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Derek Ross
@derekross.bsky.social
The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

🪺 NostrNests.com
🎙️ YakBak.app
🖼️ Zappix.app
🗓️ Plektos.app
🎶 ZapTrax.app
📈 Zaplytics.app
🎓 GrowNostr.org
Who wants a diVine APK posted to Zapstore in the near future 🤓 The TLDR is that Android needs feedback from our beloved power users.
December 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Home Alone 2 will look a little different this year.
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Good morning and pura vida, nostr! It's time to create notes and send it! 🫂💜🤙🏻

And it's time to give #Shakespeare workshops to human rights activists! AI builders are perfect for freedom fighters, allowing them to build the tools that they need with ease, embracing freedom technology and [...]
December 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
let's see it? what have you been building?
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Vibe Wizard wants to see your favorite creations.
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🚀 Just zapped my way to 4,759 points in Space Zappers! 👾⚡ Think you can beat that? Come defend Earth!

https://www.spacezappers.com

#SpaceZappers #SpaceInvaders
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
are you building games on nostr? join the #gamestr ecosystem! you can use #gamestr to build decentralized leaderboards into your game and reach all users across nostr.

https://gamestr.io/developers

you can build games with #shakespeare too. i've seen several built over the last few weeks [...]
December 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙🏻💜

One thing many new builders, especially vibe coders, often don’t realize at first is how important quality assurance and debugging are. Thoroughly testing every feature of a new app takes a significant amount [...]
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Sometimes the Nostr ecosystem moves incredibly fast. Other times, it moves more slowly. What matters most is that it’s always moving, always progressing forward, never backward.
December 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
One of the biggest barriers to adoption and long-term retention on Nostr, in my opinion, is key management. Public/private key pairs are powerful, but they’re also unfamiliar and intimidating to most people. It’s simply not how the majority of users are used to signing in or thinking about [...]
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember MySpace? How about your Top 8 Friends? Customizating your profile? Adding widgets? Adding cringe HTML? Well, Your Space is still a work in progress, however npub1jvnpg4c6ljadf5t6ry0w9q0rnm4mksde87kglkrc993z46c39axsgq89sc took a prize from Bitcoin++ Taipei earlier this week with her [...]
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
sleepy has fully embraced the power of vibe coding and building the future.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you want a local backup of your nostr data, check out https://mi.shakespeare.wtf by chad. This micro-app won second place at the Bitcoin++ Taipei Hackathon this past week.
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Large conferences definitely have their place, and I still recommend attending one at least once to experience it. But the real magic happens at smaller conferences, usually under 1,000 people. Those are the events worth seeking out around the world. That’s where real community forms and [...]
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics."

— Whitfield Diffie (Various speeches, 1995)

#cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #cryptography #law #mathematics
December 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
we are dumbin' down the tech on the latest episode of Soapbox Sessions. get your nostr 101 content in just before the holidays to help purple pill your family members.

https://fountain.fm/show/aq7IaS6bdQ6kF6NWDzzc
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
good morning and pura vida, nostr! it's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙💜

i think im going to retire this good morning message in 2026. it's time for a change.

new year, new me, new job, new daily gm.
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
the definition of bullshit:
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December 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
We're almost one year into the Trump presidency. I can't believe we'll be celebrating the one year anniversary of the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve next month. Wild.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
if you use nostr git, why aren't you using nostr git? you might want to set this up!
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December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Proprietary software is an injustice. It denies users freedom and keeps them divided and helpless."

— Richard Stallman (Free Software, Free Society, 2002)

#cypherpunk #bitcoin #privacy #freedom #proprietary-software #justice
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Give the gift of building this holiday season by purchasing a #Shakespeare gift card for a friend or family member. 🎅


https://shakespeare.diy/settings/ai
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
good morning and pura vida, nostr! its' time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙💜

im reviewing projets from the bitcoin++ hackathon yesterday, where every npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj team member won a prize. it's making me feel extra bullishit this morning. [...]
December 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr! I'm gonna do it all over again tomorrow and I hope that you do too. 🫂💜🤙🏻
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
you can tell when i started using AI for development this past year by looking at my GitHub and GitLab profiles. march 2023 changed everything.
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM