I'm a relay dev, now.
In the end, it was inevitable.
#orly
Discussion
welcome to the team!
having users is one of my wishes, having collaborators is probably above that in priority.
plus, anyway, i have got a new job that is going to involve a lot of front end and AI agent development, so i will have to dial back my level of work on #orly
i'm gonna finish building this zap-to-subscribe and "only visible to you" kind 1 messages feature in the next few days and then i'm pivoting to learning to do typescript/react dev for the job. that will be starting up in about 3 weeks time, and i want to hit the ground running.
idk if he'll ever reappear, poor guy has a bit of a problem with paranoia, but my friend who sponsored me to develop indra expressed the desire to build nostr relay tech as well, especially personal relay type stuff.
would be cool if he did pop up again, i'm sure he's still lurking
i do eventually want to complete indra as well. having a fully open, fully decentralized alternative to Tor would be amazing. screwing the spooks of their surveillance access is probably my highest ambition in life.
now that i know how to do NWC stuff, i even have the main solution for how to implement lightning parts of indra, at least, user keysend payments to open ephemeral micro accounts for anon proxy relay service.
towards the end of my time working on it, i also came up with schemes for working around the reliability problem of source routed onion packets, by making them fork and join across the network. so, it totally is a complete scheme for doing it. i tried to get a grant from spiral for it also, btw, they weren't interested. but maybe in the future i will get to the task, i can see it happening in a few years time even just by me stacking hard enough that i can stop the fiat mining and build on it. or even, maybe, if i can build up a RaaS business, just need a bit of client dev to create messaging, discussion, calendaring and document storage applications. so, obviously, you would understand then how i see gitcitadel in the picture.
I'm a fan of keeping the day job, to be honest. Frees you, intellectually.
Day jobs are underrated around here. 😂
If I didn't have a tech job, I'd go be the parish secretary. They've asked me, a few times, already, as they can't find anyone else who knows their way around the Church, the Community, and the Computer.
well, if i manage to build a basis for a profitable business out of my code then i get the best of both worlds. and other people who join in the work will have the same opportunity.
the local parish doesn't have much use for the programming skills and it makes no sense to pivot so far away from where your greatest efficiencies are.
We can just do collaborative PRs for various features and sort of chip away at them, extreme-programming style.
And then we can QA each other, which always helps.
I've always been on the team, really, but I have PR phobia. 😂
Need to start PRing more, nagging less.
the two requests you made last night were really simple to implement for me tho, more efficient to have me do it because i'm expert in the codebase.
but i will be super stoked to have someone else taking care of some of the work.🧡
my relay was not competent enough until a couple of weeks ago anyway. that happened because my fiat mine was nagging me to get into using AI coding agents, and then i practiced on #orly and quickly fixed all the problems.
so, it did have to wait for this. before this the codebase was a mess of bugs.