thibaultamartin

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

When self-hosting, we try to solve a non-technical problem with (often shaky) technical solutions.

I think we need to acknowledge our weaknesses to improve.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-services-but-i-do

🔄 Boost to help decentralising services reliably

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

Berlin is doing its best to try and drag me there in September

☁️ @nextcloud Conference on 16-17
🅰️ @ansible Community Day on 20
[m] @matrix Community Summit on 21-23

That would be a full week of great community-centric conferences 🤩

b0rk, 9 months ago to random

some tactics for writing in public https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

Me: "I'm going to write a quick post about how dangerous it is to do self-hosting but why it's important to be able to do it".

9000 words later: "well ok, that's a hairy topic"

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

If you're on a summer break and you want a hands on way to learn useful hosting skills, I'm covering containers, docker compose, and @ansible, applied to Matrix.

Stay tuned, because next week we're going to cover monitoring with @Prometheus and @grafana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCsw1bbBjAM&list=PLl5dnxRMP1hWnFJYiXL3ot1NWufOqzSNX

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

Trying to find minutes here and there to work on it, but the Matrix Servers List is making good progress 🗒️

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

Frontend work is fun, but the culture of adding a dependency for every trivial problem terrifies me.

It's good not to reinvent the wheel, so relying on libraries is useful. But ultimately an app will break as soon as a single one of its dependencies breaks.

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

I recently wrote about finding a note taking app that worked well for me to replace the OneNote I loved. I brushed off one solution as too impenetrable because it has a steep learning curve.

Having taken a bit more time to dive in, I still think the Logseq onboarding experience is unsettling… but the tool might not be that difficult to use.

Some day I'll stop second guessing myself, but today is not that day.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/07/26-onenote-but-interoperable

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

By the way, if you're into deploying your own Matrix bridge to Discord… I've got you covered!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_qCw28Adfk

thibaultamartin, 9 months ago to random

Excited to finally get to work on it

thibaultamartin, 10 months ago to random

Dilemma: Obisdian is pretty great, I want to support the development, and I like that their sync service is E2EE.

But $8/month to synchronise a few kilobytes of data per day, for a (fancy) markdown editor is A LOT. It's the price of a Netflix subscription here 😐

thibaultamartin, 10 months ago to random

I’m putting some thoughts together on paper, and I’m wondering what people think here about the issue.

Why do you think centralisation is a problem?

thibaultamartin, 10 months ago to random

I'm not a designer but I worked on frontend projects and I had to spend time in Figma.

I just tried @penpot and WOW, the flex and grid layouts are so much more intuitive than how Figma handles layouts 🤯

herzleid, 10 months ago to random

No, website, I do not want to "Learn more" or "Review my settings" or "View details", I want a "Reject all" button right next to the "Accept all" in the cookie consent window. That's what I want. Only that.

thibaultamartin, 11 months ago to random

So following the acquisition of Gandi and the sudden decision to charge for mailboxes, I'm looking for a new provider.

I've been recommended a few (and I'm interested in your recommendations too!), and I'm sad so many providers are deceptively calling their services "completely private" or worse, "end-to-end encrypted".

E2EE for mails never made it to the general public. GPG is for the tech savvy, and S-MIME is mostly used in a corporate context.

thibaultamartin, 11 months ago to random

Matrix community member @MTRNord did an awesome transcription of the Matrix Tutorial "get ready for sliding sync" in which I explain how to deploy a Sliding Sync proxy so you can use Element X.

If you want sliding sync on your instance and don't have the time to watch the video, go check out this transcription!

https://en.miki.community/wiki/Matrix_Tutorial_7

thibaultamartin, 11 months ago to random

When you prepare a video about good news, and YouTube picks up this frame for the thumbnail.

matrix, 11 months ago to random

We are thrilled to announce Beeper is the first organisation member of the Matrix.org Foundation!

Read about why the universal chat app supports Matrix, and why you should too.

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/06/beeper-joins-the-foundation/

thibaultamartin, 11 months ago to random

The new @matrix website is now LIVE!

https://matrix.org

Liesvanrompaey, 1 year ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon
I didn't really get how there could be such a thing as cozy SF. Just couldn't picture it.

Now that I've read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers I totally understand.

Listening to these books made me feel like I was on a holiday.

I'll still be reading hard(er) SF, but it will be nice to grab some cozy SF from time to time :).

#cozySF #BeckyChambers