Who thought it was a good idea to launch a product called "Nutanix" in November?
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Dale Trexel
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Drupal developer & site manager from Minnesota. Enjoy outdoor adventures with my 2 huskies whenever not behind a computer.
I've been kind of quiet over here: I've been setting up a new account over at @Paws2Spindle to chronicle my efforts to turn our huskies' fur into yarn and then do something with it! I wanted a separate account where I could follow spinning & knitting accounts in a separate timeline.
Paws 2 Spindle (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images OK, time to recap our yarn-spinning journey so far! A thread 🧵 ... We've lived with huskies for over two decades, which means many shedding seasons of soft fluffy fur to collect around the house. Surely it could make a soft yarn, we reasoned! So we collected it with plans to learn to spin it "some day." Over the years, our collection grew. It moved with us between houses. It got compressed into bales as we added more and more on top. In 2023 we got Tonttu, our first non-Siberian husky, and despite his lankier build, the first time he blew his coat, it came out in gloriously dense and fluffy hunks, and we quickly filled up another trash bag full of fur to be used "some day." The realization quickly settled in: some day would be now or never. (Otherwise we'd soon fill the house with collected but disused fur.)...
Drupal lesson 2/2:
If you have a view using the Table display and sort on multiple fields, do NOT use the "Default Sort" setting in the table configuration! That apparently overrides all other sorts configured in the view itself.
Instead, check the "none" field's default sort option, and then use the view sort configuration to set the initial/default sort. Users may still sort by column headers where permitted, but the initial sort will follow the view sort fields.
Drupal lesson 1/2:
When adding fields to Search API index, the "(+)" next to the list of fields is NOT a poor-man's radio button indicating an already selected field. Instead, it's a toggle that you can click to reveal more sub-options for each field.
I wasted way too much time before figuring this out! That does NOT look like an interactive element to me. Not even a different color.*
If anything, "[+]" might better indicate an interactive element inside a "box".
I have jury duty next week, so I picked up an Aranet 4 CO2 monitor to see how good the air quality is in the courtroom and deliberation chambers.
With the windows open for the first time this spring today, our house got down into the low 400s for CO2 ppm, but Gypsy's panting brought it up into the 700s!
Ahhh... Perfect weather for working outdoors (with supervision!) in early spring before the mosquitoes come out). Enjoying it while it lasts!
Confirmed my suspicion that the Views Field plugin "discovery" process was atypical, but without explanation for WHY. (We both seem puzzled.)
https://mikemadison.net/blog/2020/8/27/tutorial-using-the-plugin-system-in-drupal-9
Tutorial: Using the Plugin System in Drupal 9: Creating Custom Views Fields — Mike Madison
The Plugin System is widely used in Drupal to allow you to build your own custom “stuff” like Blocks, Migrations, Views Fields (and filters and access control handlers), and much much more! This article digs into using the Plugin System to build a custom Views Field for Drupal 9.
EVERY other control in the Mastodon UI that I can find is either a checkbox or a radio button. Why this sudden shift to an ambiguous toggle for this one control when checkboxes have served their purpose well everywhere else?
Apparently if I had clicked on the control, it would have looked like this. Much more apparent now as clearly on. Since it was the only instance of this control on the screen, I had no others to compare to, and I'm not in the habit of clicking on every control that looks properly set to confirm it's not actually misleading me!
(At least not on a platform that I trust isn't trying to trick me with dark patterns.)
I HATE AMBIGUOUS TOGGLES!
I wondered why a new list I set up was still showing members' posts in my main timeline. When I went to configure the list, I saw a big white dot (the brightest thing in the UI) next to "Hide these posts from home" and figured that meant this was default and already ON. I presumed the "X" meant I should click to disable it.
Turns out I was wrong!...