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DaleTrexel

@DaleTrexel@drupal.community

Drupal developer & site manager from Minnesota. Enjoy outdoor adventures with my 2 huskies whenever not behind a computer.

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mikemccaffrey, to drupal
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I'm not sure why folks in the community are confused about how regular people and small organizations are finding the product hard to use after years and years and years of Dries pushing the project to be "enterprise-level".

Maybe instead of , we should call it where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.

DaleTrexel,
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@mikemccaffrey OMG this!

Especially the bit where they were telling people to move simple D7 sites to something else instead of migrating to D8+. This seems to be a complete 180 from that.

DaleTrexel,
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@jurgenhaas @mikemccaffrey I'm sorry I don't have the source bookmarked and indexed for easy retrieval, but I distinctly remember communication about upgrading from Drupal 7 that suggested moving to something other than Drupal for simple sites.

It was because it was "official" that it was memorable.

It was around the same time as the "Drupal is for ambitious websites" slogan, which further reinforced that Drupal isn't for simple sites.

mikemccaffrey, to drupal
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: We're building a distribution but not calling it a distribution, including initiatives that we were doing anyway, to make it easier for users to do things quickly, but we don't know exactly what those things will be or how they will be implemented, but it can all be done in 8 months, because we are going to solve our governance problems by bypassing our usual governance process.

DaleTrexel,
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@phenaproxima @mikemccaffrey That's one of the biggest problems with this. Surprise! We have a major initiative that's been in the works, in private! Go on a scavenger hunt if you want to participate!

Where is the communication plan to help people learn about what is going on and how to contribute? There's a lot of people who've been disillusioned with Drupal's corporate focus. How do you plan to draw them back?

mandclu, to random
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The 2024 Drupal Developer Survey results just dropped. Some interesting insights! https://www.ironstar.io/devsurvey24/

DaleTrexel,
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@mandclu Interesting quote:

"The data which surprised me most was the adoption of AI. Only half of us are using AI at work, and only 3% of us are incorporating AI into our Drupal sites. I personally feel like this is a huge missed opportunity. Like or loathe it, the genie is out of the bottle and I think we all have to adapt."

Why is it that AI Evangelicals so often fall back to the fallacy of inevitability to justify the superiority of their enthusiasm?

DaleTrexel, to random
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LB: Yet another interesting, worrying and infuriating article about the state of the internet as it games Google search rankings.

"If Google keeps rewarding useless overly-optimized SEO content written by AI published on big media sites while punishing little sites because they wrote articles trying to answer a question readers have, then fuck Google."

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

DaleTrexel,
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Do love their attitude of not backing down and being creative to fight back!

"We will be relentless on YouTube, Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, our newsletter, and every other platform where it makes sense for us to be.

"We will keep Google busy crawling our name and our content again and again and again and again and again. And again.

"Because even if Google decided to virtually erase HouseFresh from its search results, we still exist on the open web."

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

mattferrell, to random
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What’s a cascading heat pump? And are our homes ready for them?

Check out our video on it, here: https://youtu.be/wSgv5NwtByk

Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/how-this-new-heat-pump-is-genius/

DaleTrexel,
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@mattferrell @neverbeaten I've had similar thoughts: it seems so inefficient to have the fridge pumping out heat, making the surrounding air warmer, and our hybrid water heater sucking the heat in, but a different part of the house, making that region colder. There ought to be some way (even just forced air transfer) to move heat around more efficiently than whole-house convection. And you get more even overall air temp in the house to boot.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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Oh, is so much simpler when it is presented like this. ;-)

by @b0rk

DaleTrexel,
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@mikemccaffrey @b0rk Nice! The only thing I'd add is that under "important git files" I would add .git/info/exclude for stuff that's relevant only to my local environment, and doesn't need to be cluttering up my .gititnore file. I use that ALL the time.

jurgenhaas, to random
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Farewell my friend ❣️ it's been almost 19 years and you've teached me so many lessons. Thank you - and take care.

DaleTrexel,
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@jurgenhaas Awww. 19 years is a good long life for any dog!

DaleTrexel,
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@jurgenhaas I have a 14 year old husky who's going through the same transformation, with arthritis and declining mobility being the biggest challenges. But she's still happy, so we're doing what we can to support her.

mglaman, to random
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For my blog, I wrote a media type source plugin that allows adding rich embeds of links (like on social platforms.)

Should I turn it into a contrib module? I call them "Embed links", I'm not sure what the project would be named.

DaleTrexel,
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@mglaman I like it! It would be good to have something like that which is agnostic of specific platforms.

What are you looking at for metadata to identify things like title, feature image, etc.?

DaleTrexel,
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@mglaman Nice! I was trying to imagine doing a DIY of all the platform-specific formats out there on top of opengraph and thinking that could be a deep rabbit hole to chase down.

DaleTrexel,
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@mglaman @mandclu Are you thinking that "Embed Links" might be too generic?

"Social Embed Links" is a bit more descriptive, but is that too specific for your application?

"Rich Embed Links" actually has a good ring to it: you're adding a link that's enhanced with additional display elements.

DaleTrexel,
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@mglaman We already use "media" to refer to files (images, video, sound), whether local or remote, so that might be confusing.

If you're linking to general "content" that could be social media posts or web pages, maybe you'd want something like:

  • Content Preview Links
  • Content Embed Links
  • Content Rich Links

"Rich Content Links" reads better to me, but I could see you wanting the name to start with the object, followed by modifiers in this case.

DaleTrexel,
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@mglaman Ah right, that makes sense!

DaleTrexel, to random
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I have jury duty next week, so I picked up an Aranet 4 CO2 monitor to see how good the air quality is in the courtroom and deliberation chambers.

With the windows open for the first time this spring today, our house got down into the low 400s for CO2 ppm, but Gypsy's panting brought it up into the 700s!

DaleTrexel, to random
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Ahhh... Perfect weather for working outdoors (with supervision!) in early spring before the mosquitoes come out). Enjoying it while it lasts!

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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I recently created my first @ViewsField plugin, which apparently is unique among plugins in that you also need to implement a hook (hook_views_data_alter) to tell Views about it and how to use it. The properties you define in the hook seem very similar to what other plugins take as annotation.

Is there something especially complex about this plugin type that regular annotation isn't enough, thus the hook? Or is this just a case of a plugin type that COULD be simplified but hasn't yet?

DaleTrexel,
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I tried searching the internet, and the Drupal Core issue queue, but I didn't find anything useful. So, I'm turning to the Federated Hive Brain to see if y'all have any better answers!

DaleTrexel,
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Confirmed my suspicion that the Views Field plugin "discovery" process was atypical, but without explanation for WHY. (We both seem puzzled.)

https://mikemadison.net/blog/2020/8/27/tutorial-using-the-plugin-system-in-drupal-9

DaleTrexel, to random
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I just ran into a thread on toxic culture in social media, and a group of Very Smart People were agreeing with each other that the Fediverse is just as bad because "activits" who gate keep nazis and fascists out of their circles are just as bad as the nazis and fascists themselves.

DaleTrexel, to random
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This is a great follow up to their previous printer review!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

DaleTrexel, to random
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Proposal for a new acronym:

AI;DB

AI (art/text); Didn't Boost

DaleTrexel, to random
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I HATE AMBIGUOUS TOGGLES!

I wondered why a new list I set up was still showing members' posts in my main timeline. When I went to configure the list, I saw a big white dot (the brightest thing in the UI) next to "Hide these posts from home" and figured that meant this was default and already ON. I presumed the "X" meant I should click to disable it.

Turns out I was wrong!...

DaleTrexel,
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Apparently if I had clicked on the control, it would have looked like this. Much more apparent now as clearly on. Since it was the only instance of this control on the screen, I had no others to compare to, and I'm not in the habit of clicking on every control that looks properly set to confirm it's not actually misleading me!

(At least not on a platform that I trust isn't trying to trick me with dark patterns.)

DaleTrexel,
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EVERY other control in the Mastodon UI that I can find is either a checkbox or a radio button. Why this sudden shift to an ambiguous toggle for this one control when checkboxes have served their purpose well everywhere else?

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