#17: Organic Tech w/ Arjen

"Nostr is organic tech. Data will flow more naturally instead of going out and fetch, going out and coming back, going out and coming back." Arjen & Gigi take a long walk. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Blossom (self-healing links) noDNS Tollgate (router-to-router payments) Wally (Cashu wallet connect) innpub (positional audio, innpub.dergigi.com) Citrine (Android local relay) Amber (Android signer) nostr-relay-tray Applesauce (code snippets) Wingman (remote dev assistant) CDK (Cashu dev kit) NIP-03 (OpenTimestamps) ants (Nostr search) OTRTA / Routstr (pay for LLM compute with Cashu) Notedeck & nostrdb gitworkshop.dev (Nostr-native git collaboration) Boris (reading and highlighting) Spotstr & Earthly.city (maps on Nostr) In this dialogue: Convincing hzrd to make Blossom more of a protocol Self-healing links: content addressing like Nostr but for blobs Blossom pacemaker: a tool that monitors your notes and blobs, rebroadcasts and re-uploads as needed Local first: local relays, local blossom, local cash, local signers "I still get shit for the audio quality" Verschlimmbesserung: the German word for making something worse by trying to improve it "We should reclaim localhost" Every Nostr app should work in airplane mode Citrine roadmap: auto-rebroadcast local events once you're online again Tollgate v0.2.0: router-to-router payments, released at btc++ "Some people just hate e-cash" -- "Those people can't be helped" Cashu and CDK: making it easy for devs to use e-cash without managing wallets Wally: Cashu wallet connect, like NWC but for e-cash, runs local Install Wally and you're good to go with everything Nostr Special-purpose components that do one thing well Zero configuration: if there's a local relay, use it; if there's a local signer, use it innpub jukebox: zap the jukebox 200 sats to play a song with positional audio Moving away from subscription hell: attach e-cash to your requests noDNS deep dive: traditional DNS records published on Nostr instead of Cloudflare Self-signed TLS certs verified through Nostr identity The human approach: ask around your group of friends vs the authoritarian approach: one central authority Pi-hole would be perfectly fine running noDNS NIP-03 / OpenTimestamps: indisputable proof of profile existence over time "We went back to basically having mainframes and thin clients" The vision: everything is a relay, offline or online shouldn't matter Damus relay wiped multiple times, nobody cared -- that's resilience Data should accumulate in the right places by your pattern of usage The Nosterverse: every client is a different lens, there is no global "Nostr is organic tech" Vibe coding setup: Roo Code, Claude, code snippets from hzrd and Pablo "Claude 4.5 is very agreeable -- I could rile it up and start a revolution together" The dream flow: just speak voice memos into your phone, code updates 20 minutes later Screenless coding: the underutilized interface ants search: took npub.world plus nostr.band, crossbred them "Software evolution is crossbreeding, not merging back into the original repo" Maps on Nostr: the social part is what makes Google Maps useful, Nostr can provide it Sovereign Engineering cohort 5: "we really know what we're doing now" "The future is already here, we just have a lot of building to do" "If you want to build something, the easiest way right now is Nostr" We're gonna make torrents great again Recorded at 918,425.