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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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DaleTrexel, to drupal
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Why does make it so impossible to figure out the markup for referencing another issue by # in a new issue?

baldur, to random
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“Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h”

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

> but when they start "urgently" needing to talk to you you're probably not going to get out until you have a juicy custom contract with them

On the one hand, the company in question is a casino and, honestly, fuck casinos

But OTOH, Cloudflare is clearly running a protection racket so fuck them too

DaleTrexel,
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@baldur Ironic that they're complaining about an ethically-dubious tech platform by blogging about it on another ethically-dubious tech platform.

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, to random
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Disappointing how many people in the Drupal community seem just fine with posting AI art. You'd think the open source community would have more understanding about appropriate and inappropriate use of other peoples' works, licensing and proper source attribution.

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 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.

DaleTrexel, to random
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"Eat your own dog food? No, get off the Drupal island!"

Maybe get off Drupal all together?

Really, what's the point of Drupal if the goal is to drop any advanced functionality that can be done by other (often corporate) tech, like the Git and Slack examples?

But don't use Drupal for small sites either! To get beyond D7 we're now pushing people to Wix and other no-code website builders.

What exactly is the "ambitious" middle ground where Drupal still makes sense?

https://www.palantir.net/blog/beyond-code-drupal-s-community-impact-and-possibilities

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?

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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With Drupal 9 EoL and Drupal 10+ no longer supporting IE, what are the chances we can get Olivero to drop PostCSS and return to SASS for CSS compiling?

https://www.drupal.org/docs/contributed-themes/olivero/authoring-css-for-olivero

#Drupal #SASS

DaleTrexel, to random
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In general, I find Hanlon's razor a good rule to follow:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

However, when it comes to mega corporations that should know better (Google) a different rule applies:

"Feel free to attribute to Dark Patterns that which might be plausibly explained by corporate disorganization."

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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I wonder just how many contributed & custom modules marked themselves as D10-ready because Upgrade Status was happy when they removed dependencies on core/jquery.once and replace it with core/once

...but aren't actually D10 ready because Upgrade Status didn't flag their references to $.once() throughout their code.

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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Can someone please explain the point of the "Version" field in issues? It doesn't seem to have any particular relationship to reality.

For example: an issue that has recently been set to "Fixed" has "Version" set to 11.x-dev, which to me implies that it won't be available for another year.
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2245767

But if you click through to the release notes, you see that it's "Introduced in version: 10.2.0" and available much sooner.
https://www.drupal.org/node/3335460

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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Ok, this is weird. Reviewing jquery.once deprecations in 10, and I've now come across three different issues with patch submissions that make absolutely no sense: patching files that don't exist or lines of code that don't exist.

Are people really confused, or is someone using AI/ChatGPT to spam drupal.org issue queues?

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, to random
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One thing that continues to baffle me are the people who insist on building dumbed-down UIs with the argument that:

"Most of our users are simpleminded peasants, therefore we must build the UI for their simpleminded needs. We won't provide advanced tools at all for our more intelligent users because the mere presence of advanced tools would intimidate our simpleminded peasants, EVEN IF THE ADVANCED TOOLS ARE HIDDEN BY DEFAULT."

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/

DaleTrexel, to random
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Is this a person? I sure hope not!

DaleTrexel, to random
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Ha! I'm not the only one to turn todo lists into pseud-checkboxes with U+2705.

https://www.drupal.org/node/3380480

DaleTrexel, to drupal
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LB: I've long thought that had great potential to be your personal (or institutional) POSSE hub: publish stuff on your own site, and use APIs or other tools to push out to other social media systems you're on. It's been on my to-do list, but never high enough for me to dabble in it.

CABOOM! encapsulates the reverse, which is also possible: pulling in (and archiving!) your activity elsewhere. Also potential for Drupal!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/caboom-comment-anywhere-bring-onto-own-media/

DaleTrexel, to random
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I'm transferring all my work from a 2019 MBP to a new M3 Max and YIKES is this thing so much faster than the old Intel.

I will not miss having PhpStorm spin up the fans to max whenever I changed a bunch of files, like using Composer to update our Drupal build.

And @ddev + mutagen sync has virtually no delay at all now.

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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I'm sure Meta's Threads have only the purest intentions in joining the Fediverse!

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic

DaleTrexel, to random
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Social Media Influencer Post: "A bunch of really smart people are working hard to figure out solutions to a really complex problem. What do you think?"

Me: I think you're a hack looking for clout and engagement for $. Nobody cares or should care what I think about this topic.

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