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I just created an RSS feed of my /now page! I haven't been very active in my blog, but I've kept updating this, so subscribe if you want see what I'm up to! noeldemartin.com/now/rss.xml

Some people is against New Year Resolutions, but I do them and here's two things I always keep in mind:

βœ… It's better to build habits than set goals, so many of my goals are tracking new habits

βœ… Keep them SMART (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-related)

"If you A/B test a website enough times, it will turn into a Porn site." 🀣 If you haven't yet, listen to Akimbo akimbo.link/blog/s-5-e-18-publ

"What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner" Is this the best news headline ever? πŸ˜‚ I signed up for The Register newsletter some weeks ago and it's awesome. Great way to stay up-to-date and hilariously funny. theregister.co.uk/2019/10/23/a

Am I the only one who watches videos and listens to podcasts at 1x?

I am a big fan of One Piece, and reading this week's chapter was bittersweet because what happened shows it's really nearing its end. I want to enjoy what's left with as much intensity as always, and so far the series is at its best. Thank you Oda!

I am a big fan of One Piece, and reading this week's chapter was bittersweet because what happened shows it's really nearing its end. I want to enjoy what's left with as much intensity as always, and so far the series is at its best. Thank you Oda!

After more than a year on my backlog, I finally gave Laravel Nova a try. It was as good as expected, Laravel quality. Read more about it here: noeldemartin.com/tasks/brushin

These days I've been trying to streamline my media sources, and I'm happy to say that RSS is alive and well! It's true that not all websites provide a feed, but tools like Kill The Newsletter and FetchRSS make it very easy.

You can get an RSS feed of changes in a repository from GitHub, down to a file or folder! just use the following url: github.com /{user}/{repository}/commits/{branch}/{path-to-file-or-folder?}.atom

I've upgraded to the latest Laravel version in my website using Laravel Shift and it's been really easy :) If you want to know more about it, read here: noeldemartin.com/tasks/brushin

Just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell. It was better than I expected, and that's saying something because I had high expectations. For anyone who doesn't know from the title, it's the book where the sentence "Big Brother is watching" comes from.

the word "Solipsism", it's used for the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. This is a concept I've often brought up and pondered about, but I didn't know the word and the existing theories. Reading up the wikipedia article was fun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsis

First commute after holidays. I was so focused on reading that I almost get locked up in the bus because everyone got off on the last stop and I didn't notice. I guess I'll have to get used to interruptions again.

Yesterday I released a new version of my Solid task manager with some new features, check it out github.com/NoelDeMartin/solid-

I just noticed one of the sneakiest design decisions from Twitter. All tweets you see from people you don't follow have this message at the top explaining why you're seeing them: "retweeted by X" or "liked by X". Except promoted tweets, those have the message on the bottom.

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