Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

I've been reading about #solid and I am surprised to see that it's, conceptually, almost the same as a project I had been incubating for months. I haven't decided if I will start contributing to solid or continue on my own (or a combination of both). In case you want to check out what I was doing (it's still not even close to release), check it out in those repos:

https://noeldemartin.github.io/autonomous-data/
https://github.com/noeldemartin/kinko
https://github.com/noeldemartin/focus

It is annoying when a page whose whole purpose is to complete a form (login page, 2FA code confirmation, etc) doesn't have any input focused by default.

Every time I see the construct `if ($foobar === true) { ... }`, a little part of me dies.

Ok, about my issues with Thunderbird (last toot), false alarm. Turns out it's normal that me, the sender, can see everyone else's direction. I was confused because I also added myself as one of the recipients, and I could see everyone's email in the received message as well. Which is weird.

I just sent an email using BCC with Thunderbird and it didn't hide the emails for other recipients 😱 maybe it's time to stop using it, can you guys recommend any good email client that works in linux?

I just got a cookie notice in an app :/ Yes, an installed app, not a PWA. Is that weird or is it me?

Ok migration done! It was easier than expected 😀.

So I moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 using a new machine. I use docker so I didn't have to rebuild the database, I just copied the files over.

Some stats:

- It took ~1 hour of work.
- In roughly 2 weeks that I've been in Mastodon, my instance has accumulated ~932MB of media and ~19MB database.
- I have not noticed the "downtime" at all, If anyone talked to me or something let me know, but I don't think it happened.

Well I am going to migrate my instance from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04, so it may be down for a while, or something weird may happen.

But since it's fun, feel free to interact with me anyways, just to see what happens :P Keep in mind I may not receive it though.

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Migration-guide.md

@Gargron Hey I just heard the changelog podcast where you talk about Mastodon. I feel like I get a better grasp of the community now, but when you talk about what instances are and how they are centered about a "community" or "interests", you did not mention instances of one and what part they play on the ecosystem. Is that because that use-case doesn't happen a lot? Or what do you think about them?

Wide creativity vs. narrow creativity https://medium.com/getting-art-done/wide-creativity-vs-narrow-creativity-2f01243afcd7

Lately when I read or hear a statement from a company including the word "nuanced", whatever follows is bullshit.

Why do most APIs from big companies have congruency issues? I would think the bigger a company is, the most important having a solid data model is.

"How mad is he who leaves the lecture-room in a happy frame of mind simply because of applause from the ignorant!" - Seneca

"I'm still an amateur. But the world's full of people who don't seem to be as good as I am." - Musashi (by Eiji Yoshikawa)

Have your own standards.

If all websites had this choice 👏

"What if every file in your dependencies could be guaranteed to be bit-by-bit identical to what’s on the registry?" -- Does that mean they are NOT identical at the moment!? #npm #nodejs https://blog.npmjs.org/post/178027064160/next-generation-package-management

I executed `sudo chown noel:noel / -R` by mistake some months ago (instead of `sudo chown noel:noel ./ -R`) and I still haven't formatted my computer. Since then, weird stuff happens every now and then, but at this point I'm just letting it be out of curiosity 🤷

Wow, I just got a Facebook ad... Not an ad from Facebook, an ad advertising Facebook

Time to make an #introduction!

My name is Noel and I am a developer with a mission to create work that makes the world a better place.

You can find more about me on my website & blog: https://noeldemartin.com

Most of my toots and boosts will probably talk about #technology, #programming and #privacy.

Other of my interests are #reading, #writing, #japan, #music, #stoicism, #hiking, #education, etc.

Hi guys! @aral @laura @dajbelshaw @mayel I just created my instance and you're everyone I know here, any recommendations on who to follow or an easy way to find who I follow in the birdsite here? 😜