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1320 sats \ 17 comments \ @bitcoinplebdev 4 Jan devs

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Pull up your ergonomic chair in our virtual realm and share a slice of your day. From triumphs over complex code, head-scratching bugs that make you wonder why you started coding in the first place - we're all here for it. 🐞💻

Cracked a tough algorithm? Encountered a Bitcoin brain-teaser? Or perhaps you've got a piece of sage advice that could save a fellow dev's sanity? This is the place to spill.

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198 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 4 Jan

When a developer is struggling because they can't solve a problem, it's best to go to sleep and come back the next day. It's happened to me that I've spent hours trying to solve a problem and the next day I've solved it in 10 minutes.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Jan

This is so true! Just yesterday I was walking to lunch and randomly thought about a small bug I'm dealing with and the solution immediately came into my mind. Tried it when I got home and it worked lol

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 4 Jan

yes, or go out for a walk.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @megaptera 5 Jan

Sleeping is a superpower, can confirm!

25 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 4 Jan

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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Jan

Not something I learned today but a cool hack I use often is with a tool called ngrok.

ngrok lets you take a local host and forward it to a temporary global host. You can use this to trick almost any Lightning wallet to letting you connect to a regtest node that you are running locally on your own machine (such as https://lightningpolar.com)

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4 Jan

The best part is that it comes with HTTPS

131 sats \ 2 replies \ @spraveenitpro 4 Jan

Vancouver bitcoin community had a lovely party for jan 3rd and hackathon held at a makerspace. There was a vintage vending machine hooked with raspberry pi so we used lnbits to enable payment with lightning: https://twitter.com/VanBitcoiners/status/1742743545927397503 and code here https://github.com/GitYVR/bepsi-pi/pull/1

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Jan

Nice! How long is the hackathon?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @spraveenitpro 4 Jan

Started at 2pm and ended at 8pm followed by a party for jan3rd yesterday

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Jan

GM!

Still sick today sadly but work continues nonetheless! Today I'm planning my potential pleblab top builder project https://www.topbuilder.dev/

I want to build a course/bootcamp platform that interoperates with nostr. I'll need to be able to pull in videos (most likely hosted on YouTube) and allow users to organize them into a course, resource, or bootcamp structure (which is basically just an ordered hierarchy of materials) I'll just say this is something I want to have in good condition for plebdevs over the next 6 months 🤫

We're also having a top builder takeover at the Austin Bitcoin Club tonight! Have you thought about joining, is there anything you would like to build?

110 sats \ 3 replies \ @netstatic 4 Jan

I have fears about building on Nostr because the future of relay-running without clear financial incentives makes the network appear unsustainable to me. Has there been any noise in the space discussing how this could be achieved? I remember reading the Damus relay was going to get shut down but did that actually ever happen? I hope that gets figured out though since a big player like that monetizing and turning a profit (or even breaking even) could do a lot for the space.

What would be really useful to me is a survey of all decentralized protocols to get high level signals into what is worth investing time into. I'm not saying it's not Nostr, but I haven't seen much discussion on the business side of things regarding relay operation when I think it should be the next main area of focus for Nostr development. Maybe a hackathon using this as a topic would help.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 4 Jan

There are already paid relays like nostr.wine out there in case you didn't know

But I guess and hope this isn't the pinnacle of business models built on top of nostr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @netstatic 4 Jan

I didn't know about nostr.wine but it's definitely a step in the right direction!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Krv 5 Jan

Well, I guess many relay operators will be incentivized by wanting their particular business or functionality on the network. However, I wonder if some kind of auto-zapping of a very small fee for posting content, or zap revenue sharing from content creators could have potential.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 4 Jan

Speaking of ~devs has anyone seen the FX show Devs by any chance?

It's a pretty cool concept and a short watch (1 season I think?) It's about a Google-like giant tech company with a traumatized CEO that runs a secret quantum computing program underground.

It's one of the better sci-fi series I've seen in awhile

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AGORA 5 Jan

have seen it time ago, it was worth! I'll watch it again, thanks for the reminder