Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

@vorburger @VincentTunru Hey, thanks! :D I'm glad you like it, and hopefully we'll keep making it better :)

Somewhat reluctantly, I'm going to start using Bluesky 😅. Twitter is getting worse by the day (almost nobody sees my Tweets anymore), and I've had this Mastodon account for ages, but it's too technical for some people. So I'll be using 3 apps that do basically the same thing 🤷.

In any case, as you may already know, I'm not super active. I'll continue cross-posting everywhere, but the best place to follow my work is still my website, which you can subscribe through RSS: https://noeldemartin.com/now

@jg10 The good thing though, is that since my apps are local-first that shouldn't be too much of a problem. But I'm aware it could be an issue as a general-purpose POD replacement.

However, I think it's a worthy trade off for people who are getting started with Solid. If they know nothing about Solid but have a Nextcloud/Dropbox/Google Drive/etc account they can get started with something like this and eventually migrate to a "real POD" when they need it.

@jg10 I haven't tested with a lot of data, but with a couple of free Nextcloud providers I saw a noticeable difference :/. One of them was fine, I wouldn't be able to tell that it wasn't a "real POD". But another one was painfully slow, so I guess it depends on the Nextcloud server.

@VincentTunru I was going to say that it doesn't work, but actually it does :D. I'm sure there are some things that are broken, but I could see my files and edit some triples :).

This was a far fetched idea, but seeing how easy it's been, I may consider making it for real. I know the devil is in the details, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised. I also have to give credit to Laravel, which makes this type of quick prototyping a breeze.

Last week I started tinkering with this Solid Server from scratch, and now it works with most of my apps (including authentication!). Furthermore, it uses a Nextcloud account for storage :D.

It's just a proof of concept; and I didn't implement any of the hairy stuff (authentication, authorization, content negotiation, etc). But with very little effort, it works with a couple of my apps. So it already covers 90% of the functionality I rely on as an app developer.

It's because of things like this that I always say that in reality, Solid is very easy to learn. If you grasp the basics, it's really not a lot more complicated than understanding REST apis.

During my sabbatical, I've decided to try making a Solid Server from scratch to see how complicated it would be... And turns out I got it working in a single day 🤯.

It's very experimental, but check it out if you're curious: https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/lss

#Solid #SolidProject

The times they are a-changin'! After almost 5 years at Moodle, I've decided to quit my job and take a sabbatical. I'll be back to work in January 2025, so I'll have plenty of time to ponder what to do next.

You can learn more about it in my blog: https://noeldemartin.com/blog/the-end-of-the-chapter