Notes

I feel I need to ventilate some things I'm struggling with. As a indiepreneur I don't have many professionals around me with who I can share my daily struggles which I'm handling now. I'm aware it's a sort of a luxury position where the current fricton is coming from. It's because I've said too much yes to some responsabilties. I'm managing 4 client (Drupal) projects at this moment and all of them are asking for decent amount of my attention. Integrating new features, updating existing features, questions how things work, bugfixes etc. Normally their demand of them is steady. But as always, at the end of the year things are stacking up. It's no surprise that you can't manage their demands so it's the expection of my output to them I have to manage. It's the output I create for the value I deliver. Especially one project is getting all of my attention because I'm building a complete new commerce rental system with Drupal for campers. There is a deadline involved there, I've one month left to build it and have it tested.
For me it's very challenging to manage those expectations and basicly saying no to things in a friendly way. But offcourse, this also takes time...

With this said, there is another project which is not actively demanding anything from me (it's not a kind of a customer client): Nostr-PHP. My work pace on this project is lacking, but it's the damn thing I love the most to work on 💜

So what is this? What do I feel?
It feels like cognitive dissonation. If I follow my intrinsic motivation I can work on Nostr-PHP and other Nostr stuff for whole days. If I follow my ratio, it's all the client work what has to be done (and is mostly also paying the bills).

Anyway, now I ventilated this it's time to go back building stuff ⚒️ ⚒️ ⚒️
One thing I know of myself is that when the pressure is really high, I'm able to finish stuff rapidly for a short period of time.

Thanks for all the feedback on https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6qjzxy7xsvx03rlrtddr62haj4lrm3qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qpzdehhxarj94ehgctwvskhxatzd45hxumfdahz6en0wdjx2mfdxgcrydgtlfspd

Our application for a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025 has been submitted: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025-call-for-stands/talk/review/9XYAEEMUREAEDWYSQQXWVFSZ9QL3RYSL

Now let's have some patience before we receive a reply =)

Your personal graph becomes the holy grail.
In 2011 I wrote 3 articles about this in Dutch:

1. We're giving away everything
https://sebastix.nl/blog/we-geven-alles-weg/

2. Personal data are outlawed
https://sebastix.nl/blog/persoonlijke-data-zijn-vogelvrij/

3. Your personal graph
https://sebastix.nl/blog/jouw-personal-graph/

They are very related to Nostr in someway so I would like to republish them in English.
What good translation services / tools are out there which I can use?

#askNostr

https://fountain.fm/episode/5UvaNiSbnAub6Phxrryg

Timestamp 56:30
Clip: https://fountain.fm/clip/TUdRybCGG0QTXbyXp34o
@Walker explains #POSSE with Nostr, Publish On (your own) Site and Syndicate Everywhere.

Timestamp 1:10:30
Clip: https://fountain.fm/clip/kYGYd3UIs7sM2eZuiaDf
@QW explains Nostr needs some sort of a news aggregator to feed the Nostreport.

Timestamp 1:38:00
Clip: https://fountain.fm/clip/7go0fg8kQ0vl72STA1mJ
Why it's so hard to push Nostr and what is needed when others are willing to learn more about Nostr.

The price of flexibility
- hard to pitch / explain
- chaos, you can get lost very easy
- no rules to follow
- there is always more than 1 solutions possible

The pluses of flexibility
- build anything, can be a solution for anything
- spacious
- boost creativity when you're into it
- for the artists

Nostr is a social anything protocol.
- Open: a community-driven project where you don't need any permission to join
- Decentralized: all data is transmitted over little servers (relays)
- Social: all data (events) are signed with your own keypair
- Anything: it's so flexible it can be used for any content type

Some of my learned lessons of my voluntary #growNostr job at the Nostr booth at Bitcoin Amsterdam.

- Don't count too much on the organisation taking care of nice place with a booth. After the BTC Prague conference their idea was to setup a similar booth. As the Amsterdam conference was getting closer, this setup was already downgraded in certains ways. At the end we just had to deal with a table in the corner of the expo hall besides other companies. This doesn't make sense. There is a community area as well at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference and to me it's still a big question mark why a grassroots project isn't placed there. So for next year it would be a very nice to have to bring our own booth to the conference.

- So many people who don't know Nostr assume you're a company (because we were standing in the area with all the other companies).

- Some people assumed Nostr is an NFT.

- Some people assumed Nostr uses some blockchain technology.

- The concept of there is no single point of truth or a consensus mechanism is sometimes quite hard to understand for some.

- Search often doesn't work in clients we used to explain / onboard people. I guess many clients are running a background process indexing content. That content is not avaible immediately when you just downloaded a client.

- Using a NFC card with your npub is really use to share it with someone else and start following (thx nostr:npub1fldgkyxjm92mr7zlrejmhd3ymlzx2awhpxpwserzl5v2w7a7a93q0n7wu7 and nostr:npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw showing this). There is a huge market opportunity here selling Nostr NFC powered merchandise.

- At average it takes around 10-20 minutes to talk with just someone explaining all different Nostr stuff.

- Many people already understand why we need Nostr and their questions were in general about how to do certain stuff as they already have a Nostr keypair.

- Explaining my own story why I use Nostr seems to resonate. In this story I explain why Nostr is healthy and serving my digital wellbeing in a positive way.

- Helping at the booth is one of the best ways to meet new people.

- The livestream just worked, the wifi connection was really good! Thumbs up for that to the organisation!

- When explaining Nostr, you often just see the click in someones mind when they just see how different the protocol works compared to other (legacy) platforms we're using.

- People like stickers, almost our whole stack is gone now.

- People really like nostr:npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz his art and style.

- We need informational flyers which people can take with them to home.

- We need rollup banners. Especially when you just have a table availble you can use as a 'booth'.

- We need more (free) merchandise.

- When people see a free power outlet, they will ask you if they can use it to charge their phone.

- I need to take notes of people's names who I helped onboarding so I can tag them later on. Tagging me was often a challenge for them (it's the same issue with search) when they took the effort to write an #introduction note.

- Nostr needs to attent to a non-Bitcoin event / conference to gather feedback from other type of audiences.

wss://nostr.sebastix.dev
- my first relay I set up back in 2023 powered by Nostream which I still use as a personal (archival) relay

wss://nostr.sebastix.social
- a personal archival relay powered by Chorus

wss://khatru.nostrver.se
- a niche relay powered by Khatru (https://github.com/fiatjaf/khatru) around geo stuff on Nostr (there is a filter with a whitelist of event kind numbers)

wss://sebastix.social/relay
- Ditto relay

wss://relay.nosto.re
- a relay for broadcasting Blossom mediaserver lists (kind 10063) powered by Khatru

wss://wot.sebastix.social
- Web of Trust relay implementation powered by https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay

wss://jingle.nostrver.se
- testing out easy to set custom policies and filters on a Khatru powered relay, see https://sebastix.nl/blog/run-a-nostr-relay-with-your-own-policies/

wss://inner.sebastix.social
- invite only relay powered by https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/khatru-pyramid

Thanks @BartMol for the #NostrBooth shout-out we're setting up at @BitcoinAmsterdam (October 9 & 10)

https://cdn.satellite.earth/4d24bf3f574e6c1d36f44de851afacdaf7793d1b250e3148028fefaa787d0ca3.mp4

More about this initiative and our fundraiser goals:
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrboothbitcoinamsterdam/

I'm very humbled to be part of this project collaborating with @Jeroen @Derek @Jurjen @Bitpopart @Sync @Arjen @Goosie @Constant @Ramon @Tomek @Peter @Nogood

First, sorry for this hell-thread with all the tags below ;)

This is my "brief" recap of #Nostriga. Well...is feels like an attempt to recap it as for most of my feelings I can't find the correct words how to describe it. I expected it to be valuable to attend, but overall it exceeded all of my expectations by the factor of ten. Just wow...what an unique expierence I had!

I spent the most of my time at the smaller stages and the venue. I really like the small places where new connections are made easily and existing relations are strengthened. I didn't care about missing most of the stuff at the mainstage, cause I knew theu would all recorded. After the first day, I almost met everyone who I've speak to only online in the last 1.5 years.

nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5
Thanks for giving me a mic after five minutes at your panel discussing nostrCI options. This was a great setting with all the interactions! This is the way how we should collaberate!

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nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q
nostr:npub1a6c3jcdj23ptzcuflek8a04f4hc2cdkat95pd6n3r8jjrwyzrw0q43lfrr

nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj
Your philosophical thoughts are inspiring!

nostr:npub147whqsr5vsj86x0ays70r0hgreklre3ey97uvcmxhum65skst56s30selt
You were one of the first ones I met when I entered the venue quite early (thanks for helping me to get a Nostriga shirt!). Both volunteering. See you in Amsterdam within two months!

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424
Great to meet you! I'm not sure we had a beer together...🍻

nostr:npub1cesrkrcuelkxyhvupzm48e8hwn4005w0ya5jyvf9kh75mfegqx0q4kt37c
Sorry for not remembering you at first. I promise to look at your exciting Nostr native WYSIWYG editor so I can use it in #Drupal for example 💯 While I'm writing down these letters (in Drupal) I wish I had those features already here (like tagging you instead of copy-pasting your npub here).

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
We met at the venue bar getting a beer so I was gratefull to say thanks to you for my OpenSats grant. Please send this message to the whole board 😉

nostr:npub1rpes5hhk6mxun5ddt5kecxfm8y3xdr0h5jwal32mc6mxafr48hxsaj2et2
THANK YOU so much for organising this unforgettable conference.

nostr:npub1papldckxytp2m8met6hyeh37m0cn6e32j03srl6thy4gq3tqrz3srq8t4n
Thanks for handling all the AV stuff and making sure every speaker was set to do his own thing on stage!

nostr:npub1equrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ysaqhkj6
Finally meeting in meatspace instead of having online meeting to discuss Vue stuff!

nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf
Great job by adding last-minute very usefull scheduled Nostriga event in the nostr:npub1c0nfstrlj0jy8kvl953v84hudwnpgad0zx709z0ey7nmjp0llegslzg243 app!

nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
Still not sure which version of you I've met 😉

https://shares.sebastix.dev/yHZV2mwK.jpeg
nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240
Worse is better right? I attended your talk as I expected it to be good. Well...you were crushing it. In my opinion the best talk of the conference.

nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p
I started to follow your work when you were still active at truth.social and Nostr was not on my mind yet. Was really cool to meet you and feel your energy building stuff with Nostr.

My keynote with the title "POSSE - how we pivot away from API's with one of Nostr superpowers" was also accepted. Friday noon I was at the proof of talk stage.

https://shares.sebastix.dev/J1VbVCsO.jpg
I can't remember when I did a presentation for the last time. And doing it in English was my first time for sure. Not sure I will do this again, giving a keynote in English was tough and unfortunately my browser crashed two times so I was not seeing my speaker notes anymore after the first crash. There are quite some learnings here for me which I will take with me 🤔 But I'm happy that I did it anyway ✅
You can find all the slides here: https://nostriga.nostrver.se

Thanks for this drawing nostr:npub19m7m3rs66pfdn4ewhrm8slh60ukyxgrylaa03m73wa40j39lc03syq4gfu
https://shares.sebastix.dev/M4GIjy4D.jpeg

Also a shout out to all the Dutchies for the chats, diners, drinks and some clubbing!

nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft
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Thanks all for being there and your energy. I'm very humbled to be part of this movement.
To wrap this note up, here are some more photo's of #Nostriga

https://shares.sebastix.dev/2R80DT05.jpeg
https://shares.sebastix.dev/5s2vSDCZ.jpeg
https://shares.sebastix.dev/kNS4kxAE.jpeg
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https://shares.sebastix.dev/p8xly9Rc.jpg
https://shares.sebastix.dev/PXGBqLZO.jpeg
https://shares.sebastix.dev/gPVyzHzF.jpg

And oh, one last thing.
Who's coming to nostr:npub1h5ewqujs336m0kdez46l03jttnaqp3yrvf7evertw0ec52q3qulq4kcdg7?

It’s not about control, it’s about freedom of choice.
- Choose your relays
- Choose your clients
- Choose your feeds
Nostr serves your free will.
Inspired by this talk ‘Tech and Freedom’ of Jack Dorsey: https://piped.yt/watch?v=t-40158eRqo and this interview https://piped.yt/watch?v=MaZyXEU5XAg with Lyn Alden en Jack Dorsey about the power of open source.

Quote from https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/
In Oslo, Dorsey said (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1798504201196368219) that the "free speech debate is a complete distraction. I think the debate should be about free will. We feel it right now because we are being programmed." The algorithms used by platforms like X "know us better than we know ourselves," Dorsey said.

Nostr-PHP logo created by @npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz (https://bitpopart.com/)

https://nostr-php.dev/assets/nostr-php_hero-splash.png