Adam Varn

@hotsauce@drupal.community
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Senior Front end (#Drupal) web developer at @lullabot

Striving to make the web more beautiful, accessible and fun for everyone.

Lover of spicy food, my wife & kids, my cats and both types of football.

Opinions are my own.

☀️🌴 Tampa, FL

💧Drupal.orghttps://www.drupal.org/u/hot_sauce
🌎 Personal Sitehttps://varn.dev
✍️ Bloghttps://blog.varn.dev
🎨 CodePenhttps://codepen.io/hotsauce

Week Notes 001: Getting things started https://aubreysambor.com/week-notes-001-getting-things-started/

Now I need to stick with posting these every week…

Week Notes 001: Getting things started | Aubrey Sambor

A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.

Aubrey Sambor

"But I like programming. I like writing. I like making things and then being able to sit back and look at them and think, holy fuck, I made that. There is no joy for me in typing a vague description into a computer and refreshing my way through a parade of Whatever until something is good enough."

From https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever by @eevee

Incidentally, I read the article with this energy: https://youtu.be/Xz7_3n7xyDg

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Today, I got the theme switcher up and running so now you can choose between my site’s light and dark theme. Thanks to @hotsauce for his implementation of @whitep4nth3r’s theme switcher!
A vulture boards a plane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks and says
sorry, sir, only one carrion per passenger.
First blog post in 6 months, talking about my #SmallWebJuly plans! Thanks to @annie for posting about it and @small_cypress for starting it. https://aubreysambor.com/a-small-web-july/
A Small Web July | Aubrey Sambor

A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.

Aubrey Sambor

At this point, the terribly confusingly named product "Drupal CMS" should be renamed to "Drupal AiCMS" or "Drupal AI/XP" or something.

Placate marketeers, warn potential users, and further distance the infernal contraption from Drupal Core in one fell swoop.

Hello Fedi friends!

My child and I arrived in Italy yesterday to spend all of July at my parents' 🇮🇹

What's the first thing I did this morning? Following @milano to have weather forecasts here in my feed.

Special thanks to @stefano for creating this incredible project.

For those of you not familiar with #FediMeteo, it covers 2893 cities in 38 countries. All powered by a 4€/month VPS with #snac and #freeBSD:

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Grazie Stefano! 🙏✨🏆

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.

IT Notes

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

(Edited for a pixel-perfect screenshot)

They are starting to get it ...