Jeff Markel / is on Nostr

I'm Jeff Markel (he/him). FYI it's pronounced like Mar-Kell (not Markle)

#generationJones

I'm a son/brother/uncle/husband/father/grandfather

I am the owner/administrator/moderator/etc of mastochist.social. I've been a software developer since the 1970's, & still at it. I've been a nerd for even longer than that

I'm bread baker, cocktail maker, muck raker, long-distance walker, and political junkie of the left-wing variety

#drupal #svelte #react #opensource #sourdough #cocktails #walking #NJ

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2023-10-23 17:46:11

@npub1p5q…w2sf draw for me Joe Biden smashing a Donald Trump stained glass window

2023-08-30 14:31:16

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@npub1avz…9dlc you can self-plug all you want! Just your composer-drupal-lenient alone saved me from a world of hurt, and there have been many others, too. We've still got a crap-ton of D7 sites, so Retrofit is gonna be HUGE!

2023-08-30 14:31:16

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2023-08-30 13:33:59

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@npub1avz…9dlc exactly!
Had the sites (especially the D8 ones) been kept up-to-date all along it would have been easier, cheaper, and less time-consuming, but budgeting for BUILDing sites is under a different regime than budgeting for ongoing maintenance. There's little taste for, and little understanding of, the fact that websites aren't "set it and forget it" assets.
Moving to D10 is even harder - things that were deprecated but could still be used in D9 are removed in D10, and other things just haven't been updated to keep current. Biggest one being the GraphQL module. We built a big CaaS site using GraphQL 3.x, which has its own (Drupal-centric) schema. GraphQL 4.x is completely different, and requires that you create your own schema, but we have extensive front-end apps using the existing schema and it will be a big lift to modify those apps.
Just part of the fun of building on open-source platforms, I guess.

2023-08-29 23:15:12

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@npub1avz…9dlc
Lots of things - including switching from composer 1 to Composer 2, many custom modules that required modification and subsequent testing, contrib modules that did not just have updates but also breaking changes, futzing with config and database changes, trying to figure out what was keeping composer updates from succeeding. Just a crap-ton of nitty little stuff.

2023-08-27 11:48:40

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 @npub178l…cahs That seems weird to me - Twitter's "For You" is algorithm-selected stuff, isn't it? Whereas "Following" is what you get, always, on Mastodon. Unless, I suppose, "Following" in Mammoth excludes boosted toots.

2023-08-15 11:47:58

My biggest disappointment in Trump & Company's Georgia RICO indictment is that Lindsey Graham wasn't one of the indictees.He was, famously, one of the people putting pressure on Kemp and Raffensberger to find more votes for Trump.
#Trump #georgia #faniwillis #rico #Jan6 #LindseyGraham

2023-07-10 13:23:24

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@npub1kja…e5gq Threads had over 100 million on Day 1 - because, if you're an Instagram subscriber, you're automatically a Threads subscriber. So the numbers are kinda bogus