Silberengel

The beta version of the Alexandria library:
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/about

Our project homepage is: https://gitcitadel.com
Join our relay: https://theforest.nostr1.com/
Our Lightning wallet is: https://getalby.com/p/gitcitadel

Public Key

npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

NIP-05 Address

silberengel@gitcitadel.com

NIP-57 Address

gitcitadel@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs06gywary09qmcp2249ztwfq3ue8wxhl2yyp3c39thzp55plvj0sgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09u9qk63m

Publishing to

theforest.nostr1.com

relay.damus.io

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

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2025-05-25 08:46:41

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Ha ha, weird.

2025-05-25 06:50:25

Wish it were possible to get domain-based authorization for auth-to-write relays. So that everyone with, for example, a @theforest.nostr1.com or @gitcitadel.com NIP-05 could get unlimited access to the curated/paid public relays, and all of the cool features they offer, for a flat, discounted, yearly fee.
Or something like that. That would be so much more efficient, than me going npub-by-npub and paying. Tedious. And the fees are then so high, per npub, that it's not worth doing more than a few npubs.

2025-05-24 06:00:02

The only scarce things in IT are storage, bandwidth, time, computing power, and active human interaction. And only the later is highly scarce.

2025-05-24 05:55:08

Closed-source code is a liability, in the age of AI, because it passively encourages people to build an open-source competitor, rather than forking or cloning yours and keeping the commits in the history.

2025-05-23 16:40:21

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Oh, don't. Michael already dragged me into the frontend and now poor Nusa trails behind me with a mop and bucket because I'm such a noob.
They were asking for people who know COBOL at work and me like
https://media.tenor.com/0wdGZyE1670AAAAC/bye-felicia-hiding.gif

2025-05-23 14:47:26

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"as i see it, the biggest problem with strfry is the dev basically pops up out of nowhere to dump a release and then doesn't listen to anything anyone says about it, and they pay him a mint and he disappears again"
💯💯💯💯💯
I call it the Strfry Cargo Cult. Bizarre.

2025-05-23 11:48:13

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Yeah, I'm really made for testing. Totally fits my Software Quality Nazi persona.
I also finally feel less stupid for having my kids so young because I have a cool life, now, and lots of energy and mental focus. I live like a 20 year-old, in my 40s.
And my kids mow the lawn and vacuum the floors and prepare dinner. 😂
Don't interrupt, dears. Mommy is rage-coding.

2025-05-23 10:28:17

Love my job. Great company, great people, full-time homeoffice, but close enough to visit regularly, constantly learning new stuff, a lot of crossover with Nostr, now I'm getting a raise and they're paying for my test certification and put me on the AI project.
Very grateful.

2025-05-22 14:59:42

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Primary is our own NFDB, under wss://theforest.gitcitadel.eu and wss://thecitadel.gitcitadel.eu, remember? Along with the nostr1 mirrors. All four.

2025-05-22 14:56:48

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Ah, so I can add land to the fallback relays, that the search triggers, if I get AUTH going?

2025-05-22 14:54:04

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Too cryptic. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Wait, can we hook up a relay to Alexandria for a trial? Like #NFDB ?

2025-05-22 14:47:24

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🤔 Check Matrix?

2025-05-22 14:34:15

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I meant, to login as yourself, but read-only. Then you don't need to copy-paste your npub, you can type in laeserin@...

2025-05-22 13:22:32

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If you want to collaborate on one article d-tag, just have the client take the fork with the newest created_at, from within some community/relay or set a list of collaborators. Everyone has their own version, and you think up a scheme for which version is primary. Or you can have collaborators recommend their favorites. Which ever receives the most defers is listed first.
What you're describing is more wiki than longform article. You can include wikis in an index, like I did for https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=gitcitadel-project-documentation-by-stella-v-1 (those are all 300818 wiki pages with Asciidoc markup, not 30041 articles).
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/54.md

2025-05-22 13:15:21

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I prefer sharing to delagation, tho.

2025-05-22 13:15:02

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Addressable events have a kind in the 30000-39999 range and a d-tag and an a tag that looks like
["a", "<kind>:<pubkey>:<d-tag>", "<relay hint>"]
Indexes allow you to determine the order in which the content appears, but you also just show most-recent first.
I don't know, if that answers your question.
Simpler and cleaner than key delegation is to have a shared key, like we have for @nprofile…f9se , and use that for the index.

2025-05-22 13:05:29

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🫂 Like when you're on the theater stage and can't help get that fourth encore. 😂
Okay, okay, but I gotta go work. Let's code.

2025-05-22 13:03:27

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🤝

2025-05-22 13:02:48

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He's not gone, just focusing on his craft. He'll come back and help us, if we need it. ❤️

2025-05-22 12:00:53

Okay,
Alexandria's Universal Event Viewer should be able to find darned near everything you have access to, including on your mailboxes and localhost.
It will allow you to zap, comment, or react to _any_ event. Once we get the powerful #NFDB hookup from @nprofile…lfyt , the search will be even more juiced up and eventually semantic. 👀
You can jump from the results page to our pretty, clever viewers, other apps we have built, or to other apps we have quality-checked (such as Njump, Lumina, Wikistr, or whatever @nprofile…42tp dreams up).
It's out in a first alpha release for medScholar, but we're still testing and adding features, before putting it in https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.com .

2025-05-22 11:44:09

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This is my "developer npub".
I'm Stella and usually post as @nprofile…z53z . Welcome to TheForest 🌳.

2025-05-22 11:42:32

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Just read and write to wss://theforest.nostr1.com
You and @nprofile…kr47 are whitelisted on that relay, like all of #Purplekonnektiv. Just copy-paste that link into your client settings and remove everything else.
Then you can use the global view without getting a shock. 😂

2025-05-22 11:32:59

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She's back ❤️
#naddr1qv…f440

2025-05-22 11:23:32

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We used to have a Tacoma! It lasted soooo long.

2025-05-22 11:21:14

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Even the search boxes are cascades and stop when they find a result.

2025-05-22 11:18:50

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Our client usually only uses our own powerful aggregators. You can add in your mailboxes, and that's mostly it.
And, like, open and CLOSE connections, or just use HTTP, bro.

2025-05-22 11:15:23

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Always. My Internet totally sucks. 😂

2025-05-22 11:14:17

🥳
#nevent1q…8t4c

2025-05-22 11:10:15

Love the quality of the components . Art.
#nevent1q…8d9n

2025-05-22 10:21:19

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Ich habe Weimar im Kalender eingetragen. Bis dann haben wir Alexandria MVP und wir könnten über mögliche Features reden. And sehen was sonst wer wie macht. Ist wahrscheinlich interessant.

2025-05-22 06:23:00

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Each npub could also set a minimum amount, all the way down to 0 sats, or a maximum amount, all the way up to 100k sats.
That's the cost of having your ⚡messages show up in their thread, for the general public. Anyone who is not logged in, can only send zap messages. Anyone who is logged in, can do either, anon or not anon.
Those are like sponsored messages, but for any npub, and the money goes straight to the author of the event being zapped.
What do you think @npub149p…722q ?

2025-05-22 06:07:20

GM. Brainstorming in public, today.
#nevent1q…ypxx

2025-05-22 06:06:22

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This solves for advertising, as well. To advertise on Alexandria, you have to pay n amount to the npub who owns the thread.

2025-05-21 18:35:55

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Yeah, I often have the console open, from testing Alex, and then I switch to other webpages and it's just a flood of relays. This doesn't happen with us, because our relays are aggregators, and we always look at them first, and only check other relays if we can't find something or the person is logged in and has explicitly said for us to check their preferred relays.

2025-05-21 16:34:59

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No problem. Talking to you is helping me think this through.
And, another thing, is that all signers are also clients, and all clients are also signers. You could add a small, generic form to your browser extension, or to a native app, that just allows you to post the most-popular note kinds or replies, and then you could just write and interact from there, while reading from whatever whiz-bang app you're looking at. Just need to copy the ID of the event you're looking at.
I do this with my CLI, already. I write from Sybil, on my laptop, and read from Alexandria on my phone. Imagine if Amber or @npub1qdj…fqm7's signer had a kind 01 note and reaction form.
You could even include your favorite relay and just stick to that, to keep your digital relay footprint down. That's why I always like to read and write only to theforest, and theforest spreads my notes around, and fetches my favorite npubs, on the server side.
Do you ever think about this stuff @npub1wqf…qsyn ?

2025-05-21 14:06:07

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Mleku, you never know. Maybe our tickets will one day be the work that brings in the money.
😊

2025-05-21 13:58:15

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Nah, FOSS code is fair game. That's how it works, otherwise we'd all go broke giving tips and might as well switch back to licenses.
That said, I'm starting to burn out a bit, too, with Nostr+Dayjob and the chronic lack of sleep and excersize, so I can imagine everyone needs a break, at some point, and a chance to focus on the work that really brings in the money.
I'm also going to have to slow down, after MVP. We're all exhausted and feeling unappreciated and underpaid. I get it. It's been a long, hard winter, and @nprofile…5ckl has been a big help for us. ❤️
He's welcome to come back and pull a ticket, anytime.

2025-05-21 09:19:32

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Bitcoin isn't the best currency because NgU, it's the best currency because its issuance is steady, so that you can plan with it.
This is a trait that holds its value, even if the NgD.

2025-05-21 09:11:46

Nostr, AI, recession, mechanisation, cheaper cloud computing, and demographic decline will have a massive deflationary effect on advanced economies, in the medium term. There will be more and more goods and services chasing fewer and older people, destroying margins and driving down prices and causing interest rates _to fall_.
But many Bitcoiners aren't ready for that because their narrative is all about NgU, instead of also viewing Bitcoin as the best currency and sound measure. That's why some of them are freaking out and demanding a change in denomination, to create a faux, temporary wealth-effect. Turn every satoshi millionaire into a Bitcoin millionaire, with some rebranding.
And others encourage the US government to trash their fiat currency, to get the $ Bitcoin price to suddenly rise. But our purchasing power doesn't rise, merely because the NgU.

2025-05-21 07:06:22

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Merz is trying 😂, but the economy is done. Stick a fork in it.

2025-05-21 07:05:18

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Yeah, it's a classic case of rising prices curing rising prices, by crushing demand. We also cut our spending nearly in half.
They can take out more debt, but it won't help them fight deflation, as they can't find any projects to spend it on, and inflation requires monetary velocity.
And, since money in a credit-based currency is credit, they have to somehow get someone to take on the debt. But private people are going bankrupt and aging/dying, the population is tired of mass immigration, the youth buys cellphones instead of cars and houses, and companies are making like a 🍌 or also going bankrupt, so... who is going to spend that money?
They can park it with the billions leftover in the Corona fund. 😂

2025-05-21 06:51:08

Consumer-price inflation in Germany at 2,1%. Corona is finally over.
https://www.dashboard-deutschland.de/indicator/tile_1668694599167?mtm_campaign=dd-social-sharing
https://image.nostr.build/3668cb2c67603bb0b666be88d93d178f63308b5aa74ac58c8abe7d1a3f09c275.png
#economics #wirtschaft #deutschland

2025-05-21 05:24:13

When the Americans in your feed are all excited, but your Bitcoin chart is in Euros.
https://image.nostr.build/4897b0fcd5b348d72f264381155a95308dc98ebee26b5352139707486d83aa64.png

2025-05-20 13:14:35

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https://image.nostr.build/818f7ecabd11e1be1ebb95adc96e3a9d0a1a4b890ec54bd1d3819a4093207f9d.jpg

2025-05-20 13:06:44

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Our own apps, our own relays, our own search engines, our own archive, our own specs, our own AI, our own git server, our own...
THIS IS NOSTR, BITCHEZ!

2025-05-20 13:03:34

#GitCitadel is rapidly approaching the Nostr Singularity.
(That is the moment, when we usually only use our own apps.)
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1752/2843/files/lagertha2.jpg

2025-05-20 12:51:49

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I legit just went from one client to another, wrote down everything they did, that I like to use, and started implementing the whole list.
Alexandria is all really calm and sleek and quiet, until you open this viewer and it's like
https://media.tenor.com/Dml0yppD4voAAAAC/everything-mallory.gif

2025-05-20 12:42:17

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You're my breakfast dev poster. Always see you during first ☕
😂

2025-05-20 03:43:31

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Because we're all sort of anon and everyone speaks English, it's not readily apparent that we aren't all located in America.
That is actually a real selling point, for the protocol. Not everyone on the planet wants to be stuck using American products.

2025-05-19 20:26:21

Just realized that most of the Nostr devs I know of, now, are Europeans. 🤔

2025-05-18 09:05:11

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@npub13th…xzrh

2025-05-18 08:07:16

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Good question. I'll update the wiki page and post a link. Liminal also asked for an update.

2025-05-17 03:49:30

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😂

2025-05-16 22:03:03

We're the annoying, crunchy-granola, do-gooder, bleeding-heart, libertardian wing of Nostr. You should come to our side.
We have girls and cookies.

2025-05-16 20:43:31

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No, we have a heavenly plan to bring knowledge to the huddled masses. 😁
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=the-gitcitadel-blog-our-inspiration-3-by-stella-v-1

2025-05-16 20:38:38

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We have a plan.

2025-05-16 19:52:10

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I think nostr.build also had a grant and managed to actually launch from there.
And Damus. Say what you will, but Will actually seems to want to make legit money.

2025-05-16 18:40:44

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Sorry, wrong emoji. 😂

2025-05-16 18:39:38

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Because they don't want to micromanage them. Grant-givers aren't bosses and NGOs aren't businesses; they're charities.
Businesses need to be run for-profit, so that the market is the boss.

2025-05-16 18:27:55

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Not all heros wear capes.
https://media.tenor.com/zuHxuReOdpQAAAAC/federico-mansilla.gif

2025-05-16 18:12:41

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There's no one stopping other investors from betting on what they think is a better horse.
That is beside the point that grants lead to economic lethargy, when they're too generous or long-term. Humans need a sense of urgency, to stay focused and recognize opportunity.

2025-05-16 17:30:59

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Cosign.

2025-05-16 05:17:23

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I mean, the stuff that goes into the commit is good. There's a lot of work between initial prompt and commit, and it's not just prompts and writing the prompts is also a science.

2025-05-16 05:14:23

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Yeah, I just notice everyone happily vibe-coding and the stuff that comes out is garbage, but the stuff that went in was usually also garbage.
Reminds me of the website generators. They were supposed to mean that anyone can build a website according to their own ideas, but it turns out that most people's ideas are stupid.
I use LLMs, too, but the stuff that comes out is actually really good. Works smoothly, does precisely what it should and never does what it doesn't, has orderly, readable code and useful tests, etc. That's the prompt engineering part and that's just more engineering.
We just end up doing the same stuff, as before, but much faster.

2025-05-16 03:22:09

GM
https://image.nostr.build/f10ee6bde1615d68e8d56eb38289d3391beeb39780b4a7a6c7ac3768099c47a4.jpg

2025-05-15 17:44:00

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That's not even a dig, it's more an aspect of time spent and size of team.
The largest Nostr team (#GitCitadel) can produce the same sort of things, in the same time, in the same quality, as two devs working in full time. Or, as we do it, we can produce twice as many things, in parallel, in twice the time, because the efforts heavily overlap.
So, we can produce _and maintain_:
* Alexandria
* Sybil
* Aedile
* GitRepublic

2025-05-15 12:54:13

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Mostly, I just want the pretty flowers. Might also add a plum tree, for more flowers.
We have two big apple trees and a cherry tree, so I don't actually need more apples.

2025-05-15 12:23:47

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So excited to see y'all, again! 🤩

2025-05-15 12:18:10

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https://image.nostr.build/4889dceb4560438a41eadfafcbeb9ba6337ac0f70611e23da7df16b3d1a539e7.jpg

2025-05-15 12:12:18

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Yeah, but shit happens and I still ended up relatively wealthy and well-situated, and I don't actually care about money, so oh well.
But it cured me of thinking that anyone around me is more clever than I am, even if they are more intelligent and highly-qualified than I am.
I am sensible enough to surround myself with very sensible people, who keep me from turning my life into a total circus and who create a social safety net for me, and now I'm wise enough to know when to ignore them.
What I didn't appreciate, when I was younger, is how much sensible people like having me around. I always felt like a burden. Everyone so similar and then there's me, off being my Manic Pixie Girl self.
Manic Pixie Girls are fun and stuff just seems to happen, when they're around.
We can't all be sensible.

2025-05-15 11:39:07

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Yeah, it seems like a crazy idea, right, but we have a chestnut tree and an apple tree nearly two-stories high, in the backyard, because my BIL dug seeds in the ground 20 years ago, on a whim. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️
Fruit trees can grow from seeds. Who knew?

2025-05-15 11:20:04

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I married young and had kids young, before I was sensible enough to know better, as I lack impulse control. Same reason I bought Bitcoin and quit college to help build Nostr.
The combination of low impulse control and a bizarrely-low time-preference feels like a superpower, sometimes, to be honest.
In hindsight, I always think, Wow, that was a good decision. At the moment, everyone is like, Are you some sort of an idiot, or something?
80 IQ 🫡

2025-05-15 11:12:48

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Well, I vibe-rewrote your vibe-coded part and then hacked it and vibe-refactored it and then spent 6 hours going line-by line, manually, to get it to actually work and testing it, so thank you. Would have otherwise taken 16 hours.
It actually came out so nice that I might make it a separate component, to spare everyone else the same pain and suffering. 😂

2025-05-15 09:46:38

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Well, me, basically. 😂

2025-05-15 09:35:57

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Humans weren't designed to desire kids, they're designed to desire sex and the sex results in kids.
We're having to evolve to handle reliable contraception, and much of humanity is not going to make it.

2025-05-15 09:10:08

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The crazy thing about Nostr is that there's increasingly no qualitative or quantitative difference between the $500,000 dollar project and the $5,000 project, except that the $5,000 project admins take their laptops with them on vacation.

2025-05-15 08:56:08

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Close second. Try to keep up.

2025-05-15 08:54:27

*Reminder*
None of our efforts are financed by anything other than your zaps and our day jobs.

2025-05-15 08:41:17

You cannot out-sperg me.
#SpergMaxxing
https://media.tenor.com/yNkXK93GyHQAAAAC/nicole-richie-hair-flip.gif

2025-05-15 07:49:07

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That bunker sign-in is like butta 🧈

2025-05-15 07:46:50

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Of course, no prob.

2025-05-15 07:43:27

I'm looking forward to improving my work-work balance, this weekend.

2025-05-14 14:34:24

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A great mystery, indeed.

2025-05-14 14:29:45

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It's nos2x-fox

2025-05-14 10:18:42

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There's a GitHub button in the top menu.

2025-05-13 18:41:01

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The only confusing thing is that I get the message, even when I just want to look at notifications and don't need to sign anything. So, the message pops up, while I'm just passively reading stuff.

2025-05-13 15:52:34

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We could just use a 30040 index, actually. :thinking:

2025-05-13 13:59:57

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@npub1fhp…ds8n is having trouble signing with Amber (see above).

2025-05-13 12:14:50

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Since you can reply to wiki pages with kind 1111 comments, they can become sort of bulletin boards for that topic.

2025-05-13 12:13:15

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I actually like the kinds, as they're an easy way to find the relevant spec for some particular implementation (just search for all of them listing the kind number), and they allow numerous similar implementations to occupy the same space, without having to agree on a spec.
But the M space they occupy should be defined. Also, kind numbers only need to be unique _within a particular M space_, which means the devs working within that space need to keep a list of the kinds. Nobody needs to keep a full list.

2025-05-13 12:09:55

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Our wiki disambiguation pages will also be topic aggregators for events on TheForest.
That means, whenever someone uses #Alexandria, with a community relay, the wiki pages will perform that service for that relay. That way, you can easily find other people in your community, who are interested in the same topic.

2025-05-13 11:48:37

https://i.nostr.build/8agHDr3tp746QUHv.png
GM Nostriches,
here is a sneak preview of #Alexandria's new Nostr-flavored markup parser, that we at #GitCitadel have been working on. It comes with a suite of tests and so far, it handles:
* wikilinks
* Nostr-entities and addresses, including those within internal and external URLs
* clean hyperlinks
* Markdown, including footnotes and tables
* code blocks for all common programming languages
https://v.nostr.build/qRH8kllceVdhpqcP.mp4

2025-05-13 11:07:09

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Yeah, just saw it. That did help, thanks!

2025-05-13 10:04:06

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1. This is *not* plaintext.
2. This isn't either.
3. You can write `anything` into a textbox.
:heart:

2025-05-13 09:59:29

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It's Nostr-flavored markup, but it's based upon Markdown or Asciidoc.

2025-05-13 06:59:24

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We are. MIME types in the `m` tags and Nostr-specific classification in the `M` tags.

2025-05-13 06:48:49

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Aggregators are great for searching, but y'all be like
ReplyGuy commented on your note.
TheHiddenMind followed you.
CryptoBot reacted with a 😊

2025-05-13 06:44:35

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The spammiest ones I've been noticing are Damus, Band, and LOL.

2025-05-13 06:36:34

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They force-fruit them in hothouses and then they collapse in a normal environment. Nobody would buy them, without the pretty fruits, but it's actually too early in the year for fruiting.

2025-05-13 06:13:39

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Y'all are subscribed to a bunch of 💩 relays, sounds like. My global is just Christpill, TheForest, Nostr.Land, etc.