alec

https://alecchen.dev

Public Key

npub1838rr4fykjz3fs0n5q8u7392guc4j5la9wh70tj20ycedxdr4cfscn2elu

NIP-05 Address

alec@alecchen.dev

NIP-57 Address

alec@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsrcn3365jtfpg5c8e6qr70gj4ywv2e207jhtl84e98jvvknx36uyckndhw6

Author Public Key

npub1838rr4fykjz3fs0n5q8u7392guc4j5la9wh70tj20ycedxdr4cfscn2elu

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Last Notes

2024-08-19 05:23:54

my name is arena allocator

2024-08-17 05:01:30

saw a video
gave me an idea for side project
start looking into it
find someone else who's done something similar
they have a sick demo in the browser
click on their website
the dude is the co-founder of figma and created esbuild
just an average day on the internet

2024-08-10 18:17:16

https://www.rfleury.com/p/more-languages-wont-fix-the-computing

2024-08-08 23:36:17

i’m trying to tame complexity but complexity is taming me

2024-08-03 06:42:56

This is absolutely incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGMfQ1TDPA

2024-07-31 05:45:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrNMhTqy6gY

2024-07-20 19:28:29

happy international chess day everybody

2024-07-20 07:16:58

a nice thing about posting writing on a website as opposed to substack/social media is that you have much less of an idea of who is reading your writing. even if i don’t have much of a following on any platform, i still feel slightly influenced in the back of my mind by who i kinda know might be reading this. it’s freeing to not have that

2024-07-14 06:58:28

open-source seems to be growing all over. more businesses are open-sourcing things (e.g. AI models), open-source projects are becoming popular in more areas (e.g. Godot), projects are compensating people for open-source work (e.g. bounties, github sponsors), companies are using open-source as a hiring pipeline (e.g. tinygrad), and i’m just generally seeing more projects being more welcoming to contributors. so cool

2024-07-14 06:44:13

there is something uniquely satisfying about a tool working exactly how it was supposed to. i recently bought a new can opener after using a semi-broken one for a while. it was magical

2024-07-14 06:41:14

lots of interesting sections here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game

2023-08-04 19:42:23

Huh, so that’s what Rust enums were all along!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union

2023-07-26 05:31:09

Some more thoughts on pay-to-inform discovery: “internet-native payments give us a way to communicate value to computers” - not just communicating value to each other *through* computers, but actually *to* computers!
https://habla.news/u/alec@alecchen.dev/1690345721281

2023-02-17 08:16:03

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Haha nice 🤙

2023-01-17 09:21:08

https://helix-editor.com/

2023-01-08 06:04:08

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https://alphaama.com/

2023-01-08 06:03:22

hello from alphaama!

2023-01-08 04:47:27

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How?

2023-01-06 21:06:00

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Haha it worked! I posted this from my own hacked together (super basic) nostr client!

2023-01-05 07:14:36

This is the kind of content that will bring nostr to mass adoption https://twitter.com/greg16676935420/status/1610761062688690183

2023-01-05 07:14:21

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sigh wrong link my b

2023-01-05 07:12:41

This is the kind of content that will bring nostr to mass adoption https://twitter.com/i/lists/1468436435372060672

2023-01-05 04:01:24

it’ll be cool to see the self-custody solutions that nostr leads to. the more the merrier!

2023-01-05 03:02:37

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Nice, it worked this time

2023-01-05 03:01:49

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "alecchendev"

2023-01-05 01:16:14

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update: merged!

2023-01-04 23:35:58

I keep thinking about one concept I saw recently: “the internet didnt have a native currency so it used attention instead”

2023-01-04 21:54:08

https://opensource.guide/getting-paid/

2023-01-04 21:53:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmoUSSVSV7I

2023-01-02 20:52:37

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

2022-12-28 04:06:50

i can’t believe butter and candles are made out of the same thing!

2022-12-25 22:37:41

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🔥

2022-12-25 20:07:14

This would be cool built on nostr https://plasma.typedream.app/

2022-12-25 06:00:35

Merry Christmas in central time! 🎄

2022-12-25 05:52:42

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Oh lol I see

2022-12-25 05:51:35

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PITA?

2022-12-25 05:48:47

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Seems like deletion event can apply to any other events: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/09.md

2022-12-25 05:41:00

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cannot believe you just said that

2022-12-25 05:37:53

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Sort of? On certain clients you could post a delete event, but technically there’s no way to enforce that relays actually delete them from what I understand (at least atm)? Last client I knew that you could do it on was damus web but that’s down right now - someone pls correct me on this if I’m wrong

2022-12-25 05:34:49

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Yea. 🤙

2022-12-25 05:33:50

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You too!!

2022-12-25 05:32:46

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🤙

2022-12-25 05:31:20

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woa

2022-12-25 05:27:36

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hmm.. was paid a while ago but I got the second notification on blue wallet (balance didn’t update to have been paid twice tho) hoping you didn’t accidentally lose some sats!

2022-12-25 05:22:23

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#[1] has become a volunteer nostr help/support team for beginners and it’s awesome

2022-12-25 05:20:40

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good to know at least one other person out there

2022-12-25 05:17:32

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its interesting tho because the number of relays that show up in settings are less than the total count, at least for me. P sure I added the total number of relays, but some of them were incorrect urls so they stopped showing after restarting the app

2022-12-25 05:15:49

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Maybe is it just a difference between clients..?

2022-12-25 05:15:15

anyone else always have nostr autocorrect to nostril

2022-12-25 05:14:41

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Is that a good thing?

2022-12-25 05:13:29

How do you reply to a note without it showing as a quote reply?

2022-12-25 05:12:41

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So true.

2022-12-25 05:08:04

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Merry Christmas!

2022-12-25 05:05:33

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prob one of the things I’m most curious/excited to see from nostr are the tools ppl build to enable ppl to more easily solve the discovery problem themselves

2022-12-25 04:57:29

Feels like global feed is going nuts rn and its a ton of fun

2022-12-25 04:54:50

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you might not always know, but by connecting to many, even if some are malicious you are able to maintain control over your data through the other relays - at least that’s how I understand it

2022-12-25 04:51:41

My favorite Christmas website: https://zombo.com/

2022-12-25 04:49:17

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That it lets you own your data without running a server!

2022-12-25 04:47:41

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Hey, there!

2022-12-25 04:44:32

🎄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wm6vy7yBNA

2022-12-25 04:36:22

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BlueWallet, HD is an interesting feature although it’s definitely in most wallets these days! BlUeWallet also has bLuEtooth! lnbc5u1p3605jkpp5333y05yw47l9jkddlyptxt7r63g054cjnuzs7y5vzv4quzyfmaasdqqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp5qn5yyavfdzhunxpwk6n8jfxm6489c5lj5w4x8wlgz23clny4vvss9qyyssqpc4qde4rsunq5sg52gvjsfrxnmln40y3zxdfyh5rdjdrgvthgpcjprqmezr554pq5kkjgthwp4z5etl6tetkz00kgmplv3m6nxk5d6spz8ru8t

2022-12-25 00:44:07

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🤟

2022-12-24 08:52:49

The coolest thing about nostr to me is that it enables you to own your data without making you run your own server.

2022-12-24 02:06:52

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darn, I guess a lot of people must be paying them

2022-12-24 01:58:37

Wish there was a search engine that used an LLM to interpret what I’m looking for, *then* surface results. Sometimes want direct sources for something ChatGPT can answer well, but Google can’t figure out what I’m actually looking for. When is Google going to implement this #[0] what are your thoughts on this?

2022-12-24 01:54:22

So what’d everyone get for Christmas? I’m in a different time zone so it’s already Christmas morning

2022-12-24 01:48:18

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🎄!

2022-12-24 01:44:31

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Seeing this around: https://no.str.cr/verify.html, also this if you want to use your own domain: https://nvk.org/n00b-nip5

2022-12-24 01:30:28

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Ah gotcha. was looking through the readme but not that particular section, thanks!

2022-12-24 00:47:59

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Hmm that makes sense. How would a relay know where a user may publish next? Maybe is that another event type or something

2022-12-24 00:31:28

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One clarifying question: do clients report back to relays the notes they get from other relays? In that case I could see it that the data could reach a large number of relays and you might not even have to have an overlapping relay in order to get your following’s notes. But probably introduces other complexity?

2022-12-24 00:30:04

If to get all the notes from people we follow we need to have at least one overlapping relay, would that mean if we follow a large number of people across different relays we’ll have to connect to a really huge relay pool? Is that a problem for clients?

2022-12-23 02:39:24

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As in doing the tweet verification first then posting a note on nostr right? That seems to be what I did..

2022-12-23 02:36:57

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Someone please add stickers to a nostr client (because of all the things the work on this is the highest priority lol), might’ve been weird to use smth like stickers on twitter but here we can do anything!

2022-12-23 02:35:35

Just discovered I can install other sticker packs on Signal, this is amazing

2022-12-23 02:32:57

#[0] seems like my twitter handle is not verifying, tried posting notes twice and on different relays, any thoughts on what might be the issue? Maybe I need to add a certain relay?

2022-12-22 08:44:54

dang this is cool https://astral.ninja/devTools

2022-12-22 06:59:34

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "alecchendev"

2022-12-20 06:38:03

opened my first PR on a lightning repo today! starting small: https://github.com/lightningdevkit/ldk-sample/pull/87

2022-12-19 08:10:49

hello nostr!