Alex and Jon cover the salient points of how to serve different types of communities, how to handle content reporting, and the tradeoffs of building nostr communities on top of fediverse APIs.

Jon and Chris explore what bitcoin and nostr can do for the church, and riff on the future and theology of technology.

Jon and Chris explore what bitcoin and nostr can do for the church, and riff on the future and theology of technology.

In this episode, Jordan and John discuss the book 'From the Garden to the City' by John Dyer. They discuss the different layers of technology, including tools, manufacturing, methodology, and social usage and explore the impact of a Christian worldview on various aspects of technology. In their third installment of Parsed Nips they discuss Nip 10.

Jon is back with Jordan to discuss a series of videos from pastor and theologian James B. Jordan unpacking the movement of humanity throughout the Biblical narrative arc from gardens to cities. JBJ, who was known to read the Bible five times every year, is one of the most insightful theological minds of the 20th century and this conversation sheds a little light into why. Jon and Jordan talk about gardens and cities as technology, how and why cities frequently become monuments to pride, and...

Web of Trust has numerous applications in many different domains, which Jon and Pip explore in this conversation. Pip reminds us that whatever its benefits, care should be taken to consider its effect on the people using it and labeled by it.

A discussion only for the die-hards. Hzrd and Jon get into the weeds on the outbox model, Blossom, and much more.

What does permaculture have to do with nostr? A lot! Jon and Scott talk about communities, self-obsoletion, and abundance mindsets. Scott has many years of experience in permaculture design, and a ton of wisdom to share for how we might be able to apply those principles to nostr development.

Stephen gives Jon a crash course in how to think about technology and its influence on the distribution of power, its use in social contexts, and how technical solutions have to be balanced by other aspects of human society, and circumscribed by the values of a given community.

Jeff helps Jon understand that when it comes to nostr, eCash, TikTok, and bees, it almost always depends.

Jon and Jordan discuss their recent adventures in Africa and Texas, the Top Builder's program, challenges and solutions for Bitcoin adoption in Africa and potential use cases for Nostr in Africa. They introduce a new segment called Parsed Nips which aims to unpack and explore the different nips.

Jordan and Alastair explore the influence of social media platforms on communication, the unpredictability of technology, the challenge of sovereignty in relation to technology, the codependency and temptations of the internet, the role of ethicists in technology, the centralizing and decentralizing nature of the internet, the influence of social media platforms on different generations, the fracturing of attention and the need for slower publishing processes, the challenges and difficulties...

Jon and Stuart get started with some light banter about epistemology and meaning. After an hour they gracefully shift into the weeds on groups, relays, and web of trust.

This episode is a crash course in protestant thought on a diverse range of interconnecting subjects including civil disobedience and the role of the state, a theology of technology, technology as amplification of human action, and how to collaborate in the service of a common good.

Seth’s recipe app is a perfect example of a hyper-focused nostr client that benefits from the wider network. Jon and Seth talk about how AI and web-of-trust fit into the project, as well as how ancient wisdom might help us design a better nostr.

This episode is all about relays — Cloud Fodder explains his plans for the “hub” model, and what the future holds for nostr.tools.

Jon and Fiatjaf agree about how lots of things are bad, except for Antennapod, which is good.

Jon and Miljan are both bullish on nostr. In this episode they talk about client compatibility, indexers, caching services, onboarding, UX, and how there is indeed no second best.

Derek fills Jon in on the Bitcoin Freedom Festival in Costa Rica, then get into the weeds on value-for-value, monetization, network architecture, and how clients might be able to fix search.

Jon reviews Zach’s recent work, sparking discussions about onboarding, bunkers, content moderation, video hosting, private groups, custom relays, and more.

Jon and Skeptrune talk about what nostr isn’t good at — and why Arguflow ended up moving away from nostr for their business.

Jon and Jordan catch up after a brief hiatus due to illness and travel, and discuss Jon's participation in the Pleb Lab Top Builder program and the recent ordinal/jpeg/brc20 controversy.

In this episode, Jordan sits down with UX designer JonB to discuss his journey into Christian faith, Bitcoin, Nostr, and design. Jon unpacks his experience of being a non-developing designer. They discuss the popular perception of video games and the potential for real-world applications in gaming through things like AR. Jon also shares his involvement with Arkinox and their Nostr-based video game platform, and why he thinks Nostr is a game changer for independent video game development.

Jim and Topher join Jon to talk about BOLT4, the PlebLab Top Builder competition, and NIP 105, a DVM-like spec that provides better job chaining and user privacy. Check out the proof-of-concept app at https://cascdr.vercel.app/