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mikemccaffrey

@mikemccaffrey@drupal.community

Building drupal sites for more years than I care to count, now with a strong focus on accessibility and best practices. Senior Architect at Kalamuna.

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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.

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.

mikemccaffrey,
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@phenaproxima I'm cautiously optimistic about all the individual technical and usability aspects of the undertaking.

The part that worries me is that everyone is "full speed ahead" to get things done by the end of the year, before even the most basic questions have been answered about who will be making the decisions on what is actually going to be built.

mikemccaffrey, to ai
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Was curious why only one session was accepted from our entire company, when normally there are at least three or four. However, looking at the program, I see there are six sessions about scheduled for today alone.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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I, for one, will be wearing an mask to , and I encourage others to do the same, since the pandemic is not actually over and many attendees will have medical issues that either make them extra susceptible to infection or make it potentially catastrophic if they do contract the virus.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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Adding John Wilson to my to prevent him from convincing everyone to make quotations inaccurate in a misguided pursuit of typographic "neatness".

https://style.mla.org/the-placement-of-a-comma-or-period-after-a-quotation/#:~:text=The%20reason%20for%20this%20convention,%E2%80%9Cneatness%E2%80%9D%20(114).

mikemccaffrey, to random
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I got in minor trouble at work for posting this cartoon in the learn-ai slack channel. Apparently, I am hurting people's feeling by pointing out their irrational exuberance for new technologies built by billionaire sociopath grifters.

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

by @b0rk

mikemccaffrey, to random
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A client couldn't be dissuaded from adding the #X logo to their website. This is the first time I've had to make the professional decision to flat-out refuse to work on a task and declare myself a conscientious objector.

mikemccaffrey,
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The #X logo bears way too much resemblance to a , both in its design and underlying philosophy, and I refuse to be a part of spreading that symbol.

I think a lot about all the Germans who didn't personally commit any atrocities, but were perfectly fine painting swastikas on all the buildings and vehicles around town when instructed by their bosses.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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Most of the time, feels like grappling with a wild animal, so when someone requests an estimate, they are basically asking "How long exactly will it take you to wrestle that bear?"

🤷

jeni, to random
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So as long it's for "AI" it's OK to steal everything, right?

mikemccaffrey,
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@pcambra @jeni No, but AI-driven cars are stealing our streets.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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It makes absolutely no sense that and like have decided to have darker colors be higher numbers, since computer screens are an additive color system where the more color you add the brighter things get.

https://v2.tailwindcss.com/docs/customizing-colors

I can only assume this is a holdover that print designers with subtractive color experience brought with them online.

mikemccaffrey, to Sexism
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Considering this guy presided over one of the most sexist companies in an industry full of harassment, he should no longer be allowed to run or own anything, even if its name sounds remarkably like his name.

https://www.engadget.com/activision-blizzards-ex-ceo-bobby-kotick-reportedly-wants-to-buy-tiktok-210826589.html

mikemccaffrey, to random
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I still do not understand why I would ever use in . It seems like a step back to the old days when we were using html tables to lay out a page, rather than starting with semantic structure and then applying styling.

mikemccaffrey,
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I think is a big step back for in .

Look at the umami demo: Visually, you can see that these four blocks fit together in a section that contains metadata about the recipe, but there is no way to indicate they are a semantic section and provide an h2 title using the interface.

Layout interface showing the same layout, but with dotted lines around each area and links to add additional blocks.

pcambra, to LEGO
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The Azure Kingfisher, set 10331

Small but interesting and challenging build with lots of technical pieces, I am enjoying this new theme, it’s very detailed and the base is pretty nice.

Lego kingfisher build
Lego kingfisher build

mikemccaffrey,
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@wimleers @pcambra Oh no, this might finally get me to purchase a Lego set.

mikemccaffrey, to drupal
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Has anyone looked at whether these performance claims for aggregated css/js in are still applicable in 2024?

> "You can make Drupal perform better by aggregating CSS and JavaScript files. This will save bandwidth and server requests, resulting in faster load times for the users."

With modern HTTP 2/3 a single server request handles multiple files, and the contents are encrypted to save bandwidth.

https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/managing-site-performance-and-scalability/aggregate-css-and-js-files-in-drupal-core

mikemccaffrey, to fediverse
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Has anyone tried this module for yet? Wordpress is certainly making a lot of hay about having mastodon integration.

https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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diverged git branches
https://wizardzines.com/comics/diverged-branches/

mikemccaffrey,
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@b0rk Please turn to the next page. I never handle this situation well.

mikemccaffrey, to random
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@pcambra Hey there, is there something going on with the drupal.community image processing? None of the photos in posts have been loading for days.

mikemccaffrey,
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@pcambra @e0ipso It looks like there is a certificate error when trying to load files from vultr, but weirdly it is only happening on my android phone.

Chrome certificate error when opening one of the image files directly.

mikemccaffrey, to drupal
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We have a client site where some crawler bot has been repeatedly coming to the site for years and trying to access hundreds and hundreds of bad urls. All of the requests from one of their previous episodes caused to bump the account up to the next tier, costing the organization hundreds of dollars more a month. Any ideas on how to keep an out of control crawler off of a pantheon site?

mikemccaffrey,
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@jurgenhaas @CrowdSec Interesting. I wonder if returning a 403 error would be any more effective than the 404 errors it is already ignoring.

mikemccaffrey,
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@froboy Define "block". I can tell the crawler is this idiot because it has been crawling the same non-existent .html addresses for over five years now, but all I can do it return errors at it which it ignores.

mikemccaffrey,
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@kreynen Is there an interface for managing that?

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