Nostr Web Client

It’s literally built like BitTorrent and it’s over 10 years in the making so it has tons of moving parts. But Pear Runtime is open source and is much easier to build on and obscures away a lot of the hyperbee, hyperswarm, etc stuff.

All the naming stuff is confusing as hell, but it’s slowly coming together in my mind. I think there was just a ton to build to get this to work and they built it in a very modular fashion and their naming convention opted for unique instead of intuitive.

What I can say is it does work. It is P2P. And I think it’s one of the most

Important things being built right now alongside #Bitcoin, #Nostr, and #Ai.

I strongly suggest not dismissing Pear.

Basanta Goswami 1y ago

I spent 7 months after college in 2021 without a job and learn as much about bitcoin as possible. Also discovered nostr and hypercore at that time.

I understood the entirety of what nostr was back then in 15 minutes. Bitcoin took a few months. I have been working as a dev for 2 years now, still have no clue how any of the things from Holepunch work. It has always stayed in my list of things to learn about, but for some reason, I just can't intuitively understand anything, no matter how much I try.

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Guy Swann 1y ago

It’s stupid hard to intuit what’s going on and I honestly think it’s because they create a new term for everything. It drives me crazy too. The dev I’ve been working with has had the same trouble but we’ve been dryer forcing our way through it 😂

Mafintosh though is basically responsible for the code/system that was built on BitTorrent that enabled Popcorn Time to stream directly from a torrent. And after that he realized he could actually rebuild BitTorrent to be live and dynamic.

Thats what all of this was borne from, and it fucking works.

Guy Swann 1y ago

That’s supposed to say “brute forcing.” There are no dryers involved in figuring out Holepunch 🤣