When you work on a team, it's useful to have notifications go to a chat room where you can coordinate any necessary action. Reviewing a comment before publishing, seeing stories as they are written, getting notified of new orders are the kinds of things we like having in a shared room.
Matrix
🕑Dec 26, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Software we're grateful for #1 - Matrix
In the spirit of the holidays, we're doing a few posts on Free/Open Source projects that we use every day, that isn't what we sell.
🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Post Salt events into a Matrix room
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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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...
🕑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 22, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Added reminders to our Matrix bot
!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours
🕑Feb 18, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Privacy Matters
Last week the Note to Self podcast put together a thought-provoking, action-inspiring series called The Privacy Paradox.
🕑Dec 22, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Drupal 8 Configuration Management in the real world - workflow and gotchas
Panacea, or disaster? Drupal 8 Configuration Management was supposed to solve all our woes when it came to dealing with deploying configuration. In many ways it's a vast improvement, but in some ways it has almost made matters worse.
🕑Dec 06, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Yet another messaging platform: Why Riot?
People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.
🕑Jun 17, 2016 🖋John Locke
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A Flash of Insight
Its name is Watney. Watney lives in Matrix. Watney is a bot I created about 6 months ago to start helping us with various tasks we need to do in our business.
Watney patiently waits for requests in a bunch of chat rooms we use for internal communications about each website we manage, each project we work on. Watney does a bunch of helpful things already, even though it is still really basic -- it fetches login links for us, helps us assemble release notes for each release we do to a production site, reminds us when it's time to do a release, and kicks off various automation jobs.