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fun idea I had on our notedeck standup this morning:

imagine running multiple apps at once, and then you click on middle click on a note:

notedeck could then ask all running apps to highlight the note in question. The apps could arrange in a grid view, with that note highlighted in all of the running apps.

Example: you click an event in your calendar, and the email invite for that event is highlighted in your mail app, people talking about the event is highlighted in your social/slack client.

An OS where there every app's data model is in a unified format... so many possibilities.

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average_bitcoiner 1y ago

aren't apps just "views" in this context?

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jb55 1y ago

yes youre describing the typical nostr client. They are just views into notes on relays. except in this case there is a local cached relay running on your system so everything works offline.

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jb55 1y ago

these apps are standalone and isolated code wise, the only IPC mechanism is the local relay. so they are more like standalone, interoperable apps.

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average_bitcoiner 1y ago

Ooooo. interesting. and JSON locally would be sufficiently fast and maintain interop with online

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jb55 1y ago

indeed. but it's not even json locally. it's an optimized, memory-aligned binary format that is always cached in virtual memory, and accessible by every app without any serialization needed. its fast.

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average_bitcoiner 1y ago

whoa. did you do custom serialization for different kinds?

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jb55 1y ago

no its the same for all notes

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average_bitcoiner 1y ago

any reason we couldn't/shouldn't use this binary format for netwrok transport?