What Drupal 11.3.0 Means to Me: A Multi-Hat Perspective
Drupal 11.3.0 is out, and like many of us who manage Drupal sites, I don't just wear one hat. Depending on the hour of the day, I might be writing a module, tweaking CSS, or SSH-ing into a server to…
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Beyond VLC and Blender: My Essential (and Lesser Known) Free App Toolkit
We all know the titans of the open-source world. You probably already have GIMP for image manipulation, Blender for 3D work, and VLC installed to play any media file in existence. But there is a…
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Happy Halloween
I have this VHS video cassette, Creepy Classics, a humorously presented series of classic horror and sci-fi film trailers hosted by Vincent Price. It included a trivia card to test your knowledge of…
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Digital Omnipresence: A Workflow for Focus, Awareness, and Search
In today's "always-on" work culture, there's a fine line between being responsive and being perpetually distracted. I'm in countless chats and channels, and I need to be aware of what's happening.…
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The Great Google Migration: Why This Android Veteran is Ditching Gemini for Home Assistant
As a long-time Android user, I’ve been with the platform since the heady days of the G1. My spouse and I have been happy Google Fi subscribers for ages, largely thanks to its unbeatable international…
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The Case of the Crashing "Open File" Dialog in Windows 11
I've been wrestling with one of the most frustrating bugs I've encountered in a while on Windows 11. The scenario is simple: I'm in an application like VS Code or another editor, I go to File > Open,…
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I'm building an arcade racer music maker for a game development course
For a game development course I'm taking, I've started working on a concept that blends two of my passions: arcade racing and music creation. I'll open with the elevator pitch and then get into some…
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What is ActivityPub in the context of a CMS? 🤔
I've been kicking around the fediverse for a while now. I jumped into Mastodon pretty early on, setting up shop across various instances—from the big public squares like mastodon.social and mas.to,…
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Considering inline images and content header image specifications in Drupal 11
For starters, to preserve a .GIF animation for the header image, I want the original image to display rather than a rendered image-style. The default image style is Image style: Wide (1090), which…
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Fixing libwebkit2gtk dependencies in Debian for the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client (aka VPN)
If you are trying to connect using the Cisco AnyConnect GUI client, and you are encountering an error message that appears immediately after clicking "Connect", you can get more information by…
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