In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.
🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Post Nagios/Icinga alerts to a Matrix room
We just added Matrix notifications to an old Icinga server we have, because why not? We love having everything in Matrix...
🕑Aug 05, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Getting the group into the URL with Purl
The corners of Drupal 8 that aren't there are quickly dwindling, but there are still some that need to get worked out. While upgrading our internal issue tracker, we hit a new one -- getting a group context set via a URL alias, and generally keeping posts within a group.
🕑Jul 24, 2017 🖋John Locke
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How do you keep a high bar of quality on dozens of sites every day?
DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the other way around.
🕑Jul 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Building a Membership site in Drupal 8
Memberships are not all the same. Some memberships last a lifetime, others last a year, or a month. Some memberships are for an individual, others for a couple, others for an entire family.
🕑Jun 07, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Fixing Drupal 8.3 upgrade issues - TwigExtension, Layouts, and Tweaks
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.
🕑Jun 05, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Added D8 Rules support to Matrix API
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!
🕑May 31, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Client accidentally deleted their server. We recovered in less than an hour!
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!
🕑May 22, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Added reminders to our Matrix bot
!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours
🕑May 19, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Rolled a SphinxQL Docker container
Yesterday, while assessing a new client site, we ran across a technology we have not seen before: Sphinx Search.
🕑May 16, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Is your website safe from a cyber attack?
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.
🕑May 02, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Recovering old data
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.