Noel De Martin ⌛🧠🔥 @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

Some people is against New Year Resolutions, but I do them and here's two things I always keep in mind:

✅ It's better to build habits than set goals, so many of my goals are tracking new habits

✅ Keep them SMART (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-related)

"If you A/B test a website enough times, it will turn into a Porn site." 🤣 If you haven't yet, listen to Akimbo https://www.akimbo.link/blog/s-5-e-18-publishing-is-hard

Have you ever wondered how to to test your Laravel app using Cypress? Here's how https://noeldemartin.com/blog/testing-laravel-applications-using-cypress

"What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner" Is this the best news headline ever? 😂 I signed up for The Register newsletter some weeks ago and it's awesome. Great way to stay up-to-date and hilariously funny. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/anker_vac/

Am I the only one who watches videos and listens to podcasts at 1x?

I am a big fan of One Piece, and reading this week's chapter was bittersweet because what happened shows it's really nearing its end. I want to enjoy what's left with as much intensity as always, and so far the series is at its best. Thank you Oda!

After more than a year on my backlog, I finally gave Laravel Nova a try. It was as good as expected, Laravel quality. Read more about it here: https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/brushing-up-noeldemartincom#comment-4

These days I've been trying to streamline my media sources, and I'm happy to say that RSS is alive and well! It's true that not all websites provide a feed, but tools like Kill The Newsletter and FetchRSS make it very easy.

@dajbelshaw Yeah, this does feel like bittorrent xD

#TIL You can get an RSS feed of changes in a repository from GitHub, down to a file or folder! just use the following url: github.com /{user}/{repository}/commits/{branch}/{path-to-file-or-folder?}.atom

I've upgraded to the latest Laravel version in my website using Laravel Shift and it's been really easy :) If you want to know more about it, read here: https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/brushing-up-noeldemartincom#comment-2

Just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell. It was better than I expected, and that's saying something because I had high expectations. For anyone who doesn't know from the title, it's the book where the sentence "Big Brother is watching" comes from.

#TIL the word "Solipsism", it's used for the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. This is a concept I've often brought up and pondered about, but I didn't know the word and the existing theories. Reading up the wikipedia article was fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

First commute after holidays. I was so focused on reading that I almost get locked up in the bus because everyone got off on the last stop and I didn't notice. I guess I'll have to get used to interruptions again.

Barefoot Running #barefootfordai #RIPDai @daibarnes https://youtu.be/rUGSHDSafLI

I've also released a new package to help interacting with Solid PODs https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/soukai-solid

Yesterday I released a new version of my Solid task manager with some new features, check it out https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/solid-focus

I just noticed one of the sneakiest design decisions from Twitter. All tweets you see from people you don't follow have this message at the top explaining why you're seeing them: "retweeted by X" or "liked by X". Except promoted tweets, those have the message on the bottom.

@funkwhale Hey, I recently subscribed to the RSS feed using Feedly but I get no content on the posts, so I have to click through and open the post on the browser. Any idea why that might be happening?