When I publish a blog article I want to include a link to a corresponding Mastodon post. To write the Mastodon post, the article needs to be live. But to publish the blog article, I need the URL to the Mastodon post. But I don’t know the Mastodon post URL until I publish it. Ahhhhh!!
Am I really going to have to deploy my site, post a toot, then turn around and add the link to my site and deploy again? Ugh, there’s got to be a better way.
Okay, so, proposal to get rid of the phone part of our pocket computers, go back to having a single solitary place for a call, which defaults to a message/voicemail, and is the expected result of calling said phone, instead of this stupid always-with-you-yet-you-never-get-or-take-the-call game we are playing now.
Just noticed a pull request for some new Unicode 15 icons that will be added to Fluent Emoji! These haven’t been merged in yet, but once they are, it won’t take long to pull them into status.lol. Wheee!
I mostly play old time and bluegrass music. Particularly in old time and fiddle songs, the songs have a fairly rigid and repetitious structure. That's not to say players don't do interesting things with it, but unless a song is intentionally crooked, the structure of the song remains the same throughout. A typical structure is AABB. That is, play the "A part" twice, play the "B part" twice, and repeat.
@chriscoyier Have you ever been to the Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival in Fossil, OR? I accidentally happened upon it one year while out in the area going to John Day and Painted Hills.
@starshaped Well, I haven't worked in it for several years, but when I left I felt a shift in how seriously they were taking design and front-end, which had previously going in a good direction. So perhaps my take isn't the most up-to-date, what do you think: https://social.lol/@anniegreens/112357273182137081
@starshaped Yes, all those three things were in progress when I last touched it. And since I haven't been involved for a while it is hard to know where things went. But my last encounters with build teams were still more interested in making everything a "make once, use everywhere" as componentized as possible without really thinking about use cases and the purposes of design. Twig was transformative and made front-end a proper player in Drupal, so I'm glad things have continued with that.
@starshaped But I do still believe that there is a bias to the engineering core of it. Not sure of how to put that any better. Like so many other tech and web things today, they'd rather hire a full-stack developer to fill that front-end role, than someone who is specialized in design and implementation for the web.
@starshaped My issue is probably not entirely on Drupal, but with web tech generally, and I've blogged about that. It just happened to manifest with Drupal because that is what I lived in for so long.
Dries rightly notes that Jamstack 2.0 shares more in common with monolithic/traditional stacks.
For me—I read this as a huge indictment of the broadened definition—it’s not a healthy evolution of the term if we must sacrifice technical clarity and simplicity to do so.
@zachleat@dries Quite a spate of 'CMS' opinions in the past week and they've been interesting to read. I wonder what prompted this, other than "one person wrote one, so others followed by writing their own."
I worked in Drupal for nearly 15 years so this is great to read Dries' take. Haven't read anything of his in a while. Thanks for sharing.
I've activated two-factor-authentication on my #Mastodon account. That means you can be 53.42% more certain that the nonsense written here is genuine nonsense by me, and not imitation nonsense.
@cferdinandi@scottjehl Sorry to interject, just wanted to add some context. The state of Oregon (where I live) is only like 50% owned by Oregon and the rest is federally owned land, including: national park, national forests, BLM land, and some other stuff. Not only are our states giant out here but most of our land isn't even under our control (at the state level). (Image from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_lands_in_the_United_States). This may or may not be interesting to you!