mikemccaffrey

mikemccaffrey, 1 year ago to php

Spending time this weekend reaching out to personal clients about moving their #drupal sites to a different web host. Since #pantheon made it clear that they are not a values-based company and are fine having hate groups as customers, they are not a good provider for organizations who are actually values-based.

mikemccaffrey, 7 months ago to random

Wow, #GetPantheon has finally decided to do the bare minimum of being decent human beings in the 21st century!
https://pantheon.io/blog/open-letter-elevating-our-standards

mikemccaffrey, 9 months ago to drupal

Oh look, my coworkers at #Kalamuna published another one of my modules on #drupal.org!

The #MaybeModule allows you to quickly access properties and methods of an object without worrying about accidentally causing a fatal exception if something doesn't exist as expected.

It is great for theme #preprocess functions where want a value from an object, but it is no big deal if it is not available.

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

mikemccaffrey, 8 months ago to drupal

Looks like @dries included his birthday as an easter egg in the headers of (every single?!) http responses from #Drupal.

I must admit the scale of that is very epic, and I'm only glad that I discovered it because he called it out in his http header tool, and I didn't encounter it in the code and spend time wondering why that arbitrary date was being set.

Screenshot of the expires header line in Dries' tool for reviewing the http headers your website. It says "PS November 19th is by birthday!" at the end.

mikemccaffrey, 6 months ago to random

Wonderful to see @pluralistic still wearing a mask when speaking at a conference. #CovidIsntOver

https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=u7buOaIgzZ7hPJJn

mikemccaffrey, 28 days ago to random

Adding John Wilson to my #TimeTravelHitList 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, 2 months ago to random

It makes absolutely no sense that #DesignSystems and #FrontendFrameworks like #TailwindCSS 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, 22 days ago to ai

Was curious why only one #Drupalcon 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 #AI scheduled for today alone.

mikemccaffrey, 8 months ago to drupal

I often give #Drupal a hard time due to all the eccentricates of the community and the code, but seeing the sudden #enshittification of #unity really makes me appreciate contributing to a non-corporate #openSource project.

mikemccaffrey, 5 months ago to random

If anyone wants to make those "you are using an adblocker" other subscription popups go away on most sites, you can drop this into the URL field of a bookmark and just click it when needed.

javascript:document.body.setAttribute('style', 'overflow-y: visible !important'); document.documentElement.setAttribute('style', 'overflow-y: visible !important'); document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(function(e) { if (getComputedStyle(e).position == "fixed") e.style.display = "none" });

mikemccaffrey, 18 days ago to drupal

I'm not sure why folks in the #Drupal 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 #StarShot, we should call it #DrupalTimeMachine where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.

mikemccaffrey, 2 months ago to Sexism

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

#BobbyKoyick #Sexism #ActivisionBlizzard

mikemccaffrey, 9 months ago to random

Heartened by the outpouring of feedback around this year's @aspirationtech #NPDevSummit asking for masks to be required during the event. It really is a special group of caring people who attend this #unconference.
https://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit23

mikemccaffrey, 1 month ago to random

Most of the time, #WebDevelopment 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?"

🤷

mikemccaffrey, 1 month ago to random

Oh, #git is so much simpler when it is presented like this. ;-)

by @b0rk

mikemccaffrey, 8 months ago to microsoft

Speaking of #enshittification, #Microsoft is replacing their Chief Product Officer, who has been in charge of the #Windows and #Surface development with a marketing guy who has spent recent months hawking AI bullshit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/panos-panay-leader-of-the-surface-and-windows-teams-is-leaving-microsoft/

ht/ @aardrian

mikemccaffrey, 4 months ago to drupal

Will #Drupal's #CKEditor5 config really not let you allow an html tag in the source without also enabling it as an explicit wysiwyg button?

Just because I want to allow some knowledgeable users to add code blocks doesn't mean I want all the users to see it as an option.

mikemccaffrey, 6 days ago to drupal

Sigh, I spent hours and hours working with a client to figure out why #GoogleAnalytics stopped being reported for their #Drupal site. Turns out to be a two line bug in the google_tag module that made a checkbox checked by default no matter what value was selected before.

https://www.drupal.org/project/google_tag/issues/3424623

mikemccaffrey, 7 months ago to random

In my over two decades of writing #mysql queries, how have I never encountered this absolute stupidity before? https://andy-carter.com/blog/mysqls-not-equal-operator-doesnt-match-null-values

mikemccaffrey, 5 months ago to random

I wish every month had a magical week with no meetings scheduled at all.

mikemccaffrey, 4 months ago to ai

Naming an #AI poisoning tool #Nightshade seems remarkably misguided, since the nightshade family includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplants.

We might just be flagging pieces of artwork as something that will be extra tasty if they can be digested.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

mikemccaffrey, 22 days ago to random

I, for one, will be wearing an #N95 mask to #Drupalcon, and I encourage others to do the same, since the #covid 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, 28 days ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

I still do not understand why I would ever use #LayoutBuilder in #Drupal10. 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.