jb55

I made damus, npubs, and zaps ⚡️
Independent bitcoin core and lightning dev.
Owner of the oldest still running lightning node.
💍Nikki Sunset (npub1l0g…78fx)

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npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

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jb55.com

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nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgddsrfq

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2026-09-14 20:33:53 CEST

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done!

2026-09-14 20:33:09 CEST

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monero zaps don't make any sense though

2026-09-14 18:49:29 CEST

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looks nice

2026-09-14 18:46:22 CEST

we had payment targets on profiles (even if it was just bitcoin), noone used them. zaps and one tap zaps are what got people to send money.
if there's too much friction people won't use it. leaving the app to send some shitcoin that the receiver is not even notified of is a shitty experience.
i think generalizing zaps is a good idea though. no reason that we need bolt11 on there, but should probably be a different kind at this point.
#note1vd3…ycvn

2026-09-14 17:34:54 CEST

Idea: a lightning wallet interface where you can connect multiple nwc wallets and use it as a single wallet 🤔

2026-09-14 15:23:14 CEST

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its up now

2026-09-12 01:30:49 CEST

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I’ve been modifying oot decomp and adding new enemies to fight 🤓

2026-09-10 21:23:50 CEST

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🫡

2026-09-10 18:57:48 CEST

with llhls + cloudflare i can get my livestream latency down to around 1.5-2 seconds. amazing. would be nice if you could just click a button in damus and you could go live

2026-09-10 04:12:06 CEST

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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000786117598
Im listening to this, its quite good

2026-09-10 03:42:06 CEST

going for a walk. shill me an interesting podcast

2026-09-10 03:39:55 CEST

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if its not there you're logged in with your npub not nsec

2026-09-10 00:19:25 CEST

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why do people want this kind1111 thing so much. i dont get it.

2026-09-09 23:49:34 CEST

Build 1341 is out!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/urLbziKc
Thanks to @npub1hs5…5rx4 , @npub1ktn…7kn3 , @npub1aeh…4nwx for reporting some of these issues from the last build.
Also thanks koteitan for fixing a long-time bug in the composer.
• Fixed cursor jumping to the end of the text when pressing the iOS keyboard-switching button in the post composer (koteitan)
• A private reply received from another client no longer names its sender as the person it was sent to
• Copy note JSON is available on private replies and DMs again, in developer mode
• Fix search result highlights making matched hashtags unreadable
• Fix the wallet setup screen and the Zap explainer rendering on top of each other
• Shrink the tab bar unread indicator to a small dot
• Use damus purple for the tab bar unread dot
Only 325 testers on this testflight, gotta pump these numbers up folks.

2026-09-09 23:29:15 CEST

this is how i nostr
thanks @npub1ktn…7kn3 @npub1hs5…5rx4 for reporting issues. new testflight going out with those fixes https://i.nostr.build/JBZlL6voxlraGaethhmNwY.png

2026-09-09 22:52:12 CEST

i'm not immediately mad because i do like my pixel 9 pro fold for managing my ai fleet and code review on the go. its a bit hard to put an ipad in your pocket for that. https://i.nostr.build/5IYsQl6oJSWUjboXmp8Bgb.png

2026-09-09 19:29:19 CEST

goal for me right now is to tighten the user-to-depoy loop so that if a user as a bug fix or request, a nightly build should be out within an hour that that request fulfilled. i think i can do it.

2026-09-09 17:49:45 CEST

watching spammers get ip banned in realtime has been entertaining to watch. I think it would be even better if i added noteguard admin controls directly to damus ios/android so i can ip ban spammers on the go.
#nevent1q…crd5

2026-09-09 07:55:38 CEST

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https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck/releases/download/v0.10.0-beta.4/notedeck.apk

2026-09-09 07:50:02 CEST

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its even smoother on android

2026-09-09 07:17:19 CEST

damus relay should now be one of the least spammed relays. We aggressively ip ban people who try to write too many notes too fast.
Feel free to add it to your relay list again if you’ve had trouble with spam there in the past!

2026-09-09 07:16:33 CEST

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i decided to just go broke running it instead

2026-09-09 06:40:07 CEST

fuck you damus airdrop dipshit.
if you hit our rate limit too many times you now get ip banned for 1 hour.
cheers fuckface

2026-09-09 01:25:56 CEST

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Didn’t even know they had one

2026-09-09 00:39:01 CEST

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its entirely possible

2026-09-09 00:21:40 CEST

too lazy to buy groceries so ate a block of cheese

2026-09-08 22:23:07 CEST

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yes

2026-09-08 22:12:30 CEST

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thx boss

2026-09-08 22:11:35 CEST

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yes i have a button now where i can click a comment in notedeck and it will start working on a fix automatically

2026-09-08 21:54:06 CEST

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nice catch!

2026-09-08 21:21:49 CEST

going to expand the strfry plugin system into REQs to limit people who DoS relays read-bandwidth wise. will also be useful for users to register wasm REQ filters to filter stuff serverside before it gets to you

2026-09-08 19:57:47 CEST

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Haha they switched to tinyurl 😂

2026-09-08 07:10:59 CEST

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Nm, confirmed it worked! Although i just realize i don’t think i handle private replies to multiple people

2026-09-08 07:09:09 CEST

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i thought nostur had it? @npub1n0s…lahe maybe im misremembering

2026-09-08 06:48:14 CEST

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this is already fixed and will be in build 1339

2026-09-08 06:31:46 CEST

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i am told it is fixed https://media.thebadnerds.show/episodes/misc/share/wallet-broken-a11y-overlap-dark.png

2026-09-08 06:01:15 CEST

TestFlight is up! build 1337
https://testflight.apple.com/join/urLbziKc
- Fixed CoinOS wallet auth
- New glass toolbar on newer ios versions
- Profile search + advanced search
- Private replies
- Switched to new metadata-hiding DMs (NIP17), enable legacy DMs in settings
- Many performance improvements
Please let me know if you run into any issues

2026-09-07 22:10:31 CEST

porting the relatively large damus api javascript codebase into rust because why not anything is possible now https://i.nostr.build/o7381ssHDdSZWJDUQmbFNH.png

2026-09-07 21:33:22 CEST

nostr still insanely fun 5 years later

2026-09-07 21:14:15 CEST

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awesome! and we could have static nostr proxies as well

2026-09-07 21:12:17 CEST

i wanted a simple cache for damus android releases (which are pushed as zapstore-spec'd nostr notes) so that damus.io could fetch the latest releases and changelog automatically.
didn't want to rely on public relays which can be unreliable and slow to query from the web.
having a dedicated static endpoint backed by nostrdb that sources data relays would be awesome.
#note1fg5…j79t

2026-09-07 19:14:45 CEST

Does anyone reply on Nostr with voice to text? I’m not sure why I haven’t been doing this, but it seems a lot more efficient. Voice note to be cool too

2026-09-07 19:13:48 CEST

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What does it have to do with graphene?

2026-09-06 09:34:38 CEST

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aint noone sustaining on avo toast

2026-09-05 20:57:06 CEST

as i put together the new testflight for damus today, i've started working on a new damus purple feature: reliable video uploads of any size.
large video is notoriously unreliable on damus atm. this will fix that. it will enable uploading of fast loading, high quality video streams for your nostr content.
stay tuned.

2026-09-04 22:13:07 CEST

another useless side project just dropped https://media.thebadnerds.show/episodes/misc/tentacle/tentacle-ble/master.m3u8

2026-09-04 13:35:33 CEST

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all these do is generate synced time which get recorded into audio and video files. Allowing you to record on multiple cameras and mics separately so they are all in sync.
Will allow me to shoot high quality independent video streams instead of combining everything into a single low quality feed like i do now for @npub1r9m…d2jw .
This is called ISO recording

2026-09-04 07:52:23 CEST

new toys
https://i.nostr.build/cjhwv3zLtuF2DKR5wxUJAn.jpg

2026-09-04 07:14:52 CEST

Ok optimized it even more. Turns out there was lots of duplicate drafts around.
Think we’re finally ready for testflight now 🚀
https://i.nostr.build/m5I5tcDMzTdNybD8xqFfab.jpg
#nevent1q…2ung

2026-09-04 02:46:17 CEST

first pass at the new db compacting in damus. no startup compact. it actually prunes data now. here’s my db 11GB->700mb but i can get this down a lot more.
You can set a max storage size and it will keep your damus usage under that.
https://i.nostr.build/GOh1G4aaZEbSXBqHokprIc.jpg

2026-09-04 00:55:51 CEST

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Welcome! How did you find out about damus?

2026-09-02 20:08:31 CEST

nip04 just makes damus slow… now that we have giftwrap unwrapping in nostrdb i am just gonna rip out nip04 and replace it with giftwrap dms… its been long enough

2026-09-02 19:59:02 CEST

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yeah? but once i add pruning you will get less results until i add remote search which im doing soon

2026-09-02 19:50:58 CEST

advanced local search 👀 dropping in next testflight
https://media.thebadnerds.show/episodes/misc/share/advanced-local-search.mp4

2026-09-02 16:35:50 CEST

Here’s my report you fucking scammers @npub10pe…n34f
Me and my contributors you never seem to fund ship more code then all of the worthless projects you fund for your friends of your board.
Fuck you 🖕
https://damus.io/notedeck/notedeck-v0.11.0.html
#nevent1q…p78w

2026-09-02 16:20:58 CEST

Opensats is asking for a “refund” because i didn’t send a final report to their fraudulent organization. Pretty insane.

2026-08-31 23:45:42 CEST

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list of cool people looks like

2026-08-29 19:42:05 CEST

bedroom is way more fun now. addicted. https://media.thebadnerds.show/episodes/misc/wled/reactive-bedroom/master.m3u8

2026-08-28 17:48:28 CEST

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I think color would be fine as a rough analysis

2026-08-27 21:38:40 CEST

https://www.netflix.com/watch/83035795

2026-08-27 20:38:44 CEST

why the fuck is anyone still here. what is wrong with you.

2026-08-27 20:05:26 CEST

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LOL

2026-08-27 18:16:32 CEST

bounty still open plz hack me
#note1sc5…znrm

2026-08-27 16:00:09 CEST

https://i.nostr.build/rqsmRO2Pwjpc0HM53ECSDd.jpg

2026-08-27 15:17:08 CEST

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Will probably do an episode on this @npub1r9m…d2jw !

2026-08-27 07:20:25 CEST

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https://github.com/RealDeco/SendspinZero

2026-08-25 17:12:03 CEST

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nvk and miljan are neighbours and friends. makes sense.

2026-08-19 16:53:51 CEST

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both? vyvanse is best for productivity, but you gotta take it at like 6am or else it will wreck your sleep.
Its basically guaranteed flow state in a pill for 14 hours

2026-08-18 19:48:29 CEST

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i did already

2026-08-12 00:18:27 CEST

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I get these depending on the amount of cosmic ray activity. Bitcoin is a cosmic ray detector.

2026-08-11 14:09:07 CEST

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I had this before the concord protocol 😉 been sitting on it for a year just haven’t published it

2026-08-09 18:14:25 CEST

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yeah, we’re also replacing the current compact with a prune that will reduce the size more effectively

2026-08-08 23:47:11 CEST

longform editor / obsidian+notion clone is coming along https://i.nostr.build/0LnPtWPvQe4ROKvG.png https://i.nostr.build/N5QlR32grty8Cz5w.png https://i.nostr.build/mAWkas6idQHtdEjD.png

2026-08-07 02:00:20 CEST

coding harness and issue tracker is fully integrated with each other and work over nostr. runs off the relay in my home, no third parties needed. I build most of my software from my phone these days. Way more powerful than buzz and uses less tokens.
https://i.nostr.build/F0zk177QYRwSnpSO.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/c2SvNCPyLswUHiGJ.jpg

2026-08-05 20:48:45 CEST

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restarted it and ip banned some spammers

2026-08-03 14:59:41 CEST

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Reminder that odell and primal+miljan are linked to nvk. They are all close friends and investors in each other
nevent1qqsd673suncksd557pg7asun7gntc0pwrtvlnegm9advcqp6slawfrsxe0v2q

2026-08-02 21:14:50 CEST

runs

2026-07-31 20:58:47 CEST

I recently did a 2 tab lsd trip and the hallucinations were so intense my entire consciousness effectively collapsed into some kind of existential spiral. When i came out of it i was 1000% convinced i actually died and that the new consciousness i was experiencing was some kind of virtual afterlife because everything was cel-shaded, glitchy, and virtual.
I was like this for hours until the effect wore off and my brain started rendering things normally again.
I totally understand mkultra now, it can make you believe stuff that is completely fabricated by your mind. Never doing 2 tab again. Maybe.

2026-07-31 15:52:34 CEST

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We’re mostly goofs
https://i.nostr.build/MfWnwmEgVhcp4A6K.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/1LzTO7sd7qDA6BF4.jpg

2026-07-31 11:58:34 CEST

was it odell or nvk who hired you at opensats? or does it matter it’s one big ten31 circle jerk anyway. Lol.
“lets be nice to nvk’s company and ten31s portfolio companies so i don’t risk losing my cushy opensats job and nvk keeps inviting me to his private island cottage”
so many fake people in this space its hilarious
#nevent1q…w9kr

2026-07-30 11:49:28 CEST

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lol

2026-07-29 22:57:49 CEST

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what am i side stepping exactly?

2026-07-29 20:30:01 CEST

daily reminder that bip110 proponents are clueless
https://i.nostr.build/164uoYDzdlBs2pVk.jpg

2026-07-29 18:13:17 CEST

maybe i should keep it running after seeing how many people are using this event to promote their own products.
if you want to help support the damus relay please get a damus purple sub!
https://damus.io/purple/checkout/
let me know what custom relay features you would like to see as a purple user!
#note1efm…rl5h

2026-07-28 16:55:09 CEST

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Will look today, sry for delay

2026-07-24 15:58:15 CEST

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thx!

2026-07-23 19:32:17 CEST

adding a way for notedeck apps to provide "tools" that the browser agent/external ais can call to manipulate notedeck apps in realtime.
we already have a way for agents to interact with notedeck apps via the embedded relay and cli tools, but that is a bit annoying since you have to create cli tools and skill files for each app
now notedeck apps will automatically have their own set of tools that can be exposed to claude-code and codex agents by running `notedeck --mcp`.
Imagine if we built a nostr browser/OS that was agent-friendly by construction. where agents can automatically interact with any app/data on your system. that's the vision! demos soon.

2026-07-23 13:36:37 CEST

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thanks! Will take a look

2026-07-21 20:27:59 CEST

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where you opening from ?

2026-07-21 20:23:30 CEST

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https://damus.communities.buzz.xyz/invite/eyJjIjoiMGRmOGE3MTUtMmMyZi00ZWIzLWIyNzEtZGZkYTFhNmQ1ZjI4IiwiciI6Im1lbWJlciIsImUiOjE3ODQ5MTczOTUsIm4iOiJiQzdfcXloc3lwNnlDU3pPYk1Bd1lBIn0.D6Nyd5_1pXydDQpt6h71vf8XV1pDC5IeZwbwGFGHzZQ

2026-07-21 20:14:35 CEST

running buzz wss://damus.communities.buzz.xyz

2026-07-21 20:02:49 CEST

nostr is perfect for this. smart.
it's looks a lot of what i've been building for myself in notedeck: nostr-based agent identity, agentic project management, note taking, claude-code collaboration.
the slack-style realtime comms aspect is something i haven't integrated yet. may steal that.
this is our tech trojan horse!
#note135n…q3v7 https://i.nostr.build/2cRgcDmNzJBgfuXq.png https://i.nostr.build/2gne14wwFdU7IvDt.png https://i.nostr.build/h5BYHQ8j5H8EPpm5.png

2026-07-21 09:33:40 CEST

another experiment: i converted the ISO-screw openscad code to a blender mesh operator, so that i can cut screws into arbitrary geometry with a "slop" value so that it isn't too tight. programmable matter is very fun.
https://jb55.com/s/blender-threaded-cut.jpg https://i.nostr.build/uYHEeU1H1vJTTcUl.png

2026-07-21 01:54:51 CEST

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my son loves @npub1l0g…78fx ! best step mom. lots of love instead of fighting now.

2026-07-20 21:04:35 CEST

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i wanted to get the skill of making screws and screw holes into things I am making, so i have been practicing with creating them manually in openscad/blender

2026-07-20 20:10:10 CEST

asked claude to make my screw easier to grip. it updated my model with python code. very neat https://i.nostr.build/r8JRgy90Yk3E1w1a.jpg https://i.nostr.build/iokOn99G0fIJAkJp.png

2026-07-20 06:54:29 CEST

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lol

2026-07-19 17:28:12 CEST

she said yes @npub1l0g…78fx
https://i.nostr.build/HIjcpyUeUqtE0BNH.jpg

2026-07-19 01:27:15 CEST

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PLA Seems to be working ok for my desk magsafe charger clamp.

2026-07-19 00:54:15 CEST

more 3d printing fun. hooked claude code up to blender and openscad. it generated iso standard screws using BOSL2 and created a test screw + block for me. worked great. this will be useful for making my own clamped things. https://i.nostr.build/UrJdzsqc4ot1FbQH.jpg https://i.nostr.build/YoxWzPx3vTgiza9e.png