You're undervaluing my time.

I need a source for cheap arrows. Shitty shot + rocky ground in the desert = lots of broken arrows

What feels like the 100s of different times and different versions and environments and docker instances in which I have installed the same python packages still confound me to no end. And how often I try to do something only to realize the version in the current thing I’m working in isn’t the right one and then trying to understand how and at what layer I need to update or downgrade python or pip or whatever - just hurts my face 🤣🤣

Computers can be infuriating sometimes.

Even though I said “can you please make it intuitive” I really do feel like the responsibility for this layer kinda falls on people in my position.

I’m technically skilled enough to know a lot of what is going on in GitHub, but still spend so much time naturally exploring and thinking about simple design that I think I do really well with the normie perspective.

I did a 9 page write up with the problems and some potential solutions to the old design of BTcPayServer and they actually took into account like a third of what I suggested and it is far better with the new UI. Still not perfect and some of the tools and naming conventions are still confusing, but it’s much better than it was.

I wish I felt like I had time to actually build and design interfaces for things because I think I’d be good at it and from what I’ve worked on purely from a photoshop perspective I’ve had really positive feedback. Between my sisters color and aesthetic skill and my own thinking around app flow and uses, I think we could really be valuable. Really just a matter of time and resources… always is I guess.

Oh I definitely don't mean to trivialise the task! It's far from trivial - but it is also super important imho. Time and effort are limited resources for both devs and non-devs. A laborious task for a Dev can save literally thousands of effort-hours for non-devs, and "If you really care you'll learn how" isn't an excuse that scales. Its only ever true for a comparatively small subset of potential users.

Sometimes I find I enjoy reading notes when all relays haven’t connected yet and the author’s profile not defined yet in my feed. I know it’s someone I follow just not sure who, while the content is fresh and raw and still comfortable. 🤙

100% agree. Its INSANE to me that just getting shit installed onto your computer so you can try it out hasn't got any easier in the last 15 years. If anything, the proliferation of GitHub has made it even more confusing for non-devs.

Then open source software devs need to stop telling users “We made this great software, just go download it from GitHub!”

If we *want* users of open source, then we have to care about their experience.

1. I didn't say it was for installing software, it's just an example of a stupidly simple task that is turned into complex acrobatics on github.

2. A bitcoin wallet isn't for creating a backup, but if it's not intuitive to do so its a big problem. You can't test or work on software without installing it.

The 3-5 most important functions of any software or app should be intuitive enough such that you don't have to read a manual to perform them. More advanced things sure, but the most basic functions should be visually clear through its design.

I'm sorry if you are taking mild offense, but Github is a UX disaster and nobody can use that thing without basically taking a course in how to navigate it. I used to absolutely despise having to go over there, and even today while using it normally I sometimes stop to look at it from a design perspective and just sit in awe at how bad it is.

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Seriously the next time you are on github, just honestly *look* at it and tell me that anything in that design makes intuitive sense & could be naturally understood by someone who isn't familiar with it.

So what is probably needed then is a contract/protocol for disparate git related micro apps to inter-act.

Does the author of that bounty really know how git works and realize that git is already decentralized?

Emailing patches is one of the main features that Linus wanted when he wrote git. Replacing email with nostr is already being done with git-nostr.

The problem of who gets to decide what to merge into Bitcoin core is not going to be solved by putting it on nostr.

Does the author of that bounty really know how git works and realize that git is already decentralized?

Emailing patches is one of the main features that Linus wanted when he wrote git. Replacing email with nostr is already being done with git-nostr.

The problem of who gets to decide what to merge into Bitcoin core is not going to be solved by putting it on nostr.

here’s your very first logo

Pairing gitea and nostr somehow makes sense to me. I run Gitea on yunohost and it's on Umbrel too.

oh shit i thought you were joking. 😆

Conceptually the idea of a place to find software that is being edited, with a series of versions and records/tracking of the updates is not hard to understand... but get any normal user – unfamiliar with github, who has basic technical literacy – and tell them to go to github and install a certain piece of software and I'd bet you 99% would click 20+ times, start over, constantly hitting the back button, and finally resort to googling "how to use github" before they completed the task.

I think github suffers from a very serious case of "developer disconnectitis." After being familiar with an absurd tool that is widely used and having it integrated into *how* people think about the problem, they completely forget how to see it like a normal, sane person.🤣