jb55

I made damus, npubs, and zaps ⚡️
Independent bitcoin core and lightning dev.

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2026-01-19 18:30:18 UTC

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damus ios does this and it has eliminated most missing note issues. also helps notes propagate a bit better

2026-01-19 18:29:24 UTC

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i don't think they are mutually exclusive

2026-01-19 16:45:39 UTC

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yea you can build any client you want to render it of course. anywhere from text clients to 2d to 3d. Its going to build off my protoverse idea
http://git.jb55.com/protoverse/file/README.html

2026-01-19 15:39:37 UTC

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really? thats awesome. i had no idea

2026-01-19 09:23:01 UTC

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its a glb file (binary gltf)

2026-01-19 09:09:02 UTC

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there is nothing i can relate it to because nothing like it exists. Its an open protocol for shared virtual spaces, with an abstract representation that can be rendered in plaintext, 2d or 3d.

2026-01-19 08:58:43 UTC

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i’m not talking about some VR nonsense

2026-01-19 08:32:45 UTC

this may seem random/niche but it is really just a stepping stone to nostr virtual spaces, the real thing i want to build 🤓
#nevent1q…j8ku

2026-01-19 08:25:31 UTC

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its possible, its not done by us though. Its whatever the behavior of ios’ preview control is

2026-01-19 07:41:19 UTC

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cyclic cosmology

2026-01-19 02:35:01 UTC

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maybe you’re thinking of a web context? This is way more sandboxed than web graphics apis. The only exploit points are memory DoS (easily prevented with max file size limits) or exploits in the image loader. But these issues would already exist in existing image loaders we already use.
We don’t do any shader compilation or anything on remote resources.

2026-01-19 02:22:54 UTC

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all this code does is load gltf vertices and materials. I can’t see how you could attack that

2026-01-19 02:22:12 UTC

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gltf files can execute code? how so

2026-01-19 01:22:44 UTC

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sure i’m down

2026-01-19 01:04:14 UTC

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you inviting ?

2026-01-19 00:49:18 UTC

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too cold

2026-01-19 00:45:22 UTC

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I should go outside

2026-01-19 00:18:33 UTC

damus android/desktop can now render 3d models inside of posts. this is not an embedded video, its rendering a 3d object directly.
lmao
https://jb55.com/s/renderbud-notedeck-demo-2026-01-18_16.16.58.mp4

2026-01-18 22:40:37 UTC

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You have to send the user off the app to do purchases outside of Apple Pay ecosystem. Even this used to be not allowed until they were sued and lost

2026-01-18 21:01:24 UTC

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you should make them subissues, linear<>github syncs subissues now

2026-01-18 20:30:21 UTC

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its entirely possible

2026-01-18 20:00:22 UTC

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haven't really found many good ones, the only other one i found was robosats. they were all pretty low volume for my area

2026-01-18 19:56:09 UTC

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We should do this on android though @npub1fgz…jeck @npub1zaf…26k5

2026-01-18 19:55:42 UTC

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Apple doesn’t allow us to do that

2026-01-18 19:43:31 UTC

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all my experiences with it has been janky unfortunately

2026-01-18 19:42:15 UTC

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lol

2026-01-18 19:16:12 UTC

Found this in my drunk drafts:
“The casino <-> stripclub circular economy…”
Not sure where i was going with this

2026-01-18 18:04:22 UTC

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web tech wouldn’t be able to handle this amount of data or speed of the reports. this dashboard can process hundreds of gigabytes of data in realtime with no resident memory overhead. once the data is processed the first time, all of your system memory can be used for caching future runs, but its just the page cache so its instantly reclaimable by anything else on your system.
so yeah this is not web or slop, it state of the art local analytics tech. The ui is just a placeholder until i get a better design

2026-01-18 12:22:42 UTC

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yeah not sure if any client does this. Going to add it to damus android soon

2026-01-18 05:47:13 UTC

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i think if you like a dm ?

2026-01-18 05:46:42 UTC

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this is not nostr mail, this looks like email

2026-01-18 04:56:51 UTC

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i can't either. only amethyst can I think? maybe 0xchat

2026-01-18 04:37:28 UTC

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its the new not watching the news

2026-01-18 02:02:11 UTC

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I use Gemini and openai usually

2026-01-18 01:34:52 UTC

go Seahawks #sportsball

2026-01-18 01:33:42 UTC

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its such a good article I kind of want to, but seems cringe since it's obviously AI written

2026-01-18 00:46:12 UTC

When you think you have novel article idea and ai one shots it from a single sentence, and in a much better way of articulating it than your own thoughts. I’m just an NPC now
https://chatgpt.com/share/696c2cc6-1b3c-800f-b500-fe777b62ee05

2026-01-18 00:08:47 UTC

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whats questr

2026-01-17 23:48:26 UTC

if we separate the data representation of our world from rendering, we can build both 3d and plaintext clients
http://git.jb55.com/protoverse/

2026-01-17 23:43:58 UTC

nostr is already an mmorpg, we just don't have the client to show it yet

2026-01-17 23:42:04 UTC

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yup

2026-01-17 23:17:43 UTC

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this is a nip59 reaction. nip17 is a different kind

2026-01-17 22:57:52 UTC

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yeah

2026-01-17 22:50:29 UTC

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yes

2026-01-17 22:49:35 UTC

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yup, thats currently supported and will be in app store launch. at least reading them... still need a ui for creating them

2026-01-17 22:46:56 UTC

private reactions are cool https://i.nostr.build/ipjyNySQoi0bVmga.png

2026-01-17 22:44:27 UTC

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thinkpad standalone keyboard is the goat

2026-01-17 22:40:44 UTC

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afraid not. it is beyond the realm of whats possible with code

2026-01-17 22:34:01 UTC

👀🔎
https://i.nostr.build/zJy8qyJxLHEZe3Wx.jpg

2026-01-17 20:25:49 UTC

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would be cool, but not sure how useful. it's not hard to just read through it line by line. typing it out just forces me to go slower to digest everything

2026-01-17 19:11:12 UTC

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gm https://github.com/jb55/renderbud

2026-01-17 19:10:49 UTC

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yup

2026-01-17 18:02:00 UTC

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soon

2026-01-17 17:28:11 UTC

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no its not giftwraps, giftwraps are more complex

2026-01-17 17:22:19 UTC

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yup! nostrdb is fully integrated now. we've been mostly just working through the remaining quirks

2026-01-17 08:37:23 UTC

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yeah its nice you can actually target something that works on all platforms now

2026-01-17 08:02:58 UTC

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maybe eventually. for now I'm going to crash

2026-01-17 07:40:40 UTC

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should definitely support it, i think it just needs to get packaged in debian. not sure why the binary isn't working. you can always compile from source

2026-01-17 07:36:23 UTC

it works! built a wgpu rendering engine from scratch.
this works as a render pass so I should be able to draw arbitrary 3d models in damus android/desktop now. lol.
what if you could share models on a post like you can share images?
https://jb55.com/s/41ad12b02361727a.mp4
#note1ulj…wgwu

2026-01-17 03:17:25 UTC

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although this is a unique project, i'm making it build a wgpu game engine. there's a lot I don't know about building a rendering engine in wgpu so its very informative. learning a lot

2026-01-17 03:16:09 UTC

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i first put together a development plan, then I get it to implement it bit by bit. after I type it all out, I ask it to create a compact snapshot for the next stage.
I rinse and repeat. i do this all from the chatgpt web ui

2026-01-17 02:40:12 UTC

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definitely

2026-01-17 01:39:23 UTC

starting to practice a form of vibe coding where I am not allowed to copy and paste or let it modify any of my files directly. I have to manually type everything it generates.
benefits:
1. you understand all of the code, so that its easier to modify in the future.
2. you can make the code your own, fix bugs, tweak it, etc as you are implementing it.
it's a bit slower but the lack of #1 is my biggest complaint about vibe coding.
symbiote programming?

2026-01-16 23:38:15 UTC

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they’re too much of a ceremony imo

2026-01-16 23:04:53 UTC

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i think top-down moderation runs into the same issue as "trust and safety teams" that try to make decisions on behalf of a large groups of people, which is not compatible with a decentralized project.
don't want to see twitter mob spam? just filter it. provide this filter to anyone interested in contributing.
are you an angry twitter mob person who feels like they want to have their voice heard? turn off the filter.
how does this not solve the problem for everyone

2026-01-16 23:02:17 UTC

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the coolest thing about nostr is that you can have decentralized moderation:
eg. clients that filter based on web of trust
let's say you only want to see core contributors and their friends. a client could do this automatically

2026-01-16 22:56:14 UTC

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the main thing that would make me switch would be really good project management tools (like linear.app) where the nostr issues are the source of truth.
i also like the idea of having all of our PR/patch submission tooling outside of github, and something that isn't email since that was too difficult for our contributors

2026-01-16 22:46:48 UTC

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I will wait when there are hundreds of clients built around giteas portable database schema 🙄
nostr data mobility and uniformity is kind of the entire point.

2026-01-16 22:44:15 UTC

starting to add a few more metrics to the dashboard based on what your node has seen.
once we have WoT merged in nostrdb we'll be able to filter the dashboard based on your web of trust in realtime.
could be a cool way to visualize the activity of the network with respect to your friend groups, etc.
https://jb55.com/s/realtime-dashboard-2-2026-01-16_14.40.24.mp4

2026-01-16 22:18:02 UTC

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accurate

2026-01-16 20:20:40 UTC

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i think the git nostr spec is agnostic to where the git server is hosted. from what I remember when I was testing it, it's just a way to publish git repo metadata and issues

2026-01-16 20:17:45 UTC

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they should use private note storage spec for things like this

2026-01-16 20:00:03 UTC

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if we can get an npub we can see what's up

2026-01-16 18:56:56 UTC

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maybe following hashtags?

2026-01-16 18:08:50 UTC

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thats what I'm thinking, minus dvms
#nevent1q…tqsl

2026-01-16 18:06:57 UTC

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notifications work fine, what client you using?

2026-01-16 18:05:23 UTC

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I had a funny thought: technically I can't include these assets in my game since that would be illegal and Nintendo would sue me... but what if assets were hosted on blossom servers. then you could walk into someone's house and it's all animal crossing assets. would be hilarious

2026-01-16 17:52:16 UTC

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the Dave avatar is actually a small example of this. it's a mini game engine that renders hundreds of small cubes. works great. just need to flesh it out

2026-01-16 17:48:14 UTC

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there's also a reason there is not a single production-quality game in bevy. noones wants to build a game in that format. i looked at some and the code was horrible and inflexible.

2026-01-16 17:43:43 UTC

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and I need this to be wgpu renderpass middleware so I can use it within notedeck

2026-01-16 17:43:05 UTC

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i have created like 6 game engines it's not that much work. it's nicer when you are not fighting some other persons preferred way of building a program

2026-01-16 17:37:53 UTC

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would make sense to have a relay for this yeah

2026-01-16 17:29:42 UTC

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Did you do this reply in damus?

2026-01-16 17:23:09 UTC

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rust ecs just tends to be is just SoA + dependency injection. if you need spatial acceleration data structures you can't use it so now you have data in two places.
i just prefer writing programs like normal and use SoA + simple component system

2026-01-16 17:16:37 UTC

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I don't need ECS and I can't embed it as a render pass. so i can't use it

2026-01-16 17:10:47 UTC

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all notes or some ?

2026-01-16 17:04:43 UTC

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its not a service, it is just notes on relays

2026-01-16 17:00:39 UTC

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no, there is no dm service

2026-01-16 17:00:02 UTC

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nice! yeah that's the plan. a virtual world built up by nostr notes. build your home in cyberspace via nostr notes. hang out with your friends + proximity chat. leave generic notes in people's homes, etc.
an animal crossing cozy aesthetic would be cool as well

2026-01-16 16:57:23 UTC

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you can do that if the data you're using is only in the index. I'm building up multiple reports for a bunch of different data (client tags, etc). so I need every note. makes sense to just walk the notes table.
I added a query plan that does this walk only for empty filters atm.
I am going to add index-only folds for if you don't need the note data (like for counts)

2026-01-16 16:05:39 UTC

in my evenening I've started working on yet another side project: a rust wgpu game engine for a nostr metaverse game.
I really like animal cross new horizon assets, so I found a dump of them online and using them in my prototype to test my physics based rendering.
not sure if I'll ever finish this, but its been fun to hack on a game engine again
https://jb55.com/s/2d0f71cfad51d578.png

2026-01-16 16:01:14 UTC

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looks like we need to broadcast notes you're replying to @npub1fgz…jeck

2026-01-16 16:00:04 UTC

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some of the reports need the notes (kind counting) so its faster to walk the notes table itself, not the index.
if you're just counting alone, you could just walk the index. in theory it could be slightly faster since it's not paging in as much data (assuming lmdb pages in values next to keys), but i don't think it would be a huge difference.

2026-01-16 15:56:32 UTC

that's a shame 💅
#note1yh7…mcy2

2026-01-16 07:17:43 UTC

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cool thanks, will check it out

2026-01-16 03:41:17 UTC

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yes i plan on doing that next. once it runs once, i just update the filter + modify the existing state. can update in realtime incrementally

2026-01-16 02:37:03 UTC

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here's the current fold for the dashboard. it can do this without allocating any memory since its just all pointers getting passed around. i really like this streaming pattern. going to start using it for more things
https://jb55.com/s/11f87475aa74cf20.png

2026-01-16 02:32:23 UTC

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this is counting all the notes in my database so yeah. but its also doing all of the reports during the same scan.
the details of how this works is here:
https://github.com/damus-io/nostrdb-rs/pull/58

2026-01-16 02:29:37 UTC

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can't see the note you're replying to

2026-01-16 02:27:29 UTC

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gets bad when you have a lot more notes:
at 192 nanoseconds per note, (~5 million notes per second) it would take about 7-10 seconds for 40 million notes, and 2 minutes 30 seconds+ to build a report on the entire history of nostr. not ideal, but not too bad.
at least the ui is incremental so you could see the report update in realtime.