Todd Viola

@toddviola
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Builder. Tinkerer. I earn a living making websites with Drupal.
Websitehttps://toddviola.com
Todd ViolaMar 10
I've started posting about some of my craft and toymaking projects. https://toddviola.com/project/teepee
Teepee

There are lots of easy teepee projects on the Internet. I used the project from Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred as my starting point. The book suggests using a 4-foot wide canvas drop cloth from Home Depot for the panels, which worked great. It's a nice, soft canvas that's already a good width in one dimension, with finished edges to reduce the amount of sewing needed. I used a commercial stencil pattern, and regular craft store acrylic paints, to decorate the edges of the fabric.

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Show threadTodd ViolaJan 22, 2025
@stefthepef Oh it is! My grandmother made this for me every year on my birthday. It's the only version of gnocchi I knew about growing up. Make sure you drain the ricotta well, so you don't have to keep adding flour.
Todd ViolaDec 24, 2023
Monsieur RalphDec 23, 2023
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should return to their home towns to fix their parents’ mobile phone, email and computer problems.
Todd ViolaDec 10, 2023
Watching #DoctorWho last night, my first reaction to the bi-generation concept wasn't good, but the idea is growing on me. Thinking that the Doctor, through the Fourteenth, needs time and space to heal isn't wrong. Hoping that Fifteen marks the return of a more jolly Doctor.
Show threadTodd ViolaOct 31, 2023
@ethanschoonover Sometimes I play a little mental game and imagine it's 1978 and all these school messages came home on paper. That's a lot of purple mimeograph fluid.
Show threadTodd ViolaSep 25, 2023
@nebyoolae Good luck. I only had to migrate images and PDF documents, so I didn't include a migration for audio files. I'm sure there's a way to write a migration plugin for general use, but I didn't need that. Sorry to hear about the manual uploads. It looks like this Media Library Importer module might offer you a solution for that. I've never tried it. https://www.drupal.org/project/media_library_importer
Media Library Importer

Media Library Importer A module to import media files from public directory into media library. There are a lot of tutorials on how to import file entities into media galleries using migration tools.

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Show threadTodd ViolaSep 24, 2023
@nebyoolae I may have some code that will help you with that, if it's a Drupal9/10 site. I wrote a little migration module that creates Media entities from managed files. It depends on the Drupal 8+ migration contrib module. My code is at https://github.com/toddviola/file2media
GitHub - toddviola/file2media: A little Drupal module that provides migrations to create core Media entities from existing Drupal-managed files. Useful after migrating from Wordpress.

A little Drupal module that provides migrations to create core Media entities from existing Drupal-managed files. Useful after migrating from Wordpress. - GitHub - toddviola/file2media: A little Dr...

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Show threadTodd ViolaMay 16, 2023
@gregpak I took a computer-aided design class in graduate school in 1993-94, and in order to present my final project, I had to shoot photographs of my digital model onto color slide film using a special rig that attached to the CRT monitor. It felt like a transitional time. The Internet was not yet a visual place, and even though the school was heavily into digital technologies, all the projectors still used transparencies. #autocad
Show threadTodd ViolaFeb 26, 2023
Both seats were broken — not good enough for the truck — but between them I had enough parts to make one, functioning theater chair. That chair has traveled with me to five different states in 39 years. I just recovered it with new, red vinyl that's a pretty good match for the original. #memories #furniture #restoration
Todd ViolaFeb 26, 2023
I was walking home from school one day in 1983, and as I rounded the corner onto Fifth Street, I saw workers loading rows of fold-down seats from the demolished Earle Theater onto a truck. They were being saved to be reused, and I asked one of the men if I could have one. He told me to wait while he went inside the building. He emerged carrying a pair of seats, still bolted together. They were too heavy for me, so I got a friend to help me carry them to my house. #NewCastleDelaware #memories