DEV Community: tmartty

Coding while being recorded is harder than it looks.

tmartty — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:11:25 +0000

I've just finished recording my first screencast, and while I was reviewing it I got surprised by the low quality of it.

Rather, I got surprised by the high quality of videos out there, which makes mine seem really low-end.

It's true, recording audio through hangouts on my phone whilst recording the screen on my computer isn't the best idea, but I haven't invested into a mic yet.

Anyways I hope to watch this in a couple of months and feel proud of my progress.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Monocle Reader - Beta Preview

tmartty — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:25:38 +0000

Websites you follow, at a glance
Twitter, YouTube, blogs and feeds, all in one place.

You can put your wallet down now, that's just what the new Monocle motto will be.

Okay so, I've been coding a lot of the newer features to be implemented in the Beta release next month and also thinking about marketing, pricing strategies and such but right now I just wanted to take a little break and show a bit of the progress and maybe hope to get some hype before the big launch.

The general look and feel is way more Material, simpler, nicer and content-focused.

There will also be some handy folder view screens, so you can view all of a folders content in one page, instead of having to click on each feed individually. There's this ultra compact horizontal scrolling option:

Or if you're more into verticalicious scrolling, there'll be that option too:

Probably the biggest feature will be the addition of the Saved (or Read Later) section, where you can save sites to, you guessed it, read later. Of course this comes along with a nice browser extension (Chrome & Firefox) to save those links that you get when you're in the middle of something and can't read inmediately.

That's all for now, but there's many more in the workings, and now that I've quit my job, I can dedicate most of my time to developing Monocle! (I still have to eat so there's freelance clients too)

If you're curious and can't wait, you can already use the Alpha version @ monoclereader.com

Feedback appreciated!

Monocle Reader - The Feedly alternative.

tmartty — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:40:20 +0000

Yeah, it's a bit too much to say it's a Feedly alternative right now in it's current state but that's where I'm headed. I'm building the next-gen modern Reader app. The idea is to merge classic RSS Readers with Pocket and simplify Internet browsing into one single website to keep up to date with everything new every day.

It's in its early stages but it's already got the basic features of an everyday driver: feeds & folders. Oh, and a shiny and attractive "Import OPML file" to drop your feeds into.

www.monoclereader.com

Really, give it a try, check out the future features that I'm going to implement and just let me know what you think about it!

There's dark mode too, of course...

Cheers!