Mateu 
@e0ipso@fosstodon.org
I just registered for GUADEC 2020. I am quite excited about it, it will be my first one! Looking forward to learn more about @gnome
I am running UBports in my unused Oneplus 3T now. Tinkering is fun!
OH: "Cada uno en su casa, y Google en la de todos"
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I've noticed that a lot of people on here rock some flavor of linux. I'm curious to hear what distro people prefer, what distro you would recommend for a beginner, and if you load into a vm, dual boot or have completely replaced your origianl os
If your webcam seems slow in Linux when using it with OBS, Cheese, or other software, this post I just wrote may interest you.
https://mateuaguilo.com/linux/2020/06/01/guvcview-instead-of-cheese/
Insomnia is an incredible free #alternative to Postman.
I cannot believe I am just discovering this marvel.
Free Software alternatives #3: Collabora Office (Google Docs)
Remove Google Docs from your digital life and move on to ethical alternatives.
https://mateuaguilo.com/open-source/2020/05/18/free-software-alternatives-collabora/
Super proud of my friends over in Cambrico for being the local company with more contributions to Drupal in Spain.
https://www.drupal.org/drupal-services?offices%5B%5D=24404
They prove you can promote FOSS by hiring your development agency thoughtfully.
Drupal's logo refresh has created some controversy. What do you think about it?
Here you can see the old and new side by side.
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If a protocol is open but so complicated only the reference implementation is usable it's not actually open
I am learning a bit more about federations from @FLOX_advocate before kids wake up.
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/fediverse-decentralized-social-networking-and-services
Did you ever want to preview the entities of a view? Or preview the entities referenced in a node, just like you do with the "Latest version"?
I recorded a video tutorial to share it with you. Watch the tutorial in this blog post:
http://mateuaguilo.com/web-development/drupal/2020/05/08/previewing-entities-drupal/
I just did:
alias 'git-submit'="git push -u origin $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
There has to be a better way (putting a git alias failed for some reason).
TIL that you can pass multiple arguments to PHP's `isset` and it will check them all. That makes for a slightly shorter syntax when doing `isset($a) && isset($b)`.
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Anyone that needs a sysadmin/security engineer?
Anyone?
Please.
What do you all think about this? The friends at Spatie made a demo about a Laravel plugin. They said they will release the code once they reach 50 GitHub sponsors.
https://freek.dev/1644-creating-a-tweet-wall-in-3-minutes-using-laravel-dashboard
When installing multiple PHP versions in Debian this command is extremely useful to switch from one to to other:
sudo update-alternatives --config php
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Our community is working hard on LibreOffice 7.0, due to be released in early August. And you can give them a hand! You don't need to be a programmer – you can help out with testing, design, documentation and more. Build up your skills and have fun: https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org
