Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

In a couple of months, I'll be attending the 2nd Solid Symposium in Leuven, Belgium. I missed it last year, but I'm looking forward to attending this one! I'll also participate in a session on CRDTs (and maybe one on DX), it should be fun :D.

https://events.vito.be/sosy2024

@rosano I think it depends a lot on how close someone is to having enough financial security, but I'm pretty sure everyone would choose more meaning. The thing, though, is that not everyone's idea of "meaning" is the same.

Some people also don't seem to ever reach financial security because they increase their expenditure with more income.

@moodlefairy Thanks, it was fun :D

After years of fruitless pursuit, I finally got my hands on some #Solid stickers at #Fosdem!! Thanks to the @NGIZero folks :D.

If we ever meet and you want one, let me know; I'll be glad to share them :).

I realize I didn't post it before; here you can find some of the talks I'll be attending and what else I'll be doing at #fosdem https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/attending-fosdem-2024

@rosano I guess I'd say this one, which isn't linked from anywhere right now but existed on the first version of the site :) https://noeldemartin.com/experiments

On the topic of unbroken links, I love this page, maybe you haven't seen it: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

I'll be attending FOSDEM in a couple of weeks, let me know if you're around in Brussels and want to meet :).

https://fosdem.org

@martin Nice, I forgot to mention kill-the-newsletter, but I use it too :D.

Didn't know about openrss.org :)

@martin That's great :) I've been using RSS for ages and I think it's great.

A couple of tips, if a website doesn't have an RSS feed you can use something like FetchRSS.com to generate it yourself. And you can also subscribe to any github repo/subfolder with the following url: `github.com/{user}/{repository}/commits/{branch}/{path-to-file-or-folder?}.atom`

For example: https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commits/main/local/upgrade.txt.atom

In this talk, @aveltens nails THE most important point of Solid. We don't need a killer app, we need an ecosystem of apps that work together!

Owning your data is cool and all, but these experiences show the true power of Solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCtoWkwSkxI

One of the best things you can do to improve the stability of your apps is writing tests, and Cypress is the best tool for the job!

To help you with that, I just released a plugin that makes testing Solid Apps super easy. I hope you find it useful :).

https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/cypress-solid

@rosano @jessmartin What do you mean with "interop-pilled"? Does it mean being convinced that it is important? Or learning about it? Or both?

Maybe you should add Cambria to the list :) https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria/

@nickform Thank you :)

The framework is still a work in progress, and I don't even have written any documentation yet so I don't think it would be easy for others to use. But eventually I'd like to do it, and one of the core ideas is that all the "best practices" such as how should a Solid Login behave come baked in with the framework :).

I just finished migrating my first Solid App to the framework I'm working on, AerogelJS!

If you're curious to see how you build an app with the framework, check out the source code.

Is it easy to understand? Let me know what you think I could improve!

https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/ramen

Which one is it Deezer? Does my choice really "not affect my experience", or do I have to trade my privacy to play music for free?

Seems to me it is the latter.

Today I published a blog post talking about what my ideal world of software looks like. I call it Skeuomorphic Software, check it out!

https://noeldemartin.com/blog/skeuomorphic-software

I recommended this CSS course last year, and now it's 50% off! https://css-for-js.dev/

There's so much content that after a year of starting it I'm still not done :O (I dedicate 1 hour/week). And I still enjoy it like the first day.

If you're curious, you can read about my experience thus far: https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/learning-css