Drupal Starshot blog: Announcing the selected partner for the new Design System for Experience Builder and Drupal CMS

Dries Buytaert announced the Experience Builder Initiative earlier this year, with the aim to become the default Drupal tool for layout design, page building, and basic theming. The main goal is to create a tool that site builders love, with an amazing out-of-the-box experience. The development of Experience Builder is going very well with the first stable release expected in late 2025, at which point it is also planned to be part of Drupal CMS 2.0.

Complementing the tool, a month ago we published a call for partners to design and implement a comprehensive design system for Experience Builder and thus Drupal CMS. Now we’re thrilled to announce that we have selected Mediacurrent as the partner to collaborate with on this project!

We were amazed by the quality, creativity, and expertise demonstrated in the proposals submitted by our community. In the extensive evaluation process, the selected partner stood out for their thoughtful approach, in-depth understanding of user needs, and a clear actionable roadmap. Their proposal reflected a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and scalability, ensuring the design system will empower designers, developers, and content marketers alike.

To maintain transparency with the community and celebrate the exceptional quality of their work, we’re pleased to share the winning proposal. You can see an overview of activities and high-level timeline and their design system showcase. Thanks to Mediacurrent for being willing to share your proposal with the community.

Work on this exciting project will kick off in January, with an early preview of the work for DrupalCon Atlanta in March 2025 and a stable release later in the year.

We want to thank everyone who submitted a proposal and contributed their time, effort, and creativity to this initiative. We’ve had an impressive turnaround that shows how the Drupal CMS project is bringing the community together to work towards the same goals.

Stay tuned for updates as we progress on this exciting journey!

Ruby 3.4.1 Released

Ruby 3.4.1 has been released.

This fixes the version description.

See the GitHub releases for further details.

Download

  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.4/ruby-3.4.1.tar.gz

    SIZE: 23152739
    SHA1: dc42fe22bcdfbd30f63cd93296d893c53b1dadcc
    SHA256: 3d385e5d22d368b064c817a13ed8e3cc3f71a7705d7ed1bae78013c33aa7c87f
    SHA512: 93acc262e3b7cf86aeddebdad5b8938c187b9c44a73b0c252b6f873745964001459ae45ece7376745916e317c24895596a42b4544e836670fc6e90058e6f0de4
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.4/ruby-3.4.1.tar.xz

    SIZE: 17222800
    SHA1: 61783f85c57da9f05201e491029889d71742a83f
    SHA256: 018d59ffb52be3c0a6d847e22d3fd7a2c52d0ddfee249d3517a0c8c6dbfa70af
    SHA512: 8d2e34117696f9debf463ae1eed288fdbb5c1a12e32800e901b69218e3b7302a0066052077e2ebca851e3a635296199bd5a10437eea1d6f787f69a77bb865680
    
  • https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/3.4/ruby-3.4.1.zip

    SIZE: 28310267
    SHA1: a7145041a0178f2423dbad5d1dd67ba0862b9ee7
    SHA256: a0c62089fb75c47e392bc96778dd76bd7ad1baa40a7ed040372c805de20bccc8
    SHA512: 4f96c56b0a26c0d4d554cf47764f4acdc2e59545da0b85fe4d5235a17d26ac47f0c609af66099173056e3405849a9f847c32e7aaaa3a057c7d46007968aa4c73
    

Posted by naruse on 25 Dec 2024

The Moxie child support robot gets new lease on life through open source

It’s a Christmas miracle! The Moxie, that support robot thing for kids we talked about two weeks ago, seems to be getting a new lease on life. The start-up that makes the Moxie has announced it’s going to not only release a version of the server software for self-hosting, but will also publish all of the source code as open source. We understand how unsettling and disappointing it has been to face the possibility of losing the daily comfort and support Moxie provides. Since the onset of these recent challenges, many of you have voiced heartfelt concerns and offered suggestions, and we have taken that feedback seriously. While our cloud services may become unavailable, a group of former technical team members from Embodied is working on a potential solution to allow Moxie to operate locally—without the need for ongoing cloud connectivity. This initiative involves developing a local server application (“OpenMoxie”) that you can run on your own computer. Once available, this community-driven option will enable you (or technically inclined individuals) to maintain Moxie’s basic functionality, develop new features, and modify her capabilities to better suit your needs—without reliance on Embodied’s cloud servers. ↫ Paolo Pirjanian Having products like this be dependent on internet connectivity is not great, but as long as Silicon Valley is the way it is, that’s not going to change. You can tell from their efforts that the people at Embodied do genuinely care about their product and the people that use it, because they have zero – absolutely zero – financial incentive or legal obligation to do any of this. They could’ve just walked away like their original communication said they were going to, but instead they listened to their customers and changed their minds. Regardless of my thoughts on requiring internet connectivity for something like this, they at least did the right thing today – and I commend them for that.

(Ep89) Zhe Tian Ep 89 Sub Indo Eng (遮天) (天国を巡る)(천국을 뒤덮다)(Shrouding the Heavens) (Den Himmel…

Shrouding the Heavens, 遮天,89,Zhe Tian,
At the edge of the dark and frozen universe, nine giant dragon corpses were bound in ancient bronze coffins. It seemed they had been there since the birth of the universe.This amazing view was captured by a spacecraft hovering in outer space.
The nine dragons and the mysterious bronze coffin made people wonder whether they went back to ancient times or had just reached another shore in the universe. A giant mythical world opens up, where immortality gradually emerges and paranormal events continue to occur.
Many people began to find their own traces (Dao) in these mythical realms. Their passion was like the turbulent and unrelenting waves of the sea. The heat in their blood was like an erupting volcano. Their desire for power and immortality drags them into the abyss without realizing it.
#ShroudingtheHeaven
#遮天
#89
#ShroundingtheHeavens
#Zhetian

Thom O’Leary: Broken Bread, Open Hearts: A Pastor’s Insight on Connecting with Christ

When Thom O’Leary speaks about the power of sharing meals and faith, one is treated to a man who knows his material inside out, having devoted his life to spiritual leadership. “Broken Bread, Open Hearts” is a metaphor for an exercise that deepens one’s relationship with Christ in the simplest manner. A practice that opens our hearts and builds bridges to a world so fragmented and disconnected.

#thomoleary #faith #god #spirituality

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #481 – Drupal Marketing & Drupal CMS

Today we are talking about Drupal Marketing, how it applies to Drupal CMS, and what a Drupal and Drupal CMS Marketing Future look like with guest Suzanne Dergacheva. We’ll also cover Drupal 11.1 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/481

Topics

  • Drupal marketing moves
  • New brand
  • Marketing people at the DA
  • Goal of marketing
  • How does this impact Drupal CMS
  • Drupal CMS marketing
  • How will you educate people about the differences between core and CMS
  • Any challenges
  • How do you like the new homepage
  • Next steps to move the brand forward
  • Case studies
  • Why did you volunteer
  • If someone wants to get involved how can they

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva – evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you been wanting a version of Drupal with improvements to the recipes system, the ability to write hooks as classes, and an icon management API? The new Drupal 11.1 release has all of that and more.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created on Dec 16 by catch of Tag1 and Third & Grove
  • Module features and usage
    • We’ve talked a number times on this show about the recipes system, particularly because it’s at the heart of Drupal CMS. In Drupal 11.1 recipes can define whether or not to use strict comparison for provided configuration, and there are a ton of new config actions. These allow your recipe to place blocks, take user input, enable layout builder for content types, clone configuration entities and more. It’s a huge leap forward, and I think you’ll quickly see a number of recipes that require Drupal 11.1 or newer.
    • Hooks have long been a powerful Drupalism that allow for deep customization of how your website functions. These hooks can now be written as classes, thanks to the new Hook attribute on methods. This will bring many of the object-oriented benefits of modern Drupal to the hooks system, and should also make it easier for developers new to Drupal to understand the code to create these customizations.
    • A new Icon Management API allows themes and modules to define icon packs, with unique identifiers for each included icon.
    • Drupal 11.1 also includes PHP 8.4 support. I haven’t been able to find any data on speed improvements compared to PHP 8.3, but there are interesting new features like property hooks, asymmetric visibility, new functions for finding array items, and more
    • There are plans to use Workspaces for content moderation, so the UI for Workspaces is now in a separate module. For new site builds if you want your editors to be able to use Workspaces, you’ll need to remember to enable this new UI module as well
    • New installs of Drupal 11.1 will also see improvements to the initial experience. These include defaulting to admin-created user accounts only, not adding the body field by default when creating new content types, and more.
    • Drupal 11.1 also includes a new views entity reference filter, opt-in render caching for forms, and improved browser and CDN caching for Javascript and CSS, among a host of other improvements.
    • A number of these improvements will also find their way into the upcoming 10.4 release, ensuring, for example, that recipes built to use the new config actions can be used with Long-Term Support (LTS) versions of Drupal, that will be supported until the stable release of Drupal 12 in mid- to late-2026

parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20241222 (‘Bashar’) released [stable]

GNU Parallel 20241222 (‘Bashar’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4

Quote of the month:

  “Do this with gnu parallel” is the Copilot hack of the day

    — Chase Clark @chasingmicrobes.bsky.social

 

New in this release:

  • No new features. This is a candidate for a stable release.
  • Bug fixes and man page updates.


GNU Parallel – For people who live life in the parallel lane.

If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it.

About GNU Parallel


GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU Parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

If you use xargs and tee today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use as GNU Parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel. GNU Parallel can even replace nested loops.

GNU Parallel makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.

For example you can run this to convert all jpeg files into png and gif files and have a progress bar:

  parallel –bar convert {1} {1.}.{2} ::: *.jpg ::: png gif

Or you can generate big, medium, and small thumbnails of all jpeg files in sub dirs:

  find . -name ‘*.jpg’ |

    parallel convert -geometry {2} {1} {1//}/thumb{2}_{1/} :::: – ::: 50 100 200

You can find more about GNU Parallel at: http://www.gnu.org/s/parallel/

You can install GNU Parallel in just 10 seconds with:

    $ (wget -O – pi.dk/3 || lynx -source pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ ||

       fetch -o – http://pi.dk/3 ) > install.sh

    $ sha1sum install.sh | grep 883c667e01eed62f975ad28b6d50e22a

    12345678 883c667e 01eed62f 975ad28b 6d50e22a

    $ md5sum install.sh | grep cc21b4c943fd03e93ae1ae49e28573c0

    cc21b4c9 43fd03e9 3ae1ae49 e28573c0

    $ sha512sum install.sh | grep ec113b49a54e705f86d51e784ebced224fdff3f52

    79945d9d 250b42a4 2067bb00 99da012e c113b49a 54e705f8 6d51e784 ebced224

    fdff3f52 ca588d64 e75f6033 61bd543f d631f592 2f87ceb2 ab034149 6df84a35

    $ bash install.sh

Watch the intro video on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1

Walk through the tutorial (man parallel_tutorial). Your command line will love you for it.

When using programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for publication please cite:

O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, March 2018, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014.

If you like GNU Parallel:

  • Give a demo at your local user group/team/colleagues
  • Post the intro videos on Reddit/Diaspora*/forums/blogs/ Identi.ca/Google+/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin/mailing lists
  • Get the merchandise https://gnuparallel.threadless.com/designs/gnu-parallel
  • Request or write a review for your favourite blog or magazine
  • Request or build a package for your favourite distribution (if it is not already there)
  • Invite me for your next conference


If you use programs that use GNU Parallel for research:

  • Please cite GNU Parallel in you publications (use –citation)


If GNU Parallel saves you money:

About GNU SQL


GNU sql aims to give a simple, unified interface for accessing databases through all the different databases’ command line clients. So far the focus has been on giving a common way to specify login information (protocol, username, password, hostname, and port number), size (database and table size), and running queries.

The database is addressed using a DBURL. If commands are left out you will get that database’s interactive shell.

When using GNU SQL for a publication please cite:

O. Tange (2011): GNU SQL – A Command Line Tool for Accessing Different Databases Using DBURLs, ;login: The USENIX Magazine, April 2011:29-32.

About GNU Niceload


GNU niceload slows down a program when the computer load average (or other system activity) is above a certain limit. When the limit is reached the program will be suspended for some time. If the limit is a soft limit the program will be allowed to run for short amounts of time before being suspended again. If the limit is a hard limit the program will only be allowed to run when the system is below the limit.