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What creative ideas have you been rambling on?

188 sats \ 5 comments \ @deSign_r 16 Sep Design

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 @bounty_hunter @anon @billytheked @justin_shocknet @django @ACYK @Kontext 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

#1207913 ↩

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 19m

So... let's make a recap.

NEW STUFF:

Nostr vlog volume 4 "You are dead" and volume 5 "A privilege and a burden are the same thing"
Did a little photoshoot for some of the new Kontext Store of Value merch and shared details and a few photos about a couple of products: #1219481
Got an idea about a Bitcoin product, which, to my knowledge, has never been done before - at least not in the way I plan to do it. I hope to make it a community effort. As such, there will be sponsorship opportunities. There will be a second Open Source Culture Creator Contest, with multiple winners (see info about the first: #898491). It will also be an experiment in implementing the Open Source Culture resources in a physical product (much like I did with my book #1074789 - the digital version will be free / Name Your Price & the physical product will have a set price). Some preparations for this have been made, but not enough to share the exact plan. So stay tuned for more details...
Reached day 700 of 100+ pushups per day (the 2 year mark is now less than a month away!)
Watched "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988) and made a banger of a meme from it:

Mostly, I'm still working on stuff I mentioned at the end of August, updates:

Contacting companies to get a wider selection of discount codes live on SATOSH.EE - in progress, but got some good deals live already
Adding additional products & designs to Kontext Store of Value - in progress
Making a proper introduction to KSoV - not done due to the point above still being in progress
Offering KSoV resale possibilities to other Bitcoin book and/or merch stores - not much progress
Figuring out bulk pricing for the above; whether I should also add an affiliate program - not much progress
Figuring out more ways to promote the book - in progress
Fixing the referral links issue with Satoshee - in progress, but have identified the cause: #1226483
Cleaning my room - in progress
Hopefully, also more new writing, and perhaps music making again 🤠 - not much progress

THINGS I NEED TO IMPROVE UPON:

Sleeping schedule is very erratic (I can stay up for 48h, then sleep 12-14h, then awake for 48h again...)
Have not been running much (I was never a runner before, started going on small laps when I got back to Estonia a couple of months ago, but lately have been slacking)
Not much writing or music making done lately. I do prefer to write whenever I feel inspired to, but also I have an idea for making an essay and/or a video about Bitcoin from a Stoic perspective - the intent is twofold: 1) to introduce some of the reasons why I included so much about Bitcoin in my book about stoicism 2) to introduce my book and philosophy to Bitcoiners. I think there is a great synergy between the two.
I have more ideas, too many ideas, but I have to choose my focus as to not overwhelm myself nor to stretch myself out too much

CORRECTION:

In the last post (#1204104) I linked the wrong page for the short meditation / article "The Last Hope" - the correct link is: #1201227

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @bounty_hunter 6h

Innocuous is lilting around in a "calm before the storm". Basically need some test infrastructure code before one last big refactor which will add headers to encoded/decoded data which include a length, nonce, and version along with the actual data.

Been talking to a lot of people IRL about the project but not many seem interested or can think of use-cases. I did talk to one lady this week at in at ETH conference that had written papers on this underlying subject called "steganography". On a walk I realized one of the primary use cases is procedurally generated NFTs.

I've also been able to develop an easy way ti explain the concept in markdown which I'll paste below.

Thanks for doing these @deSign_r!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bounty_hunter 6h

The following example encodes the ascii char "h" (or the bits "01101000") with a chunk_size=2.

	Iter 1	Iter 2	Iter 3	Iter 4	Iter 5	Iter 6
Selection (token)	The	Aqu	arium	is	a	world
Selection (encoding)	01	10	n/a	n/a	10	00
Cumulative encoding	01	0110	0110	0110	011010	01101000

Index (encoding 2-bit)	encoded	encoded	accepted	accepted	encoded	encoded
0 (00)	" It": 0.2958	" aqu": 0.4469	"arium": 0.9999	" is": 0.8619	" located": 0.4782	" world": 0.1646
1 (01)	" The": 0.26917	" New": 0.4136	"ari": < 1e-4	" has": 0.0591	" home": 0.2787	" global": 0.1238
2 (10)	" This": 0.1813	" Aqu": 0.1020	"aram": < 1e-4	" features": 0.0182	" a": 0.0926	" must": 0.0958
3 (11)	" Loc": 0.0318	" Boston": 0.006	"a": < 1e-4	" offers": 0.0164	" one": 0.0540	" non": 0.0876

146 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 10h

Since the last thing I talked about has been merged I've been bouncing between a few things

SN is integrating CLINK so there's been a few tweaks to that and the Lightning.Pub implementation. Marinading now on an addition to the spec given SN's hybrid model of being a centralized service with its own identity but also having it's wallet connections all client-side and not service initiated... Since it's foregoing using it's service identity in the wallet it will only get some of the benefits/UX of ndebit, but I think it's solvable. h/t to @ek for forging through integration and providing feedback.

The other thing most time has gone into is something that should have been a quick POC but now I'm on week 2 and it feels barely started. Been working with Straycat's graperank from a neo4j graph to power a namespace-by-consensus system.

Decentralized name systems get talked about a lot, and there are countless attempts to solve it (including past efforts of my own). #462059

This approach isn't name to IP but name to pubkey, is non-authoritative, and names are occupied only through social consensus based on the social graph. The goal is that you predictably have a name/slug on nostr that works across most Nostr apps.

The incentives of such a system are so simple in hindsight, if an app goes against social consensus of who occupies a name then their own reputation in the graph declines... everyone has incentive to speak the same language of names. It solves squatting, censorship, and pretty much any proplem with namespace systems you can think of. Disparate algorithms that power indexers should generally get the same results just by nature of the graph.

The "product" side of this is we can help new users pick a name or slug that isn't going to collide with someone who's reputation they are unlikely to over-come, also makes AI suggestions possible. I want this for myself to help us issue Lightning Address and Lightning.Video channels.

Biggest blocker has been ingestion of the graph data into SQL via attestations, the number is large and Nostr relays suck at transferring that... been debugging pagination methods off and on for weeks... grr...

17 sats \ 0 replies \ @bounty_hunter 6h

This is fascinating, thanks for sharing.

Reading through, I'm reminded of the infamous DropBox Show HN initial comments where the programmers were like "this is just rsync" but the product ended up being successful because the UX/usability was superior for non-programmers.

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