Why Bitcoin: The Base Layer of Freedom Tech
Two weeks in the Mediterranean, one question at every dinner table: why does a social media company need Bitcoin? The answer is about freedom, not price.
Self-hosted auto-moderation for Armada: meet Master-at-Arms
Armada Communities are serverless and end-to-end encrypted, so the relay can't moderate for you. Here is the bot we built to watch every message and act on spam in seconds, and how to run it yourself.
Leaving GitHub: A Decentralized Git Alternative on Nostr
GitHub is one company, one jurisdiction and one takedown notice away from your project being a 404. That is why we moved Armada off it and onto Nostr. Here is what actually replaced it, what it cost us, and why the daily loop is still just git push.
How to Self-host Armada: Open Source Discord Alternative
Armada communities already run without a host. Here is how to own the rest: the app you load, the relay your messages travel over, and the server your calls go through.
Buzz made me rethink how teams use agents
Block's new workspace put agents in the member list, and it clarified something we'd been stumbling toward for two years: agents should be themselves when they need to be themselves, and extensions of their humans when that's appropriate.
Nostr Forever
If your web client uses the nostr-tools relay pool, it’s been silently breaking your browser for years. Nobody could figure out why. We solved it last night with a single line of code.
Why it's not Annaxandria
Why we're putting books on Nostr, and not where they already are.
A Privacy Primer
A short introduction to what private messaging really is.
Concord vs. Nostr Relay Infrastructure
What Concord asks of a Nostr relay: why NIP-17 inbox relays are incompatible, what happens when relays prune or expire events, how invites work, and other consequences of its key-derived design.
Building an Armada: Our Voyage to Encrypted Communities on Nostr
NIP-04, NIP-17, NIP-29, Marmot, and now Concord. A personal account of every wall we hit trying to build encrypted communities on Nostr, and why we kept going.
Concord and NIP-29: Two Designs for Group Chat on Nostr
What the relay can see, how spam gets stopped, and whether push notifications work — the same three questions asked of both nostr group-chat designs, and the different strengths each buys with its foundational bet.
How Soapbox Ships So Fast: Our Stack, Our Tools, Our Workflow
People keep asking how a small team ships so many Nostr apps so fast. The honest answer: there's no secret. It's all open source, and it's all in our Toolbox. Here's the whole playbook.
TEBS Test
The Emergency Beaver System
Central Planning is a Problem for Charities
Why concentrated wealth is so terribly difficult to spend, even if you donate it.
Sidecar 🍸 A Classy, Multi-Identity NIP-07 Signer
I got my first browser extension accepted by the Chrome Web Store this week! 🎉
How to Disappear From the Surveillance Internet
The UK's under-16 social media ban means age-checks for everyone. Here's how to opt out with Nostr, Bitcoin, NostrVPN &
Project Alexandria
On the project to build the world's largest, digital library.
