an easy thing to throw together a basic nostr client is gonna be a boon for my aspirations

javascript sucks, so anything that acts like a prophylactic against being infected by it but enabling its use is pretty frickin awesome

being stuck on the back end sucks because the backends are dumb and really just need to be made slim and fast, which is fun also, but some of the features of the back ends are just not being used by most clients (nip-42 notably)