Ok AI, I hear you. But the main code is tokio task driven, and the UI is a separate thread. Being in the separate thread, the UI doesn't get in the way of the non-blocking I/O. The friction you imagine wasn't it. The true problem is that egui is too low level, and we wanted a high level UI. We simply had to build too much. And when you just want it sooner, you don't build it elegantly, you slap it in and try to improve it later.

Gossip uses egui, but very similar. I never felt the codebase grew excessively complex, at least not in an over-arching way. Some pieces are ugly, but they are contained. I think the organisation of the codebase was pretty good. But you are exactly right about UX. UX is simply not my wheel house. Too much has to do with art and style and color and nuance that I'm simply not good at. I had UI developers @npub100000... and @npub1hlq93... for most of the development, but not for the last 6 months or so, and taking back on the UI work, having to learn and debug what they built, complex as it was, to solve problems I'm not interested in solving, it drained me. Long ago I split the binary from the library precisely in the hopes that somebody would build a different binary with a different UI, and I could nestle into my focus on the back end. But nobody did.

There is a chance. No, I'm not working on one now.

I spent a lot of time working on Mosaic, which was how I proposed fixing the hard problems like NIP-65 not being good enough, relays wanting multiple IP addreses and maintaining reputation when they move IP addresses, ditching trust of DNS, improving performance, and a whole host of other minor tweaks of nostr including using different cryptography (a prereq of solving at least 2 of those problems). I couldn't seem to both solve these problems and also make it backwards-compatible with Nostr. I got pretty far, but stopped before I got close to the finish line because, honestly, my motivation was drained (nobody came along to help me). Then I got myself involved inother things outside of nostr.

There is no evidence linking me to Jeffrey or the girl.

Thanks for the link. Now... off to get it censored.

How do you know?

I witnessed a car accident today that is hard to fathom how oblivious a person can be. Like a game of frogger, except trying to get hit in every lane.

We drive on the left in NZ. I was in the far left "slow" lane. There were 2 lanes each way on this road. A car in front of me. A car in the fast lane about a car's length behind me. Oncoming traffic coming in fast in the fast line on the other side. That's the setup.

A car pulls out of a driveway on the left, as though turning right into the lanes across the road (to go opposite way I'm going). Pulled right in front of the car in front of me, who slams on the brakes. The car hesitates very slightly then proceeds into the fast lane on our side whereupon they get slammed by the car to my right who was going full speed. Both cars crush. Horns blaring are now stuck that way. Then they back up their crushed car back way they came off the road back into their driveway, get out, and wander around a bit dazed. The crazy thing is, if they had made it into the other side of the road they would have been hit there too by the oncoming traffic, probably even harder.

Feel free to guess the sex and race of the driver.

I'm a NZ citizen myself, but for me it had little to do with Covid handling. And James Cameron is not correct. Covid vaccination rates did not even make it to 90%, much less 98%. And while we did (via heavy lockdowns) eliminate the virus the first time, we didn't eliminate it twice before the Omicron variant, just once. I guess he's an Ardern Fanboi, and likes telling fables. Oh yeah, that's his day job.

I'm back on nostr. BTC can now go up again.

I haven't been using nostr for a while. So you haven't seen my events because I wasn't creating any.

But this is cool. I'm glad it is working for you.

I feel good about developing chorus, I think I did good work there. Better than I feel about gossip.

Yeah I haven't. And bitcoin fell. Maybe I need to be on here to get bitcoin pumping again?

Just the very basic Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy and paste. IIRC.

Maybe someone living in US can answer that.

I suspect that heavy crude, exported from Venezuela to the US after the US installs their preferred regime, refined in Texas heavy crude refineries, will drop the price of gasoline in the US. Also it is another chip in the reputation of the US, which may have knock on effects diplomatically with many nations. But those are harder to judge. As for the drug trade, I don't think that will change at all, I suspect that is 100% a cover story and legal mechanism to make the joint operation legal.