But isn't it better than the current page (which kinda sucks... :( )?

I want you to know I spent a considerable amount of time trying to remember what 12 was. Five gold rings, of course, and the partridge in a pear tree. I refuse to search on the internet for that. After that I thought about the length of the festival in general, and might pick that up later. It is similar to Hanukkah. Is there a bible verse I should know about?

I respect your journey.

Happy New Year

Newyear and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays, 2026 edition

Is it possible to use nostr for a monthly paid private community?

Is Coracle really the only Android client that supports bunker login? That just seems silly. I appreciate the Amber login in Amethyst and Primal but paste nsec only otherwise? Not good.

Zap 25K to nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyvhwumn8ghj76rzwghxxmmjv93kcefwwdhkx6tpdshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0sadgdk

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Just 4 Nostr devs, doing their thing, that need more recognition for their contributions.

There's more to this list. I'd need about 500K to thank more though. These are just 4 that can't to mind immediately.

Show me how you could easily use rxjs observables in it and ill be sold.

I played with SolidJS for a while because it was super easy to integrate observables in the components just by doing `const active = from(accounts.active$)`

And for react I've gotten it down to as simple as `const active = use$(accounts.active$)` or `const events = use$(() => pool.subscription(relay, ...), [relay])

Show me how you could easily use rxjs observables in it and ill be sold.

I played with SolidJS for a while because it was super easy to integrate observables in the components just by doing `const active = from(accounts.active$)`

And for react I've gotten it down to as simple as `const active = use$(accounts.active$)` or `const events = use$(() => pool.subscription(relay, ...), [relay])

Yeah sveltekit is a pain. I got it to work, but it's kind of arcane. Mithriljs doesn't have any ssr crud since development stoppd in 2017 😂

I've been wanting to use something like svelte for a while now because its components are cleaner than react, but its got the same issues. I can never figure out how to completely disable the SSR and its always throwing "window not defined" errors 😞

Anyone building a Slack replacement on Nostr?

No, not directly, but npub.world shows decent ecosystem stats, now that they have some data & they're people search works really well.

ants.sh works for other searches, albiet not as plainly as a typical search engine.

By-user metrics are definitely harder to find now... but I'm okay with that. Those stats were always incomplete from incompatibilities anyway.

So regarding your last sentence, yes we are incentivised ofc but this is where I defend optometry

Your eye development is mostly complete when you’re 8 years old and there is still some change until you’re 18 or so. So no matter what you do really, the trajectory of your vision is essentially set in stone

Furthermore glasses aren’t like a drug or a crutch.

They aren’t like a drug because the prescription itself does not reflect the quality of your vision. It reflects the quality of your vision vs what’s considered the standard but…—> fundamentally your quality of vision is what you can see with the sharpest prescription given to you —> some people could have a small prescription and terrible vision with or without glasses. For example a blind person’s best vision may be achieved with simply +1.00 but the issue is the health at the back of his eye to where the light is being bent —> Glasses are like a telescope, they bend light onto the part of your eye that is most sensitive to seeing, this is called your macula and it’s the quality of this that’s important. This is basically all determined genetically

They aren’t like a crutch because there’s not a large amount of muscle needed to see. It’s mostly due to the shape and liquids of the eye and once you’re older than 40, the few muscles involved start to wane more and more anyways. You wouldn’t miscorrect a telescope to protect the magnification inside and likewise you should wear a fully corrected prescription. The potential protecting of muscle is negligible.

Also some people think glasses make their vision worse but they may not have realised how bad it was before they got them. Even though this sounds salesy I fully stand by it and everything else

The degradation of your near vision in your 40s is called presbyopia.

Some people in their 40s don’t need any glasses because their eyes are NATURALLY a bit short sighted but only a bit so that they don’t need glasses for far away. There are a few other minor exceptions. But once everyone turns 60 and the presbyopia gets worse, basically everyone needs them

Anti reflective coating can help but it’s not necessary unless it’s +-3.00DS imo or if you struggle night driving. It’s important to know anti reflective coatings only reduce glare that originally comes from the lens, not glare fundamentally

UV filters definitely reduce the onset of cataracts. People who use sunbeds have a much higher chance of developing pre mature cataracts due to UV exposure. However cataracts are an unserious condition and there may be negative consequences to not being exposed to UV…that I don’t know

Other filters put on lenses are usually chosen by the patient - tints, polarising, transitions etc and nothing to worry about.

I think blue light filters are a scam btw, too many leaps of thought and so so little real evidence. The best thing you can do for your mind and eyes is to just turn your phone off when it’s dark lol

Honestly the simplest advice I can give you is wear glasses when you need them and don’t worry too much about anything else. I’d be very healthy conscious about my diet but don’t sweat the small stuff when it comes to your eyes. :)

Happy to ear you like it.

The profiles definitely have a bug, which appeared after the cache was added. I have to find the culprit.

The slow feed update of the feed is also (ironically) related to the cache, perhaps the last version improved it, but the fix battle is not ended yet.

nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn any thoughts about Solid.js, compared to Svelte?

A very good question to which I have no answer. There is no stable solution. Institutions will always tend toward capture, convivial tools will always face cultural erosion, and the best we can do is build things that make the cycle slower and less catastrophic.

Oh, thank you very much for the offer, it's an honor! :) But I must politely decline, public speaking in podcasts and at conferences is not for me, but maybe that will change in future when I finish my anarcho-convivial study!

btw, Illich was a genius. His ideas answered many of my philosophical questions. I am not surprised that he is not so well known, that we do not learn about him in schools - because he predicted very well where today's "democracies" are headed and that its irreparable.

Hi! That's a good idea... ! But I need to research more how Nostr has changed in the last few months, new NIPs and tools like frostr ... but then I'll be happy to write

Bitcoin, Nostr and other useful open-source software can be defined as "convivial" technology

Can you imagine a better way to solve this issue? My rationale behind this is that users agree beforehand who are going to be the state custodians, who at the end are the ones responsible for keeping the state coherence. The creator of the state machine is not transcendental; for example, if we both are going to participate in some sort of process, contract, or any other thing modeled by a state machine, we can both be state custodians and have the same responsibility. The creator doesn't matter at this point. Unresolved forks are a risk, but I think this model correctly places the responsibility on the participants, the state custodians, and does not enforce any specific requirements. I see these state machines as a way to define an agreement declaratively with all its possible states and conditions. This is a low level primitive to build things on top, and requirements for specific use cases like strong security of the state and dispute resolution should be application specific

To define what kind to use. I didn't consider that polluting the kind list was a good idea specifically for an event that might have very different shapes as every state machine state snapshot might have different shapes, and picked the only agnostic kind in nostr for the only replaceable event defined in the spec.

do nip17 clients handle threaded replies?

We are running a version of keycast at login.divine.video. I don’t think custodial keys are something most nostr users would like to use. And I think it’s vital that any nostr app works with non-custodial keys. The goal is to make it easier to onboard users. Think of it as the bitcoin exchange that bridges to tradfi.

We generate a bunker url so you should be able to use the custodial key to access most nostr apps. And you can take your key and ask the service to delete it. Yeah you’d need to trust the keycast server operator to actually delete it and not use it. But this is the same thing users face in any service that uses traditional non-key based accounts.

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what is keycast?

That’s a really good framing. Unlearning the zero sum view of energy is huge. I wonder how much of that mindset comes from the industrial model of work, the idea that effort always drains instead of enriches. What helped you start to unlearn that?

The Retirement Lie Will Ruin Your Life

Retirement, as we imagine it, is a modern myth. A 30-year vacation sold after World War II to make the grind of work seem worth it. But it carries a hidden poison: the belief that work is something to escape rather than something to be fulfilled by.

We are told to endure our 30s and 40s so we can finally live in our 60s. It is the TGIF mindset stretched across a lifetime. If Friday is salvation, then Monday through Thursday, and by extension our working years, are a form of suffering to be endured. Every project becomes a transaction. Every morning becomes a countdown to freedom.

That vision of life leads nowhere good. When you finally “make it,” what is left? Endless leisure sounds like paradise until you realize it starves the soul. Humans are not built for permanent rest. We are built for creation, cultivation, and meaningful contribution.

Look at those who have changed the world. They did not work to retire; they worked because the work itself mattered. They were driven by curiosity, craft, and impact, not escape. That impulse is not rare genius. It is the human default when purpose and effort align.

The tragedy of retirement culture is not that people stop working. It is that they spend decades believing work is something to run from. They hate their jobs, resent responsibility, and dream of quitting until quitting finally arrives and meaning disappears with it.

The answer is not to grind yourself into the grave. It is to never stop engaging productively with the world. True fulfillment comes when we see work not as punishment but as participation in something greater. Retirement should be a shift in pace, not a surrender of purpose.

Some will push back at this idea. They believe that once they reach the goal, they will be the exception. They think the emptiness will not touch them. But look around. The older generation right now is among the most unhappy groups you will ever meet. Now you know why.

If your life strategy is built around escaping productivity, you have already lost. The goal is not to retire. The goal is to find work worth doing until you can no longer do it.

Stop planning your escape. Start planning your contribution. Life begins the moment you stop running from work and start building something that matters.

Now build.

Honestly, we could all use #Shabbatstr. A relay-enforced 24-hour social media mental health break every week is genius.

Finally

You didn’t write it wrong. You wrote it with the vision you had at the time. Fresh eyes don’t lie. They just show you how far your threat model has evolved.

I would be genuinely interested on a conversation around AI in education. Teaching during this time has made me really start to consider what the purpose of education is and how we ought best to be assessing students. It does seem like most students do not want to go through the difficult process of learning to thing. And then I start to wonder if they can live quite enjoyable lives without having to think.

Well said. Btw, how to you manage your follows? It would be nice to have a list function, but I don't think there is one yet.

When we treat life, relationships, or even ideas as permanent fixtures, we slip into a kind of cognitive automaticity. The present moment becomes transparent, invisible. But the recognition of potential loss, whether of a person, a season, or even our own mortality, suddenly renders everything vivid and particular.

This explains why nostalgia can be more intense than present experience, why we often love places more when leaving them, why deathbed reflections carry such weight. The shadow of absence doesn’t diminish love; it concentrates it.

To truly live, we must remember we’re dying. To truly love, we must acknowledge what we might lose.

The gratitude that emerges isn’t naive optimism, it’s clear eyed recognition of the extraordinary fact that anything exists at all, including ourselves, including this moment.

Value prop of Flotilla?

Can only relay owners create invitation codes?

hey hodlbod, I think I found a little imprecision:

> "Network effect" is the idea that a network's value does not grow linearly with the number of users, but quadratically with the number of connections between users.

Let's say N is the number of users. Then the value of the network is proportional to N^2. However, from what you write it seems that the value is "quadratic with the number of connections".

But the number of connections is already proportional to N^2, so that would imply something proportional to N^4.

I would write:

"Network effect" is the idea that a network's value does not grow linearly with the number of users, but quadratically, because what matters is the number of connections between users.

Didn't other protocol attempts like Mastadon also reach this phase in the past?

What are the core USPs you think #nostr got it right to increase its chances to stay?

I put the wallet info in these fields and it will receive but won't send. Thought it might have to do with the outdated message