

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Were you able to see it with the naked eye? What time did you go out to see it? I've been wanting to go look for it.

2024-10-13 22:52:35

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I thought it was some sort of flowchart, but I couldn't navigate it, and the numbers make no sense.

2024-10-13 22:49:01

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Oh yeah you'll love it.

2024-10-13 22:45:01

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Lol what does it mean?

2024-10-13 22:41:56

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Such a thought-provoking book.

2024-10-12 20:30:31

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Makes sense to me!

2024-10-12 20:18:07

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Makes sense, replies are optional. The index event is the container, but the app developer gets to decide what it contains.

2024-10-12 19:42:05

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With stories you'd probably index the videos, then use kind 1111 comments on each video. You could have collections of stories, maybe pinned to a user homepage.
(I don't use Instagram so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something.)

2024-10-12 19:28:52

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YUGE

2024-10-12 16:25:42

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I wonder if Ditto in the stack is actually https://ditto.live/

2024-10-12 14:56:15

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Yes a real note thread! The thread author can control its organization, and people can go ham in the comments without generating gigantic hellthreads on a single note.

2024-10-12 14:22:49

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Awesome! Making a note so I can use this for remote signer discovery in my #Aedile NDK.

2024-10-12 14:16:10

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You've inspired me.
Free idea for the social client #nostrdevs out there:
Use kind 30040 index events to create a Twitter-style thread UX. The index should list a series of kind 1 or kind 1111 social notes/comments, each of which can have its own spin-off comment thread. The first event in the index can be used as the thread header. Since index events are replaceable, additional notes can be added to the thread by the OP after it is initially published.

2024-10-12 14:00:42

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The `d` tag event ID is already part of the replaceable event address, so we don't even need to add it as an extra field in the `d` tag array.
This makes wikilinks easier for replaceable events.
The complication arises, though, for non-replaceable events. The idea with index events is that they can index _anything_. So if you rely on `a` tags, you're limited to replaceable events. I might want a wikilink to refer to a comment on a thread, in which case I'll need the event ID rather than the address. Additionally, if the content of a replaceable event changes, then the content for which I referenced it might disappear. We've discussed creating copies to "snapshot" linked articles in the state in which they were indexed, so that context is preserved. I still think there is value in that, at least for some use cases.

2024-10-12 13:46:54

Has anyone considered tying remote signer URIs to NIP-05 addresses? I'd love to have apps auto-connect to Amber without my having to copy-paste the connection string from my phone to my computer into the app.
#nostrdev

2024-10-12 13:41:32

@nprofile…h7ym I just logged into Coracle with Amber! That was on my wishlist for a while; I think I'll be using Coracle more often now.

2024-10-12 13:26:52

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I'm excited to see where this goes!
I'm curious at the inclusion of ActivityPub. What role does it play in the stack, do you think, that Nostr doesn't cover?

2024-10-12 13:23:58

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True and real!
I go to coffee shops for that exact reason. Yes I love a cappuccino and a little pastry, but also a change of scenery like that can easily get me a solid 2 hours of near-uninterrupted focus.

2024-10-12 13:04:58

I will be following this project with great interest.
#nevent1q…2yjz

2024-10-12 02:27:43

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@nprofile…p0n0 @nprofile…l937 certified #php moment

2024-10-12 00:14:12

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Yeah check out our progress updates under #Alexandria.
We called it that after the Library of Alexandria, because we want to make a new way of interacting with and organizing knowledge that is now possible with Nostr.

2024-10-12 00:13:03

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In theory it's pretty important information to the customers, and management is asking us to build it.
We're in a modernization effort, so everything in the old version of this webpage has to be ported to the new tech stack. It'll let us experiment and iterate faster going forward.
But this page has been accruing features for about 10 years. It's really important to customers as a whole, but there are a few features that are barely touched.

2024-10-11 17:40:35

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What tech is on the client end of this stack? Native apps? PWAs? WebAssembly?
#asknostr

2024-10-11 17:16:35

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Thanks for the correction! I didn't know Web3 and Web 3.0 were different. I've heard them used seemingly interchangeably.

2024-10-11 16:51:05

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I've been coming around to this same recognition.
Permanent storage should be off Nostr, whether it's on user personal devices or somewhere in the cloud.

2024-10-11 16:34:37

We may be watching the emergence of a new "Web3" decentralized application stack.
Solid + Nostr + Client
This starts to map sensibly onto well-understood MVC or MVVM application patterns.
#nevent1q…memd

2024-10-11 16:22:39

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Eliminating professional licensing and legalizing drugs. I think there is a (very limited) place for strictures in both areas.

2024-10-11 15:42:12

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I could get behind most of this.

2024-10-11 12:37:18

God is forcing me to be humble my making it so I have to REST and SLEEP rather than WRITE CODE all night.

2024-10-11 12:35:51

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Never enough libraries.

2024-10-11 12:29:28

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Well, unpopular in secular circles. It's quite familiar to me as a Catholic.
The whole message of the confessional is that God hates sin, but that he loves you so much that you can drop by any time, confess your sins, and be forgiven. He wants it to be easy for us.

2024-10-11 12:27:48

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This was why I took interest in Nostr in the first place. If it does what it promises, it will be the Next Big Thing, and it behooves me to get ahead of that adoption curve.

2024-10-11 12:19:03

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I don't think that's such an unpopular opinion. But also God died to forgive us, so we can always be confident of his forgiveness and his help in overcoming sin.

2024-10-10 17:57:02

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I will add that I would expect to see embedding-only relays for search purposes. The relays would be write-restricted so embeddings can't be forged.
To make those workable, they would probably be a paid service, but they'd be much less vulnerable to forgery. Such services would likely need to employ bots to generate embeddings on new content when it is published, but as we saw with ReplyGuy, it's not hard to make bots that can interact with all new content.

2024-10-08 18:48:30

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My argument is that it is much harder for individuals working alone to build with the level of quality that will keep users consistently happy than it is for teams to do so. We talk a lot about user retention and adoption, then ask everyone to accept unstable software. That's fine, if all the expected users are hobbyists who run Linux and can tinker with configuration and code. However, Nostr is never going to appeal to the non-hobbyist types while it is still unstable and finding itself.

2024-10-08 18:30:34

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Teams also allow you to divide and conquer, and play to each contributor's strengths. If I'm really good at UIs and my teammate is excellent at backends, we can be more productive together, and the overall quality of the product will be better, because the frontend guy isn't stuck writing sub-par backend code, and the backend guy doesn't need to try to learn UX design.

2024-10-08 17:46:26

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The first two premises are asserted without evidence.
Quality/stability is in constant tension with pace of innovation. Ensuring stability can slow innovation, while accelerating innovation can introduce more bugs. The constant in this equation is the number of available man-hours. Changing the size of the team changes the amount of man-hours you have to work with, but the stability vs. innovation tradeoff remains.
Optimal UX is not necessarily tied to a need for growth. Better UX is motivated by a concern for user satisfaction. Satisfying the users is how you retain them, whether the product is free or costly. Dissatisfied users will flee the product, even if is is FOSS.
I would contend that a concern for the communities and individuals who use Nostr should motivate us to build excellent software with an excellent UX, whether those people are paying us for it or not.

2024-10-08 04:24:12

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I'd rather have good software delivered slowly than bad software delivered rapidly.
Just say you're being "methodical." 😆
Also, join the slow dev club! It's not so bad over here.

2024-10-07 19:26:56

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Yup! Cryptographic identity and standardized data shapes are the most fundamental parts of Nostr. It's too hard to get devs to agree on everything else, so implementations will vary widely. If we keep to that core, though, we'll retain basic interoperability.

2024-10-07 14:42:58

Redwall vibes
#nevent1q…gxks

2024-10-07 14:31:57

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I'd love to see your implementation of this concept!

2024-10-07 13:33:16

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Have you ever heard of noSQL databases?

2024-10-07 13:08:45

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NO 🦅🇺🇸

2024-10-07 02:01:58

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Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a protocol by which one bit of code can invoke functions on a different program, even if that program is running on a different machine, as if it was just another locally defined function. There are a few flavors of RPC, but gRPC is the most common. It uses a language called protobuf to define the inputs and outputs of each function, then uses that definition to automatically generate client code by which a program can invoke that remote procedure.
TL;DR—I could write code on my laptop that seamlessly uses other code living on a server in a data center hundreds of miles away.
In this scenario, gRPC encodes the messages between my computer and the remote server in binary, and transmits up to several at a time to maintain fast processing speeds.

2024-10-07 00:36:49

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https://grpc.io/
It's a well-reputed RPC framework designed for fast inter-service communication.

2024-10-06 22:56:05

This idea is free, btw.
#nevent1q…6gkn

2024-10-06 22:52:50

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Why make it a core part of a relay instead of an optional service?
I could spin up a relay with, say, a gRPC service attached to it. JSON is free, gRPC (which is binary over HTTP/2) is for paying clients. Now I've financed my relay and given a high speed, low-overhead option to the people who want it.

2024-10-06 17:40:31

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I've seen people saying things like this, but I've yet to see really effective code generation personally. I've been using GitHub Copilot with Nostr projects, and it has access to the entire code base of each project, but it's still really hit or miss even at writing individual functions.
Maybe I'm just bad at using LLMs, or I'm really particular about code quality, but I've yet to see these tools live up to the hype.

2024-10-06 03:56:59

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How is RoR2 such an excellent game?
The gameplay loop itself is impeccable, and the soundtrack is 🤌

2024-10-06 02:13:18

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I'm sad I missed the after-party. We should chat more often.

2024-10-06 01:35:04

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No awards were given one way or another 😆
Bummed you couldn't make it! Hopefully we'll catch you next time!

2024-10-05 23:45:47

@nprofile…vaud asked: Was this the first corporate meeting conducted on #CornyChat?
#nevent1q…fzld

2024-10-05 23:39:18

We just had our first #GitCitadel quarterly project meeting this morning. It was great to hear each other's voices after text chatting about the project on and off Nostr every day for several months.
We've got some exciting things on the way, but the running theme of the meeting was Stability. Our project supporters want it, and we think Nostr desperately needs it. Reflecting that theme, our testing strategy for Alexandria and Aedile was our biggest point of discussion. FOSS code is cheap, but reliability is valuable, and reliability is what we'll deliver.
Our first priority for Q4 is to deliver an alpha version of Alexandria with basic writing and viewing functionality for people to begin to explore. Once y'all have a chance to try it out, we'll begin to collect feedback and determine what features to prioritize next.
As Alexandria begins to mature, we'll turn some of our attention back towards Aedile, our Nostr Development Kit. Aedile will be a fast and reliable product built by developers, for developers, and we're excited to give it some attention again.
Thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far, and stay tuned! I'm stoked to see what our team can create.

2024-10-04 21:37:44

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We need an alignment chart but for testing styles.

2024-10-04 20:20:27

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Programming into nothing is what most of us do 🤣

2024-10-04 20:19:45

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I've been doing it halfway with Aedile. I don't merge branches until they're tested, because that's the only way I currently have of validating functionality.

2024-10-04 13:45:13

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Agreed.
Though such a strike affects exports, just as much.
Ideally we should not rely on imports for necessities; that would make the country more resilient.

2024-10-04 13:43:11

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My understanding is that the workers' pay is falling relative to inflation, and their employers are still posting record profits. The shipping industry isn't struggling, so the dockworkers are demanding a share of those profits.

2024-10-03 18:27:33

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Actually strfry is probably another exception.

2024-10-03 18:19:33

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Man if only Nostr used Ruby we'd be out of the stone age already...

2024-10-03 18:16:43

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Neither, really, I'm just shitposting. 🤣
No one on Nostr is writing JS runtimes, to my knowledge. C++ isn't the best tools for writing web app frontends.
I bet Nostr will need more high-quality devs working in faster, lower-level languages as it matures. We'll need fast and reliable core libraries.

2024-10-03 18:13:42

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@nprofile…l937 excepted. I've seen his code, and it's legit.

2024-10-03 18:13:03

I spent some time yesterday browsing the C++ source code for Chromium to understand how it handles console logs.
Just saying—no one on Nostr is programming that way.
#sissydev

2024-10-03 17:11:04

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Like a Viking

2024-10-02 19:55:34

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Yes, but you can't do that with Nostr keys.