I recently created my first #Drupal@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 I don't have an answer to this, but I love that the Drupal community is moving away from the walled gardens our questions and conversations helpd build to new open source, open standards based social options!
Lots of power outages planned and eminent for my part of #Boulder county due to this #wind event. Our section of town has not received notification of outage from the provider yet, but most of the town has.
Batteries are charged on everything, backups and in place, and my hybrid truck with its 7.2 kW onboard generator is ready to power critical things (refrigeration, heat, cooking) if needed.
@bud_t@lisafw We still have power off Dahlia near Safeway too. We have a camper van with a generator that runs off the van's gas. That's what we'll be using for the refrigerator if we lose power for more than a few hours.
We don't have solar yet, but I'd be really interested in a system that included a V2H option.
Xcel cutting power seems like it is going to be new normal during (now normal) 75+ mph winds.
@lisafw@bud_t I'm in Louisville with 2 EVs as well, but I'm not sure how I would power my anything with these. Are you using some type of inverter to get 110 to specific devices? I know the F150s work with $5K in hardware to power a home, but I can’t figure out how I'd even power our fridge with our CX40.
After a great experience with Orbstack - with absolutely zero issues in DDEV and a lot of speediness - I'm now trialling Rancher which is more open source. Very good times #drupal
@si I recently did a clean install of DDEV on a new M3 Mac with Orbstack. The only issue I had was second guessing whether to install Rosetta when prompted. I wanted to read more about that, but opting to not install Rossetta on the initial install doesn't end the install. It just skips that dependency. Rosetta can't be installed independently. I had to manually delete some files Obstack created by the initial install to get the Rosetta option again when reinstalling.
RSS, for a moment, was an invitation for every single website to participate in any sort of application developers could imagine
And they DID it was the thing
Everyone had RSS. News sites. Social platforms. Indie blogs. Government portals.
It enabled a fundamentally new chapter of the web, while simultaneously being invisible, save for a few affordances sprinkled between UI chrome and page content
@danilo with Automattic adding ActivityPub support to the ~6 million blogs hosted on Wordpress.com that users just need to enable, isn't this the new RSS?
We still need a better discovery pattern like the RSS icon in the browser's address bar when a URL has public nodeinfo. Most sites supporting ActivityPub aren't even linking to it from a Mastodon icon in the footer. That links to an account someone is manually maintaining created before federating the site itself.
In this week's @linuxmatters@marxjohnson continues his home server migration, @wimpy stresses his server with some delightful stress-free tools, and @popey does some coding in PHP for "Fun" - would you believe?! WIth thanks to @bigcalm for a tip used in this week's show!
@frenchguych@popey@linuxmatters@ddev Things "just working" is great, but I :blobcatheart: DDEV because of the culture this community has when DDEV stops working. My issues often relate to MacOS or PHP updates. I can realiably search for DDEV & error knowing I'll be pointed to a temp work around until the next DDEV release. Randy Fay deserves a lot of credit for setting a tone for this community of being extremely friendly, transparent & collaborative! Thanks @platformsh for funding this!
It has just struck me how similar the various people shouting about how #Mastodon cannot connect to other #fediverse systems, like #Threads, sound to the religious street preachers we get in our local town every Wednesday.
He loves to tell all those who don’t follow his religion how they must follow his rules. #ActivityPub is not a religion.
@rachel reminds me of when AOL users were being given access to the unwalled www for the first time. There were some people concerned that the mass influx of users from that walled garden would forever change our quirky corner of internet where sites like Justin's Links from the Underground and Cool Site of the Day were popular destinations. They weren't wrong.
Does anyone know if there is a web or desktop based Mastodon client that allows scheduled posting/sending? Tusky on Android is great for that. It would be nice to be able to do that from the laptop too
@stpaultim in case you ever wonder if anyone would notice if you stopped posting your drone photos, I would. I don't always comment, boost or favorite, but I appreciate every post. Many of them make me miss growing up in MN. Not every post can be exciting as the "drone in a tree" series or "f#ck Biden on a lake", but I enjoy them all. Someday I will get into "droning" with my kids. At 7 and 10, I worry that every post would be a "drone in tree" saga.
@ultimike Why not? Because DA membership benefits are geared towards agencies. The recent TDT research showed how popular Drupal is in higher ed. We have our own Slack that peaked at 2700+ members (< 10% active now). I have a half finished email to @hestenet about this.
There are a few people who have managed to get their university to join, but I'd really like to see joining be the default for the large, higher ed orgs that are VERY invested in Drupal.
Can you help me boost this thread... or donate as a little as $1 yourself using the link so we can get Mastodon to register in the reports CU Boulder's marketing teams will be using to evaluate the effectiveness of the Buffs All In campaign? It only takes a few minutes, but will have a big impact. Donating to CMCI is a GREAT way to show your support for Mastodon & open source/standards.
Would you like to see higher adoption of Mastodon in higher education?
Here’s an opportunity “tip the scale” & show #CUBoulder that Mastodon can be an effective part of their social strategy while ALSO supporting an organization doing amazing work in the fediverse. If you use this link to donate to the College of Media, Communication & Information, the source of the donation will show up as coming from Mastodon.
The UI suggests $25, but you can donate as little as $1
"Domains that serve popular 3rd party scripts are a huge security concern. The team at http://google-analytics.com for example could read or modify almost any website in the world .
If you own a website, loading a script implies an incredible relationship of trust with that third party. Do you actually trust them?" - Andrew Betts (creator of the polyfill service project)
Question for all the #opensource perverts out there: How "professional" does #code need to be before it is appropriate to share with the world?
I'll tell you why I ask: I spent a couple weeks getting an #automated build server working for the #Mercury browser. It works and is useful, but it isn't "clean". It has custom elements throughout, like curl commands to upload the finished installer via ftp and notify a Rocket.Chat instance.
It isn't a proper "project" but I feel people could benefit.
@wagesj45 in the higher ed Drupal space, you will find hundreds of projects on GitHub and GitLab that are shared for inspiration with no intention of supporting use outside the organization. A handful of modules started this way go on to become independent projects on their own, but most of what is shared is primarily to make it easier point to a line of code when discussing how we solved a problem within this community
The new @drupalassoc certified partners is just delusional, and incredibly US centered, so now if you don't pay a fee you're not listed in the #Drupal marketplace no matter how much you contribute?
In our case (10 people agency + contractors), a $5000 fee is just not worth it, we were happily paying the community supporter tier but we won't do a 5x increase, it's just not reasonable for our budget.
@pcambra@drupalassoc I opened https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalorg/issues/3421404 this morning and the WCAG issue that would have prevented from some members accessing content ABOUT the addition $$ required to access the Marketplace audience has been fixed... now the access issue is just the pay to play changes to Marketplace itself.
A few thoughts on codes of conduct, commercial social media, and the choice of Mastodon for the only official social media of DrupalCamp Cemaes. #Drupal#DrupalCamp
@DrupalCampCemaes I doubt it will help with your reach right now, but https://kbin.social/m/drupal grew from 0 to 75+ users in the 6 months since the Reddit API protests and uses the same CoC as other Drupal communities. You might want to be a little more flexible than Mastodon-only. Kbin is open source. It uses the same ActivityPub standard as Mastodon with a more Reddit/Stack Exchange implementation than Mastodon's more Twitter implementation. Bonus, Kbin is also a PHP/Symfony/Composer/Twig stack!
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@nebyoolae Congrats! Incremental progress at scale for thousands of edge cases is what #Drupal is all about. The product is better when you build it together.
Retrofit has opened an easier path to upgrading from Drupal 7. And Backdrop CMS offers an option for those who refuse to modernize but require a solid off-ramp.
@symfonystation While I agree that sites need to make a long overdue decision about their direction, is there any evidence that Retrofit will actually save a team time or produce a stable, reliable upgrade? I also take issue w/ describing Backdrop as a solution for people "stuck on the outdated Drupal 7 mindset". While I rely on a modern build process to test the tightly coupled CMS/CRM solutions, the cost and complexity of maintaining this is FAR from serenity and the pace of change is intense.
Here's something #drupal users in the fedi/threadiverse might find interesting. If you follow @drupal@feedsin.space on https://feedsin.space/feed/drupal-planet, you'll see new Drupal Planet posts in your feed. These posts also show up on https://kbin.social/m/drupal, but regardless of what "channel" you access them, the discussion, boosts and favoriting of the posts on any Mastodon, Kbin or Lemmy instance will be readable on all other instances due to the "magic" of ActivityPub.
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Retrofit or Backdrop CMS: Which savior should the damned on Drupal 7 sites turn to? Via Symfony Station. (www.symfonystation.com)
Retrofit has opened an easier path to upgrading from Drupal 7. And Backdrop CMS offers an option for those who refuse to modernize but require a solid off-ramp.