Alex

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npub17afya0s3re0f6t246az8vrzgguywdn6ea2p7dv9kn744kkyxxs3q2hjmzg

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alex@awhb.dev

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hbr.coracle.social/inbox

relay.damus.io

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2025-03-06 17:56:30

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Looks awesome! Nice work!

2025-03-01 23:49:10

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Cool idea. Probably wouldn’t be too hard honestly. Just have to write an app that watches for new markdown files in whatever directory you write your notes to.

2025-01-28 04:58:41

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Very cool! Thanks for the link.

2025-01-28 04:43:27

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This looks awesome!! Thanks for the link! Might spin it up myself.

2025-01-25 23:21:40

How many relays is too many? Do you think there’ll be a point where mini relay networks become prevalent enough that we need some sort of caching relay that essentially just sits and pulls from all your relays and compiles that data into a super efficient dataset for you to consume?
#asknostr

2025-01-24 05:19:49

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Awesome. I appreciate the recommendation. Will check it out for sure. :)

2025-01-24 05:18:14

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@npub1m5s…gjl3 Finally got around to posting my blog stuff on Nostr using the NIP 23 spec. Thanks for pointing me in that direction. Super cool! I still need to configure an automation, but I wrote a parser/posting system in python, so it shouldn’t be too hard to do.

2025-01-23 16:04:06

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Love it. I’ll give their podcast a listen

2025-01-23 16:02:38

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I missed a few bits and peaces in there too. But totally agree. He’s definitely been all over the place on his podcast. 😂 but the core is alway bitcoin.
I’m actually not familiar with max and Stacy. I’ll have to check it out. 👍👍

2025-01-23 06:46:46

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Totally agree

2025-01-23 06:46:30

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He’s arguably the best bitcoin advocate out there IMO. Him or Micheal Sailor. Breedlove was the person to orange pill me.

2025-01-23 06:40:59

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Welcome man! Glad to see you here. I like your YouTube content.

2025-01-23 06:32:23

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Yikes!!! Let’s hope people take this seriously.

2025-01-22 20:27:39

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It’s pretty crazy that this is in anyway controversial.

2025-01-22 16:57:19

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Hahaha Never! I honestly haven’t used it, but I’m sure it’s awesome. 🤩 PHP has become an awesome language though in recent years, so if I do some full stack web dev I’d consider using it.

2025-01-22 16:54:34

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You’re ambitious. That’s awesome! Ya I think Spanish is super practical… I wish I was more motivated to learn it. 😂 I’ve been learning German for like 8 years… but don’t equate that to being fluent. Just inconsistent. 😂

2025-01-22 16:46:14

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Awesome! I need to get back on there. Staying consistent is by far the most important thing in my experience.

2025-01-22 16:40:20

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Nice! What language?

2025-01-22 16:12:35

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Good… let those corrupt people have to move to an incurable money. 😂 let’s see how it works out for them when they can’t rig the system.

2025-01-22 02:03:44

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I love this idea. Super cool… and doesn’t sound too hard to implement. I can probably write a GitHub action when I deploy to my main branch. I already have that working for my blog deploy which is just parses Markdown files.
What clients currently support this NIP type?

2025-01-22 01:07:25

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Ahhhh I love it! :) Honestly it’s already mostly there for me at least. I do wonder about my more non technical family members, but I think we are quite close.

2025-01-22 01:06:24

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Oh I love that. I’m still new to this whole eco system, so still warping my head around what’s possible and such. I’ll certainly keep my site up, but I’d love to auto post into here. I think that’s a super cool idea. How do you suggest going about that?

2025-01-22 00:49:53

Wrote a new post on my journey so far on trying to reduce my dependence on “Big Tech” and take back my data sovereignty as much as is pragmatic:
feedback and discussion welcome.
https://www.awhb.dev/blog/de-bigteching-my-life

2025-01-22 00:48:00

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Totally know the feeling. Makes it a lot harder to diagnose issues when they are inside binaries that you don’t really have visibility into.

2025-01-22 00:47:09

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Hey @npub19af…v28l I decided to write a post on this topic for anyone else looking to do the same thing. Please let me know if you have any comments / feedback. And I wish you luck on your journey to data sovereignty. :)
https://www.awhb.dev/blog/de-bigteching-my-life

2025-01-21 22:28:24

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Oh ya I actually took a quick glance at that yesterday. If I was writing something I wanted to be production ready… I’d totally go for that. I do feel a bit apprehensive using python libraries that are non native to python when trying to learn something new, however. Simply because it’s harder to debug and understand all the little details, that being said I think this is probably the right way to go if you’re building anything other people will use. I also really love rust (not that I’m good at it).

2025-01-21 22:17:03

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I’m super out of the loop. What was he convicted of?

2025-01-21 22:05:39

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Good lord. You can offend people with anything now days. 😂 btw I have the same shirt. 🎉

2025-01-21 21:52:36

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😂😂😂 I love that. My people.

2025-01-21 21:45:16

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Totally mis gendered you. Couldn’t see from the little profile pic. My apologies. An exciting time indeed

2025-01-21 21:38:08

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Ahhh would love to. Give me a bit and I’ll dive into the details when I have a bit more free time

2025-01-21 21:25:33

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Thanks man. Happy to. What an exciting new era we live in

2025-01-21 21:00:02

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Thank you! :) happy to be a part of such an exciting new technology

2025-01-21 20:58:39

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Awesome!!! Definitely going to do this! Thanks for the tip. 🔥

2025-01-21 19:57:35

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Haha! Thank you. Glad to be a part of the community. :)

2025-01-21 19:50:22

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🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ I had a feeling that was the case. 😂 NBD

2025-01-21 19:40:29

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HAHAHA totally agree! It was certainly one of the most profound things I’ve ever stumbled across. Super excited to be in the community. I really do believe that this could change the world.
How about you.. how did you get involved in Nostr?

2025-01-21 19:36:43

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Could not agree more. I feel like we are feeling how it must have been for early adopters of the internet… like you know this thing is going to change the world, but it’s still early days. Super exciting to see the future.

2025-01-21 19:32:53

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Ha… funny story.. about 2 months ago I got obsessed with the idea of “de big teaching” my life… It became incredibly concerning to me how much of my identity was out on the internet and how much data these big tech companies have on me. So I began looking for ways to self host as much as I can and go with much more privacy centric services for the things that still make sense to have on payed for services. Additionally I’ve been hard core into Bitcoin for the last 4 or 5 years.. so I’ve been down the Web 3.0 rabbit hole a bit… So I actually think I asked chatGPT if there are any decentralized social media platforms… and I believe that’s how I discovered Nostr. And the idea just kept blowing my mind in different ways over the last month or so. It weirdly has captivated me wayyyy more than any of the other alternatives… I think because the protocol is just so much bigger than pure social media. I can think of dozens of amazing applications for this network.

2025-01-21 19:16:06

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I also agree with your perspective on the user side. I think not only that… but average people are still writing their password as “Password”… so to have them managing a public private key pair seems tricky. Maybe if we can figure out a way for that key pair to auto sync with Apple Passwords or Google Passwords or whatever for the people who don’t use password managers might help. Or maybe create some sort of way of translating a password into a public private key pair so the known UX can still happen. Just some thoughts.

2025-01-21 19:13:04

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I think the no complete onboarding resource for devs is a big one. I think there should be more links at the very least to the community maintained libraries for each language. I think the NIPs are simple enough… but because we are using somewhat esoteric key generation… that definitely adds some cognitive overhead. It’d be cool to have a basic starter project in a few different languages. Here’s the one I was working on over the weekend that helped me understand the implementation details a lot more: https://github.com/alexwhb/nostr-client-python-learning

2025-01-21 19:00:12

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Thank you. :) my pleasure. Cool to be a part of this community.

2025-01-21 18:14:45

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Could not agree more. It also has a lot more infrastructure around it and a freaking cool community. I’ve looked at some of the others… and they just never clicked with me.

2025-01-21 18:13:20

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Ahhh thanks so much. I am in the process of setting up my own BTC lightning node. Hopefully should have it up this week. :D

2025-01-21 18:12:35

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Thank you. :) Super happy to be here. Such an exciting time.

2025-01-21 18:11:54

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Hmm… that’s such a good question. I think from a dev perspective just having more libraries built out on different languages is going to be a big one. I was writing some Nostr code the other day in Python just to understand how everything works at a lower level… and it was difficult to get things working initially because the one library I found was in kinda a weird unmaintained state.
From a user perspective… I feel like the public private key idea is going to be a bit tricky to get my parents and siblings to understand. That being said.. once they do… I think they’d freaking love it.
what about you what do you think is still lacking? How can it be improved from a user perspective and otherwise?

2025-01-21 18:07:45

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Oh I love that framing. When it really clicked for me was logging into a podcast app with my Nostr private key and having my identity synced… That’s such an insane feature. You can essentially have a digital identity follow you on public, and private networks. 🤯🤯

2025-01-20 17:56:21

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Download it! Loving it. Thanks for the recommendation

2025-01-19 00:49:00

I’m getting really excited about all the possibilities that Nostr brings. Just wrote a blog post on the topic here:
https://www.awhb.dev/blog/nostr-how-it-could-change-the-world

2025-01-08 17:15:43

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I noticed the same thing. Could it have to do with the relays you’re connected to?