Talking Drupal #428 - Digital Nomads

Dec 11, 2023

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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

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