Time has flown by during the summer holidays. August gave me a welcome break from the digital world, and there were moments when I felt truly unplugged. I’m sure I missed a lot of Nostr updates, but that doesn’t worry me, signal-worthy ideas still find their way to the top. Now that it’s October and I’m wrapping up this article. I guess September was that busy I forget to finish up this article.
Most content is always centralised. When content is published on a Drupal powered platform, it usually only exists on that website (or websites in case of a multisite). Let's use Nostr as a tool to distribute it in an open and permissionless ecosystem.
My Nostr-PHP helper library 90-day OpenSats report number 4
Here are some updates about things I've done in week 26.
I missed out quite some weekly updatess, so hey ho! Here are the updates from week 23, 24, 25! Let's go!
Here are my updates from week 22.
This is my OpenSats progress report number 3 covering the months March and April 2025 while I paused the grant during December '24, January '25 and February '25.
What are the Nostr things I've done in week 21?
I had such a busy time I haven't found any time to write down the Nostr things I worked on every week since week 16. So it's time to catch up and highlight the Nostr stuff I've worked on.
NIP-19 is finally there in the Nostr-PHP library.
I don't have much to share, because I'm basicly working on the NIP-19 integration in the Nostr-PHP library. You can read why it's taking quite some time to finish it up as I started to work on this back in October '24.
Back at it, trying to find some flow on the things that are waiting to be implemented.
I just integrated a new feature in the Community Curated Nostr Stuff (CCNS) website. Now when you post a link, it is broadcasted as a Nostr event kind 39700 to the Nostr network.
What started as an idea during Bitcoin 2024 Amsterdam, we accomplished it on February 1 & 2: be there with Nostr at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is one of the worlds biggest conferences for free and open-source minded people & communities held since 2000 in Brussels (Belgium).
2025 already started and I'm behind sharing weekly updates around the Nostr stuff.
As a OpenSats grantee every quarter I need to report what I've done regarding to my grant application. This is my second 90-day report (Augustus - October 2024) for the work I've done for the Nostr-PHP helper library.
While a new version of PHP is released (8.4) the latest version of 8.2 and 8.3 introduced a bug which leads to errors for signing en verifying events in the library.
Summary of Nostr stuff I worked on in these two weeks.
In the previous article, "Personal data are outlawed" it was described how everyone, in theory, has a personal graph. This graph can be built up from existing graphs such as the link, social, and interest graph.
In a previous article, "We're Giving Everything Away," it was described how each of us is a product within various social media services. We trade our digital identity for the free use of these services. We pay, as it were, with a piece of our privacy. In itself, this principle is not necessarily a problem. However, it often remains unclear what exactly happens with our data.
Personal information belongs to you, not to Facebook, Google, Hyves, or other social media platforms. Yet, we've been giving it away to them for years, without fully realizing the potential indirect consequences that may arise in the future. In my opinion, there are still many people who don't fully understand that they can use these social media platforms for free, but at a cost.
1 year later, why Nostr still resonates and NIP-19 struggles with encoding TLV
After 1 year deciding to do more with Nostr, my love for the protocol has grown significant. It's not only the protocol, but also being part of an ideology-driven movement is something that really hits a sensitive chord.
FOSDEM 2025, NIP-42 and NIP-19, transpher
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. With a group of volunteers we would like to attend the event with a stand / booth. In this article you can read our submission for a Nostr stand.
Week 42 updates
Week 40: PHP async concurrent websocket requests
Week 41: Nostrdam and the Nostr booth @ Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024
Weekly updates for week number 39.
Some work in progress updates of this week.
Working out the code for doing async PHP requests with a WebSocket connection and the famous Http/Guzzle client.
A lot of Nostr side-projects are on my plate as we're gearing up for setting up a next-level Nostr Booth at Bitcoin Amsterdam. For Nostr-PHP I finally started to work out a proof-of-concept doing async concurrent requests.
Week 34 updates for Nostr-PHP
Development of Nostr-PHP library
Progress Report #1 - May - July 2024
I picked up the work from kriptonix he has done a couple of weeks ago for setting a structure of handling relay responses.
No updates for this week 🤭
As I'm enjoying my summer holiday with my family I haven't worked on Nostr-PHP. I will be back on the 5th of August (week 32).
Weekly update for the work I've done. I also gave an intro on Nostr at a webinar and made quite some progress on the Drupal contrib modules which I also use on this website to crosspost this content.
List with updates from week 27 for Nostr-PHP and other Nostr Stuff
Week 26 updates for Nostr-PHP
Week 25 updates working on Nostr-PHP
Week 24 updates Nostr-PHP
What I've done this week working on Nostr-PHP
Let me explain why I'm very humbled with this grant from OpenSats.
