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@ Christoph Ono
2023-11-10 16:06:46This is a cross-post from my Substack where I post weekly updates on my open-source work.
This is an update for the past two weeks. The week before had only 3 days for me, and I didn’t want to share just a few small bits. There’s a lot to balance right now across everything I am involved with, so I’ll just go over all the projects and list out a few things that come to mind.
The foundation is the big one at the moment. Paperwork is mostly taken care of and we are ready to go and accept donations, in the middle of fundraising, and will give an update on a community call on Wednesday. It’s super exciting. Now that the boring setup stuff is through, it will be great to share and discuss everything publicly. I hope the foundation will be a nice power-up to the whole community and its mission. Also looks like this will continue to take a good amount of time for the foreseeable future. The foundation may be set up, but there are blog posts and social threads to write, designers to speak with, grant applications to review, potential donors to charm, finances to plan, conference talk proposals to prepare, etc. All good stuff, just takes time. And I do hope we can be one of the best open-source foundations out there, ever.
I just scheduled design review call with 10101 in the community, which will be interesting. The team reached out about getting feedback after seeing the recent review call with Peach. General chatter is fairly low in the community right now, with the most activity happening in projects (which is good). I am also looking to ramp up social media posts more, so we can do a better job at giving visibility to all the cool things people are doing. And of course the newsletter is coming up again next week.
This design below was fun. A Duolingo-inspired HODL streak. Sometimes I need a break from writing documents in the afternoons, that’s when I slide in brief explorations like this one. It’s not meant to be super thorough or complete, just a visualization of a simple idea, maybe a conversation starter. Sometimes these things grow bigger, sometimes they change shape, sometimes they are forgotten.
Good stuff is happening in the guide. We had a great jam session on Monday around some pretty intricate topics. It will be great to tame those into pleasant user experiences. My multi-wallet management page is now awaiting reviews, I’m excited to get that one live. Next, I am debating whether to look into BOLT12 and silent payments UX, revising the shared and upgradeable wallet reference designs, or finalizing the stablecoin content that has gone stale. Not sure yet, maybe I’ll ask around to see what people are most interested in.
Not a ton happening around the UI Kit and Icons. I have some pretty clear ideas on what should happen next (how-to videos, case studies, onboarding playground, color revision), but other things have priority. Ideally, we can find someone to co-maintain longer-term to help out with it all (maybe via the foundation?).
The design for the Bitcoin Core App is way ahead of development, so we’re pausing it for a bit. Some minor tasks come up, like the peer details screen below. The devs are busy, and the research group (really great group of people) is working on organizing and summarizing their findings.
Saving Satoshi has picked up the speed in both lesson content creation and development, which is awesome. Chapter 4 is complete, chapter 5 being developed, and we started chapter 6 design around constructing transactions (which is way over my head code-wise). If you haven’t tried it yet, please do, and share your feedback (pretty please). Otherwise I am a bit behind on testing and some small design tasks I have identified for myself.
Nostrasia is wrapped up. Congrats to the hackathon winners. I ended up adding short notes, long notes, and calendars to profiles. Easy to do, just simple templates for additional content types. There’s one more thing around extension support I’d like to get done because it’s a bit of an issue, but then Nosta might be on a bit of hold again.
And that’s it, except for the stuff I forgot. Lots of stuff going on. And it’s only possible because there are lots of great people involved in everything. Thanks to everyone.
Peace & happiness.
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