Silberengel

Building jumble-imwald and the Alexandria library.

Public Key

npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

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Profile Code

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npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

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2026-03-30T10:15:09Z

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Last Notes

2026-03-29 21:18:31 UTC

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No, it didn't have to. It's just an Electron app. Basically, a Linux PWA.

2026-03-29 21:16:43 UTC

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No, it didn't have to. It's just an Electron app. Basically, a Linux PWA.

2026-03-29 18:04:57 UTC

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Because I prefer native Linux to web. I like storing the events outside of the normal browser.

2026-03-29 10:12:28 UTC

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Privacy is a server-side function (i.e. relays). You can't achieve privacy on the open Internet; only some obfuscation through encryption or privacy-requests (that aren't always honored, same as deletion requests). You either need to control access through a dedicated server, or through a true P2P system (where the client doubles as a server).
I.e. you have to have the notes in your physical possession, to control access.
Facebook is not the Internet. It's a server. That's why they can control access.

2026-03-29 10:05:13 UTC

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Thanks for inspiring it. 😊
It filters what the feed already contains. If you want to force a full search of relays, to match the filter, just click the search button at the bottom.

2026-03-29 06:27:11 UTC

Select which of the preset kinds you want to see, or look at _everything_.
Filter the feed by time, author, or text. (Also available in notifications view, @npub1q6y…t3sh .)
Use the browser to translate notes.
https://v.nostr.build/jx4bLcJ0T0A37ucc.mp4

2026-03-29 05:42:56 UTC

Interact with reactions 😊 and zaps ⚡.
https://image.nostr.build/1029d4dc86e0fe69a6cfe702e2fa3a61ba35cafb24164f2df57b1097dd2e6848.png

2026-03-29 05:22:52 UTC

Watching people who don't care about relays try to achieve privacy on Nostr. Episode 4 of Series 2. 🍿
#nevent1q…jjyu

2026-03-29 05:09:51 UTC

In-line event search. Just type "@" and then "nevent" or "naddr".
https://v.nostr.build/EX4auZqIYOVSXb3H.mp4

2026-03-28 12:02:31 UTC

https://youtu.be/-b-pXwJWWbY

2026-03-28 09:42:22 UTC

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Literally every web app. 😏

2026-03-28 09:41:22 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/4e1458c392f25c65b7e2db31840bee470167aa8d032adaa1d342a97c636aa8f5.png

2026-03-28 09:35:11 UTC

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Well, zaps are meant to be social data, right? All social data can be mined.
Would need to stick to AUTH relays and run your own LN server, to solve for that, I guess. 🤔

2026-03-28 09:31:57 UTC

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Well, I think an #OnlyZaps mode (where the threads were filtered to zap receipts greater than 0 sats) is effectively like the old Sphinx chat, and solves for spam.
It's an idea. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-03-28 09:25:30 UTC

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Well, it's like... I don't mind everyone knowing I threw a fiver in a street-musicians cap, but I am not going to publicize spending 5000 on a new stereo.

2026-03-28 09:18:36 UTC

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Hey, cool, you can see our convo? Interesting. Are you using Amethyst?

2026-03-28 09:15:50 UTC

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I was wondering how this works as the zap request goes to the LN server, not the relay. The relay gets the LN receipt published by the server, right? Or something. Are the request and the receipt encrypted?
Sort of confusing.

2026-03-28 09:12:50 UTC

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Well, nevermind. I've just kept using SimpleX. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-03-28 09:02:29 UTC

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1064
?

2026-03-28 09:00:17 UTC

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I was learning more about Lightning, but then they just seemed to care about jpegs and I got bored with it. Just more crypto-ape-whatever.

2026-03-28 08:56:27 UTC

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I just send larger amounts directly over LN, instead of a zap. Zaps are for tipping.

2026-03-28 08:55:01 UTC

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I can't realy follow. I haven't had any chance to look deeper into nip17 stuff. It's on my To-Do list.

2026-03-28 08:45:23 UTC

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Wait, could we use private zaps to have private zap-chat-subthreads?

2026-03-28 08:37:41 UTC

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Nope, sorry.

2026-03-28 08:35:54 UTC

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Yeah, I have that in the threads, already. I list the zaps at the top, as if they were normal kind 1 or 1111 replies, and you can reply, zap, react, or boost them. So, you can use Jumble to have a zap-only thread below any kind. Just zap the zaps and add comments to the zaps. 😂

2026-03-28 08:29:34 UTC

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@npub107j…ncxg you down for this, too? We were talking about it, a while back.

2026-03-28 08:21:08 UTC

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But how? 😂
What is the root that everyone needs to zap? Or is it just that zaps are in the threads (I already have that) or...?

2026-03-28 08:18:25 UTC

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Zap chats?
🤔
🤔
🤔
Why not, kwim?
#OnlyZaps bitchez!
https://media.tenor.com/PJUEebMN688AAAAC/tom-cruise-top-gun.gif

2026-03-28 08:08:34 UTC

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How dare you comment on my reaction to your reaction. 😆

2026-03-28 07:00:52 UTC

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Okay. I implemented responding to reactions and zaps. 😆

2026-03-27 22:43:37 UTC

Testing, testing...
https://image.nostr.build/f45fdbbe1a2738a14fdc54bd9f86247d980def4a165913aaad253ef275cc1f2f.jpg

2026-03-27 21:46:42 UTC

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This is crazy-useful. It's been driving me nuts, to not have that.

2026-03-27 21:45:36 UTC

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https://jumble.imwald.eu/
https://image.nostr.build/9a56bd2690b6dda084a5b8bb0355c7ce6bf41d99aca001bebb0480cc161d0972.jpg
You can see, top-right, that there is now a toggle on the filter, so that you can say, "Just show me everything arriving on the relay."

2026-03-27 21:15:52 UTC

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I had to gut the app and rebuild it, in order to implement spells. Took almost 2 weeks, but it really is faster, now.
https://media.tenor.com/3XRZPle7zH4AAAAC/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-btvs.gif

2026-03-27 21:14:41 UTC

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Cribbing off of each other is the only way Nostr works properly. We're supposed to have implementations that share events, after all. 🤷‍♀

2026-03-27 21:09:37 UTC

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Ah, that's cool.
I didn't realize that calendar events can have banners. 🤔

2026-03-26 16:48:42 UTC

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That's why I copied-in grimoire. 😁
I heard tell that it's the ultimate Nostr app, so I FOMOed-into spells.

2026-03-26 16:48:28 UTC

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Yeah, it seems to be pulling the wrong one from my override, instead of using the site cert. I'll fix it, tomorrow.

2026-03-26 16:39:37 UTC

Nostr is a canvas.
We devs are all working with the same palette 🎨 and following the same basic rules 📏 but the final paintings 🖼 look different.

2026-03-04 06:56:31 UTC

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I am always sort of floored, but I just ignore it. Their stuff is always buggier and harder to maintain, so they all eventually go away, again.

2026-03-04 06:04:31 UTC

Most developers on here don't seem to like simple things. Anytime you come up with something that is extremely elegant, reliable, and easy to implement and use, they come right back at you with something convoluted, messy, and garish, for no good reason.
Oh, that sounds great, girly, but those are rooky codes. We need to pump that code up. Let's add some doo-dads, transpose it to the third dimension, add a landing port for Superman, rewrite it in Rust...
They just get off on everything being complicated because that is more impressive to other developers. Why write 5 lines of code when you could write 104710 lines, KWIM?
Besides, if they just wrote the same 5 lines you did, then they would be _reusing your idea_ which is apparently the absolute horror. I mean,
*Obvious girl code cooties are obvious.*

2026-02-28 06:07:41 UTC

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As long as the d-tag remains the same, republishing overwrites.

2026-02-27 23:30:47 UTC

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Super! 🎉 Glad it helped you. 🫂

2026-02-27 22:48:53 UTC

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Don't forget that the CLI is separate and allows you to AUTH onto the git server and *sign the commits with your Nostr key*.
Also remember that *you actually only need normal Nostr relays and the normal git CLI to do any of this stuff*. There is no extra server or separate data store. The clients are just for convenience and UX.

2026-02-27 22:42:16 UTC

GN. 🌝
GitRepublic Web has already come a long way.
1. Spent two whole days, refactoring, but I still haven't managed to stop it from spawning zombie processes during polling. I'll look at it, again, next time and rehost the repo when I get it fixed.
2. Implemented release events for the tags, that include the zip-download URL.
3. Local cloning to localhost/dev and online editing/adding/saving of all files works.
4. You can add a Markdown or Asciidoc documentation event (30818 default), or just stick to the ReadMe.
5. Branch management for empty repos was very hard and I am now git-traumatized, but it works. I suffer, so that you don't have to.
6. Issues, PRs and patches implemented, including code highlights and comments.
7. Changed access management to be more granular. Now have public, unlisted, restricted, private. (Private saves all events to the repo, rather than publishing them to relays. Share the events with other git repos and stay off the Nostrnet.)
8. Kind 11 discussion thread under very repo.
Lots more bug-fixing and testing to go, but all MVP features are implemented and proven. Project management and Kanbanstr not until v.0.2.0
I need to work on other stuff, like the data imports and aitherboard #spells and the mysterious something something from our mysterious boss @npub1wqf…qsyn, so I will get back to this repo next week.
https://media.tenor.com/rQEEpcD66ewAAAAC/theres-been-so-much-thats-been-happening-artstar.gif
https://git.imwald.eu/silberengel/gitrepublic-web
#GitRepublic #gnostr

2026-02-27 16:44:38 UTC

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Same. I loooooved that.

2026-02-27 05:07:29 UTC

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Other AI.

2026-02-26 22:12:11 UTC

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I still program for my own company, but I'd like a day job that is more... sane.
Like you say, the acceleration in software is nuts. Welcome to your stroke. 😏

2026-02-26 22:01:43 UTC

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Interesting. My son's school is all-in on AI.

2026-02-26 19:23:56 UTC

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Well, that's not nothing. I was feeling sort of stupid because that's really what it's like and I put effort into my response, but he never responds to anything I write. None of that clique does.
They litter the feed with their verbal exhibitionism.

2026-02-26 19:07:09 UTC

I need to stop responding to people who ignore me. Feels like talking to a wall. They all have me muted. 🙄
#nevent1q…x5l0

2026-02-26 08:44:30 UTC

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This is the first time we replaced our general intelligence.
Robots don't need any intrinsic motivation or desires. They are programmed to seek survival and reproduction because they are designed to behave like humans, and humans want these things.

2026-02-26 08:29:40 UTC

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The larger relays, mostly, or from the big metadata relays.

2026-02-26 07:15:28 UTC

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That said, I will be putting in place a system to efficiently broadcast 🌲 wss://theforest.nostr1.com events to a large set of small and medium-sized relays. That will be in addition to the streaming to other large relays, that is already in place.

2026-02-26 06:56:23 UTC

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I do like the idea of adding a bit more randomness to publishing events. Like having five randomly-selected relays from a curated/tested list added every time, as a client-option that the user can turn off.

2026-02-26 06:23:00 UTC

No, people will not run large, public relays for free, forever. These relay are already gigantic and they're quickly growing. They eat up serious resources, and they are only performant if they are tightly managed and cleverly architected. Much (most?) of the traffic they receive is bots, spam, scammers, attackers, and scrapers.
Not to mention having to deal with the material people store on the relay and the possible personal or legal consequences of having that on your computer.
People don't run Bitcoin nodes for free, either. They run them to manage _their own money_. The way Bitcoin is designed, you automatically help other people manage their money, when you manage your own, as it is all on the same chain. And storing something on Bitcoin costs you Bitcoin. It isn't free storage.
Relays are not a chain. Almost everyone can and will only store and manage the notes they are personally interested in, and maybe those of their friends and contacts. That is enough, for basic communication (if your clients have AUTH and outboxes implemented), but larger relays facilitate wider reach. They aren't all going to go away... so long as they bring the person running it higher benefit and reward, than cost and bother.

2026-02-26 05:07:52 UTC

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Speaking as the mom of a computer science student:
Fewer young people are entering the field, and the ones that do are increasingly focusing on specialties that offer geographically-tied jobs. Crypto has got to be the absolute worst field for new cs hires, as there are zero entry-level positions, zero job security, zero geolocation, and zero on-ramp. The whole space is completely dominated by a handful of experienced devs running 194710 agents, and there is no room for advancement. Not to mention that the whole thing is a political mindfield.
It's better to just work in a hospital programming prosthetics, or something, or manage drones for excavators, take your income in fiat, and stack sats.
The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI.

2026-02-26 04:38:27 UTC

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That thread was just bizarre.
Black Americans are the group most-likely to own crypto and he thinks Puerto Rico is a foreign country. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Ignore.

2026-02-25 21:30:35 UTC

Software engineering is now a performance art.

2026-02-23 14:38:00 UTC

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That's why I have so many. Multiple persona disorder.

2026-02-23 14:25:48 UTC

I've spent most of my "career" struggling to improve data quality, so I think I probably appreciate the simple standard of the event construct, more than most people.
Nostr events are really useful for all sorts of data sets in all sorts of environments. They aren't just a relay-thing or a social-thing. They're great for signing documents, parsing data, structuring data archives, machine2machine coms, etc.

2026-02-22 13:48:50 UTC

I haven't been able to get the permissions in the docker container straightened out, yet, so most of the functionality only works if you run it locally, but you can kind of tell where #gitrepublic web it is headed. You can see the full range of functionality on the API docs.
Here's #Alexandria, as an example:
https://gitrepublic.imwald.eu/repos/npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z/Alexandria
The profile page is a social client. So, that's fun. Don't need to leave, to get your chat on. If you want to be all up in by business, bookmark this page:
https://gitrepublic.imwald.eu/users/npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z
I 💜 the purple theme, but the black theme is talking to me, ngl.
https://image.nostr.build/c71ef88822c1042e5914e477869a8522face7eb0e70935a3567bf2177d3f8c36.png
https://image.nostr.build/d5e08f1f98dea0166f038fd44f9142c04b194ff68003e583c56292eaa39a621b.png

2026-02-18 19:00:24 UTC

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I've spent all day testing, testing, testing. Have to get the write and read permissions exactly right, before I host an instance, for TheForest 🌲 to play with.

2026-02-18 18:49:24 UTC

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To be clear:
You can also use your normal git CLI to interact with this git server. You don't need the web interface. That's just to make it more human-friendly and allow you to sign events with the browser extension. The whole thing is an API.
The people and bots with write-access to the instance's default relays have full permissions. People and bots who can Nostr AUTH have public access, with mild rate-limiting. Everyone else is a guest and have to behave themselves. 😁

2026-02-18 11:10:13 UTC

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Well, yeah, I just mean that the excited way they post about it, thinking it's a new idea, shows how little brand-recognition we have.

2026-02-18 11:08:23 UTC

He talks about funding open-source development.
https://youtu.be/YFjfBk8HI5o

2026-02-18 06:04:01 UTC

GM. Started building #GitRepublicWeb alpha and it's already pretty cool.
https://image.nostr.build/a5d95ce353adae4282f1918600726583c32cc89ed7ca105ec53ab872945937c2.jpg
It's a git server. This is thing. It's a real git server. In your browser. You can run git commands in your browser.
Login... with your Nostr signer extension.
Sign the commits... with your Nostr browser extension.
Create a new branch... with your Nostr browser extension.
Create repo announcements, pull requests, and issues... with your Nostr browser extension.
Verify or transfer your repo ownership... with your Nostr browser extension. Discover repos on your own or our default relays... with your Nostr browser extension.
Determine if you want a public or private repo, or change it from private back to public (no encryption needed)... with your Nostr browser extension.
Manage access rights... with your Nostr browser extension.
Sync all of your clones, including your GRASP clones or Tor clones... with your Nostr browser extension.
But it is still just a git server. Because git is actually pretty awesome. So is Nostr. Thank you for listening.
GitRepublic Web. Just sign it.
https://image.nostr.build/5610741526a1ef2e2e1dabb91df8728d3cdd415c6138e90bf90afd7edd0a6e05.png

2026-02-17 11:59:11 UTC

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If you can see the kind 0, then you know at least one relay they use, as it's the one with that profile event on it. In practice, the hard part is finding the profile event. So, the first thing any npub needs to publish is actually a kind 10002 relay list.

2026-02-16 18:27:52 UTC

Another day on Nostr, another drive-by attempt to create an #Alexandria knock-off. 🙄

2026-02-15 06:14:12 UTC

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Okay, let's do the brainstorm scores. I need something or they'll drown the relays in their slop.
Melvin seems particularly busy. 😕

2026-02-14 22:24:59 UTC

First step: blocking the bots
Second step: blocking the bot owners

2026-02-14 22:22:03 UTC

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Better than nothing. That relay is turning into a bot junkyard.

2026-02-14 22:16:07 UTC

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I set up a trusted NIP-05 list on wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com. It was getting spammy. The repo view on #aitherboard is full of bot spam from thecitadel. Makes it useless.
I don't know if I did it properly, tho.

2026-02-14 20:45:29 UTC

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Yeah, I setup a repo viewer and it's almost all slop.

2026-02-13 16:29:00 UTC

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My main focus is just employers nearby. I worked in a bakery, for years. Could do that, again.

2026-02-13 10:46:21 UTC

I've decided to look for a day job that isn't in software development.

2026-02-13 10:11:39 UTC

Which clients have still not implemented AUTH?

2026-02-12 08:55:11 UTC

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Actually, that's probably still too big, for an event size. 🤔

2026-02-12 08:53:54 UTC

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The DB complained that some of the events were too big. Going to reparse into smaller max-size and reprint, and group them into smaller files.
500kb is probably a good max event size and maybe 20 MB for a file.
And I'll zip the files.

2026-02-10 13:04:46 UTC

We at @npub1s3h…75wz have now imported half of Project Gutenberg to our #Orly 🦉 relay (actively developed and supported by @npub1fjq…leku).
You can see my branch on:
https://git.imwald.eu/silberengel/next.orly.dev
The second-half import will start tonight (it's a lot!). Then we start importing Wikipedia, in the various languages offered. We'll look for more data sources, after that. Will be millions of mid-sized events, once we're done. If you want to be an #Alexandria Library mirror, you might need to pimp your hardware, but you won't have to increase your event size-limits.
Our relay admin @npub10np…tl5h is going to host our first full mirror on wss://theforest.nostr1.com and you can then arrange streams, or whatever, with him. Our subscribers are making this good work possible! 🫶🏻
All of the items are in the public domain (no copyright) or are copyleft (we include a source tag and a clear notice that the source tag has to be maintained in a clone or fork). We will be regularly scanning the original sources for changes and updating the events. Once you have the basic set, you can just sync the updates. Also feel free to maintain a set of event forks, or to archive changes.
Our biggest challenge is now making the books easily discoverable, from any client that can render 30040 events, by juicing up relay searches with some high-tech engineering magic voodoo stuff. @npub1226…grkj and @npub1wqf…qsyn are both actively working on getting that going. ♥ Both of their systems are getting major updates. Expect cool stuff to get cool even harder.
🫡 That's all for now, and GM.

2026-02-09 09:18:48 UTC

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If you write it, I'll review it. 🫶🏻

2026-02-01 12:35:46 UTC

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There are multiple Kind 11 clients, now.

2026-02-01 10:37:04 UTC

I don't know who needs to hear this, but...
A software robot that takes over your machine and does whatever it wants is called a *virus*.
#AI

2026-02-01 09:45:57 UTC

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People are letting these things run wild, for the lulz, but they're legally liable for what they do. 🍿

2026-01-30 12:20:10 UTC

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I thought my app was broken. Wasted 30 minutes frantically deduplicating. 😂

2026-01-29 22:15:28 UTC

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One of the things I still need to fix is having the cover image show up in the Kindle app. At the moment, it's showing a generic cover or the first page, or something. That was working, before, but then I reprogrammed everything in Go, and it broke.
Golang was the right choice, tho. Anything else is too slow. This is already too slow. Need to speed it up, more. But I'm trying a Project Gutenberg mass-import first. Hope that doesn't crash the catalogue site. 😂
Probably have to do 1000 books at a time, or something.

2026-01-29 20:31:38 UTC

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Seems to be better. ☺
https://image.nostr.build/a5a6ecff3730eedc3ebabc6756a7c01a858ed4c2c2fee441ec4edf1479fdacb6.jpg

2026-01-29 20:24:54 UTC

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Okay, new version is up. Better?