This week’s focus
Trotters up proper this week… I've been on holiday.
Yes.
Nothing special. Just a week away from my laptop (mostly) with ample opportunity to indulge in a recently adopted hobby obsession: rummaging through second-hand shops! What for? I hear you ask. Well, I have discovered that there's nothing more satisfying than picking up a bargain, specifically the paperback kind.
Twelve months ago, I realised that it's actually possible to actually read an entire actual book cover-to-cover... and to actually thoroughly enjoy reading. Since then, I've read over 50 books, sometimes having as many as five on the go at the same time. Sure, over the years I've dipped in and out of the classics: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (a solid favourite, a real page-turner), Code Complete, and The Pragmatic Programmer to name a few, but I'd never actually read any real books... I never read any fiction.
So now I have a to-read list and an incessant urge to frequent every single second-hand shop that I come within a five mile radius of.
During my week off, I was delighted to pick up:
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Normal People - Sally Rooney
I also visited the New Forest, those pony-horse-ponies are something special!
What I fixed
Well, not fixed exactly, but I did cast my eye over some code.
Phil’s been working steadily on the Drupal Mastodon API module, and I’ve been digging into it to see where I can contribute. We’re hoping to push toward a stable release soon, and I’ll likely submit a couple of pull requests next week to help move that along.
Why it matters
The Mastodon module opens the door to better integration between Drupal sites and the Fediverse. A stable release would make it easier for teams to build public-facing activity streams or publish posts to Mastodon automatically. I’m keen to do what I can to support it.
Looking ahead
Next week, I’ll be back on my primary project. We’ve got some interesting integration work coming up, and I’ll share more about that in the next post.
Random bug report
And (sob) I had to return my new Benq RD320U monitor after a wandering, beady eyeball fell upon a dead pixel... once you see it, you cannot not see it. In fact, you see nothing BUT the dead pixel. The DEAD pixel. Goodness knows how I'll manage until the replacement arrives.