If you're a fan of the Spooky Season, make sure to check out Media Kraken this month! You'll find my Halloween movie recommendations, and a couple more surprises! What are your favorite Halloween movies?

🔴 Hey! Remember that I'll be live in Today's LoFi Meetup. Starting ~20 minutes from now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDQM...

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/30 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PST (September 30, 2025) for yet another exciting lineup: 1️⃣ @noeldemartin.com - entrepreneur & SolidProtocol.org dev 2️⃣ German Jablonski - Creator of Fluski, DocNode & working on Paylod @ Figma. 3️⃣ Akshay Kumar - Founder of oorja.io 👉🏽 lofi.so

Next week I'll join the lofi.so livestream to talk about my work on Solid and Local-First. You can watch live on Tuesday, September 30th, at 8am PT; or catch the recording later on. www.youtube.com/@local-first...

Here's something I never thought would happen, I'm quoted in Tim Berners-Lee's new book 🤯. That's awesome! Thanks @timbl.bsky.social :D.

If you're a frontend developer, you may be thinking that modals were solved years ago. But there's something that's always bothered me. And once you see it, you won't be able to unsee it. #VueJS #Frontend noeldemartin.com/blog/the-pro...

Another one bites the dust! #Pocket is shutting down tomorrow... So, what are you switching to? I already learned the lesson, and I've been moving all my apps to Solid. In today's video, I'll build a Pocket replacement. youtu.be/Xtxwbz7LrfU

NLNet just announced the granted projects for the call of December 2024... and I know for a fact that at least one them was submitted after the deadline (it was submitted on May 6th 2025). Here's the official announcement: nlnet.nl/news/2025/20...

I just posted the last video in my "Rebuilding Solid Focus with Aerogel" series. I share how I worked on the landing page, and some final touches before release like accessibility. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpfD...

After 5 years, I've finally updated my first Solid App. And it's much more than an update, I rebuilt it from scratch! If you want to get your tasks in order, check out Focus: focus.noeldemartin.com

Last month, I was talking about the potential of AI to build Solid Applications. And now, in just two weeks, I made an entire Shows Tracker app 🤯. noeldemartin.github.io/shows-tracker/

If you missed the Solid Symposium last week, I just uploaded a recording of my talk: Solid Unleashed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pfU...

In a couple of weeks I'll be attending the Solid Symposium in Leiden, the Netherlands. I'll also give a talk about Solid app development, see you there! sosy2025.eu

I just posted a video showing how I'm tackling Interoperability with Soukai and Aerogel. I managed to get the app working with multiple schemas, whilst remaining backwards compatible with a codebase I haven't touched in 5 years :D. youtu.be/EAFHV7dIx8c

Noel De Martin's 2023 FOSDEM talk helped me wrap my head around Solid, looking forward to watching his Interoperable Serendipity presentation. 2023 presentation: youtu.be/kPzhykRVDuI

Well, in case the title of my new blog post wasn't clear enough: I'm looking for work 😅. Let me know if you hear of something! noeldemartin.com/blog/the-sou...

I applied for an NLNet grant 5 months ago, and today I was informed that I didn't make the cut :(. I guess that means I'm back on the job market 😅. Not sure what that says about the #Solid ecosystem, or about myself...

If you missed my presentation at Solid World last week, you can now watch the recording! Again, I think this is one of the most important concepts for the future of Solid and apps in general. If you care about those, make sure to check this out :). www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN9O...

Hey, in case you missed it, tomorrow I'll be giving a talk about Interoperable Serendipity at Solid World. I think this is the secret ingredient that could unleash Solid's real potential. Join us tomorrow to learn more!

If you're curious to learn how I work on my apps, I just uploaded a video going through the common steps. In particular, I tell you how I worked on Umai's recent Cook Mode! youtu.be/AEYuqPFpEr0

I'll be speaking at the upcoming Solid World about one of my favorite topics: Interoperable Serendipity. Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solid-worl...

I can already imagine all the developers, like me, worried after seeing this sign that they'll reject our 100ml containers 😂 #fosdem

"if the product isn't great, being open doesn't matter" it's great to hear this at #FOSDEM. Great talk @johnonolan.bsky.social!

This year, too, I'm attending #FOSDEM. See you there? :D noeldemartin.com/tasks/attend...

Today I decided to open source one of my oldest projects: my personal website! github.com/NoelDeMartin...

I just upgraded my self-hosted Mastodon server and it went very smoothly. First time I touch anything in almost 6 years 🙈. I know most people around here still doesn't care about Mastodon/ActivityPub. That's why I post in 3 sites 😅 (the bird, the butterfly, and the mammoth).

This year, the Three Wise Men brought a gift for Umai users: a new feature! With Cook Mode, you can now follow instructions step by step, set up timers, and prevent the screen from sleeping. Check it out in the app: umai.noeldemartin.com

I just read @aaronfrancis.com' 2024 recap. What an insane year! Any one of those would wreak havoc for anyone. And not only did he pull through, he's thriving. Whilst remaining true to his values! This inspires me so much. I have no excuses for 2025. aaronfrancis.com/2024/year-in...

Back to my Happy Place! I'm looking forward to doing a lot more of this in 2025 (design + code) 😁. And Happy New Year! I hope you can also spend time doing what you enjoy! What is your Happy Place?

After 103 days, 34 cities, and 9 countries... I'm finally back home 🥳. Last week, I came back from a 3 months sabbatical traveling around Asia (and New Zealand!). This may sound great on paper (and it was), but for the last couple of months I couldn't wait to be back 😅.

Any time privacy and security around our data online comes up in conversation, I want to tell them all about Solid Protocol. How nice it would be to control our data and have more fluidity between apps. Really nice blog post about it here by @noeldemartin.com noeldemartin.com/blog/why-solid

Like every year, I just dressed my apps for the Christmas season :D. It's quite silly, but I always enjoy doing these things. It also gives me a chance to work on some issues, and look at each app at least once a year.

10 years ago today, I launched my personal website :D. It's been one of the best decisions of my life. Jobs and platforms come and go, but my website has been a constant outlet that will remain. I wish everyone I met had a personal website! noeldemartin.com/blog/startin...

New issue of my Friday newsletter Founder to Founder is out! In this one, I discuss the fact that a lot of entrepreneurs love the idea of having a business but not the reality. If you don't love doing business, this won't play out well for you in the mid-term. www.alexrodba.com/f2f-9-sell-o...

If you're curious about how I created Umai, and you haven't read my development journals, I just generated a podcast with NotebookLM. Plug this in your favorite podcast app to give it a listen (or click to listen in the browser): noeldemartin.com/podcast/feed...

atproto decouples data hosting from applications. this is possible because all data is signed — so every app can verify that you have actually written the posts the app received and they weren’t tampered with in transit comparing atproto with AP verbally is hard because AP couples hosting and apps

A few days ago I watched @danabra.mov's new talk, "Web Without Walls". It's a great talk, as always! But there are a couple of things I'm uneasy about. Let me explain:

Recently, I've been learning to make animations on the web. And I'm starting to understand why Framer Motion is one of the reasons for people to choose React over #Vue. But I still want to use Vue! So I started working on a library that supports layout animations, like this one:

Inrupt recently open-sourced a Data Wallet, and I have some comments about it. If you care about #Solid, I think it's important that you're aware of what's going on. Join the discussion in the forum: forum.solidproject.org/t/inrupts-da...

I've had this account dormant since creating it, but it seems like I'll start using it because Twitter is getting worse by the day. In any case, I'm not super active in social networks. The best place to follow my work is still my website, which you can subscribe through RSS: noeldemartin.com/now