Please discount relays like nos.lol of relay.band as #outboxes. Otherwise, you fill everyone's replies up with spam.

When you wonder why some particular npub suddenly and inexplicably completely hates your guts and follows you around, ranting at you, for hours, over the course of days, telling anyone willing to listen, that you can't code and are a clueless idiot and need to show the Important People more respect, and any criticism you voice is completely unfounded...

And then you see that Primal has put them on the Official Recommendation List.

Follow lists are the solution to the problem of finding some particular subset of items (in this case, npubs) within a very large set. A set the size of "all Twitter users" or "all Instagram users", for example.

They are a solution to a problem we do not have.

Our problem is the opposite:

We have lots of disparate data sets and need to find particular items somewhere in them.

I've renamed my ebook utility to "Sybil", to reflect its increasing powers. Now also publishes longform articles (Markdown) and wiki pages (Asciidoc). Added some utilities, like broadcasting and fetching. Delete is best-try.

GM

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Due to the donations we have received, we can now lower the prospective monthly relay fee down to 1250 sats.

The fundraiser continues. Once it's complete, we can offer the git server for 500 sats per month, which is less than fifty cents. Enough to keep out spam and cover the relay costs, not enough to prevent someone from renting space on the machine.

TESTING INTO THE VOID

Hello, Nostr world! (direct sovbit relay)

Hello from a specific relay (with recordResult)!

@npub16p8...fhdw Thank you! I'll update the relay price, again, later. 🫂

GM

If you are a developer or wanna-be developer within driving-distance of Germany, this is a great project to contribute to, as we #meetup in real life and have a lively online group you can join.

Just tell @npub1pur...zkzp that you'll be coming, so that we can reserve a big enough room. And then show up on May 17, at the coworking space in Berlin, with your laptop! 🧑‍💻

Let's build Nostr together, because #Zusammenkommen matters.

The full text of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, already on 74 relays.

#Realy is one of our favorite projects. Mleku's being a big help, including with explaining how some of the relay/backend stuff works and algorithm development.

Is primal.net severely throttled for people who aren't logged in?

GM 🥰

I have a couple of little side-projects, that I'm building to do test stuff, but I apparently can't resist the urge to turn them into full-fledged products, in their own right. 😂

Programming with Cline-support in VS Codium.

It's tedious to get it to build what I want (on the first try, and it would need to be the first try, to be faster than I am), although writing the request in Gherkin scenarios and adding lots of reference material helps. Then I page through the changes, slowly, rewriting stuff at each step, nudging it toward the desired architectural and programmatic goal.

I'm completely underwhelmed by its ability to bug-fix, but it does a great job on documentation and unit tests. Integration tests are not very good, but that's my specialty, so that's okay. I might just start having it generate Gherkin automation, based upon my hand-written scenarios (which are the core of the development, not the code, as they determine what the user will experience).

The minor release, with bouts of manual intervention, manual expansion, manual test data creation, and manual testing, took 14 hours. Which is slightly faster than completely manual. The end result is slightly better code than I can write, with fewer minor errors, and the test coverage is much higher.

I'm next going to try a process, to see if I can make it more-efficient and get it to produce higher-quality results:

* manually write scenarios,

* manually create test data and tests,

* ask it to change the code to pass the tests and fulfill the scenarios,

* manually test everything,

* have it refactor everything,

* run the tests, again,

* have it expand the tests to cover the new stuff,

* run the tests, again,

* manually test,

* have it correct/add documentation,

* run the tests, again,

* have it refactor, again,

* run the tests, again,

* manually test,

* push to master,

* faint in exhaustion.

Minor release of my uploader, with some essential upgrades, unit tests, and a complete redesign. Still just a minor release because I will be adding wikis and long-form article processing, as well as folder-based 30040 structures, and some other stuff, and that'll be the 0.2 release. Everything I'll need to produce test data for #Alexandria's Gutenberg edition.

Inching my way there. GN