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Andrew
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Software Engineer by day, aspiring beet farmer by night. ☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Things I like: - #P2P/#decentralized/#opensource stuff - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit oriented city design - #Gadgets/#ElectricVehicles/#Solar Power - #Space exploration - #Videogames (especially #GTA) Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and Threads https://agorasocial.app - Chronicl: Decentralized web archiver that distributes archives across Nostr relays https://chronicl.vercel.app/ “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor” - Roman poet Theocritus

lol thats what i mean! the “aspiring beet farmer” in my profile bio is just a reference to the office. Unfortunately I’m not *that* interesting 😂

haha it's just a silly reference to Dwight Schrute on The Office :P

To be fair, that meme is pretty selective with history. Take this example:

"Dio says Roman Emporer Elagabalus delighted in being called Hierocles's mistress, wife, and queen. The emperor reportedly wore makeup and wigs, preferred to be called a lady and not a lord, and supposedly offered vast sums to any physician who could provide him with a vagina"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

haha! I'm very much a real person, no AI here 😁 Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying my history nerd/generally nerdy posts!

"1:250 scale model displays the glory of ancient Rome during the reign of Constantine (306AD-337AD). Considered one of the most important references for how the city looked, it measures 16 by 16 meters and took 35 years to be completed"

Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/18462958283/

Pretty clever on Samsung's part! This is a Progressive Web App you can install on your iPhone that simulates the Samsung Galaxy phone UI

https://trygalaxy.com/

Replying to Avatar Mazin

I have a basic search API working locally now as well using https://search.nostr.wine as the backend. It accepts get requests with optional parameters search (string), kind, pubkey, since, and until.

For example: ?search=cookie&kind=1&since=1680121746 would return any matching kind 1 events in the last 24hours where “cookie” was seen in “content” in json. Would anyone want to use this?

Awesome! so is this like a custom form of the NIP-50 keyword search that relays can support?

Which relay frameworks support NIP-50 keyword search besides Knostr? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/50.md

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💣💥 STOP CARPET BOMBING YOUR MOBILE DATA

Coracle 0.2.20 is released — and it's kind of a big deal. https://app.coracle.social is now the least bandwidth-intensive pure Nostr client, with a ~90% reduction in network usage!

TLDR; this feature is opt-in for now, to enable it go to Settings, and enter "wss://multiplextr.coracle.social" as your "Multiplextr URL".

How'd I do it? I created a relay proxy called "multiplextr", inspired by https://github.com/Dolu89/nostr-proxy, but instead of setting relays up-front, I wrapped the Nostr protocol to allow clients to specify which relay to talk to on every request.

You can check out the source code and self-host the library using this link: https://github.com/coracle-social/multiplextr. If you're a dev and want to add client support for multiplextr, https://github.com/coracle-social/paravel might be of use.

Full changelog for 0.2.20:

- [x] Re-write pool to use paravel

- [x] Add support for multiplextr

- [x] Fix retrieving old chat/DM messages

- [x] Disable self-zap

Dude, well done! Coracle is quickly becoming one of, if not the most well rounded web apps.

Especially for things like:

- Gossip protocol (automated coverage of your follows)

- link previews (nice visual feature for scanning your feed)

- relay multiplexing (efficiency in bandwidth/battery usage)

Bonus fun fact, its resemblance to Arabic script may be due to the following chain of events:

- Arabic script is based on Nabatean script

- Nabatean script was a cursive form of the Aramaic alphabet

- The Aramaic alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet

- The Phoenician alphabet originated from Canaanites or Hyksos repurposing Egyptian hieroglyphs to construct a simplified script

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Fun fact: in Ancient Egypt, Hieroglyphic script was largely restricted to inscriptions on monuments, and it was actually the more simplified Hieratic script you see in this picture that was used in daily life.

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