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@jenlampton

Full stack developer, master of none. Open Source advocate. Usability stickler. Rabble rouser. Backdrop CMS Co-Founder. Expert avocado surgeon. (she/her)

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Florida DrupalCamp Florida DrupalCamp will be held February 20-22nd, 2026 at Florida Technical College in Orlando, FL

New year, new choices.
Some Camps require coats. Some require sunscreen.

Use 'Happy2026' for $10 off and plan wisely.
buff.ly/2b2Sm5m
#FLDC26 #Drupal

30.12.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Navigating Local Development Landscapes: Tools, Benefits and Best Practices Learn how DDEV simplifies local development, speeds onboarding, reduces debugging pain, and helps teams reliably match production environments.

Is your web development process living in the past? Tune in to #Tag1TeamTalks to explore modern local development environments with industry experts and see why tools like #DDEV are essential for today's developers.
https://www.tag1.com/tag1-team-talks/navigating-local-development-landscapes/

30.12.2025 17:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry you're not feeling well :(
I've had luck with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) for chest stuff that lingers. Also I think Liquid IV has actually prevented me from getting sick twice now (after the onset of symptoms!) so I have at least one each day when I'm not feeling well. Can't hurt?

31.12.2025 08:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I put the entire description for the Lampton coat of arms into Sora to see if it could generate a stained glass pattern. Incredible results. Attached are the notarized description, a commissioned drawing we inherited, and the Sora output.

19.10.2025 05:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20i FOSS Awards The 20i FOSS Awards are here to celebrate the contribution self-hosted Free Open Source Software makes to our lives every day. The 20i FOSS Awards are your chance to recognise all the hard work that g...

I just voted in the #FOSSAwards2025 and supported my favorite open-source projects! Cast your vote now: www.20i.com/foss-awards

29.07.2025 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am creating a new repo on @gitlab.com. Yes, it's because I'm leaving BitBucket -- but why would the *only* option be to manually upload an export? What's wrong with `git push`?

20.06.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't mind paying for a good service, but I have a lot of instances where a client will end up hitting domain or API key limits in a way that costs them hundreds of dollars when they really only have like 200 emails/mo across all domains.

10.06.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Horrid support is from my own personal experiences with them in the past, delivery reputation was based on current tests (run in 2025)

10.06.2025 03:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sengdrid free tiers are being discontinued in 60 days, that's why I'm in the market again :(

10.06.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SMTP Providers

Sooooo what are we using for SMTP providers nowadays?

I'm looking for one with decent support that has a free tier for the little guys who need only help with pw resets :)
bit.ly/smtp-services

30.05.2025 02:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This is certainly better than needing to click to open the modal - but surely there's a way around the modal all together... Is this missing feature not driving everyone else up the wall too?

29.05.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone found a google docs extension that will allow you to highlight some text, paste a URL, and have that URL become a link around the text? You know, like almost all other modern rich-text editors? Surely this exists by now?

27.05.2025 22:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

10.05.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 8348 πŸ” 3352 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 123
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What's new in web Β |Β  Blog Β |Β  web.dev A roundup of everything mentioned in the What's New in Web talk at Google I/O.

Here's my talk from I/O along with the companion blog post that rounds up all of the links mentioned. It's been a very exciting year for the web, and all the new Baseline tooling we've just announced can help you understand when to adopt these new features. web.dev/blog/whats-n...

22.05.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demandβ€”and It’s Only Getting Worse A new analysis of AI hardware being produced and how it is being used attempts to estimate the vast amount of electricity being consumed by AI.

tired: people AI-generating rando images of themselves as anime

WIRED: AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, new analysis has found

22.05.2025 19:25 πŸ‘ 2734 πŸ” 1360 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 165

I'm doing this right now! Thanks for sharing πŸ₯°

23.05.2025 06:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Get off your SASS (and use native CSS) | MidCamp With the introduction of Single Directory Components and the ability to have CSS bound to a component, it is not as necessary to have your design system β€œbuilt”. One can use native CSS (and JS) in eac...

What a great MidCamp! Here's a link to my session, with the video and access to the slides.

www.midcamp.org/2025/topic-p...

22.05.2025 23:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

These are the people we should be listening to about AI, not greedy executives and vulture capitalists

12.05.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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12.05.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 864 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 5
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Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

The future of the Open Source Lab is in jeopardy :/

See this article from the Oregon State University:
osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

01.05.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A little over a decade ago I was on vacation before a company event. While I was out, @justafish.bsky.social and co-conspirators planned… a companion event.

So I can say confidently that Eatoncon would involve powerpoint karaoke, fake moustaches, and gummi. Because it did. flic.kr/p/bs4APW

20.04.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TIL: setting form_error() or form_set_error() prevents forms from being rebuilt, so $form_state['rebuild'] is ignored.

Thank you, core issue comments from 2009!

#Drupal #BackdopCMS #OpenSource #OpenSoruceSoftware #webdevelopment

16.04.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Remember to submit your session proposals for #DCAVL by Monday, April 14th! ⏰

πŸ”— www.drupalasheville.com/submit-session

11.04.2025 19:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This #NationalLibraryWeek, watch a preview of an upcoming documentary from Structure Films about the #InternetArchive's fight to defend online freedom & public access to knowledge.

Full clip ➑️ vimeo.com/1056104575/d...
Support ➑️ fiscal.thegotham.org/project.cfm/...

11.04.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 411 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6
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08.04.2025 06:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow scammers are getting harder and harder to identify.

02.04.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, Canva may be the most useless piece of design software I've ever used.

Increase font size? Not possible. Ok, change fonts? Nope. Hm. Maybe start from a template for an event flyer? No. ANY flyer at all? Sorry, doesn't exist.

Well then!

22.03.2025 20:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

19.03.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 24179 πŸ” 3803 πŸ’¬ 680 πŸ“Œ 307
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Maximizing your website’s ROI with Backdrop CMS: A powerful and affordable option (especially for lingering Drupal 7 sites) | Aten Design Group Aten Lunch Hour Webinar Series | Aten's Senior Backdrop Developer, Laryn Kragt Bakker will explain why Backdrop CMS is an affordable and powerful option for your organization's website, especially if ...

My pitch for #BackdropCMS includes the fact that it's an affordable, stable, and predictable option in uncertain times. Join me for this webinar tomorrow if you're interested in learning more:

atendesigngroup.com/webinar/maxi...

11.03.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

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