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Phil Norton

@philipnorton42@fosstodon.org

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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.
#fedi22 #drupal #php #foss

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Joined November 19, 2022

#! code:

https://www.hashbangcode.com/author/philipnorton42

Drupal:

https://www.drupal.org/u/philipnorton42

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipnorton/

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Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 20, 2026

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!

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 20, 2026

RE: @wednesdaycaptain@mastodon.online

It is only Wednesday?

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 15, 2026

This is worth a read. Quite funny to see how mild the eccentrics were 100 years ago 😀
Britain'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

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 15, 2026

I like the Michael Crichton book where scientists meddle with something they don't fully understand and it all goes wrong.... wait...

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 14, 2026

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!

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 10, 2026

RE: @hashbangcode@fosstodon.org

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'll just have to subscribe and wait :P

New article every two weeks!

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#! code: "Drupal 11: Node Display Mode Preview Form This…" - Fosstodon

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 06, 2026

A chap came to the door today and offered me some toilet paper.

I said I didn't want it, and also wasn't going to vote for reform.

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · May 04, 2026

In 2012 I had a WordPress site. And I decided to stop hosting it and concentrate on @hashbangcode@fosstodon.org. 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.

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#! code (@hashbangcode@fosstodon.org) - Fosstodon

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Apr 24, 2026

Thank you @jeni@drupal.community 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.

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Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Apr 19, 2026

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's support for adding multiple accounts as well, in case you have lots of Mastodon accounts.

There's also a sub module where you can add a template for posting from content.

I need to write more tests, but I'm quite happy with the module so far.

https://www.drupal.org/project/mastodon_api
#drupal #drupalMastodon

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Mastodon API

This module will integrate with the Mastodon API, allowing you to "Toot" from within the Drupal interface.

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Mar 07, 2026

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's just an addition to the exiting features.
https://github.com/hashbangcode/sitemap_checker

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Feb 25, 2026

Replying to @greg_harvey@tooting.ch

@greg_harvey@tooting.ch It's not too bad. For the 200-300 words in that summary I had to wait about 3 seconds. I got the chat bot working as well, that took 5+ seconds to respond. Usable, but perhaps not production ready :D

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Feb 25, 2026

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't quite have the power to respond to AI requests in under a second, but it works well.

Proves that you don't need multiple high powered graphics cards to run LLM agents, although the extra processing power does speed things up a bit.

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Feb 21, 2026

Replying to @m2c_n3e@mastodon.xyz

@m2c_n3e Yeah, I had the uConsole for about a year before I got the hackergadgets bits. The improved Wifi antenna is a must as well!

Phil Norton @philipnorton42@fosstodon.org · Feb 21, 2026

Replying to @m2c_n3e@mastodon.xyz

@m2c_n3e Nice! I love my uConsole. I also have the hackergadgets nvme and wifi/LoRa/GPS all in one board. It's also quite good for a bit of retro gaming since its more than powerful enough to run DOS games :)

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