Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

@Madmonkey Probably the best resources out there are laracasts and the official documentation, which is great. I'd also suggest that you try to do a small project with it, learn by doing :).

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-8-from-scratch

Laravel turned 10 years old today!

I can honestly say that Laravel is the single piece of software that has inspired me the most in my programming career. I can't imagine my life as a developer without Laravel, thank you Taylor and the rest of the awesome Laravel community. Here's to another 10 years 🍻.

@dajbelshaw I also listened to the first one and enjoyed it! It was interesting to learn about all the types of cooperatives, I didn't know there were so many around :)

@vinnl Recently, I've been wondering how many people actually use RSS :/. It's so ingrained in my workflow that I take it for granted, but I'm not sure how many people actually use it. I've been pondering if it'd make sense to create an automated newsletter or something from my feeds for people who don't use it.

And hey! At least we got to see Casca back.

RIP Kentaro Miura.

Even though he left us too soon, the Golden Age arc will always be one my favorite in manga. We won't get the redemption, but in a way it's fitting.

https://twitter.com/berserk_project/status/1395248473750917120

@dajbelshaw The image could be optimized to weight almost nothing (specially because it's in B&W), and the font is something users will have to download anyways most of the time as soon as they click a link to another section. And it can also be optimized by removing characters you don't use.

But I know this is not what "keep the current one" means, because you're probably using different libraries/plugins. But I don't think design should be constrained to page weight, most of the time.

@dajbelshaw I actually voted for sticking with the one you've got, but here's the catch.

I think 1024 is just an arbitrary number, and I don't see the point on trying to stay under that particular one. I think you should strive to make the design that you like as efficient as possible. And looking at your current one, it doesn't seem like it'd take a lot of resources. You could do it with the image, the font, and very little CSS/JS.

@dajbelshaw I see, I didn't even notice, but it seems like these are water-resistant. I've been using them for years, including for sport, and I haven't had any issues.

The only thing I'm missing is knowing the battery %. They have good battery life, but when it's running out it says an annoying "battery low" message every 30 seconds xD. I tried some apps a while ago and they didn't quite work... Maybe it's time to try again :).

@dajbelshaw I actually prefer bluetooth earphones with wires! These are the ones I use, and they are great because you get all the benefits of bluetooth (no tangling of wires), and you can keep them hanging on your neck when you remove them. They are supposed to be for sport, but I use them all the time :) (except at home of course).

@sandyman @aral https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5

@humanetech Hey, how did you request it? I see that some people has already been accepted, but I couldn't find your toot requesting access. It should be something like this: https://mastodon.social/@madnificent/106102058109837751

Also, I just found out that you can convert that post to a PDF using your browser's built-in functionality and it looks pretty good. I had to do some tweaks to make it work, but it was almost effortless.

A great example of technology working as it should :).

New blogpost! This one turned out more like a rant than I would've liked, but here it goes: https://noeldemartin.com/blog/what-technology-wants

@humanetech @vinnl Yes, give it some time and if you're still not approved you can ask the moderators. I joined different lists a while ago and I was accepted in all of them, so I don't think they reject anyone.

@dajbelshaw @epilepticrabbit @robert @Downes Some months ago I switched to using lists both here and the bird site, and I treat those as RSS feeds. I'm very pleased with the experience so far :).

@aral I've added the header to my sites, but I couldn't do it for my apps because they are hosted on Github Pages... Maybe it is time to give render.com a try.

Thanks to @aral for the heads-up :).

If you don't want Google Chrome to track people visiting your site (yes, even if you don't use Google Analytics), check this out: https://fosstodon.org/@plausible/106068895311127390