jb55 on Nostr: Finding myself implementing postel’s law in damus even when it feels wrong: “be ...
Finding myself implementing postel’s law in damus even when it feels wrong: “be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others”
When damus sees @npub it will parse it now, even though its not spec’d. It leads to a less confusing behaviour for users. There is some ancient wisdom in internet protocols that I didn’t appreciate fully until now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principlePublished at
2023-09-01 17:12:45 GMTEvent JSON
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