Water Blower

Creator of Blowater & I self identify as a Pro Sleeper

Public Key

npub1dww6jgxykmkt7tqjqx985tg58dxlm7v83sa743578xa4j7zpe3hql6pdnf

NIP-57 Address

blowater@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsxh8dfyrztdm9l9sfqrzn6952rkn0alxrccwl2c60rnw6e0pqucmspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdu6yypfj

Publishing to

nos.lol

relay.damus.io

blowater.nostr1.com

Author Public Key

npub1dww6jgxykmkt7tqjqx985tg58dxlm7v83sa743578xa4j7zpe3hql6pdnf

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2024-10-30 16:09:58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0cmfY7qdmY the ending is the weirdest thing I’ve seen ever

2024-10-20 10:59:17

I just lost my first BJJ tournament. I got choked to unconsciousness in the first round. Disappointed but it also means that there much to learn. I look forward to the next one.

2024-10-15 02:04:22

@npub1ark…h43w How stable is https://github.com/arkin0x/nips/blob/master/XX.md ?

2024-10-12 03:22:00

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Why doesn’t DM need network effects?

2024-10-11 11:14:59

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Europe doesn’t believe in Math

2024-10-10 05:54:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35SlRgVxT8

2024-10-09 10:33:23

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The more limitations we as developers realize about ourselves, the more self growth.
Many breakthrough softwares are done by individuals or small teams.
Id Software shipped 11 games in 12 months back then.
Because of the gold rush of the past 18 years of the internet businesses, it’s just too easy to get a programming job.
Competency has become a myth and people start to believe that good things have to take an army of people to make.
I’m also guilty of it. I’ve only realized how many skills I should’ve developed but didn’t, after I started my Nostr journey.
But I am learning as much as I can. If every indie developer 2X themselves very year, things will eventually get better.

2024-10-08 15:06:44

Does a pubkey have to be on the curve? @npub1a27…v3kz is it a valid key? It’s not on the curve.

2024-10-07 02:22:40

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Pro Tip: Don’t

2024-10-04 14:32:02

Any good react native developers here? I need your help!

2024-10-03 17:39:38

So funny that 2 well known Nostr developers asked me about Deno 2 around the same time. Guess who?
I am still on Deno 1.46.3 because
1. Don’t use RC in production
2. The changes do not solve my particular problems, no reason to update so early.
Good news, `deo fmt` can already format Svelte\React\Vue component code in 1.X
so I switch from eslint to deno to format a NodeJS project and got 100X faster formatting.

2024-10-02 14:45:50

Damus on Mac has been my default desktop nostr client for almost half a year. I like it more than any web based nostr clients, including the one I was making.
I’ve been reflecting on why Blowater was a failure. I believe it has some technical advances but as a product, it’s a failure. Nice try but failed.
But I am not giving up. I am making something better in secrete. https://i.nostr.build/5QDHqCiPBCGUA1Yf.png

2024-09-27 13:13:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cEn_83zRFw amazing talk. I never liked to use Rails but DHH’s got insightful stuff

2024-09-27 11:41:17

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Is it urgent? If so, I can transfer to ownership to you. It is an unfinished copy of strfry’s code js code. I wanted to make it an modern es module but never get there.
If not urgent (1 month), I can implement a newer version according to strfry 1.0

2024-09-24 02:49:54

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I really want you to do a hardcore engineering talk about Notedeck in a Rust conference or Nostr conference

2024-09-23 15:27:23

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You pretty much need to build a pure data layer that can be run from cli / integration tests and UI is just a function of it

2024-09-23 00:48:50

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That will be cool

2024-09-18 16:42:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa2d3OLXhg epic

2024-09-14 13:39:43

types are just interpretations of bits. they are not special.

2024-09-13 10:18:15

Let’s all celebrate the release of strfry 1.0.0, the most important software in the nostr ecosystem.
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/commit/2da619ed2338986342c728dd92e9470a8bad662f

2024-09-13 10:06:23

Has anyone done a full relay sync with the Damus/NOS/Primal relay in strfry? How long does it take?
In other words, how long does it take to sync 1 million events?

2024-09-04 07:54:25

@npub1get…0nfm how to sign up Alby as a new user? Do I have to get an invitation?

2024-09-02 08:29:19

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first
There are many people outside of Nostr who are aware of the problems of centralized platforms.

2024-09-02 08:23:51

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html

2024-08-31 04:12:11

Basically all declarative/reactive UI frameworks in the Frontend/Mobile world are trying to provide an API similar to Immediate Mode UI such as ImGUI / Egui / Raylib
Maybe people should wake up and reflect on that retained ui has been a bad decision for the history.

2024-08-30 19:05:39

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I didn’t even finish 2.

2024-08-28 16:11:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKjVcl62J9w I respect Deno and the master minds behind it

2024-08-26 05:22:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZyqVGHjDGo my favorite talk so far. The ending is **ucking epic and fun

2024-08-26 04:40:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7zi3t1aNM

2024-08-21 09:38:02

Wether Nostr is struggling or people who develop on Nostr are struggling, it does not matter.
Nostr solves the problem of distributing immutable unencrypted textual data in a decentralized, censorship-resistant way, aka kind1. I believe it’s the best design for this kind of problems.
However, people try to solve other problems that are either or all of
1. Encrypted data (DMs)
2. Non-textual / multi-media data (images / videos / streaming)
3. Mutable data (configurations, lists, collections)
Then we see an ocean of ineffective hacks.
A better approach for an application vendor, indie or group, open or close sourced, solo or funded, is to just use Nostr for its strength and implement other parts in more suitable ways.
Nostr does not need to become the carrier of everything. If it does one thing extremely well, it will flourish. #note1e8g…wk8f

2024-08-21 09:30:10

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Same wise

2024-08-17 07:23:23

As much as I admire Evan Vue’s effort and creativity of inventing Vite. I consider is not an essential software for the web development and in fact it introduced unnecessary complexity.
If build/bundling is essential, then esbuild is more essential than vite.
Of course, bundling should never be essential. It is artificial.

2024-08-14 08:37:10

Is NIP-46 always connected via a Relay? Can the client and the remote signer connect directly via a http request?

2024-08-10 15:26:55

2 months ago @npub16wy…hy6a recommended me this book.
On my trip to Thailand, I accidentally walked into a bookstore with English books, found and bought it.
I never opened it, coming back from my trips.
Yesterday night I had a bad sleep and felt miserable today so that I finally started to read it. I love it and will finish it in the coming weeks. https://i.nostr.build/ojvfZruslQxryIQn.jpg

2024-08-04 03:06:26

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Yeah, styling EGUI is not well documented. @npub1xts…kk5s is doing EGUI for the new Desktop app.

2024-08-02 14:52:45

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I would love to know your thoughts of GPUI vs EGUI

2024-08-02 05:06:12

@npub1zfs…w445 One problem Blowater has is that it heavily uses IndexedDB which is slow and has horrible APIs. As much as I can optimize it, it’s a bad foundation to be built on.
I believe your investment in native desktop technology is very worth it in the long run.
Web is very good at presenting / displaying things but very bad at everything else. Tauri is a good approach. We can use Rust to implement a performant storage layer.
I look forward to see what you make with Coop

2024-07-31 08:39:46

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How do you have this much energy to work on 2 big projects at the same time?

2024-07-29 15:10:47

Rob Pike looks like a director instead of a computer scientist

2024-07-25 00:24:22

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The technology behind this is not only important to Nostr, but to software industry in general. Native applications are so important.

2024-07-24 13:24:02

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Just sharing my own thoughts, not against your objective observations.
I choose Deno over Node and Bun mostly because of the more streamlined workflow and tooling instead of performance.
When performance becomes a problem, directly reaching for Rust, skip Go
I liked Go a lot. I pretty much learned concurrency programming with Go and started my whole career on Go.
But the more I understand Go, the more I don’t want to use it, especially if it’s a personal project.
For teams, more complicated.

2024-07-20 16:44:04

20K lines of code is the sweet spot that a good developer can realistically hold in his brain at once per year.
Which means, the code size should be
Total Lines of Code / (People - 1) <= 20K
You always want to -1 because you want shared knowledge about the codebase.
If your team is suffering from complexity but the number is <= 20K, you designed the wrong architecture.

2024-07-17 16:33:44

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r4WIT6zKR_4 this is too good

2024-07-17 15:47:52

https://jsr.io/@blowater/nostr-sdk 0.0.9 is just released, this time, I added documentation

2024-07-17 13:33:53

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Shouldn’t the dot be at the center?

2024-07-16 05:28:58

https://www.radicalsimpli.city/

2024-07-16 05:11:42

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Way too generous

2024-07-15 15:39:21

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Sorry, we never had a mobile design. Maybe I should just make it an installable instead of an website

2024-07-15 15:04:47

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https://i.nostr.build/5Mn6NoTei6jYShYz.png
Here is the new UI, much more like Slack/Discord. Thanks to @nprofile…l29q

2024-07-15 14:51:59

Go to https://blowater.app/ and you will see a very unique design, our V2 design is finally rolled out!

2024-07-14 18:35:02

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As epic as https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima%2C_larger_-_edit1.jpg in very weird ways

2024-07-12 07:54:10

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Freedom is power. Power comes with responsibilities

2024-07-11 17:46:39

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People don’t want more choices. People want more confidence in their choices.

2024-07-11 16:26:33

@npub1zfs…w445 Do you have experience in Svelte? Just curious.

2024-07-08 15:36:34

Plain text is the best UI human has invented so far. It’s insanely effective. That’s why chat apps are so powerful. You can arrange meetings, events and complex tasks in the chat, without using a specialized app. Chat is the app of everything.

2024-07-07 17:39:42

I really enjoy the 1 hour before sleep. I feel the complete ownership of this hour.

2024-07-06 06:51:38

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Yes. This discussion has changed my attitude towards Nostr Signin/Connect

2024-07-05 17:28:50

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So a private key is stored locally on device and the corresponding public key is stored in the server.
That’s pretty much just Nostr sign-in.
The only difference is that passkey approach generates a new key for every app. It’s like using a different private key for every nostr client.

2024-07-05 17:17:42

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What are passkeys?

2024-07-05 17:15:29

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It’s even harder than BTC private key protection because the moment you suspect that your BTC key is leaked, you can transfer remaining fund to another key. This is achievable because BTC requires global strong consistency.
Nostr trades consistency with availability by design so that it’s impossible to transfer the ownership of events.
This problem is just so damn hard.

2024-07-05 16:58:57

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What are subways?

2024-07-05 09:58:18

The new UI of profile settings. Each relay has a different profile. https://i.nostr.build/mlXAk.jpg

2024-07-05 05:02:06

Dependency injection and currying are the sort of design patterns that when people first get a taste of it, they go too far.

2024-07-04 16:58:42

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Bring Nostr to system programming is important @npub1drv…seet keep going!

2024-07-04 12:18:42

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I always wondered why Bill Gates looked like a teenager nerd in his 30s

2024-07-04 11:02:06

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An important direction to explore. Useful for
1. Better security in general
2. Business accounts
What is the npub of the author?

2024-07-04 10:55:36

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I want to try it

2024-07-04 10:54:54

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Also https://jsr.io/@blowater/nostr-sdk if you are using Deno
All of them have different flavors

2024-07-04 10:47:40

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Do you have code examples? Any language is ok

2024-07-04 10:21:12

Can we do multi sig in Nostr?

2024-07-04 10:20:47

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Gitea can just run GitHub CI. It is nice. The UI is not as good but bearable. Just the price is high to have a fast setup.

2024-07-04 09:22:07

https://i.nostr.build/9zMaQ.png blowater.app now has a floating modal display for settings. More new design is coming out

2024-07-04 01:51:49

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Gitea is good

2024-07-03 23:35:49

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Exactly. I want to scream to developers that: “your application is not even complex, just write the fucking code. You don’t need a framework.”
The mindset of “I need a framework to code” is like “I need huge tax to live”.
Come on

2024-07-03 23:18:58

I believe this is true in general in the software industry but more obvious among web developers.
Every 1 - 2 years, there is a new web frameworks that solves the same problem in slightly different ways.
People spend lots of energy learning these new web frameworks but don’t spend the same amount of time to just learn JavaScript and the browser itself.
If you think about it, the Web API is already a framework. React/Vue/Svelte are just super frameworks on top of a poorly designed legacy framework called HTML/CSS.
The choice of React/Vue/Svelte does not matter. Some use virtual Dom and some don’t. It does not matter. If the developer does not know how to write JavaScript, it will end up be the same shit.

2024-07-03 07:41:59

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I got my account back. Everything is ok.

2024-07-02 18:48:46

The worst thing a junior dev can do is not to review code of senior team members and treat code reviewing as some sort of extra burden.
Code review is not
1. a privilege that only your team lead has
2. a responsibility that only your team lead has
It should be, the job requirement for every single programmer in the team.
In my professional experiences, developers who review other people’s code grow faster than those who don’t.
Code review is one of the best ways to grow as a software engineer, regardless of seniority.

2024-07-02 18:11:07

Due to GitHub suspended my account 3 days ago, I was migrating my code to another host and find that there are some dependencies that needs to be cleaned up. So I did it.
Now GitHub gave my account back and here are my migrations:
1. Use esbuild to bundle my code instead of deno itself.
2. Use JSR instead of raw.githubcontent as the means of library publishing.
The migration is huge.
https://github.com/BlowaterNostr/nostr.ts/pull/93
https://github.com/BlowaterNostr/blowater/pull/486

2024-07-01 16:15:54

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Or just not buying a big house

2024-07-01 16:14:28

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Long GitHub, long Microsoft, short nostr, short bitcoin

2024-07-01 16:13:09

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Apparently, random dudes or gals working in big corps can decide if you can stay in the industry or not.

2024-07-01 13:55:05

Thank you Geoffrey but no, I won’t use GitHub again. https://i.nostr.build/oM5d7.jpg

2024-07-01 07:25:37

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Thanks for all the suggestions and I am happy to see this topic is widely discussed.
https://git.blowater.app/ is now where all my code is hosted. General public can't access it yet. I will figure out how.

2024-06-30 18:58:25

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It’s more relevant for companies. Imagine your team account is suspended with no prior warnings and you have no clues why. I am more confused than angry.
Alternative code hosting is easy. The hard part is rebuilding CICD.

2024-06-30 17:02:27

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Our work on Nostr is more important and they just haven’t heard of it yet

2024-06-30 15:37:04

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Is this a real thing?

2024-06-30 15:34:49

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All I wanted was to write harmless code, have fun, and enjoy my beer. Now I need to solve problems? So much work! Let’s make them irrelevant.

2024-06-30 15:33:15

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@npub16vr…p2va One of the problem of that my GitHub got suspended is that my proposed talk is gone. It was the 2nd most 👍 issue yesterday night.
If I could not get my GitHub account back, what’ the alternative way for me to submit this talk?

2024-06-30 05:56:37

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Yes

2024-06-30 04:32:42

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Thanks. Simply hosting is one thing. I need to rebuild all the integrations such as test & deployment pipeline. Damn it Github!

2024-06-30 04:16:11

So my GitHub has been suspended with no explanation, no warning, no emails.
I guess the development of blowater.app will stop for several days before I have an alternative code hosting solution.
@npub1sg6…f63m was right for wanting a decentralized code hosting software. Are there anybody still working on it?

2024-06-30 03:20:48

Has anyone used https://radicle.xyz/ ?

2024-06-29 07:01:02

blowater.app ’s roadmap to Nostr Riga
https://github.com/BlowaterNostr/blowater/issues/484

2024-06-28 05:19:22

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And you are unicycling? Legendary
I wanted to learn it when I saw the British YouTuber unicycling around the world years back.

2024-06-28 05:06:31

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You are cycling and doing Nostr dev at the same time?

2024-06-27 17:49:26

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Just released a new JSR package https://jsr.io/@blowater/csp

2024-06-27 17:48:49

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Thanks for @ me and yes, I am working on blowater.app, a team chat on top of Nostr. Seems like this kind of software is getting more love in Nostr now.
However, that’s the reason @npub1m4n…c2jl you dislike Slack so much?
I don’t dislike Slack this much. There are a few improvements that I want and that’s why I am working on it.

2024-06-27 16:12:32

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/24360
Very annoying JavaScript surprise and I consider it a bug

2024-06-25 14:27:35

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Can we build npub as addresses on top of IP?

2024-06-23 10:23:25

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REST days does not mean no training. It means active recovering.
REST APIs are a myth as well.