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A survey of current work on building encrypted chat into nostr — and a review of the idea of building it on SimpleX.

All systems can be approached like a game by "probing" for affordances. This can be a lot of fun, and works well in an adversarial environment.

On digital signatures, and how they free our data from the custodians who store it.

A short guide on how to handle malformed events, how to avoid publishing them, and when to break compatibility.

A summary of how the profit motive of internet businesses creates a system of incentives which drives censorship and surveillance capitalism, hurting users and undermining corporations' own value propositions — and how Nostr helps us fight back.

A guide for people who want to build clients for "relays-as-groups" that are compatible with Flotilla and Chachi.