Noel De Martin @noeldemartin@noeldemartin.social

In this talk, @aveltens nails THE most important point of Solid. We don't need a killer app, we need an ecosystem of apps that work together!

Owning your data is cool and all, but these experiences show the true power of Solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCtoWkwSkxI

One of the best things you can do to improve the stability of your apps is writing tests, and Cypress is the best tool for the job!

To help you with that, I just released a plugin that makes testing Solid Apps super easy. I hope you find it useful :).

https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/cypress-solid

I just finished migrating my first Solid App to the framework I'm working on, AerogelJS!

If you're curious to see how you build an app with the framework, check out the source code.

Is it easy to understand? Let me know what you think I could improve!

https://github.com/NoelDeMartin/ramen

Which one is it Deezer? Does my choice really "not affect my experience", or do I have to trade my privacy to play music for free?

Seems to me it is the latter.

Today I published a blog post talking about what my ideal world of software looks like. I call it Skeuomorphic Software, check it out!

https://noeldemartin.com/blog/skeuomorphic-software

I recommended this CSS course last year, and now it's 50% off! https://css-for-js.dev/

There's so much content that after a year of starting it I'm still not done :O (I dedicate 1 hour/week). And I still enjoy it like the first day.

If you're curious, you can read about my experience thus far: https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/learning-css

If you're curious about the different approaches to make Solid Apps, @megoth just launched a website comparing some of them. It's also a great resource if you know nothing about Solid and want to learn some basics :). Check it out!

https://rdfjs.vercel.app/

I just posted a video showing what you can do with the framework I'm working on, Aerogel. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXyCH_S9efk

Stackoverflow is down 😱

But don't fret, the Internet Archive has got our back :).

Just saw that my apps Media Kraken and Umai were featured in Tim Berners-Lee's recent keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress :D. Thanks Tim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DvBPnNigM&t=1069s

The streaming industry is so broken that even though I'm paying for Netflix, I can't watch the One Piece Live Action in the Japanese nor Latin American Spanish dubs.

Can someone remind me why that isn't possible?

https://noeldemartin.com/blog/what-technology-wants

I'm back to Barcelona after a couple of months in Japan, and it was great!

It was my first time doing something called a "mini-life", and I think I'll be doing it again. You can read about my experience here: https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/working-from-japan

I'll be in Tokyo most of July and August, let me know if you're around and want to meet up!

https://noeldemartin.com/tasks/working-from-japan

This week I attended #penpotfest and I enjoyed it a lot! It was great to meet a community where Developers, Designers, and Open Source come together. I'll definitively pay more attention to @penpot!

If you're curious, check out the recordings at https://penpotfest.org

I have sent a couple of letters to myself in the future and it's always been useful to see things more clearly. You know, all that about overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term.

I've been using futureme.org, in case you're curious to try it yourself!

What's going on with #Reddit at the moment is awesome. I hope it ends well and I hope to see a lot more of this in the future. Ideally, communities will eventually migrate to making better technology choices though. But hey, it's a start.

https://reddark.untone.uk/