Remember how I was writing a book? Well, I gave up on it. But then I wrote a different one:

https://building-nostr.coracle.social/

This book is both practical and philosophical. It ellides a lot of the details you can otherwise get by reading Nostr NIPs, focusing instead on all the things I've learned over three years working on nostr.

It includes a number of contrarian opinions which may be partially or completely wrong. Feel free to disagree, or even tell me where I'm wrong. I'll be releasing updates to the book as I have time and inclination to repent of my mistakes and omissions.

The book is free, with epub and pdf versions available for your reading pleasure. If you like the book, you can send me bitcoin via nostr or at https://geyser.fund/project/buildingnostr, and if people like it enough I may publish a version that you can touch with your fingers.

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I'm quoting him, not endorsing him

To borrow from Churchill, government is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones

Capitalism isn't bad, monopolistic corporations are

Government isn't bad, unaccountable government is

Technology isn't bad, externally imposed systems are

Just thinking out loud here

Just learned about Fisher Ames:

> Ames was on the committee that inaugurated President Washington, he framed the final accepted wording in the First Amendment regarding freedom of religion in 1789 and fought many key legislative battles successfully for the Federalists in Congress.

> Ames died on July 4th, 1808, at the age of fifty; making him the first of three Founding Fathers who died on July 4th - along with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - who both died in 1826.

Based

hopefully they don't have to go on site to update the firmware

Yeah, I built it: https://github.com/coracle-social/burrow

I don't recommend it though, holding a bunch of keys on a server is a recipe for disaster — but maybe multi-sig bunkers or secure enclaves could be used to keep them safe? 🤔

There's always going to be something, but my favorite is nip 46 since it can be used anywhere with a single install:

https://habla.news/u/hodlbod@coracle.social/1731367036685

I love the meme for sure

Don't use relay 29, it's over prescriptive and dorsn't work with flotilla (which is nip 29 compliant, but does other things too). Use https://github.com/coracle-social/frith

I've tried it, doesn't work super well yet

The whole point is not to solve my problem, but to solve onboarding for new users without asking them to install yet another weird thing

Me too!

Yeah, the QR scanning workflow is super nice, too few implementations support that.

Amber

You're missing the point, I disabled it because I want to stress test NIP 46. NIP 07 is fine (and works well) but isn't how newbies are going to use nostr.

Just uninstalled my NIP 07 browser extension to dogfood NIP 46 harder. As a side effect, I am now unable to log in to the majority of nostr apps without pasting my private key.

Apparently when you sign in to satlantis for the first time, it automatically changes your NIP 05 to `@satlantis.io` . Classy.

I don't have prime

Why? Because we want you to buy more stuff from us.

Lantern extension by fiatjaf

Flotilla in the wild! Exciting to see

Yes, most clients just check that the address works and show a check mark, which is awful. NIP 05 can be good for validation only if you already know what name/domain to expect. This can be ok for comparing data across apps, or in a Soapbox style client which privileges a particular known NIP 05 provider.

https://substack.com/@christianleithart/posts

He's operating out of a metaphysic of human exceptionalism and the recognition that automatons can never be more than automatons. I'm on team human too.

Great thoughts from my friend's email newsletter:

> The people who think AI is reshaping reality spend way too much time on the internet. “How will we know what’s real?” means “How will we know whether a TikTok video has been human-processed or machine-processed?” “The art of writing will die” means “The art of writing boring blog posts and meaningless corporate emails will die.” It seems appropriate for the vast, illusory engine of unreality (the Internet) to be created, curated, and synthesized by machines.

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I found one:

INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI

Video games are a weirdly sacred cow. People don't want to admit that marinating your brain in an engineered fictional world is somehow bad for you

Just stumbled on an old Figma file from 2022 for "Blazepoint", which would eventually become Coracle. A lot of important ideas were in the original, including web of trust and pay-to-post, which is cool to see:

Dude, glad you're ok. Nice work getting the tourniquet on there fast

Because I store my wealth in bitcoin, there won't be any family jewels to hand down to my kids, but they will get the family joules

🎉

Wow, those people are insane

lol

It should, but I haven't been able to get it to work either. Haven't looked closely at it

To you, coracle doesn't do much with zap tags. It would be good to forward them though

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Edit is a feature added by Amethyst which no other client supports

Sure, and it's actually surprisingly common (I didn't realize jitsi ran on xmpp). Which is encouraging

I'd prefer to wait until it's done, hopefully 2-3 weeks.

This is not really a proposal, more like very high-level in-progress reflection on a better approach to the general problem of relay selection.

Spot on

Which desktop browser? I can't replicate the key error on Chrome, FF, or Safari. The provided key should be valid. Can you run `console.log(VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY)` in the devtools?

On iOS, signing is inherently tricky. Apple doesn't like PWAs, which is what nsec.app is, so your best bet is probably going to be a remote signer. Can you log in with nsec.app from a different device?

On keychat, I can't help you there, it looks like the browser they build in doesn't have service worker/push manager support. nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqg9mly364yjxqe0c33qv0kdlv8xvcrlnlnlsvk5vktl5e7akyzy0rcd9whra?

Hey, you stole my garbagey icons, those are patented and you owe me royalties

extremely true

I will post a picture of myself without a shoe on my head

Children of ruin