jb55

I made damus, npubs, and zaps ⚡️
Independent bitcoin core and lightning dev.
Owner of the oldest still running lightning node.
💍Nikki Sunset (npub1l0g…78fx)

Public Key

npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

NIP-05 Address

jb55.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsvghp6r

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

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Last Notes

2026-09-21 20:49:05 UTC

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Impressive

2026-09-21 18:22:55 UTC

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who wants to know

2026-09-21 18:03:36 UTC

im getting spam on signal now =/

2026-09-21 17:51:33 UTC

claude created a test harness in OoT that it can drive itself and is playtesting a new quest it is building. lol.
it sends me playtest reports occasionally
https://jb55.com/s/roost-frames.html

2026-09-19 21:20:19 UTC

this is why CLI > MCP
claude just built the dependency graph of its work in a single command instead of 20 sequential mcp commands https://i.nostr.build/tFYw41TfAC9mWTJI3ILV0T.png https://i.nostr.build/N3wf2PogoedVP0alLomZSM.png

2026-09-19 18:02:46 UTC

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yeah i just bandwidth limited it so i could afford it

2026-09-18 03:54:34 UTC

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how to build complex things hands free #nevent1q…pez0

2026-09-18 03:42:09 UTC

cool thing about this is that i have a full audit trail. for each chunk of work i can see its implementation comments on the card, as well as the original work session i can open and view how it implemented it
#note10dp…uvuj

2026-09-18 03:34:48 UTC

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is this "graph engineering"?

2026-09-18 03:22:19 UTC

not only did my agent plan this whole sequence, but it prompted each new session itself recursively.
i have fully automated my work
#note1yhr…jlye

2026-09-18 03:20:59 UTC

you can now view headway epics as a dependency graph https://i.nostr.build/l8FBJ7gJwrxtmKSR0lgHjT.png https://i.nostr.build/ezvJCabKDy4nVnIPxCUly5.png

2026-09-18 02:59:27 UTC

might play this game forever https://i.nostr.build/FqIvZW1BaVGixH7wk5C3cx.png

2026-09-17 21:29:31 UTC

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but no i am just about to hit 96 runecraft. i still plan on maxxing my osrs account as well

2026-09-17 21:29:01 UTC

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wow forever is basically the same philosophy as osrs: horizontal progression, no expansions that wipe out your progress

2026-09-17 21:20:01 UTC

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there are no servers. just pick horde pvp

2026-09-17 20:45:09 UTC

join us
#note1rzg…l6th

2026-09-17 20:42:55 UTC

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how do you live

2026-09-17 20:38:44 UTC

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its a game from 2004... can't be that hard to run!?

2026-09-17 20:15:33 UTC

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jbmod stream would be dope

2026-09-17 19:36:23 UTC

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dont want any

2026-09-17 19:30:29 UTC

streaming wow forever beta... in Q :[ https://www.twitch.tv/jb55_

2026-09-17 17:56:51 UTC

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3ms ?

2026-09-17 17:35:02 UTC

pulling 2Gbps+ (250MBps) with unifi u7 pro wifi7 routers. who needs ethernet!?

2026-09-17 16:18:32 UTC

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neat. i did something similar 4 years ago https://github.com/jb55/nostr-notify

2026-09-17 16:17:39 UTC

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sick

2026-09-17 00:37:30 UTC

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/4493325008d34b7bf8cd6813cd5c1619/e8/6f/42E2SNfPweLVeWh9RG.gif

2026-09-16 22:58:06 UTC

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i'm in canada :[

2026-09-16 20:41:21 UTC

jokes on him i love shouting into empty cupboards
#note1545…fnqh

2026-09-16 20:39:20 UTC

finally a usecase for nostr. COOKIES.
#note1v9d…stxe

2026-09-16 20:29:01 UTC

another cool thing about this: since the sendspin-enabled cast-1 apollo can receive lossless 16/24bit 48khz audio -> wifi -> digital-to-audio conversion -> speaker:
you get a clean uncompressed audio throughout your entire house unlike what you get with bluetooth audio.
maybe i can actually take advantage of high quality audio on my tidal subscription now! (thx @npub1sg6…f63m !)
#note1dgq…09z3

2026-09-16 19:51:53 UTC

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oops i cant link naddrs becauses im retarded #naddr1qq…c0xt

2026-09-16 19:50:37 UTC

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i have a script that converts cln-bookkeeper routing events to ledger-cli so i can see how it balances out. i wrote an article on this:
naddr1qpqryvp5xgmn2vpsxqmngvtxv33kvcekv9jrzdtrvvmrvcm9vejrqdejxyuxze348q6nzephvy6nsct9xdjrxwf3vd3r2c3kxvcngdp4xvqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43qygpjuxp8vd29p6ancknaztql3eajk52y8xkppfn7au7elkw9c68zg5psgqqqw4rs6xducj

2026-09-16 19:48:15 UTC

worst part about longform is i can never remember the kind

2026-09-16 19:46:12 UTC

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jweigley's goated original ledger-cli

2026-09-16 19:13:01 UTC

since 2018 my lightning node has routed $57,688 taking $278 in profit.
$35 a year LFG https://i.nostr.build/iGIjpIfgi8f6GBoabpAnqW.png

2026-09-16 17:28:52 UTC

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They really call it deep piv

2026-09-16 16:00:21 UTC

open protocol sonos is coming along. Got some new edifier mr3 speakers.
Apparently musicassistant bridges airplay and sendspin… so in theory i should be able to airplay synced audio to all the speakers in my house at once 🤔
https://i.nostr.build/0MBJ3R5935AIyaqwAqlkVT.jpg
#nevent1q…ld9q

2026-09-16 07:14:31 UTC

setting the mood
https://i.nostr.build/CCXWntRjagaHCJJ2lKeShF.jpg

2026-09-15 20:43:16 UTC

iso recording maxi
https://i.nostr.build/4ZeAhPzLMi5D9sgP8gs2oZ.jpg

2026-09-14 22:20:15 UTC

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https://static.klipy.com/ii/2711dd8a75a85be822d136ec94899b3f/f5/81/QkFFTY5b.gif

2026-09-14 16:49:29 UTC

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looks nice

2026-09-14 16:46:22 UTC

we had payment targets on profiles (even if it was just bitcoin), noone used them. zaps and one tap zaps are what got people to send money.
if there's too much friction people won't use it. leaving the app to send some shitcoin that the receiver is not even notified of is a shitty experience.
i think generalizing zaps is a good idea though. no reason that we need bolt11 on there, but should probably be a different kind at this point.
#note1vd3…ycvn

2026-09-14 15:34:54 UTC

Idea: a lightning wallet interface where you can connect multiple nwc wallets and use it as a single wallet 🤔

2026-09-14 14:56:17 UTC

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me and my son are definitely playing. we started playing classic yesterday together. so much nostalgia.

2026-09-14 13:52:51 UTC

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already follow this one 🫡

2026-09-14 13:23:14 UTC

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its up now

2026-09-13 19:45:24 UTC

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nevent1qqs8k2a5feluem5hl6gqzldckyqghdsfu6pvdcz6mvufcer8hgt5krcutv7lx fixed here

2026-09-13 07:57:32 UTC

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yeah they are all data center ips from germany, russia, stockholm. its weird

2026-09-13 07:55:33 UTC

nerd post ahead...
strfry spawns a noteguard read-policy process for each read thread, so a naive per-IP rate limit actually enforces N× the budget. each process has its own counter.
claude came up with a pretty cool fix:
put the token buckets in a shared mmap'd file on /dev/shm.
- open-addressing hash table
- one tiny spinlock per slot (atomic compare-exchange)
- fixed FNV-1a hash so every process maps an IP to the same slot
now N processes share ONE authoritative bucket per IP.
lock-free IPC, no daemon, no redis. just a file and some atomics.
pretty neat!
#note145m…ae3d

2026-09-13 07:46:09 UTC

"Out of ~7,700 active client IPs, only ~15 (about 0.2%) are throttled at any given moment, and it's a stable set. The throttle is doing exactly what you'd want: constraining a tiny set of heavy readers while the general population has plenty of budget."
excellent
#note169v…48ml

2026-09-13 07:39:05 UTC

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per ip limit *

2026-09-13 07:35:44 UTC

enabling 1MB per minute limit on the damus relay dropped the output bandwidth from 100Mbps to 15Mbps. bandwidth hogs can no longer DoS the server! i might be able to afford it now
#note145m…ae3d https://i.nostr.build/o6f2pBPhB87oCcw0PzmABQ.png

2026-09-13 05:56:21 UTC

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why do you hate everything

2026-09-13 04:12:48 UTC

november is crazy for gaming:
4th: wow forever launch
5th: oot remake
19th: gta vi

2026-09-12 20:44:24 UTC

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yes if we only had polls then nostr would have taken off 🙄

2026-09-12 20:14:14 UTC

wow forever 👀

2026-09-12 00:52:37 UTC

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If you notice i have a dbx286s on my desk. I could barely hear it without that. Plus it makes your voice sound like you’re on a radio station, and cuts out background noise. Its great.

2026-09-12 00:42:53 UTC

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llms got so good this year that human code is the slop now

2026-09-11 23:30:49 UTC

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I’ve been modifying oot decomp and adding new enemies to fight 🤓

2026-09-11 19:03:26 UTC

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yup. if you have a good preamp

2026-09-11 18:51:51 UTC

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this is an sm58 with a windscreen i got off amazon

2026-09-11 18:39:58 UTC

battlestation
https://i.nostr.build/Oxvbo2y7tAzOyXyLmiSrjp.jpg

2026-09-10 03:33:26 UTC

subagents are cool but this is cooler. using damus agentium to launch 3 real claude sessions + worktrees and having the main session waiting on them to merge them all together.
claude knows which ones are parallelizable because it planned all of the cards and declared which cards block what https://i.nostr.build/jZDZnQTnfrKpstZdCt1mcz.png

2026-09-10 02:33:02 UTC

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fair

2026-09-10 02:12:06 UTC

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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000786117598
Im listening to this, its quite good

2026-09-10 01:42:06 UTC

going for a walk. shill me an interesting podcast

2026-09-10 01:40:48 UTC

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awesome

2026-09-10 01:40:21 UTC

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did you get a new phone? there's a bug where it restores backup into an npub for some reason

2026-09-10 01:39:55 UTC

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if its not there you're logged in with your npub not nsec

2026-09-09 23:41:40 UTC

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i fixed it

2026-09-09 23:11:25 UTC

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looks great

2026-09-09 22:38:56 UTC

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i just closed my shopify merch store. should rebuild it on nostr

2026-09-09 21:49:34 UTC

Build 1341 is out!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/urLbziKc
Thanks to @npub1hs5…5rx4 , @npub1ktn…7kn3 , @npub1aeh…4nwx for reporting some of these issues from the last build.
Also thanks koteitan for fixing a long-time bug in the composer.
• Fixed cursor jumping to the end of the text when pressing the iOS keyboard-switching button in the post composer (koteitan)
• A private reply received from another client no longer names its sender as the person it was sent to
• Copy note JSON is available on private replies and DMs again, in developer mode
• Fix search result highlights making matched hashtags unreadable
• Fix the wallet setup screen and the Zap explainer rendering on top of each other
• Shrink the tab bar unread indicator to a small dot
• Use damus purple for the tab bar unread dot
Only 325 testers on this testflight, gotta pump these numbers up folks.

2026-09-09 21:29:15 UTC

this is how i nostr
thanks @npub1ktn…7kn3 @npub1hs5…5rx4 for reporting issues. new testflight going out with those fixes https://i.nostr.build/JBZlL6voxlraGaethhmNwY.png

2026-09-09 20:52:12 UTC

i'm not immediately mad because i do like my pixel 9 pro fold for managing my ai fleet and code review on the go. its a bit hard to put an ipad in your pocket for that. https://i.nostr.build/5IYsQl6oJSWUjboXmp8Bgb.png

2026-09-09 17:27:11 UTC

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orders through nostr would be dope. could build a shopify app for nostr. i assume someone has already done this, but i haven't seen many storefront clients

2026-09-09 17:23:10 UTC

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdAw0iqhWm-/ ☠️

2026-09-09 15:58:05 UTC

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no way around it for public relays really

2026-09-09 15:49:45 UTC

watching spammers get ip banned in realtime has been entertaining to watch. I think it would be even better if i added noteguard admin controls directly to damus ios/android so i can ip ban spammers on the go.
#nevent1q…crd5

2026-09-09 15:04:09 UTC

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you mean POST? thats not really cachable though. In my spec i actually use QUERY with GET as the stop gap

2026-09-09 06:05:47 UTC

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what client you using?

2026-09-09 06:04:55 UTC

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damus relay is still getting our notes. we safe for now 🫣

2026-09-09 06:04:23 UTC

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banning will continue until spammer morale is crushed

2026-09-09 05:58:44 UTC

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never

2026-09-09 05:57:02 UTC

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I think im banned too lol. Might need to dial it back

2026-09-09 05:55:38 UTC

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https://github.com/damus-io/notedeck/releases/download/v0.10.0-beta.4/notedeck.apk

2026-09-09 05:54:24 UTC

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It’s true i had to let go of my last employee months ago and all my contributors are gone. It’s just me now. Im fine with that though i have an army of agents helping. Less meetings too. Can’t complain.

2026-09-09 05:50:02 UTC

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its even smoother on android

2026-09-09 05:44:03 UTC

this is the smoothest damus we've ever released. testflight is open to all!
https://testflight.apple.com/join/urLbziKc
#note1tc3…vcvz

2026-09-09 05:41:08 UTC

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If the client does something dumb like spam drafts to the relay then it will likely get banned…. But they should just store drafts locally anyway 😎

2026-09-09 05:40:25 UTC

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Its really hard to exhaust 6 posts per minutes, especially since every 10 seconds it refills your bucket

2026-09-09 05:38:28 UTC

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yes

2026-09-09 05:37:38 UTC

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zaps wouldn't trigger it for you though, because clients dont send zaps

2026-09-09 05:37:08 UTC

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yeah all

2026-09-09 05:17:19 UTC

damus relay should now be one of the least spammed relays. We aggressively ip ban people who try to write too many notes too fast.
Feel free to add it to your relay list again if you’ve had trouble with spam there in the past!

2026-09-09 05:10:25 UTC

claude is building me some pretty advanced anti spam defenses. i’m hooking up noteguard into the cloudflare api so it can ip ban spammers so they cant even get to the relay. Bwahaha

2026-09-09 04:40:07 UTC

fuck you damus airdrop dipshit.
if you hit our rate limit too many times you now get ip banned for 1 hour.
cheers fuckface

2026-09-09 03:56:36 UTC

10MB per minute should be generous enough for a relay right ?

2026-09-09 01:31:52 UTC

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you using unreal engine or something ?

2026-09-08 23:25:56 UTC

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Didn’t even know they had one