What creative ideas have you been rambling on? \ stacker news ~Design

pull down to refresh

What creative ideas have you been rambling on?

417 sats \ 5 comments \ @deSign_r 7h Design

What creative ideas have you been rambling on?

This post is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for stackers to discuss creative projects they have been working on, or ideas they are aiming to build. Regardless of your project being personal, professional, physical, digital, or even simply an idea to brainstorm together.

If you have any creative projects or ideas that you have been working on or want to eventually work on... This is a place for discussing those, gather initial feedback and feel more energetic on bringing it to the next level.

Thanks @orto @OneOneSeven @justin_shocknet @bounty_hunter @grayruby @flat24 @gmd @Kontext and @zapsammy for joining and sharing your ideas in the previous edition. How are you all doing with your projects? Any update?

₿e Creative, have Fun! :D

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bounty_hunter 1h

Still working on Innocuous, a way to encode/decode messages in LLM generated output: https://github.com/sutt/innocuous

I like my new example. This text:

Amidst the ancient forest, dwelt a wondrous Wizard renowned for his arcane might. One day, he unearthed true power not in enchantments, but in wellaimed words. Fearing misuse, he penned this power three ways in his magnum opus obscuring it with tedious trifles.

Time passed, the wizard departed, while countless seekers puzzled over his laborious tome. Until one sage, whose curiosity was matched only by fortitude, finally discovered the cryptic keys tucked deep within these words un

Decodes to: "pip install innocuous"

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 5h

Scalable & Permissionless Bitcoin Identities https://spacesprotocol.org/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @billytheked 6h

A serialized novel on SN

251 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 6h

May not sound design-y but I've been pretty locked in for a few weeks on Lightning.Pub and ShockWallet distribution with regards to on-boarding new node-runners.

Trying to keep my giga-brain focused on one thing for an extended period with so many irons in the fire might be the biggest challenge, particularly where the chasm between being in the weeds on something for years and then putting yourself in the users shoes is so massive.

Last year before Nashville I threw together a bash script for Pub that got people set up in minutes. Response to this was great, I think for a few reasons:

It's fast, people like to try things but also don't want to sink a lot of time into trying things
It's easy but feels hackerish and cypherpunk... there's an element of ego to what people are willing try, a non-technical user watching a shell print so smoothly makes them feel elite, but if it looks too technical they'll be afraid to fail. A single line to paste with fun colors in the script seem to have made it approachable.
It's powerful, "the juice is worth the squeeze". The features of our stack are without rival, so incorporating things like the nprofile directly in the output expand peoples notions of what's possible and make them feel like insiders who are onto what's next.
It's cheap, Start9's/Umbrels get close on most of the above criteria but still leave a hole in that a casual can't just spin up a $3/month VPS if they fear commitment.

I spent most of last week on v.2 of this script to make it more robust and made it even faster:

#1196169

Can now literally spin up, connect to, and invite friends/family to your own self-hosted Lightning system in under a minute... which also means sharing the overhead (actually earn revenue) unlike other express options that have typically taken the form of mobile nodes.

It's in a pretty good place, got it passing tests on all the major Linuxes and ARM chips over the weekend.

The latter part of the journey, like tweaking node settings and making a social-like node-profile is next up.

There's also the wallet component to this since this is where the management lives and also the ingress for your guest users. The way we've dealt with nostr in the wallet for connection hasn't really leveraged any of nostr's identity components and therefore have made it less intuitive than it should be. This also ties in with our Sanctum service for nostr that bridges the gap for people that are not inclined to deal with key management.

Coming from this as a tech native trying fit in the users shoes makes it feel much more like i'm designing a game or scenes in a movie. Changing any part of the story necessitates all the other plot points fit. This wall of text is just an excerpt, wallet side gets into things like the Lightning Address bridge, actual user-space to take advantage of Nostr offers.. and so much more...

56 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 7h

Mostly still dealing with stuff I mentioned in the previous edition: #1088119

And battling fatigue / lack of motivation in the face of uncertainty in terms of how much any of this work actually means to the world. In any case, slow progress is better than no progress and I have done some incremental headway on most of those tasks.

Some additional, potentially noteworthy things, especially from a creative perspective: A short meditation on giving up hope (and what to replace that with): #1088119 2 additional nostr vlog episodes: episode 2, episode 3 Participated in a local sports event (and it went well): #1202370 Won 5000 CC's for a meme: #1193544

I also still keep myself busy (or perhaps distract myself?) with a bunch of podcasts, lectures, books & audiobooks. Finished "The 33 Strategies of War" by Robert Greene recently (was good, but I liked "Mastery" better), almost done reading "The Saviors of God" by Nikos Kazantzakis for the third time (all during this year!), a little bit of The Clear Word Bible every now and then, started Jordan Peterson's '96 Maps of Meaning lectures in Harvard, started The Red Book by C. G. Jung audio version on Spotify...