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I just read a quick post over on another Drupal shop's blog, Be a Partner, not a Vendor, and added a comment to the great point Dylan made about n

In September, Freelock was recognized as a leading web development company in Seattle by Clutch.

... that counts. Results matter. What results are important for you? What are you trying to accomplish with your website?

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.

DevOps is the union of development, operations, and quality assurance -- but it's really the other way around.

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.

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!

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.

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.