Talking Drupal #428 - Digital Nomads

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.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/428

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

• The Flag module
• US-CA Nomads on Instagram
• US-CA Nomads on Flicker
• Chad on LinkedIn
• Chad’s website
• Chad’s d.o profile
• Shelley on LinkedIn
• Shelley on Instagram
• An off-grid (on Vancouver Island) youtube channel that inspires Chad and Shelley
• Snowshoe Fondue on Mt. Washington

Guests

Shelley Goetz - shelleygoetz
Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
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