Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

"P.S. We're offsetting by 3x every bit of CO2 this creates." Nice!!

https://hey.science/dumpster-fire/

It seems like this starting to become a reality! (maybe it already was when I tooted this and I didn't know 😅 )

Here's 3 solutions I've found so far:
- https://remo.co
- https://www.airmeet.com
- https://www.wonder.me

And some people has recommended hubs.mozilla.com, but I'm not sure it has the UX I had in mind.

I started using TailwindCSS a while ago and now I use it everywhere. I was skeptic at first, but it's a perfect pairing with Vue and other component-based frameworks. Now that 2.0 is out it's a great time to give it a chance!

https://blog.tailwindcss.com/tailwindcss-v2

So, Google Photos will stop providing unlimited storage for free.

Who's surprised about this? Nobody, I hope. I actually believe this is better, but I don't like the bait and switch strategy. Whenever I see news about Google Photos, the story of Everpix comes to mind.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup

I just finished Caleb Porzio's VSCode course. Improving your workflow doesn't happen overnight, I've been introducing small changes for weeks. It's been a transformative experience, I'll never look at my programming environment the same way. Check it out! https://makevscodeawesome.com

It's been more than a year since I started working in the open. Here's an update. https://noeldemartin.com/blog/working-in-the-open-when-no-one-is-looking

So, #vue3 is finally out and looking great! And I'm so happy they skipped the "N" for the naming and went with One Piece! :D Now that sticker on my laptop is even more suitable!

https://noeldemartin.com/blog/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want

RSS + SRS = RSSRS? I enjoy podcasts and blogs, but sometimes I feel like they go over my head. There's also recency bias. I save my favourite ones thinking I'll go back to them, but I never do. So I've been thinking it'd be nice to build a tool to help with that. Maybe someday.

Two of my favourite bloggers, @dajbelshaw and Abhishek Chakraborty, just wrote on the importance of writing. I should really get started writing those 62 blog ideas I have on my backlog... 🙈

- https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2020/07/21/just-write
- https://coffeeandjunk.com/writing-thinking

After some months of side-project work, here's my new #Solid app. If you don't have a Solid POD, data will be stored locally and you can upgrade to Solid when you're ready! Media Kraken will help you keep track of your media, starting with movies in v0.1. https://noeldemartin.github.io/media-kraken/

Are you attending #MootGlobal20? Do you have a cat? This is your chance to bring your cat to a conference! Come join me at the "cat lovers" table in the Networking Cafe during the 18:20 CET Networking Break! (9 hours from now)

It's been years since I enjoyed a new manga as much as I'm enjoying Chainsawman. The last one was The Promised Neverland, but the last arcs have been quite disappointing.

Starting today, you can reach me at noeldemartin@hey.com. I'm so glad to finally ditch gmail and become a Basecamp customer!

But something important for everyone, not only power users, is who your email provider is. I share a lot of values with Basecamp, and that comes through in the product. I didn't with Google, and that's why I ended up using 3rd party clients.

In summary, my experience has been really good so far. To be fair though, I was already doing fine with my previous setup. Even though this is a big improvement, I feel it's only noticeable for power users. I get ~5 emails a day, so email has never been overwhelming for me.

Being email such a critical service and Basecamp a relatively small company, you may wonder how reliable it is. I cannot say that the application was unresponsive or slow at any point. And it's not that they don't have traffic. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275511173782204416

Still, if there is a company I can trust with vendor lock-in, that's Basecamp. And I don't say this lightly. If worse comes to worse, their policies on what happens after cancelling the account are good. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275503946962857984