Phil Norton

philipnorton42@fosstodon.org

Programmer mostly working with open source technologies; focused on PHP and Drupal. I like tinkering with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.I write articles at www.hashbangcode.com.He/Him. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fedi22" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fedi22</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/drupal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#drupal</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#php</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#foss</a>

Posts

Post #2837163
In 2012 I had a WordPress site. And I decided to stop hosting it and concentrate on @hashbangcode. This morning I got WordPress installed using ddev and imported the database, expecting errors all over the place. After an update step the site worked and had all the content there from 14ish years ago. Pretty impressive really.
Post #2837162
A chap came to the door today and offered me some toilet paper. I said I didn&#39;t want it, and also wasn&#39;t going to vote for reform.
Post #2837161
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@hashbangcode/116551972264605114 After 5 articles on HTMX I might take a little bit of a break from the subject. What have I got planned for the next article? You&#39;ll just have to subscribe and wait :P New article every two weeks!
Post #2837160
I decided the other day to move my code off of GitHub. This means moving 70+ repositories as well as all of the minor integrations/builds/processes I have set up over the years. This is going to take a while!
Post #2837159
I like the Michael Crichton book where scientists meddle with something they don&#39;t fully understand and it all goes wrong.... wait...
Post #2837158
This is worth a read. Quite funny to see how mild the eccentrics were 100 years ago 😀 Britain&#39;s Greatest Eccentrics: The Bizarre, the Brilliant, and the Completely Unhinged https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/britain-s-greatest-eccentrics-the-bizarre-the-brilliant-and-the-completely-unhinged
Post #2837157
RE: https://mastodon.online/@wednesdaycaptain/116606553552962855 It is only Wednesday?
Post #2837156
Interesting, so the critical security advisory for Drupal announced today is for the PostgreSQL abstraction layer. If you run Drupal on PostgreSQL then you should update asap!
Post #1986614
Today I released the alpha1 version of my Drupal Mastodon API module. This module lets you post to your Mastodon instance directly from your Drupal site (including images). There&#39;s support for adding multiple accounts as well, in case you have lots of Mastodon accounts. There&#39;s also a sub module where you can add a template for posting from content. I need to write more tests, but I&#39;m quite happy with the module so far. https://www.drupal.org/project/mastodon_api #dru...
Post #1986611
Thank you @jeni for the quality badges. They look amazing! Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for the extra #! badge, I absolutely love it 🥰 Get yours at https://dcbadges.co.uk.
Post #1158880
I have an AI agent running on a Raspberry Pi in my office and I wondered if it was possible to integrate it with Drupal. The answer is yes! The Pi doesn&#39;t quite have the power to respond to AI requests in under a second, but it works well. Proves that you don&#39;t need multiple high powered graphics cards to run LLM agents, although the extra processing power does speed things up a bit.
Post #1158877
Just pushed a new version of my little sitemap crawler script. Added the ability for the system to take screenshots of the sites as they are processed. I had a need to take a screenshot of a page for a project, so I added it here since it&#39;s just an addition to the exiting features. https://github.com/hashbangcode/sitemap_checker