Talking Drupal #428 - Digital Nomads

December 11, 2023
Today we are talking about Being a Digital Nomad, common nomadic hurdles, and realized work/life benefits with guests Chad Hester and Shelley Goetz. We’ll also cover Flag as our module of the week.

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Topics

  • What does digital nomad mean?
  • When did you first start to think about this
  • What was your physical journey like
  • What do you do for work
  • What is the biggest win
  • How did this affect family dynamics
  • What was the biggest gotcha
  • Tips and tricks
  • Long term plan
  • Why not Europe or South America
  • Question from Stephen: As a Patriots fan what are your thoughts on the 2023 season, is Bill Belichick staying or going

 

Resources

 

Module of the Week

Flag
  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted a simple way to let users bookmark, like, or even flag as inappropriate content on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
  • Brief history
    • How old: originally created in 2008 by quicksketch, who listeners may remember as the original author of Webform
    • Versions available: 7.x-3.9 and 8.x-4.0-beta4
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained, but no commits in the last year
  • Has a handbook, but it’s in the old documentation system
  • Number of open issues: 675, 132 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
  • Usage stats:
    • Over 38,000 sites
  • Maintainer(s):
    • Recent releases by Berdir, who we recently mentioned as the maintainer of TMGMT in episode #426
  • Module features and usage
    • The Flag module provides a flexible system that can reference any kind of entity, so content, users, comments and so on
    • When you create a flag type, you set the target entity type, and then you can optionally choose specific bundles that can be flagged
    • Flags can be per-user, like bookmarks, or global, meaning that they’re the same for everyone
    • Links to Flag or Unflag content or other entities can be displayed in a variety of ways: in a field, in entity links, as contextual links, and more
    • By default flag links are rendered as AJAX links that flag or unflag content without reloading the page, but you can configure them to display in various ways, including a links to a field entry form, because flag types are also fieldable
    • There is extensive views integration, so it’s easy to list flagged content, for example to show a user content they’ve flagged as their favorites. The ecosystem of modules around Flag includes one called Views Flag Refresh that can trigger a view to automatically update via AJAX as soon as any content in that view is flagged or unflagged
    • Not long ago I used Flag as part of a lightweight task management system within Drupal, and anyone wanting to try that out can install the Tasks module

 

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