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A.B. Murrow

abmurrow@hachyderm.io

<p>Web developer in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Drupal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Drupal</span></a> tooting about <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Writing</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a>, and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Programming</span></a>.</p><p>A yank living in Aotearoa<br />🇺🇸 =&gt; 🇳🇿</p><p>I maintain the Drupal service for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NixOS</span></a></p><p>Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.</p><p>Opinions are my own.</p><p>Avatar Alt Text: A giant plushie banana slug surrounded by smal

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  • Post #3666475

    I&#39;m starting something new on my blog where I review Drupal modules that aren&#39;t exactly in the mainstream, but solve some interesting problems. My first one is actually a module I maintain, but I think could be useful to folks out there who want to enhance their site performance! It&#39;s called Partytown, and it integrates a JS library by the same name that loads JS resources on a different thread. https://abmurrow.com/blog/module-review-partytown #Blog #Drupal #WebDevelopment

  • Post #3417700

    Hey! Do you blog about Drupal? Do you have a Drupal project website? Are you just a big fan of Drupal and like to talk about it online? Then check out this new webring I created just for Drupalers! It&#39;s the Drupalers Webring. https://abmurrow.com/drupalers-webring If you send in an application to join the webring, I&#39;ll review it and add you to the ring. Applications form: https://abmurrow.com/form/drupalers-webring-application-fo I manally review every application, so please be pati...

  • Post #1883796

    Blog post by @luj that escaped my attention until now asking just how reproducible nix and NixOS is at scale? Turns out, he&amp;#39;s been studying this exact question since 2017 and did a part of his PhD study on it. https://luj.fr/blog/is-nixos-truly-reproducible.html The answer? In 2017, about 60% of builds from nixpkgs were bitwise reproducible. Now, it&amp;#39;s over 90%. This is great news! Especially since we don&amp;#39;t have any tools that actively monitor this, so there isn&amp;#...

  • Post #1883790

    RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116426136253346140 This! I didn&amp;#39;t get into programming via computer science. In school I studied.... POETRY! Thar&amp;#39;s right. My undergrad thesis was a chapbook of minimalist poems. The draw to programming for me was the thought that you could express an idea succinctly in a super concentrated form of language and witness it come to life. Writing poetry isn&amp;#39;t sooo different. I mean, it is, but the base ideas are still there, ju...

  • Post #935874

    RE: https://kolektiva.social/@firestorm/116346370857505543 Our city&amp;#39;s independent bookstore needs your help! My local anticapitalist, antifascist, LGBTQIA+ friendly, anarchist, super ultra crunchy, cooperatively owned, and self described &amp;quot;radical bookstore&amp;quot; is falling on tough times. Hurricane Helene was a doozy y&amp;#39;all, a ton of small businesses like this are closing with no plans on reopening. The FEMA payments meant to help Asheville and WNC are being bogged...

  • Post #831336

    RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116284350989988441 The secret sauce to solve spiking bounce rates because of AI in Google Search? Replace your landing page in real time with a slop homepage that Google thinks will perform better! #AI #Slop #Google

  • Post #831334

    More Nix and non-systemd goodness that I&amp;#39;ve just learned about. Finix: fast init Nix https://github.com/finix-community/finix An (experimental) Nixos system using finit. The maintainer reached out to me on discourse and cued me in on this project after I posted about my Liberated Systemd overwrite. I didn&amp;#39;t know anyone was working on this, but I&amp;#39;m pleasently surprised! It&amp;#39;s usable right now and (according to them) would benefit from some more experienced user...

  • Post #777024

    Trying out the Cinnamon desktop with NixOS and I&amp;#39;m pleasantly surprised by how good it is! It&amp;#39;s mainly x11 right now, but I can live with that. One hiccup though, the online accounts tool wouldn&amp;#39;t work until I added services.gnome.gnome-online-accounts.enable = true; The official wiki didn&amp;#39;t have any notes about needing to do that, so I added them. Now I&amp;#39;m wondering how much of my config could be extrapolated into fixing the docs for the tools I use....

  • Post #721127

    RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116265905987693759 Amazing how fast Linux went from being the first and last name in digital counterculture to now being full of compliance bros seeking online clout. This guy and his one-man mission to implement bad faith age verification at all costs is a warning for the open computing community. #Linix #KeepAndroidOpen #FOSS