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GM Nostr!
Just learned yesterday that swift has recently brought over some of the missing pieces of Foundation to open source side. This is great. Now with just a little finesse my swift Nostr Libraries should work across apple/linux/windows platforms. 😃 The missing piece was some of the networking api's like URLSessionWebSocketTask which is used in NostrClient. This allows me to only have a single third-party dependency in my libraries. (secp256k1.swift).
Down the road I will bring Seer to Linux and Windows Desktop.
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation

2024-08-12 22:51:56

Totally agree. That's what Im doing with @npub1see…exkf. Building a group chat client on top of Nip-29.
#note1x06…rkfd

2024-08-10 15:34:44

Here's a quick video of @npub1see…exkf from startup and importing key. Still a lot todo, but coming along 😃 https://m.primal.net/Jupd.mp4

2024-08-10 14:49:15

If you’re into retro gaming and computers you’ll love this movie.
https://youtu.be/_0PwMNAkEgk?si=mfdoA1GqmN8O5243

2024-08-10 04:26:12

This cannot stand!
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/08/09/kamala-running-mate-tim-walz-imposed-95-percent-tax-on-zyn-in-minnesota/

2024-08-08 18:32:45

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Not a fan of RN. Feels like duct tape and fishing wire holding it all together. Dependencies galore. Feels like a security nightmare. Flutter and dart code feels overly verbose to write.
I’m biased because I’m a swift developer, but building with the native platform tools seems to always produce performance and results. Of course this means you need two codebases, however even that will be easier to maintain imo.
I also believe that in terms of UI, you don’t want it to look exactly the same across Android/iOS. Android users expect it to feel like a native Android app and iOS users expect it to feel like an iOS app. The platforms have their own UI nuances.
https://skip.tools is worth looking at though.
Nothing against RN and flutter devs. You do you, just not my cup of tea.

2024-08-08 01:18:10

Very grateful to be a part of this! 🙏
@npub1see…exkf full steam ahead!
#note1jp4…c6sk

2024-08-08 01:17:24

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Whoops! Meant to quote the @npub10pe…n34f post. Lol

2024-08-08 01:15:58

Very grateful to be a part of this 🙏
@npub1see…exkf full steam ahead!
#note1r2q…ws78

2024-08-07 18:33:04

This is amazing. Open source for the win! 🙏
#note1px4…jl20

2024-08-05 23:04:27

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zero-confirmation peeps in shambles...

2024-08-05 18:21:36

Very cool! Congrats Terry!
#note1pwa…5n9j

2024-08-04 15:48:13

If anyone remembers the JavaScript game framework impact you will love this. The guy rewrote it in C. It’s super simple and targets Mac, Linux, Windows and wasm.
https://github.com/phoboslab/high_impact

2024-08-03 19:22:45

This is amazing. 🙏
#note1px4…jl20

2024-08-03 18:36:15

Enjoying the sun and beach this weekend but can’t keep my mind off of nip29. 😅

2024-08-01 16:25:21

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A nip29 Relay-based Groups client. It's still under heavy development and not ready for use yet.
https://seerapp.chat

2024-08-01 16:20:23

My open heart surgery of Seer yesterday seems to be success so far. I eliminated a ton of complexity around how data is stored and in relay management.

2024-07-31 17:18:20

Hey! Guess what? SwitData seems to have a bug where you can't use predicates with UInt16. 😅 Thanks Apple!
ffs. Anyways, storing kind as Int works.

2024-07-31 16:04:45

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I haven't used value transformers before. Im going to look into them though.
Right now I have a handful of models that I create from events as they come in, then store them into SwiftData, but that code is getting overly complicated. So before I dig too deep Im experimenting with something that may or may not work.
Instead of having all these different SwiftData models, Im simply storing a single model for the event. Almost as it would be stored on a relay. One addition to the model is that I serialize the tags into a single special formatted string since trying to use a predicate on nested arrays might get messy.
The idea is that this keeps my data model more simple as well as code path where I store these events.
Then I will use the queries to map the stored event's into their more detailed object where needed.
The unknown I have now is if doing this will cause too much overhead on the UI. I just don't know yet, but my code is early enough that I can try it and if it works as I hope it does it simplifies the code around this a lot.

2024-07-31 15:45:29

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Yeah, it's missing somethings that would make life easier like conditional update/insert, explicit indexes ( I think it does some automatic indexing) and dealing with migrations seems more complicated than it should be. That said, it integrates so nicely with SwiftUI for me it's hard to not give it a go. Im going to keep going with it for now. The unknown for me is performance. I haven't had any issues there yet, but I haven't pushed it.
My fallback option will probably be Realm which I've used in the past and is quite nice.

2024-07-31 15:36:19

GM Nostr!
Fighting with SwiftData this morning. When using predicate's for queries, etc it absolutely does not like computed properties. A pain in the ass. I really want SwiftData to work though because it so tightly integrates with SwiftUI.

2024-07-30 15:38:09

GM Nostr! Back to the grind!

2024-07-29 17:59:05

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Anytime! SwiftUI is my jam so feel free to reach out anytime. 😃

2024-07-29 15:51:21

GM Nostr! Bitcoin conference was fun. Was fun to meet people I know from here in real life like @npub1xts…kk5s.
Now it's time to get back to building! 😉

2024-07-27 01:45:19

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Time for Trump to one up him.

2024-07-27 01:39:36

Anyone have an extra After Party ticket? 😅. Didn’t pick one up before they sold out.

2024-07-25 16:05:31

I’m gonna be a day late, but I’m ready and we’ll see everyone tomorrow! 😀
https://m.primal.net/JdyN.jpg

2024-07-25 14:52:40

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Just purchased the 12x16. 🙏

2024-07-23 16:46:27

Let’s go! 🙏
#note1ykt…u3x6

2024-07-22 19:41:36

Got my extra Bitkey wallets in today. They were on sale for $25 last week. Bought 4 of them to give to family members. Bitkey is really a great introductory wallet.
Thanks @npub1sg6…f63m

2024-07-22 17:37:41

Gm Nostr! Please follow myself and @npub1see…exkf for updates on Seer development!

2024-07-18 15:17:40

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Will do!

2024-07-17 20:58:40

https://music.apple.com/us/album/enough-for-you/1738387572?i=1738387575

2024-07-17 20:04:24

Booked flights for Nashville!
Any fellow nostr devs going? Where are you guys staying?

2024-07-16 17:36:46

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Very interesting. Right now for Seer Im using SwiftData as the backing local db. Connections and subs are created like normal and then pushed into it. Locally I have live queries to SwiftData. It's actually working well so far, but I haven't really been able to stress it with data yet. So we will see... 😅

2024-07-16 17:05:24

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This is cool. Im interested more how this works at a high level. Do you have a local relay that then talks with all the other relays specified by the user? So note deck simply queries the local relay and as things come in from other relays they are shown?

2024-07-15 17:44:52

Im going to be focusing on on-boarding for Seer this week. It's crucial that I get this part right. It needs to be easy for new nostr users and experienced nostr users to get up and running.

2024-07-15 17:25:29

GM Nostr! Let’s get it!

2024-07-13 16:00:38

Gm Nostr!
https://m.primal.net/JOcM.jpg

2024-07-13 00:30:35

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I’m coming! Had someone gift me an open source pass. Hopefully I won’t have any issues. 😅
I’ll be easy to find with this shirt.
https://m.primal.net/JOcM.jpg

2024-07-12 20:06:53

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Thanks! Im hopping that I can get a confirmation from @npub16vr…p2va or someone in the know that I can in fact use the ticket QR that was gifted to me. 🙏

2024-07-12 16:17:47

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Can anyone confirm? @npub16vr…p2va Im going to promote Seer and Nostr. Think I'll have any issue using Terry's QR code for the pass? 😅

2024-07-12 15:43:19

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Oh man are you serious? 🙏🙏
Is it transferable? That would be amazing.

2024-07-12 15:39:18

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Yeah this is my first time going to a conference. I’ve been asking around about tickets but no luck so far. Trying to decide if the cheapest pass would be sufficient or if I should go for the industry pass. That’s a lot of sats!

2024-07-12 15:29:28

So I’m think I’m going to Bitcoin Nashville but the tickets are outrageous! Even the cheapest pass. Is it worth going if I just get the Festival pass?
Also where should I stay?

2024-07-11 16:34:12

Gm Nostr!
Had a much needed date night with the wife last night!
https://m.primal.net/JNBl.jpg

2024-07-10 20:11:53

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Good to hear! Im stuck on macOS for now as I build Seer, but I have a love for Linux. 😉 Will get back to it eventually.

2024-07-10 19:52:46

Zed for Linux is out!
I use Zed on Mac for anything non swift related. It’s a great editor!
Haven’t tried it on Linux yet, but I assume it works great!
https://zed.dev/linux

2024-07-10 16:53:31

Dropped the kid's of with their grandparents last night. My wife and I are going to stay in downtown Durham for the day and night and enjoy some time off! 🥂

2024-07-10 15:45:25

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Yes, seems to be fixed! 🙏

2024-07-10 15:36:59

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Hey 👋
So, I started Lume this morning and there was an update.
After the update actually the UI seems better. Before I did the update I was seeing stuff like this.
https://m.primal.net/JMMd.jpg
Im playing around with it now and those issues seem to be gone. It think UI is actually quite pleasing. Right now, I think my biggest issue is it's a bit confusing. However, that could just be because Im used to more "twitter" like UI's. I never really used Tweetdeck which I think this is similar too. I'll keep using it though and see how it goes!
I think there is a lot of promise here. 😃

2024-07-10 03:49:25

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🔥🔥. Peak UI design

2024-07-10 02:19:30

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Yup don’t disagree, used it quite a bit years ago, just not my favorite 😀

2024-07-10 02:03:48

C# is not exactly my favorite language, but this terminal GUI framework looks like 🔥
https://gui-cs.github.io/Terminal.GuiV2Docs/
https://m.primal.net/JLqp.mov

2024-07-09 20:23:50

Thinking about attending the Bitcoin conf at the end of the month. Just a short flight from here.

2024-07-09 19:59:24

https://music.apple.com/us/album/ember-city/866402572?i=866402591

2024-07-09 14:03:26

GM Nostr! I think I’ll stream just a little more gamedev today before getting back to Seer 🙏

2024-07-09 00:35:18

Amen! 🙏
#note1up6…j2vy

2024-07-08 19:00:39

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Agree with this for the most part. That’s why with Seer (nip29) client I’m focusing on public chat. Once I get that working well I’ll investigate private chats.

2024-07-08 18:41:11

Totally agree!
#note1qrm…frju

2024-07-08 15:21:01

Streaming some fun game dev this morning.
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrjdmyx4nxzenz95cnyerp956rgvtr95urzefe95cnjef5vcmrxwryx4snyqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensxxag8p

2024-07-08 14:54:26

Thinking about streaming a little game project for fun this morning before I get back to Seer. Anyone interested?
😅

2024-07-07 21:11:17

This is fantastic!
#note1hnh…rnkn
https://ismyhc.npub.pro

2024-07-06 00:31:28

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Here’s video of price change animation. It’s subtle but awesome.
https://m.primal.net/JIzj.mov

2024-07-06 00:24:52

Visual update on my Apple TV Bitcoin price app. I’ll post the repository soon. The best part is how the price animates as it changes in real time. 😀
https://m.primal.net/JIza.jpg

2024-07-05 21:05:41

Took a little detour today. I wanted to play around with SwiftUI's contentTransition effect. This can be used to animated text super easily. Think text rolling in as changes happen.
So, I wrote a quick little Apple TV app which simply gives you the real-time Bitcoin price. It just connects up Bitfinex's public web socket api. I'll probably release it soon just for the heck of it. I will also make it open-source.
Back to Seer. 😉
https://image.nostr.build/bac1bf6e3d59525a555ab40e9da2c8cea044f3eca0eec834dd4b89ca9874a9d7.jpg

2024-07-05 15:37:43

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I tried this recently and while it has promise, the UI is wonky to me. Not bashing on the dev, I just think it needs some UI love.

2024-07-05 15:36:23

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Hmm. Well if you’re just doing forums then maybe nip72 is better in your case.

2024-07-05 14:45:10

GM Nostr! 🙏

2024-07-05 00:23:43

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Right so as I understand it.
You have Group as top level, the kind 11 would be topic root then kind 12 would replies to the topic.
General (group)
- Cool ideas (kind11)
- some reply (kind 12)
- some other reply (kind 12)
Something like that.

2024-07-04 23:10:35

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Right now working with @npub180c…h6w6 and his implementation.
https://github.com/fiatjaf/relay29
I’m not sure any other relays support it yet.

2024-07-04 23:07:42

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Yeah I’ll be honest, I’m only really interested right now in public groups. That’s the main focus in the beginning and agree that Nostr is inherently public. The goal really for Seer is to become a really good public group chat. I would absolutely love to see nip29 support in strfry.

2024-07-04 21:21:00

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Ps. I meant kind 11/12

2024-07-04 18:34:53

Happy 4th of July to all United States citizens! Take a break, enjoy this day with your family 🙏

2024-07-04 16:35:42

I had a revelation yesterday afternoon. I was going back over nip29 and trying to make sense of kind 10,11. They are described as "This is the basic unit of a microblog root text note sent to a group." and threaded version. This confused me, however after speaking with @npub180c…h6w6 I realized the more accurate meaning which as that kind 10/11 are meant to facilitate what we know as a forum. Wow! This is an amazing discovery to me. Not only does nip29 bring support for simple chat groups, but also groups which have threaded forum posts. I absolutely love this and am more excited about nip29 than ever before!
Today is gonna be an off day for me as I spend time with the family, but when I get back I will be integrating this forum functionality into Seer. Cheers everyone!

2024-07-04 15:54:54

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GM!

2024-07-04 15:54:31

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Hey I’m just glad they used Swift! However looks like UIKit to me. I’m doing all SwiftUI 😅

2024-07-04 15:35:39

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Interesting, that's the first I've ever heard of it. Im not sure I would consider it identical. Seems to me the biggest similarity is the layout which seems very generic to most messaging apps.
My inspiration mostly comes from Apple's mail/iMessage and a smidge of telegram. ie: the patterned background in the message area 😃

2024-07-04 15:25:52

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Not even sure what Tinode is? 😅

2024-07-03 21:55:50

Okay, Ive cleaned up the links a bit. now instead of keeping it within the message bubble, it will just append the links below the message. https://image.nostr.build/f8e031756202076e0c78b27cfa14b278e335e46912079eb1b5d157c3d9c3cf57.png

2024-07-03 19:16:09

Still some layout issues to work through, but link previews are working.
I need to figure out how to cache the preview data so it doesn't have to reload every time you scroll to it. https://image.nostr.build/6756ab568b7660a1f1717e41f30951b2966634557589551b73e25c641dfe6d54.png

2024-07-03 17:47:01

Working on handling images/videos/link's in Seer today.
With images, I'll put them inline, but with videos and link's, I will use Link Presentations framework that Apple provides. This allows me to generate rich links with image, icon and other metadata with no external api.
You can read about it here.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/linkpresentation

2024-07-03 13:51:20

Gm Nostr! Let’s go! 🙏

2024-07-03 01:31:55

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Nope. Standard apple UI elements via SwiftUI

2024-07-02 21:24:03

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You mean for the relay icon or the account icon?
In terms on the relay, I like having the url since you can't rely on the relay to always have an icon.
However, I could do like iMessage and have a compact sidebar view option. And only show icon for both.

2024-07-02 20:56:55

Some progress on the sidebar. Added relay image and also an area for the currently selected account(key). Also Seer respects light/dark mode 😉
https://image.nostr.build/ace3cd4ca2118c0681c57bf7bc51e084ff86c6317de290cf63374cf9e3351331.png
https://image.nostr.build/f7c62cb00a6636c0e4a7148a30351f57b05037650996e01399f9ab88aa51deba.png

2024-07-02 19:29:08

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Yeah, for me I think it was less about the technical content and more interesting how Eric called him out and gave him the honest truth, but also didn't dismiss him where he thought there was potential. I think we need more discussions like these in many areas rather than just dismissing people outright.

2024-07-02 17:59:42

This podcast with Terrance Howard and Eric Weinstein was really interesting.
https://youtu.be/nrOaFxNex7U?si=LAnYYeZfHhtwcZRE

2024-07-02 16:08:44

Gm nostr! Let’s get it!

2024-07-01 23:36:08

Mastodon's drummer is so bad ass! Not to mention he's got a picture of Rodney Dangerfield and Fred Sanford on his kick drum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_reZZxP7N4

2024-07-01 19:49:08

Making progress even though it doesn't seem like it visually.
I've spent all morning figuring out how to make sure top toolbar items stay within their respective columns. The key here is that if you don't at least have one toolbar item in the far right column, then the center toolbar items spill over. Quite the qwirky behavior.
Also, nice to have built in emoji picker 😃
Onward!https://m.primal.net/JElh.png

2024-07-01 16:27:01

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Love this! Seer also has multi account and easy account switching.

2024-07-01 16:25:49

Gm nostr! Let’s go!
I’ve been on Twitter since 2009. Over the years I’ve mainly used it to discover interesting gamedev stuff, pixel artists, etc. normally I would bookmark or simply like things to keep a reference to them. I believe I will start the process of compiling this info and depart Twitter. I’m committed to Nostr and what better way to show that than focus all my attention here.

2024-06-30 23:28:18

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Yes I believe so because if you look at nip29 you can see it adds some of the basic building blocks like groups, group members, moderation kinds, etc. Seer aims to simply do group communication, so it’s much easier to just subscribe to these specific kinds without having sift through all the other stuff.

2024-06-30 22:40:02

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Not sure I understand what you mean?

2024-06-30 22:33:48

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More to come on this, but my philosophy in terms of design is to stick as close to the native platform look as possible. One thing this enables is easier maintenance of code and also it just feels at home on the platform. In my opinion an app should look and feel as if it was made for the platform.

2024-06-30 22:31:30

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Initially the focus is on public groups, but I understand your concern in terms of private groups. We will tackle that after getting a good public experience.

2024-06-29 16:55:01

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*our

2024-06-29 16:54:27

At dinner last night with my wife we were talking about a guy that I worked with years ago at Microsoft. He hired me which kickstarted my career in software development. He was a cool guy with a big heart. My friend just text'd me that he passed away this morning.
It's wild how are brains work. I hadn't talked to or thought about him for quite some time.

2024-06-28 20:56:58

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Sounds about right. Not worth it.