tyiu
Terry Yiu

https://tyiu.xyz

Building Yeti, Comingle, Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms, Damus, Nostash, SatsPrice

Public Key

npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf

NIP-05 Address

_@tyiu.xyz

NIP-57 Address

tyiu@tyiu.xyz

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relay.mostr.pub

relay.damus.io

relay.primal.net

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2025-06-18 01:41:29

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When I was on the heavier side several years ago, I ate spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, and grilled chicken breast (veggie heavy, less meat) with no dressing, every meal two meals a day for like three months straight and lost like 15-20 lbs. Calorie deficit is definitely the way to go. YMMV.

2025-06-16 14:19:35

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My change is specifically grouping replies from your trusted network (your follows and their follows) so that they are shown on the top of the thread. Notes outside of that trusted network are shown on the bottom of the thread. You would not miss those replies, so there’s no need to worry about new users not being discovered. They’re just less prominent. Also, images and video from those who fall outside the trusted network are blurred by default anyway so there’s no accidental chance of seeing porn unless you decide to start tapping to reveal them.
Notifications remain unchanged — Damus users will continue to receive notifications from only their trusted network if they have the filter enabled.

2025-06-16 14:09:03

GM. Hearing all about spam on Nostr from others but all I’m getting is pure signal with the help of web of trust filters on my Damus build. My PR will help — just fixing some minor issues before it’s ready to go.

2025-06-15 02:24:18

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Yeah, that’s the issue. It’s a bug.

2025-06-12 22:22:12

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Why is that even an entitlement?

2025-06-09 03:19:57

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It’s true. @npub1vta…kjyp posts only when she’s at a Nostr conference with me.

2025-06-08 23:58:10

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Dear @npub1gcx…nj5z,
How are your NIPs?
Signed,
@npub1yau…vjmf

2025-06-08 23:06:25

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This one made me think for a minute about self hosting email.

2025-06-08 20:45:22

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I have the same issue on only Damus but not other clients. Not sure why yet.

2025-06-08 20:42:14

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I sympathize as it is annoying for me as well. There are infinite forms of spam. It’s basically playing whack a mole. It’s not scalable to try to tackle each variation individually. Someone will invent a new type that isn’t a parrot reply. We’ll need other approaches that tackle spam more generally.
I haven’t personal experienced double notifications on Damus.

2025-06-08 19:39:27

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My PR doesn’t hide any content by default, it only makes replies from outside your trusted network less prominent in threads and that can be turned off. Web of trust scoring can be reliable when combining signals of follows, mute lists, reports, events and tags. Once we get web of trust scoring in Damus, lower signal content won’t be as bothersome or noticeable anymore.
I think there is a future where local models could be applied to filter out nonsense but the we’re not quite there yet. It’s also a risk in itself as there could be false positives.

2025-06-07 18:28:03

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I can’t deal with the experience of a PWA.

2025-06-07 18:24:42

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I forgot I could sing so well 🎤🦒

2025-06-07 15:50:42

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Cool initiative! Native as in no Flutter, React Native, etc? (I’m not participating, just curious)

2025-06-07 13:59:51

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I’ve been spread too thin wanting to work on all the Nostr things, so I end up shipping nothing. Comingle is on pause for now. My Yeti signer app also.
My focus is back on Damus at the moment. There’s a lot of things sorely needed to bring the iOS app up to par with Nostr protocol standards so that it can scale — spam mitigation, NIP-17 DMs, Blossom, outbox model, deletion requests, adding polish to the UI. etc.
I also just shipped some improvements with the Nostash signer. It’s at a stable place now, so I don’t need to touch that.
I’m not coming to BTC Prague this year unfortunately, but I am interested in coming at some point!

2025-06-07 13:25:32

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Sir. I’m part of the problem. Apologies. But not all hope is lost. @npub18am…p424 just launched Plektos.
#nevent1q…4mzr

2025-06-07 05:31:33

Legendary speaker as always.
#note13l3…yfrq

2025-06-07 01:56:06

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I gave it a single whole file and asked it to build a UI component dependent on scroll positions, which has been notoriously difficult for me in SwiftUI.

2025-06-06 23:25:04

I just implemented something on Damus with the help of Claude in 10 minutes that would have taken me hours. My experience with AI agents has been mixed so far but when it works, it’s awesome.

2025-06-05 17:56:09

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Not what you asked for but @npub18am…p424 takes Nostr calendar events fully Nostr native.
#nevent1q…03yp

2025-06-05 17:21:33

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Oh, I think I see what happened. Haven is using @npub180c…h6w6’s Khatru implementation and there seems to be no Blossom upload / admin webpage being served by Haven. cc @npub1a6w…0tyc @npub1a6w…0tyc
https://khatru.nostr.technology/core/blossom
Whereas @npub1ye5…knpr’s blossom-server implementation does. It serves a pretty nice Blossom web client for when I just want to upload and manage media from my web browser to paste somewhere. I wonder if it’s possible to easily graft it onto an arbitrary Blossom server like Haven. Or if there’s some other dedicated Blossom client that I don’t know about.
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom-server
Let me know if I got that incorrect.

2025-06-05 15:50:13

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I decided to not be lazy and am moving to a VPS. Sorry, Ray! 🫣

2025-06-05 12:03:08

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I’ve tried to be thoughtful about that. Here’s what I did:
- Replies from outside your trusted network are not hidden by default. You have to press a button to toggle between hiding or showing them. The button also scrolls you to the untrusted replies section so you can easily navigate there to find new users, which is useful if there are a lot of replies.
- Users are hopefully encouraged to discover or follow new users to grow their trusted network
- There’s a setting to opt out of all this

2025-06-05 05:39:04

Just opened a Damus iOS PR that mitigates reply spam with web of trust. After using this feature on my developer build for a few days, I can definitively say that my experience exploring Nostr is way better, and all reply guy spam gets sent down to the bottom of the thread and can be optionally hidden.
https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/3067

2025-06-05 02:01:45

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Oh, that’s news to me. Great!

2025-06-05 01:24:49

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Damus still uses a legacy unspecified format (as do/did many clients like Amethyst) where the list of relays is set on the content field of kind 3 follow lists. You cannot specify which ones are used for reads and which ones are used for writes. It’s on my list of things to do to fix for Damus on iOS, as part of my plan to support the outbox model.

2025-06-05 01:05:22

@npub196y…m0v9 @npub1vwv…9tm0 There’s a bug with Haven (when using the BadgerDB connector) where the Nostr relay(s) do not respect the query filters. I filed GitHub issues on the Haven and @npub180c…h6w6 ’s eventstore repos, but just wanted to make sure you’re aware. It seems that switching to LMDB would require a re-import of Nostr events, which seems messy. I’m not sure what’s the correct path forward for Eggstr (aside from fixing the root cause in the BadgerDB connector and performing a migration of all Eggstr Haven relays afterward).
https://github.com/bitvora/haven/issues/80
https://github.com/fiatjaf/eventstore/issues/46

2025-06-04 18:10:02

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Apologies. They’re not supported. I just raised the minimum support requirements on the latest release. If your computer supports it, please upgrade to macOS 15, Safari 18, and Nostash 2.1.0.
#nevent1q…0h9m

2025-06-04 17:51:25

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Yeah, it’s paused. Sorry, folks. But I’m not giving up on it yet. My focus has been too spread thin to make meaningful progress on any single project as I’m doing all of this on the side. My focus is currently Damus and have a few exciting features lined up.
In the meantime, check out Aegis by @npub179e…0zj8 which has been getting some traction as an iOS signer and adoption amongst some Nostr apps. I think their UX switching between apps looks pretty good. But there are limitations that can cause friction. Like adding reactions to notes.

2025-06-04 17:42:41

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Which macOS and Safari versions are you using? Yes, it’s Safari only.

2025-06-04 15:03:38

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Amazing.

2025-06-04 13:47:20

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🫂

2025-06-04 13:03:29

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That’s cool. The issue I have with AI is the need for validating its output. For all we know it could be 99% correct and get 1% of it wrong, and it’s easy to miss. But then humans could get things wrong too, so I don’t know.

2025-06-04 12:57:13

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Nice work and great write up!

2025-06-04 12:44:06

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Web of trust filters are probably the best way to deal with spam but some clients don’t support that yet.

2025-06-04 02:29:50

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Yes. Damus iOS web-of-trust thread spam mitigation work is underway.

2025-06-04 02:08:23

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I like this version of it. RIP, Chester.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjN-NGsRg9g

2025-06-03 23:49:30

Spacestr is awesome. MySpace 2000s vibe.
https://spacestr.com/

2025-06-03 22:40:06

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What are your thoughts on native signer apps, such as Amber (NIP-55)?

2025-06-03 16:42:11

I just released Nostash 2.1.0 to the App Store. I guess I lied when I said I wasn’t going to make improvements to the Safari signer extension.
- Added NIP-44 encryption and decryption. This means you can now use web-based Nostr apps that use new style DMs, private data, etc.
- Updated list of known event kinds so that users are better informed about what authorization requests they are approving or rejecting
- Updated list of recommended relays
- Inject extension earlier in the page load lifecycle
- Raised minimum system requirements for macOS + Safari (doesn’t affect iOS or iPadOS) because the extension was broken on the older versions and I don’t have time to fix them
Enjoy!
https://apps.apple.com/app/nostash/id6744309333

2025-06-03 12:45:45

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Add /admin to the end of the URL.

2025-06-03 03:04:26

Thoughts: Haven (via @npub196y…m0v9) is great. I feel like my Nostr setup received an upgrade because of it. My images and video get uploaded to my dedicated Blossom server. Nostr events are published to and read from my dedicated Nostr relays. Both of them are publicly accessible through my personal domain.
Eggstr is a hosted service so it’s not truly self-sovereign, but I’m too lazy to run a public web server from home or manage my own VPS on the cloud. Its one-click solution is fantastic. In theory, they could censor you if they choose but it seems less likely to happen than on centralized shared Nostr services. It’s also a step up from using my home StartOS server that can be connected to only by me via Tor when I’m not home, which is pretty annoying.
I do wish that the relay management tools were better (currently almost non-existent). And I do wish that the Blossom admin login used standard Nostr login instead of username and password (that is provided to me in plaintext) — but that might be a Blossom server implementation thing rather than Eggstr.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with all of this so far.

2025-06-02 21:27:56

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I can reproduce the issue. I’ve had no problems using Nostash on other websites that support NIP-07.

2025-06-01 16:59:32

Great idea!
#note1t24…hrhd

2025-06-01 13:30:09

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Nostur is great! But I met a few newbies in person at the Bitcoin Vegas conference that thought Nostur and Nostr were the same thing. Any plans on renaming? @npub1n0s…lahe

2025-06-01 02:04:23

Running @nprofile…wpz3
https://blossom.tyiu.xyz/2e4bc6983d318c043f630aa920ff3126a4dd1730853ebfaa1db5bcf7133f3968.jpeg

2025-05-31 19:08:41

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https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/3063

2025-05-30 23:43:27

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Yeah, they did it first. It’s a great feature!

2025-05-30 13:13:53

@npub1j8y…vrvg told me to buy Bitcoin.
https://i.nostr.build/55uXf9y9iipPl0ip.jpg

2025-05-30 12:31:13

GM. Nostash is now available on the Mac App Store (in addition to the iOS App Store)! Secure your Nostr private key and sign events on Safari on your Mac, if that is your browser of choice. Cheers. ✌🏼
https://apps.apple.com/app/nostash/id6744309333
#note1k5d…va06

2025-05-30 04:14:21

Now that I’ve announced this feature to #NosVegas attendees, I’m excited to announce it more publicly on Nostr!
I’ve recently opened a PR to add NIP-05 domain feeds to Damus iOS. You’ll be able to tap on anyone’s Nostr NIP-05 address on their profile to bring up a feed of all profiles within your trusted network (your follows and their follows) that have an address associated with that domain. The purpose is to help you build trust and discover communities by domain.
What does that really mean?
For organizations that provide Nostr NIP-05 addresses on their domain (such as damus.io and block.xyz) to only employees and self-owned accounts, you’ll be able to see a refined feed of profiles and content from your trusted network that belong to those organizations.
For organizations that provide Nostr NIP-05 addresses to customers on their domain (such as nostrplebs.com and primal.net), you’ll be able to see a refined feed of profiles and content from your trusted network for customers of those organizations.
I’m excited for you all to try it once it becomes available. In the meantime, I’ve included a screen recording of it in action below. Let me know if you have any feedback! As always, thanks for your support. ✌🏼
https://v.nostr.build/YiXDKASFwv202mnP.mp4

2025-05-28 19:40:38

Only @npub12gy…3jj5 will be brawling. Come on down at 1pm!
#note1a0e…edvw

2025-05-28 15:21:33

GM, Las Vegas! Drop by the Nostr Lounge at the Bitcoin 2025 conference for the Damus meetup today (Wednesday) at 1pm. @npub1fgz…jeck @npub12gy…3jj5 and I from the Damus team will be in our purple Damus shirts. Chat with your fellow Nostr and Damus community IRL, and come talk to the Damus team. We want to get to know you, get your feedback about Damus iOS and Notedeck, demo some new features we’ve been working on, and onboard you onto Damus if you’re new! See you soon! #NosVegas #Damus

2025-05-27 22:14:39

Already met a Damus user on my flight. Feeling bullish about Nostr as I submit Damus PRs and work on the Damus presentation for #NosVegas

2025-05-27 17:42:46

Next stop: #NosVegas
https://i.nostr.build/5YNCb5mWul31372s.jpg

2025-05-27 13:41:54

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You’re one of those crypto people, aren’t you?

2025-05-26 21:41:07

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> Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.
lmao

2025-05-26 21:37:29

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> I'd even suggest changing the NIP to make the author required for an nevent.
Agreed. There’s very few reasons why a client wouldn’t have the author if it already has the event.

2025-05-26 19:37:15

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All good things start with sharing an Uber with a Nostrich.

2025-05-26 18:26:28

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I think the actual answer is to fix the clients that are producing those nevent IDs without encoding the author or relay metadata of where it was published or found. I feel like it’s ok to say we don’t have enough information to find this event on this decentralized network because you didn’t provide it. That’s just my opinion though.

2025-05-26 15:04:46

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If it can’t be found on local cache, use the current user’s read relays and author’s write relays.

2025-05-25 21:46:55

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Noted!
https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/609

2025-05-25 11:26:23

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This.

2025-05-23 23:30:33

Haven’t used Windows since 2010 and it’ll remain that way.
> Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/

2025-05-23 13:51:33

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🫂 Always be learning.

2025-05-23 13:46:42

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Apologies for the misunderstanding, YODL. No harm done. Pull requests (PRs) are specifically for making contributions to the actual code. When you mentioned you wanted to open a PR, I thought you were adding that feature. I didn’t realize what you really wanted was to file feature request (which is done through a GitHub issue).

2025-05-22 23:15:57

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Maybe we’re in a simulation.

2025-05-22 11:14:46

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Aegis by @npub179e…0zj8 is another one.

2025-05-22 00:55:26

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When I have time! Which is not a lot.

2025-05-21 22:58:48

Nostash, the Safari Nostr NIP-07 signer extension, is now available on the App Store for iOS 18+! The Mac release is held up by Apple’s reviewers for various reasons which I’m attempting to resolve now. Kudos to @npub1tvq…krq4 @npub172y…g6ef and @npub162z…tdhy for helping me take screenshots for the release! I didn’t use all of them but it was very helpful to have a selection of images to choose from. Lastly, kudos to @npub19pw…jtwk for building the original (now unavailable) Nostore extension which Nostash is forked from. Please let me know if you have any feedback. I’m not adding any features to it but I am maintaining it, so if you have any bug fixes to report or code contributions to add, please let me know. ✌🏼
https://apps.apple.com/app/nostash/id6744309333
#note1v75…yr8d

2025-05-21 22:03:22

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Contributions welcome!

2025-05-20 22:52:43

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I’m good to go! Thanks anyway!

2025-05-20 18:53:18

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Looks great! I’ll do both. Zapped you and happy to help with the PR.

2025-05-20 17:57:29

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Thanks for looking!

2025-05-20 17:32:17

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Looks like 12.9-inch is also ok. The big new iPads are 13-inch.

2025-05-20 17:17:27

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https://testflight.apple.com/join/8TFMZbMs

2025-05-20 17:02:16

Still looking for help from someone who has a 13-inch iPad to take screenshots of Nostash.
#note1ffs…gde7

2025-05-20 03:36:10

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In before Nostur
- @npub18m7…q955 😏
#nevent1q…h7dj

2025-05-20 00:24:07

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That’s a Nostur issue then. @npub1n0s…lahe

2025-05-19 23:49:38

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Damus hasn’t implemented outbox yet, so it shouldn’t be doing anything with the outbox relays that you set in the other app.

2025-05-19 17:31:20

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Yes please. Happy to blur out stuff if you want. It’s less about needing that detail, and more just so that I don’t need to do any photo editing to get it to fit into the right dimensions and meet Apple’s silly requirements.

2025-05-19 17:29:15

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Both of you are rockstars. I’ll send both of you sats. @npub1tvq…krq4 Did you crop the screenshots? Any way I could send uncropped screenshots?

2025-05-19 17:25:47

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Thanks! I’ll fix that.

2025-05-19 16:15:32

Calling all Nostash users! I need your help to ship it to the Apple App Store. If you have an iPhone Pro Max (6.7-inch or 6.9-inch) and/or iPad 13-inch with iOS 18 / iPadOS 18 installed, send me thorough screenshots of the app and browser extension in action in light and dark mode. I’ll zap 5000 sats to the first person to send me the screenshots. If you send screenshots for both iPhone and iPad, I’ll zap 10000 sats.
Reason: Apple’s Xcode has a bug where I can’t test the extension in Safari in the Simulator, so I can’t take screenshots myself, and I don’t own the required devices.
#note1v75…yr8d

2025-05-18 14:32:43

My wife and I saw the beautiful ship, Cuauhtemoc, from Mexico and its crew docked at Seaport in NYC twice last week before their fatal crash into the Brooklyn Bridge last night that took the lives of at least 2 and injured 22.
https://i.nostr.build/LSBhY9QE5L1l1bZH.jpg

2025-05-15 18:33:34

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I got busy so it’s momentarily paused.

2025-05-08 23:44:25

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This is why sometimes I find more joy working on Damus than my other solo Nostr projects.

2025-05-08 12:21:53

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Newmarket?

2025-05-08 10:44:35

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Very cool idea. How does this work with nevent ids? Wouldn’t you need the full thing to know which relays to query in the first place?

2025-05-07 00:01:40

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Since 2015. One of the best companies to work for.

2025-05-06 23:59:21

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I don’t think it’s a bad idea to have more than one NIP-05 on the profile. That happens in practice quite often. I don’t know if it should be on kind 0 — it’s abused quite heavily by developers adding whatever they want on it. Maybe it should be a new kind.

2025-05-06 04:07:00

🌧️
https://v.nostr.build/LuDqjwvUOoSFVWOV.mp4

2025-05-06 02:04:58

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Absolutely.

2025-05-06 00:43:37

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💯

2025-05-06 00:13:13

Just published a Block Engineering blog post titled “Trust in Nostr NIP-05 Identifiers”. Check it out!
https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/trust-in-nostr-nip-05-identifiers

2025-05-04 16:10:14

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Is trout slapping supported?

2025-05-04 13:45:43

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https://github.com/tyiu/Yeti

2025-05-04 12:06:05

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Admittedly not much progress. I haven’t found time to work on Yeti in the last while. But I haven’t dropped it.

2025-05-04 12:05:17

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It has nothing to do with decentralization. Apple sandboxes its apps and limits background and cross-app activity, presumably for security and performance reasons.

2025-05-01 19:34:03

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What does debugging on iOS look like for the Kotlin Multiplatform pieces?