This is subjective. I personally do not like sliding overlays and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

But the fact that we can choose is awesome 🤩

Hey guys,

I've been quiet lately... I've been working on something big. In the past 2 weeks there have been 9539 new lines of code added to damus, 2928 removed, 279 files changed. I've rewritten much of the codebase in preparation for the nostrdb integration.

## nostrdb

What is nostrdb? nostrdb is an integrated relay within damus, with the same design as strfry, but slightly different to support embedding into nostr apps. This will be the heart of Damus apps going forward, including notedeck and other future microapps. Think of it as a kind of development kit but with an embedded database and query capabilities. I didn't want to have to recreate all of the same querying, caching, and parsing code when building new apps, nostrdb will solve all of the painful and slow parts. nostr seems simple but if you want a fully working app it is pretty complicated, especially if you want it to be fast and sync efficiently.

### Goals

* be the best and most efficient at querying, syncing and storing nostr notes

* enable direct mapping of notes into application code without any serialization overhead

* provide advanced syncing capabilities such as negentropy, which allows us to only query stuff we don't have

* be as portable as possible. nostrdb is a C library that you can embed into basically anything.

* full relay filter support

* full text search

### Benefits

* full note verification

* more efficient de-duplication before we begin processing events off the wire

* set-reconciliation based syncing (negentropy) drastically reduces bandwidth usage and latency

* iteration on future nostr apps will be quicker (android, desktop, etc)

* features like ghost mode, account switching, etc will be much more efficient as you will be able to quickly switch between notes that are cached locally

* much smaller memory footprint due to optimized in-memory note format, which in turn improves cpu-cache efficiency

* much better profile and note searching

So that's what I've been working on in the past two weeks. On to what else is new in this release:

## Multi reactions!

Suhail did an amazing job at adding multiple reaction support. All you need to do is long-press the Shaka button to show different options. You can customize these in settings as well

## New onboarding features

Damus will now suggest people to follow when you first enter the app, this is the first of many onboarding improvements coming soon. Thank Klabo for this one!

That's all for now! Please test thoroughly and let me know if you run into any issues. You likely will since the entire codebase has been changed, and I probably broke something.

Until next time 🫡

Good morning, have a nice day 🍀

Gn nostr 😴 😌 🛌 👋

Enjoy your day!

Builder’s dilemma: to build more features or not.

More features does not mean better product. In fact, in many cases you want to have fewer, with more focus.

But, the product could be one feature away from being truly unique and interesting. You won’t know what that is until you build it.

What do you do?

gm #nostr ☘️

Hello

Just got an email from Bjork via Bandcamp.

I must say, it was rather impersonal. I was hoping she was up for grabbing a coffee and chatting about various saturation types.

No, she just wants me to buy a t-shirt.

Peak exuberance! I just paid £8.99 just to change the icon colour on my podcast app. Why they chose such an ugly colour that breaks my colour scheme is beyond me.

It’s worth it as I don’t get my brain burned each time I look at my phone.

Bitcoin is a scam and what the fuck is Nostr!?!!

Sorry, I meant GM☀️ plebs and plebs.

short night…. stemstr is a drug.

Interesting. My Ukrainian friends inform me of their opinions, which I tend to adopt, as I am not actually in comprehensive knowledge of the situation. I will consider your points, and discuss with my Ukrainian friends. Perhaps I am one of the bloviators. Granny always said, “If you’re pointing a finger at anyone else, you’d best remember that you have 3 fingers pointing back at yourself.”

I hear bloviating Americans carry on about this and I wonder how they can be so certain of their facts. It is the silent to whom I turn for answers, often they have nothing but tears. I have a few Ukrainian expats who give me their viewpoint, they are young, early 30s.

We’ve been over this five months ago nostr:note1ezlgg2u89e326nzhnhkacgtfueuee73fplw8a46qg3w7ns37g2fq74z08g

have a lovely morning everybody 💜

Why are all sunglasses made with tiny little screws that break?

Is this the best humanity can do?

I almost want to quit everything in life just to design sunglasses that don’t suck.

Are there any photographers here on Nostr? I'm looking forward to following some.