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Lots of stuff has been changing in Drupal 8 recently. In 8.3.0, a new experimental "layout discovery" module was added to core, which conflicted with the contrib "layout plugin" module.

As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!

This is why you want to be on our maintenance plans. Our number one priority is recoverability, from just about any risk. And today, we had a client that needed this, in a very bad way!

!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours

Yesterday, while assessing a new client site, we ran across a technology we have not seen before: Sphinx Search.

As I write, we're in the midst of a big Ransomware attack. Millions of computers have been infected, with their data encrypted, held ransom pending an extortion payment or deleted. Supposedly.

A past customer just called, with email trouble... suddenly their email had stopped delivering. This customer had been acquired by another company, and we had shut off their web hosting service months ago, as their website had been retired.

On one of our D8 sites, after upgrading to 8.3.0, we had a "too many redirects" loop going on on the dev server. For quite some time, we've had the site path repeated with "?q=".

Extreme irony: the person most responsible for making Drupal a mature, stable, long-term platform has been ejected from a leadership role for reasons that are not entirely clear. As a result, the Drupal community itself is going through a painful crisis.

Yesterday Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage in their US-East datacenter, in Virgina. It made all sorts of national news, largely because it affected some major online services.

Last week the Note to Self podcast put together a thought-provoking, action-inspiring series called The Privacy Paradox.

[Update: It turns out the Drupal 7 site we tested had page caching disabled.