Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

When I started using it, it was a bit uncomfortable. No notifications by default? I won't see all emails in my "Inbox"?, etc. But after the first couple of days, I realized the discomfort came from FOMO and bad habits. It's great now. JOMO, Joy Of Missing Out.

If you don't know anything about HEY, you should check out the features tour. It is a great overview that highlights many of their unique features. https://hey.com/features/the-screener

I have been using HEY for a week now, here's a thread with my first impressions 👇

@selea @craigmaloney With https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com :)

@craigmaloney Oh damn, I do the opposite, I turn emails to RSS feeds xD Although now that I use Hey maybe I should rethink that... I've been meaning to change my reader for a while, I'll see what I do. Thanks!

@craigmaloney Hey what RSS reader do you use? I've searched for "r2e reader" but I didn't find anything

@noeldemartin No, it isn't :(

Ok I just gave the code to johnmsteen@twitter.com! Patience for the rest, if you signed up yours should be arriving soon :). If it's any consolation, I didn't get noel@hey.com and I don't think my name is that common. So I wouldn't worry about getting your first name either.

@sl007

Cool, I just signed up :). Btw, the confirmation links are broken, not sure if you can fix that. They start with `https:/apconf` instead of `https://apconf`

I've got a hey.com invite code to give away, anyone who I know wants it? Free, of course, no payment shenanigans :D

@noeldemartin Welcome to the fediverse!

#TIL that in most SQL engines the condition `category != 'movies'` will not return rows where the category is NULL, you should do `category != 'movies' OR category IS NULL` instead.

@craigmaloney Yeah that sucks, but I found these a while ago and they work quite well :)

https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com
https://fetchrss.com

The other day I was saying it'd be nice to have an app that mimics the way that conversations happen in conferences/meetups. Today I found one that's very close to what I had in mind! https://remo.co

#TIL That CSS pixels are not equivalent to device pixels in high resolution screens. So <img width="300" height="300"> can actually be rendered as 600x600px in some devices.

@karen Yeah for sure, I guess at this point my Japanese level is just too low xD

@karen Well I "read" with kanji. But still, I struggle to know if a bunch of kanji together are a single word or many. Or if the hiragana are particles or part of the word conjugation. は vs が may be difficult to write/speak, but I don't think they are a huge problem for understanding. And kanji are difficult but it's easy to find what they mean online (and most of the things I read have furigana).

I'm talking about understanding Japanese. So this is probably not true for writing/speaking :).

@karen One of the things I find the hardest in Japanese is actually the lack of spaces, I struggle to know where a word/particle ends and another begins.