Notices by Chris Coleman (chris@mastodon.social)

@sembiance @anildash I don’t understand why you would reply to that question with this answer.

@zachleat @dries My work is building a medium-ish site using Next.js/Sanity with Algolia and Salesforce integrations to replace our 2007 vintage Coldfusion site.

We've had least four developers on it the entire time. I could have built 90% of this single-handedly with Drupal in about a year. We just spent a ton of effort basically recreating Drupal's Views.

The end result will be nice, but I can't wait for the retro where I get to mention I originally proposed using Drupal.

@Gargron I don't know either, but I do know you were about a block from the Ghostbusters HQ. Hopefully you've got a nice black and white shot of that on a roll somewhere.

@thomasfuchs The reason Patrick Stewart basically didn’t age for three decades is because he managed to do an extra three decades of aging before this was taken, when he was 44.

@thomasfuchs And yet, people say creating a Mastodon account is hard!

@Gargron This seems like a humblebrag about having a rail system that's functional enough to be dysfunctional.

@thomasfuchs True, if it’s called out in a card like on Mastodon. But if it’s just a link in the middle of a paragraph, a lock/unlock icon after the link (like the external link icon some sites use) would be convenient.

In fact, now that I think of it, I might consider adding something like this to indicate open access research on sites for my work.

@thomasfuchs A a browser feature to indicate that you have an account/particular cookie/etc., and then style things on other sites based on it (without indicating to the other site) would be really cool.

For example, sticking an open lock icon next to links to Washington Post, which I have an account for, but a lock icon next to links to The Atlantic, which I don't — but across all sites, as a browser feature.

(this would probably never work but it would be cool)

To make it a little clearer, it’s not sustainable to have three files for each tag I want to get from Cloudinary if I want many galleries.

Hypothetically, if this is my front matter…

---
title: Photos of awesome dogs
tag: dog
layout: gallery.njk
---

…how would I pass `dog` to a data file to get the photos, create the grid of results, paginate, etc.?

This doesn’t seem *that* complicated for #eleventy, but there are a few ways of working with data, and I’m just not sure of the best approach.

Got an #eleventy question: I have a global data file that returns an array of images with a certain tag from Cloudinary.

I have:

• _data/photos.js (Cloudinary tag is here)

• gallery.njk (loops trough photos.js to make a grid/links)

• photo.njk (pagination and display of photos.js items)

What’s the approach if I want to use #11ty data to specify the tag in a Markdown file, then pass it off to the other files to generate the pages? Right now I’m limited to the tag specified in photos.js.

Daily Mastodon trending topic report:

1. You’re using it wrong in many ways that personally offend me

2. This place was better without any people

3. Open-source software

4. You’re being polite but not in the way I prefer

5. The Fediverse (“fedora universe”)

6. Should we de-federate Toyota if they start a server?

7. Top 20 Fediverse alternatives to Wikipedia

8. Historical evidence that Hitler invented quote tweets

9. Cats

10. It’s weird how people create accounts but don’t stick around

@feditips Seems a bit hyperbolic to say Reddit overcharging for API access is “self-destructing.”

What would it have cost him if Elon Musk had started his own Twitter alternative?

All of the weird nerds that worship him would have shown up. He could have paid a bunch of big accounts a pittance to move there and draw a lot more people. He could have even just forked Mastodon like Trump did.

What would a completely deluxe version of this this have cost? Like $50 million max?