fiatjaf

https://nostr.technology

Public Key

npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

NIP-05 Address

_@fiatjaf.com

NIP-57 Address

fiatjaf@zbd.gg

Profile Code

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pyramid.fiatjaf.com

relay.westernbtc.com

relay.nos.social

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2025-03-18 19:36:50

Outside our little group here no one knows and no one has any chance to know all the things being created on Nostr, and I'm sure there are many folks that would be very interested if they knew.
We need more people writing about specific Nostr initiatives, such as the groups subprotocol, the git subprotocol, the community relays, the bunkers, the decentralized app store, the multisig signers, the highlighting, the photo sharing, the very private secure messaging subprotocols, the outbox model, the bluetooth offline inter-device protocol, the decentralized wiki and other stuff.
If you know how to write 3 words without asking an AI to generate text for you please do it.

2025-03-15 02:15:57

A person who reads is a reader.
A person who drinks is a drinker.
A person who walks is a walker.
What is a person who pees?

2025-03-13 19:25:03

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What clients could do is recognize these URLs at the time they're typed/pasted and prepend the "nostr:" prefix instead of forcing everybody to recognize them at render time.
Even the big platforms do it with URLs when you type just the domain name: they prepend the "https://" prefix (Twitter would famously add an "http://" prefix until recently and that would break some websites that didn't have an autoredirect).
It's common knowledge that we should try to put most of the work on the write flow, because it happens only once, while the read flow happens dozens, thousands, millions of times. That's what most scalable software end up doing.

2025-03-05 10:32:19

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I defer to this post I wrote in 2015 about CouchDB: #naddr1qq…67ph
But I don't think CouchDB is good for anything anymore since they got rid of the concept of couchapps instead of fixing it, then turned it into a boring and slow MongoDB copy.

2025-03-02 21:52:52

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It's hard.

2025-03-01 20:53:10

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And people thought 2 or 3 hours were a lot. I'm already imagining 8-hour podcasts becoming the new trend.

2025-02-27 21:55:43

In what circumstance should I be getting a SIGBUS? https://github.com/PowerDNS/lmdb-go/issues/40

2025-02-25 18:49:09

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What do you mean by finally? It's been an almost an year or more.

2025-02-25 16:50:15

I've deleted my Twitter account. Some days after my username was made available for anyone to grab (contrary to what used to happen traditionally). Some unfunny imbecile grabbed it and is now running free there making retarded posts while still trying to put out a facade of legitimacy. This is all fine, I don't mind, it's ok.
What really bothers me is that all the old tweets from people who had mentioned "@fiatjaf" in all past discussions now link to this new fake profile. How can they not index the mentions by any form of unique account id, but only by username? And then they allow people to freely change usernames and cause all links to break -- and someone else takes the old username and now all the links point to the wrong place.
Is this @npub1sg6…f63m's broken code that no one had the time to fix in 20 years or what?

2025-02-20 19:50:13

Where is the Nostr testnet?

2025-02-17 17:13:14

Every time someone shares a podcast it's a link to either YouTube, Fountain or Spotify.
For whatever reason I don't see anyone sharing RSS URLs.

2025-02-17 02:56:22

https://cdn.azzamo.net/89c543d261ad0d665c1dea78f91e527c2e39e7fe503b440265a3c47e63c9139f.png

2025-02-16 13:59:21

Wouldn't it be great if @npub1der…xzpc's and @npub1l2v…ajft's new podcast could be referenced directly inside Nostr? That way I wouldn't have to just allude to its existence and could make clear what I'm talking about instead of hoping the reader of this tweet will search for some vague name in a centralized canonical index of all podcasts.

2025-02-15 01:56:08

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2025-02-14 23:11:16

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If we get BIP-300 we'll have a Nostr sidechain where edits are possible.

2025-02-14 23:10:20

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Did you try the wss://algo.utxo.one/ feed? It kinda sucks to me but apparently that's because I don't like or zap anyone, other people have said it is great.

2025-02-14 00:18:32

https://mmalmi.github.io/learning-to-trust-strangers

2025-02-13 21:04:24

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This makes sense, @npub1zfs…w445.

2025-02-12 18:20:23

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Self-hosted is better, if I can run the server in a single-binary that doesn't require a database server.

2025-02-12 18:20:12

Except for Substack, what is the simplest way to make a mailing list that can also be browsed on the web?
No one is doing the Nostr Weekly Report, so maybe I'll start it.

2025-02-11 21:51:28

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SimplePool is the only thing you should use if using go-nostr.
On the next version I'll probably remove everything else and just leave SimplePool.
https://git.fiatjaf.com/nchat kinda works, at least serves as an example.

2025-02-11 19:58:14

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If you want strictly group chat that's kind of the the vision of https://flotilla.social/, but also works on https://chachi.chat/ today I think.
I would like something like that to also work in whatever app they already use too (i.e. relays that only some people write to and potentially only this same people read from), but it wouldn't be exactly like a closed group, more like a shared restricted feed, which is slightly different I think, such that it would fit better the microblogging model. Zapbox and Lockbox are some experiments to move us slightly closer to a world of weird custom relays that fit in automatically.
In any case most clients of today are not very close to enabling that. The exception is https://jumble.social/, but https://nostur.com/ and https://coracle.social/ are going there I think, and I heard https://damus.io/notedeck shares some of this vision and Amethyst is planning on joining the bandwagon too.

2025-02-11 18:22:31

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That argument applies to any paywall on the internet today, and yet they work reasonably well in most cases.
Even super encrypted private messages can be leaked and screenshots exist, that doesn't mean we should just give up and write everything in public.
Pirated music and movies can be easily found on the internet by anyone, and yet people continue to pay for these things.
In the case of Nostr, NIP-70 together with the conscience of the reader prevent the content from being easily leaked, but nothing is guaranteed, of course.

2025-02-11 18:07:20

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Can you explain what you think about it?

2025-02-11 15:02:03

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Then I went to pay using BTCPay and saw they supported payjoin, so I installed @npub1t28…nkzs's BullBitcoin wallet because I wanted to be part of the payjoin club, but when I tried to pay using payjoin there was an HTTP error somewhere somehow and I ended up paying normal. The payment appeared as confirmed immediately on the BTCPayServer screen, but Namecheap took many minutes, perhaps a block confirmation?, to actually top-up my balance, it was confusing.

2025-02-11 14:57:55

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Fixing your link: #nevent1q…fdwg

2025-02-11 14:16:23

I had bought domains on Namecheap in the past and paid with Lightning using their Bitpay integration. They also have a BTCPayServer but I never used that because it didn't support Lightning.
Today I went there to pay and Bitpay required me to do full KYC just to pay a small Lightning invoice.

2025-02-11 09:50:23

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I was expecting a trollish answer.

2025-02-11 02:39:15

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Why do you think that?

2025-02-11 01:23:52

posting this same note to both https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/ and https://lockbox.fiatjaf.com/ from https://jumble.social/

2025-02-11 01:10:26

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Yes it is.

2025-02-11 00:53:53

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Most relays already honor it, we're getting there.

2025-02-10 23:20:26

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This is a complete non-solution.

2025-02-10 23:07:01

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Well, that's kind of Barry's job to tell their subscribers, at least that's how it works in the current world.

2025-02-10 22:58:30

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I am not trolling.
I do think it would be good to have a system for identifying harmful stuff. It would be a nice workaround that would work today and I would definitely adopt it at https://njump.me/ because we keep getting reports from Cloudflare. I tried some things but they didn't work very well, so if you know how to do it I'm interested.
However the long-term solution is paid relays, community relays, relays that only give access to friends of friends of friends, that kind of stuff.

2025-02-10 22:27:13

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Relays have to become more whitelisted and less open, and clients have to implement outbox model and stop relying on 2 or 3 big relays, then we can just stop worrying about this.

2025-02-10 20:20:37

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Exactly, that is the idea.

2025-02-10 16:27:15

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Imagine if we had a protocol that allowed multiple clients to connect to multiple servers and get signed offers from people trying to buy or sell satoshis and then if one of these clients or servers was taken down everything else could still keep working?

2025-02-10 15:43:57

I've made this other relay now: https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/
First you have to set up a zap threshold, afterwards anything you publish there will only be shown to people who have zapped you at least that threshold in the past 3 months.
All the rest is the same as a Lockbox:
#nevent1q…dewy

2025-02-10 13:34:46

YouTube link for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbt3jL1Ms0w
#nevent1q…ept7

2025-02-08 19:05:15

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Em 1977 as propagandas do governo tocavam Pink Floyd.

2025-02-08 10:55:14

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OK, good to know. And I think that was a good choice.

2025-02-07 19:30:45

@npub1syj…f6wl one suggestion for https://jumble.social/ relay discovery stuff: get the relay sets we create manually and turn them into NIP-51 events (you already have the set names and relay URLs), then on the relay discovery page or somewhere else download these from people you follow and make it easy to click to try and save them.

2025-02-07 16:46:28

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This is going pretty well.

2025-02-07 15:22:28

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Where is the money coming from then?

2025-02-07 15:21:52

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@nprofile…nv28 is it in your plans to upgrade strfry for wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social eventually?

2025-02-07 15:18:05

How many "influencers" exist with more than a million followers on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram? I'm afraid the number might be unfathomably huge and growing at fast pace.
Who consumes so much "content" though?

2025-02-07 15:00:22

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In the beginning of Nostr we used to say it was impossible to have likes or follower counts every time someone asked for that "feature".
It remains impossible, kinda.

2025-02-07 14:57:10

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No, they're not interconnected nor integrated, they're standalone, independent servers.

2025-02-07 14:56:46

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Nostr is only Nostr if clients implement the so-called "outbox model". If they do that then there will never be pressure to use centralized relays.
Of course anyone can implement a thing that looks like Nostr but actually isn't, but at least we should have the definitions clear and prepare the terrain while we have time so anyone will be able to spot any so-called "client" that isn't implementing Nostr correctly if they come.

2025-02-07 14:49:11

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In the long run when people are not relying on a static set of relays anymore and people are publishing to smaller relays then delete will be much more reliable (unless you're being specifically targeted) because it will be too costly to do what you're doing.

2025-02-07 11:00:04

https://cdn.azzamo.net/9a2b9843e04e1d1426d82c6c6b6b343b994bc49009eb5d7732c822dc9ea80f58.mp4

2025-02-06 17:14:00

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What is the trick you use to make Goose answer you instead of just halting forever?

2025-02-06 12:26:11

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That was never introduced.

2025-02-05 23:46:43

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It offends me greatly that they don't have edits. Such a fundamental feature, it's even a PAID feature on X.

2025-02-05 23:43:35

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Oops, thank you for spotting this obvious, blatant and horrible bug. I've pushed a fix.

2025-02-05 22:39:00

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I actually started writing that command over an year ago.

2025-02-05 20:34:27

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How can I use a DVM?

2025-02-05 14:40:01

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5e0gcvU2JA

2025-02-05 12:53:41

Niche relays are coming.
#nevent1q…dmpn
Marlon Brando fans will be happy (if you get this reference @npub1jlr…ynqn will pay you 100 sats).

2025-02-05 12:50:03

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Please repeat question.

2025-02-05 00:56:49

We were so young: #nevent1q…2lxz

2025-02-04 22:53:13

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Yes, I do.

2025-02-04 22:52:25

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https://www.localfirst.fm/15

2025-02-04 22:49:58

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ssh doesn't work when there is an infinite loop in a process somewhere eating all the CPU and memory.

2025-02-04 22:45:05

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To be fair Nostr doesn't fix this by itself, there must be a general agreement on a standardized data model still.
If you give Nostr to these people they will immediately start creating their own proprietary event kinds incompatible with each other.

2025-02-04 20:56:52

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If it works they won't be able to see the note you're replying to.

2025-02-04 20:54:30

Why is Linux so bad at killing processes that are taking all my memory and causing my computer to halt?

2025-02-04 19:32:01

I made this relay: https://lockbox.fiatjaf.com/
Anything you publish there will only be shown to people you follow (they have to perform AUTH before reading).
If you add it to your NIP-65 list of "write" relays then all clients that do outbox should automatically start showing those posts to the people that follow you that you also follow right away.

2025-02-03 17:04:15

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I remember no.str.cr being the best relay out there 2 years ago, then it stopped working for a while. I thought it was gone forever.

2025-02-03 14:08:39

Flotilla needs bigger, brighter fonts.

2025-02-03 13:19:42

YouTube's algorithm is so great that it never ever shows me channels I'm subscribed to, but fills my homepage with videos from channels I've browsed in the past 3 days, including many things I've already watched, and completely forgets everything I've done before that. That's the amazing winner UX we should be aiming at!

2025-02-01 19:34:06

This was an interesting (but disgusting) podcast: https://changelog.com/friends/78, with 3 main points:
- there is no "default familiar pleasant normie-friendly" way to log in, so Nostr shouldn't try to pander to this nonexisting standard.
- the people in the podcast even talk about the risk of centralizing all your passwords on 1Password, but they cannot even consider the possibility of Gmail having access to all your internet accounts or even cutting you out from your own account without notice, which are things that can and have happened.
- there is some shilling of passkeys, but no one touches the issue of what happens if the user loses or breaks their phone, and then suddenly they lose access to all their accounts everywhere.
Don't listen or you may vomit.

2025-02-01 12:23:05

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HTTP has too many ways to do things.
For example, to communicate some data to the server you can use:
- subdomains
- URL paths
- URL query strings
- headers
- body (which can be encoded in multiple ways and supposedly you have to tell the server what you're using with a header)
And when you get a response you have to check these places for information
- status code
- headers
- if it's a redirect you have to make another request and repeat the process
- body (which can be encoded in multiple ways and supposedly you have to check the headers to find out, and yet it may be incorrectly encoded)

2025-02-01 12:07:07

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We don't need a NOTICE, what NIP-42 says is that the relay must answer with a CLOSED or an OK with messages prefixed by "auth-required:".

2025-01-31 22:39:09

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Makes sense now why @npub1fjq…leku has been saying all this time that clients do not implement AUTH properly. I think it's a big misunderstanding. His issues would all be solved if only he answered to all queries with the "auth-required" thing.

2025-01-31 20:34:44

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@npub1cxt…jp8g and @npub1w24…2wep were on it all along.

2025-01-31 15:32:27

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Encryption is cursed.

2025-01-30 23:46:21

Nostr:
- browse curated, niche and community relay feeds to discover stuff
- follow profiles you want and never lose them even if they're canceled by everybody
- use a frost, sgx or selfhosted bunker and do all of this from multiple microapps without risking your key

2025-01-30 00:14:12

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Can you help me get new friends?

2025-01-29 14:46:31

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Did you hardcode me to get errors again: https://aegis.utxo.one/e8e3dfcfe821c41acf81381c3804208ffb95ad0d7eecfaa4c79681e24f372a56.png

2025-01-28 19:06:39

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I sincerely believe we should nuke all DM and encrypted stuff from Nostr.
But if you want a more charitable answer then yes, it doesn't work with whitelisted relays.
It could work though if you match the receiver pubkey, which is available in the giftwrap, and accept any messages to that recipient.
You could also require PoW from the sender to decrease spam.
But ultimately the best solution is to have two pubkeys used only for encryption, one for the external giftwrap, another for the internal encrypted message, then you share the external key with the relays you're listening for DMs and then they can decrypt the giftwrap and see who is messaging you, then accept the message if it's a friend or WoT, or reject it if it's spam, or even send a message back (not from your key, just a random message) saying that in order to send you a message they must pay 10 satoshis (or something like that).
This is not a super hard fix, but very annoying because you have to announce these two extra public keys and share the corresponding private keys around, syncing them across devices -- but we'll ultimately have to do that anyway in order to be able to use bunkers, frost bunkers, musig2 bunkers, SGX bunkers, and also because it is a good idea to decouple encryption from identity.
See also https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1647

2025-01-28 01:30:41

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Whitelist-based relays are the only likely to be the only possible future.

2025-01-28 01:22:28

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Oh, I guess this must be because I thought bots were spamming njump.me a while ago and blocked b̶i̶l̶l̶g̶a̶t̶e̶s̶b̶o̶t̶ BingBot. Turns out it was just a bunch of bugs of my own creation, which I then fixed, but forgot to unblock the bots. Thank you for raising this now.
But sadly njump.me is not getting very much indexed on Google either. I used to be able to find most of the Nostr influencers like @npub1l2v…ajft and @npub1xts…kk5s by doing a njump-scoped Google search, but now not even that is working.

2025-01-27 13:35:52

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Sr Miljan
Calle Servicio 555
CH-8002 Hit, NV
Kachekhstan

2025-01-26 20:58:44

I wonder if these "introduction" posts with a nice bio and personal pictures aren't a fully-automated AI-generated scam to get zaps from Nostr enthusiasts.

2025-01-26 11:08:05

Never forget: #nevent1q…9y0j

2025-01-26 11:06:48

Some people are asking me if I launched a "pumpfun" on "solana". I didn't launch anything.
Luckily the scammer who owns the "fiatjaf" name on X is also denying it, but that person is not me either.

2025-01-26 11:02:11

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I wonder if we could rename all the Nostr entities with StarCraft names now. "event", "client" and "relay" are such bad names.

2025-01-26 10:58:45

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I love the Brazilian government!

2025-01-25 17:52:31

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Is NIP-60 going to change to support the new Cashu token mode thing?

2025-01-25 02:15:50

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Sorry but your meme is not a Nostr client.

2025-01-25 00:54:31

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None of these apps qualify as Nostr "clients" to me. I am using this term with a (more or less) strict meaning, not to say they are bad or somehow not "legit". Not all things have to be Nostr clients, in fact most apps in the world should definitely not be Nostr clients. And at the same time most apps in the world would benefit from Nostr logins or some other form of light Nostr integration, which seems to be the case of all these apps that were "kicked" (well, relaytools is different, it is a relay provider service, so not really a customer-facing "app" in any sense).
I have used Hivetalk many times and I think it is very good and I'm glad it exists. Same for Relaytools. I'm also glad that Wavlake has whatever the Nostr integration they have (I've not used it myself).
nostrapps.com is not a list of "good apps", it's a list of "good Nostr clients", the criteria for that is not super well-defined, but basically the app has to strive for interoperability with other apps, it has to have a reasonable spec -- preferably a NIP -- that allows others to build independent apps that will interface (view, create, interact) with those core elements, using Nostr relays and events for coordination.

2025-01-24 18:49:46

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Oh, that one.
I remember reading https://web.archive.org/web/20131119133718/https://moot.it/blog/technology/riotjs-the-1kb-mvp-framework.html

2025-01-24 18:47:22

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Also that Habla link there is not very nostric.

2025-01-24 17:46:19

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I'll pass it for @npub1jlr…ynqn to answer this.

2025-01-24 17:40:38

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Which one did you make?