2024 Q3 Report
Applesauce
I’ve been working on cleanup up a lot of the old crufty logic in noStrudel and as part of that process I’ve started breaking out a lot of the “event interpretation” layer into a new library applesauce
The goal with the library isn’t to build another “nostr SDK” but instead to only tackle the problem of how the UI layer of web apps should get data from events and update when new events are detected. Its still a work-in-progress but if your interested check out the docs (hopefully ill write some examples soon)
nsite
After SEC-02 I noticed @elta…cume created a project built on top of blossom called nsite which was a simple static website CDN using nostr to store the object paths and blossom to store the objects themselves
Because I don’t know python I decided to write my own implementation of it in typescript nsite-ts and started hosting it at https://nsite.lol
@florian also created super easy cli tool for uploading static sites to blossom servers called nsite-cli. If your a developer of a nostr web app I would encourage you to give it a try
I also opened my first NIP PR for static websites :D
Blossom
Thanks to @quentin, @80cv…h6w6, @Kieran, and @Anthony Accioly for opening PRs and contributing to the blossom spec. also thanks to everyone else who has shown interest in it. its awesome to watch it slowly grow
There are two more optional BUDs in the spec now
And a two breaking changes
noStrudel
I’m continuing to work on noStrudel and add new features and iron out bugs. I can’t list everything here but the next release of the app is shaping up nicely. you can see the changes here
Hyper SOCKS5 proxy
Mostly a weekend project but I created a SOCKS5 proxy for hyperDHT and holesail called hyper-socks5-proxy that uses a bech32 encoded version of the holesail “connection strings” (public keys) to make them compatible with traditional URLs hyper-address
If you want to give it a try you can run it using npx hyper-socks5-proxy start to run it locally and have a SOCKS5 proxy that can connect to any hyperDHT or holesail node
Full post here:
Well jokes on me because this code actually works, I just never finished it enough to fully test it
So without further ado I present to you Hyper SOCKS5 Proxy
This is a SOCKS v5 proxy server that can automatically connect to HyperDHT node and Holesail servers. This is cool because it lets any application that already supports SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies ( mainly web browsers ) to connect to hyper nodes
Let me show you can example
First we have to startup a http server and use holesail to make it available on hyper
Next, on a different machine we can connect to it using hyper-socks5-proxy and configure FireFox to use the proxy https://v.nostr.build/3bcbJMX7XbaWMdfA.mp4
NOTE: besides this example ( tested on my LAN ) I have not tested anything else. but in theory it should be possible to host relays over hyperdht
The reason I had to convert the hex connection string ( hyperdht pubkey ) into a bech32 address was because the maximum length for a domain name is 63 characters. and the connection string is 64… But encoding it to bech32 with a 4 character prefix makes it only 58. Its identical to how nostr npubs are encoded
Anyways here are the links to the code if you want to play around with it
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-address ( https://hzrd149.github.io/hyper-address/ ) https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-socks5-proxy https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-http-proxy
This is also available on my custom umbrel app store. If for some crazy reason you want to run my untested code on your lightning node ( please don’t ) https://github.com/hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store
#pear #hyperdht #holesail #proxy #socks5
Other experiments
CherryTree
A small app for uploading and downloading chunked files on blossom servers repo
Blossom HLS uploader
A half working cli tool to upload HSL videos to blossom servers repo
PoW note DVM
A simple content recommendation DVM that recommends notes with the most proof of work repo
Plans for Q4
- Release a working v1 of applesauce packages with documentation
- Release v0.42.0 of noStrudel and start next phase of refactoring the networking code
- Remove “app relays” from noStrudel and make it work entirely on the outbox model
- Try to make WebRTC relays work one last time (before I give up on it forever)
- Work with quentin and leo to release multiple types of paid blossom servers. and also build my own
- More noStrudel features? highlights? NIP-29? cashu wallet?
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