super proud to get in this before it's a year in (been working on nostr stuff 3 months now)
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Yeah, that's why I tell my bros to just keep building and writing. Stay calm and type.
If Nostr is really going to make it as a protocol, everyone who learned to use it and build with it is going to be ahead long-term, regardless of how their current project turns out. This is like learning to make webpages and applets in the 90s.
I know because I was there.
i'm very happy to make it my specialisation... i have a lot of experience designing an experimental anonymity protocol and i think with that i can solve the instant messaging privacy part of this protocol... which sorely needs to be sorted out, and also maybe the in-band micropayments and maybe what you can call "microsubscription" schemes that are needed to enable spam-free multi-hop routing of messages, critical to metadata privacy
for now what i'm focusing on is building a userbase outside the bitcoin community so a bigger pool of resources is going into building that skillset for devs that have got into this, i'm even training one guy in my current work as a part of my job, how to write good quality #golang code
We just got our apprentice to come back, so I'm in a good mood because I get to mother someone like,
Okay, have you set up your VM?
Next, we will set up your SSH agent and install git...
yeah, i'm getting to quite like it, i'm not really used to the idea that i'm someone who has authoritaah but i have a lot of knowledge and it's cheap to replicate! had a really nice session the other day, taught my apprentice a heap of the tricks with Golang syntax and how it makes for far more concise and clear expression than any other language.. which is what makes me happy doing the work... IMO too few people understand why Go is the best, and i get to at least introduce one person to it
I think it's the sign that we're now senior team members. It actually takes a lot of knowledge and experience to be able to train someone without crippling your own productivity.
It isn't fun to do until it isn't hard to do. Like with everything, I suppose.