| Website | https://matthewtift.com |
| Drupal | https://www.drupal.org/u/mtift |
| Pronouns | he/him |
RE: https://drupal.community/@ultimike/116544980876839542
Good that we're measuring.
They credit Vienna's rail connectivity for the travel drop, which says something about how venue choice shapes the environmental impact.
I'll be curious how this affects emissions in Orlando.
The next Drupal CWG Community Health Office Hours will be on Friday, May 22 at 7am PT (9am Central).
Drop in with a question, share what you've been navigating, or just listen.
In this session we're also opening up a conversation about AI: how it's affecting community work, what feels helpful, what doesn't, etc.
Zoom link goes in #community-health in Drupal Slack before we start.
Read more: https://www.drupal.org/community/events/cwg-office-hours-2026-05-22
A lot of AI products, when you strip away the hype, are happiness machines. After a day of likes, mentions, and kudos, I taught a yoga class and felt firsthand the difference between the happiness that comes from receiving vs doing. What does a yoga class have to do with slot machines? More than you might think.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/ai-slot-machines-and-other-kinds-happiness
A lot of AI products, when you strip away the hype, are happiness machines. After a day of likes, mentions, and kudos, I taught a yoga class and felt firsthand the difference between the happiness that comes from receiving vs doing. What does a yoga class have to do with slot machines? More than you might think.
The Drop Times mentioned my piece: "Noble Friends and Free Software Communities." They highlighted the contrast I was drawing, which is that Drupal's credit system tracks activity, but it can't measure the impact of mentorship, encouragement, or just plain being kind to other people in the community.
A recent blog post by longtime Drupal contributor Matthew Tift introduces the concept of “noble friendship” as a way to understand how participation in the community extends beyond formal roles and measurable output. Drawing from sustained involvement in the project, the reflection contrasts structured contribution tracking with informal practices such as mentorship, persistence, and peer support. The framing adds to ongoing discussions about how community health is defined and maintained.
The Drupal redesign for Harvard Library, built by my @lullabot colleagues, launched last month. It looks great!
I spent a lot of time in libraries in graduate school. Hours and hours of (mostly) peace and quiet that felt meditative. A good library website should work the same: calm, easy to move through, nothing in your way. This one has that feeling.
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2026-04-07/new-harvard-library-website-launches
What I want to build are things that work the old fashioned way, on protocols that give users sovereignty and agency, but with modern thinking applied to the UI and UX.
That’s it. That’s my whole shtick. Thanks!
Starting in #Drupal 11.4.0, developers will be able to define routes as PHP Attributes right in controller classes - sweet! 🎉🐘✨
Problem/Motivation Drupal should use modern PHP attributes for route discovery a la Symfony. This will allow us to add an attribute to a method name and use that for routing information. For example: /** * The default 401 content. * * @return array * A render array containing the message to display for 401 pages.
Even without seeing the talk at Minnebar by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands), this review/reflection/meditation by Matthew Tift (@mtift) moved me deeply.
In particular, I want to share it with my EU friends as they develop and revise their national tech and energy infrastructures to reduce their, um, supply chain risks.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
I've been thinking more about this talk and I wrote down some of my thoughts: https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
Paul was right about solutionism. I wanted to dig into what that means for free software, values, and the unglamorous work that actually helps.
What if caring about software is one way to care about people? Paul Cantrell's Minnebar talk challenged common assumptions about tech and solutionism. I came away thinking about values, free software, and where the work really begins.
https://matthewtift.com/blog/caring-about-software-caring-about-people
#Minnebar #ICE #SocialJustice #FreeSoftware #Community #DrupalCommunity
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