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New Flotilla release, version 1.2.3 is out — highlights include an in-app onboarding flow and bunker login to reduce user confusion, bugfixes and other UX improvements.

https://flotilla.social

• Add created_at to event info dialog
• Add signer status to profile page
• Re-work bunker login flow
• Add in-app onboarding flow
• Only protect events if relay authenticates
• Filter out non-global chats from global chat
• Improve publish status indicator
• Fix encrypted upload content type
• Add relays to event details dialog
• Add universal link handler for apps

"Just as liberalism discusses and negotiates every political detail, so it also wants to dissolve negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion."

• Carl Schmidt

Public schools use laptops instead of desktops so that tech companies can addict kids earlier, and leftists can indoctrinate kids more effectively

Just released on

, my interview with Joel Salatin!

https://fountain.fm/episode/30V3THiSvV4tqhX5UQQS

Really excited about this one. Thanks to

for the intro.

If you haven't read Building Nostr because for some reason a full book is too scary, I have good news for you: I am re-publishing excerpts from the book as standalone blog posts.

First one is up:

want to come on TGFN and talk about the amethyst re-write and outbox?

Just ran almost 19 miles and there is no part of me that does not hurt

Turns out it's

. I've had 200 hits for their profile in the last 10 minutes.

any idea what's going on here?

Capitalism isn't bad, monopolistic corporations are Government isn't bad, unaccountable government is Technology isn't bad, externally imposed systems are

Just thinking out loud here

How I feel working with NIP 29

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/41iVm_57yyc

This is a commentary on the delegation of agency to machines, written in 1973, but maybe relevant for all you vibers out there.

"It is now time... to shake off the illusion that men are born to be slaveholders and that the only thing wrong in the past was that not all men could be equally so."

• Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality

The proliferation of "AI assistance" in professional settings is going to result in increased alienation from work, worsening an already acute crisis of meaning and purpose. The depressed workers on whom AI relies for direction and agency will get less and less done, resulting in a reduction, rather than an increase, in actual productivity.

Just discovered that I accidentally banned myself from nostr by adding a - tag to my kind 0

The new "not everything has to be kind 1" is "not everything encrypted has to be kind 14"

Got some pretty sweet central-american-gang-member-style back tattoos going on today

Finally tried out Primal on Android and... I see why the hype. They've nailed the UX 95% of the time. The reads tab is especially pleasant. Soe bugs/suggestions for @miljan a team:

• Scrolling the feed naturally often opens the side nav. Dial that gesture down.
• I've always hated twitter-style notification pages. Take a look at coracle's notifications page for a (imo) much more helpful notifications view. Noy only does it show context, but it also ends up acting as a readable digest.
• I had to bail when writing this note because the note compose screen was missing keyboard input. Like, I had to type the same letter multiple times for it to register, and then it stopped working altogether.

Primal is almost a completely different experience from coracle, down to what content shows up. Sort of dicey too on the explore tab. But great work, really.

The more I learn about @jack the more I like the guy

stacks is the best experience I've had so far with vibe coding. Your recent work is really... interesting. Want to come on the podcast and talk about it?

Seems to me effective vibe coding is less about telling the llm what to do than creating an environment in which it can thrive. Just like any form of life it has to exist within a given context in order to orient itself, otherwise it is without purpose and only represents mere possibility. The job of the vibe coder is to allow the llm to self actualize.

But don't listen to me yet, all my vibez are garbage so far.

I think you have a caching bug on Fountain, episodes that have been deleted are still showing up on the

feed

I've been using regular shaving cream for years. Today I finally looked at the label and saw sodium lauryl sulfate and propane. But thanks to

and the circle P I knew just what to do: visit soapminer.com and trade a few precious sats for pine tar tallow soap.

the internet is a dog's breakfast always on silenced, scrutinized, leave a review never off abandoned, harried, simulated authentic fakery counterfeit living attention absorbed, inner externalized, meaning mocked

what was is what I am what I am is what will be remember, in order to become imagine, in order to act memory stagnates imagination wanders inertia? or chaos decline, decay, or the queering of the self or: roots and leaves Chesterton's fence, and new ones too

I am not alone reality is witnessed politics is for virtue politics is for happiness we build the city and melt into its form the rule of man the rule of man becoming the image measured, weighed, wanting the gathering of form exports chaos inertia. nirvana. death. just wait

spoken nature groans to be filled with what? God speaks: freedom man answers Man speaks: freedom nature answers created, redeemed suspended, enveloped transcendence: reality

the fire on the altar the garden in the city a crown on the forehead work is prayer a whole, burnt offering unmade, remade, revealed

the internet unmakes: a more perfect liquefaction remakes: the digital native reveals: the sovereign individual politics, culture, community yes, but technology reformed

To contextualize the adoption of cryptography:

• Public key crypto was invented in 1976

• Bitcoin was invented in 2009, 33 years later

• In 2025 (49 years later), cryptography is still a niche topic

• The printing press was invented around 1440

• By 1470 (30 years later), a handful of presses had been established in major cities

• In 1500 (60 years later), there were only 417 presses

• By the 1550s (110 years later), printing presses were in use globally

Transformational technologies go through a period of obscurity, then centralized control, then eventually become universally accessible. My hope is that we are just coming out of the centralized control phase of cryptography and the internet.

New project just released: Compass 🧭

For a long time I've wondered how bad things would be if

's wss://purplepag.es relay went down, since it's the only dedicated kind 10002 indexer I'm aware of, and is heavily relied on for bootstrapping user relay selections, which is a key part of keeping nostr decentralized.

So I stood up another one at wss://indexer.coracle.social. Regular users don't need to do anything, but I encourage client developers to add this to your list of relays you check for NIP 65 kind 10002 relay selections.

I've also open-sourced the project at https://github.com/coracle-social/compass so anyone who wants to can run their own.

The project also supports mirroring other indexers via strfry router, but I have left that as an opt-in feature. Unless you expect significant load on your indexer, mirroring would only increase the number of unnecessary connections made to other indexers, so please be considerate when setting up mirrors.

Had to use discord today, and wow it is evil. The notifications bell showed a red dot, so I clicked on it. No notifications, but a non-default "for you" tab showed a notification dot, so I clicked on it. The dot then disappeared, and I got a nice fiendly [sic] "Nothing here yet" message.

Treat your users with respect.

'nother Coracle version out (0.6.17) 🐠

• Fix reaction notifications crash
• Show web of trust badge on DM items
• Make name on messages clickable
• Remove duplicate dependencies
• Add relays to note options form

Just implemented 8-bit RSA by hand for fun, AMA

I'm reading a history of asymmetric cryptography right now ("Crypto" by Steven Levy), and my mind is being repeatedly blown by the origins, odds, and success of the movement. Everything we're doing with nostr started in the 1970's! And yet we somehow still don't have widely-used, decentralized electronic mail that checks both boxes of the original RSA paper:

we must ensure that two important properties of the current “paper mail” system are preserved: (a) messages are private, and (b) messages can be signed.

The question that keeps coming to mind is this: what happened between 1996 and 2009? Once individual rights to cryptography was established, did the movement die out? Why did no one build out access to cryptography for the average internet user? Yes, SSL is ubiquitous, but it's still controlled by a cabal of root certificate issuers.

I know there was ongoing work that led to bitcoin, and XMPP is an obvious exception, but even so I am stunned that 50 years after the invention of public key cryptography we still don't have widespread, meaningful adoption. Keys are limited to technical users, and encryption is mediated and undermined by centralized platforms.

For those with some perspective on this history: are we in the midst of a cryptography renaissance? Did bitcoin kick off a resurgence of interest in digital privacy? Or is that just my own bias at play?