Nyhetsinnsamling, løst og fast - Petter Sømme. Eating people is wrong

Last week, Drupalists around the world gathered virtually for DrupalCon North America 2021.

In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of my keynote, download my slides (244 MB), or read the brief summary below.

I gave a Drupal 9 and Drupal 10 update, talked about going back...

Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson all use Drupal for their websites. They each have hundreds of Drupal websites.

AstraZeneca, the fourth major vaccine producer, doesn't use Drupal. However, the University of Oxford, who developed their...

In an interview, Bill Gates was asked how hard it was for him to learn to delegate. Bill answers with how he had to change his mental model, going from writing code to letting go to optimize for impact.

Yeah, scaling [Microsoft] was a huge challenge. At first I wrote all the code. Then I hired all the people that wrote the code and I looked at the code. Then, eventually, there was code that I didn't look at and people...

Today, the U.S. Congress and big tech companies continued the debate about Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.

Put simply, Section 230 provides websites immunity from liability from third-party content. This internet legislation is a double-edged sword. On the one hand it has allowed the dangerous spread of misinformation on social media. On the other hand it has helped the internet thrive.

If I write...

Thousands of Open Source and Free Software advocates are outraged at the Free Software Foundation (FSF), myself included.

In 2019, Richard Stallman was forced out of the FSF, the organization he started. This after he called Jeffrey Epstein's victims of sex trafficking as...

I use my own domain name for email. Unfortunately, I received a few emails about dries@buytaert.net being used for phishing attacks. It's not the first time, but hopefully it will be the last!

I finally added SPF, DKIM and DMARC protection to my domains:

• Sender Policy Framework (SPF) restricts what servers can send emails using my domain name. To enable it, all I had to do is add a DNS record to my domain....

I feel like I was in a street fight and got punched in the stomach.

It started earlier this week with a stitch in my side when I was doing the dishes. By the time I finished, the stitch had turned into stomach cramps. I brushed it off as my stomach being upset due to jet lag. After all, we had just come back from Europe two days prior.

As the pain increased, I wondered if I had pulled a muscle. Maybe I had been sitting with poor posture in my 8 hours of Zoom meetings that day...

I've now been living at work working from home for almost one year.

Before the pandemic, I often spent three hours a day commuting. Now, I'm using these three hours to spend more time with family, become more successful at my job, and work out more. For those reasons, I prefer not to return to an office.

Many aspects of work function much better when people are face-to-face. In addition, I miss the in-person interactions with my colleagues and the camaraderie that...