Rediscovering Freedom in the Nostr Ecosystem: My Latest Tools and Updates
- Hourly Relay Updates and Historical Availability
- Personalized Relay Scanning, Now with One‑Click Relay Export
- Updates Across My Nostr Tooling Ecosystem
- A Sense of Play Returns
- And This Is Only the Beginning
Hourly Relay Updates and Historical Availability
The relay list on nostrwat.ch now updates every hour, keeping the pulse of the network fresh and accurate. But the real breakthrough is the addition of historical availability for every relay.
You can now see how often a relay goes offline, how stable it has been over time, and whether it’s reliable enough to trust with your events. It’s a small feature with big implications: instead of guessing which relays are dependable, you can make informed decisions based on real data.
Personalized Relay Scanning, Now with One‑Click Relay Export
The network scanner still helps you find the best relays for your individual setup—latency, responsiveness, and general performance. With the new availability metric, the results become even more meaningful: you’re no longer choosing relays based on a single moment in time, but on their long‑term stability.
A full scan usually takes 40–60 seconds, depending on your hardware. Once it’s done, you get a ranked list of relays tailored to your network conditions. And now there’s a small but powerful addition: one click to copy your best relays straight into your clipboard.
From there, you can drop them directly into mend, or any other relay manager, and instantly upgrade your Nostr experience. It turns what used to be a tedious, manual process into something fluid and almost playful—scan, copy, paste, done.
Updates Across My Nostr Tooling Ecosystem
Alongside nostrwat.ch, I’ve refreshed several of my Nostr tools—each one designed to solve a practical problem or smooth out a rough edge in the protocol’s everyday use.
contact list backup Export and restore your Nostr follow list. Simple, essential, and a lifesaver when switching clients or recovering from mishaps.
workbench
A lightweight alternative to nak for encoding and decoding Nostr identifiers. Handy for debugging, experimenting, or just understanding what’s going on under the hood.
mend A Nostr relay manager that helps you organize, tweak, and maintain your relay configuration without wrestling with JSON by hand.
postr A multi-format Nostr publisher that supports posting Kind 1 and 30023 events. Whether you’re writing a note or publishing long-form content, postr makes it smooth.
zpng & zstr A couple of small but surprisingly useful tools for storing secrets online. They’re niche, but they solve real problems for people who want to keep sensitive data accessible yet secure.
A Sense of Play Returns
What’s most surprising is how fun this all feels. After years of algorithmic feeds and corporate constraints, building in Nostr feels like rediscovering movement. The protocol is open, the community is curious, and the possibilities are wide open.
Working on these tools isn’t just development—it’s exploration. And for the first time in a long while, I feel like I’m building in a space that gives me room to breathe.
In fact, it’s become so fun that I keep running scans myself and posting just because I can. After years of rigid, centralized platforms, this kind of freedom feels almost mischievous.
And This Is Only the Beginning
Now that the foundation is solid, the real adventure starts. There are so many ideas waiting to be built—a search engine, games and countless experiments that haven’t even been imagined yet. The list is practically infinite.
What’s exciting is that none of this feels out of reach anymore. With the groundwork in place, we can start creating things that operate on an entirely different level. The freedom is intoxicating, and the momentum is just getting started.
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