I sometimes feel like we must be sorta crazy, to even try to compete with the projects with full-time developers and 6 or even 7-figure budgets.
Surreal.
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every day that people are still working on nostr im thankful. Thank you :)
We're thankful to be here working. 🙏 What a blessing, to find this protocol!
They have more to lose and have more of a rigid development structure. Decentralized development may not be the fastest, but our motley crew can explore wider and dive into things that would be too vague and risky for them.
They do often seem so harried, like they're coding while being chased by ghosts.
I'm loving the philosophical/scientific/literary direction we've taken. We have so much combined personal experience in that sort of academic realm. It's so nice to just keep the apps deceptively simple and let the content shine.
That harriedness is probably also why everything breaks so often 🤣
yeah, you make bad decisions when pressure is high
get really fast to one point and then have bugs that just don't wanna show themselves and resolve, even after a full month trying to find them
makes me damn near suicidal depressed
Gets to the point where you're questioning your sanity
Yup. Drowning in technical debt.
to be honest right at the moment i'm feeling like i am gonna have trouble resuming forward motion
i've got things i can do but i need to have the confidence that carries over to satisfying those who pay that i can do something valuable
in the last month i've probably done more effective progress than i did in the 5 previous to that, mainly because i was focused on actually making sure every part works before moving to more abstract things
I feel like that, sometimes, and then something will suddenly inspire me and I'm hacking like a crazy person. 😅
i will be on enforced break with this dinged up right arm for a bit but there's relatively more simple tasks lined up that i'll be starting next week, easy stuff, just aggregator code, need to learn how bluesky encodes its shit and where to vacuum its data from and how
and i'll be continuing to work on my rewrite of the nostr codecs, there's only like 5 more envelopes to do and a few other pieces and it will be ready to put to use
Get well soon, fren! Didn't know you'd been injured.
💯 I am very sure that they could build more reliable, stable systems. It's them responding to the extreme environmental pressure.
Reminds me of the dot-com boom. We were all being driven literally insane by the pressure to deliver faster, faster, faster.
It seems to be peaking, tho. Thanks in part to us.
Some have written about the successes of asymmetrical warfare. I think of this as asymmetrical development.
Yes, it's also very Nostr-y, as it's like a bunch of hyperintellectual volunteers. 😅 Such people are extremely thin on the ground, even if you have lots of money to spend.
People keep trying to hire me, IRL, and I'm like, don't have time. Have to go be a niche Internet celebrity and save the world with literature visualizations and social media physics.
NO TIME, WE ARE INVENTING MATHS.
The right path is rarely easy, but it is always the right path. It also tends to be a more gratifying ending.
It really is. It's all so... profound.
