Talking Drupal #428 - Digital Nomads

Today we are talking about Being a Digital Nomad, common nomadic hurdles, and realized work/life benefits with guests Chad Hester and Shelley Goetz. We'll also cover Flag as our module of the week. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/428 Topics What does digital nomad mean? When did you first start to think about this What was your physical journey like What do you do for work What is the biggest win How did this affect family dynamics What was the biggest gotcha Tips and tricks Long term plan Why not Europe or South America Question from Stephen: As a Patriots fan what are your thoughts on the 2023 season, is Bill Belichick staying or going Resources The Flag module US-CA Nomads on Instagram US-CA Nomads on Flicker Chad on LinkedIn Chad's website Chad's d.o profile Shelley on LinkedIn Shelley on Instagram An off-grid (on Vancouver Island) youtube channel that inspires Chad and Shelley Snowshoe Fondue on Mt. Washington Guests Shelley Goetz - shelleygoetz Chad Hester - chadkhester.com chadhester Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Flag Brief description: Have you ever wanted a simple way to let users bookmark, like, or even flag as inappropriate content on your Drupal site? There's a module for that. Brief history How old: originally created in 2008 by quicksketch, who listeners may remember as the original author of Webform Versions available: 7.x-3.9 and 8.x-4.0-beta4 Maintainership Actively maintained, but no commits in the last year Has a handbook, but it's in the old documentation system Number of open issues: 675, 132 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch Usage stats: Over 38,000 sites Maintainer(s): Recent releases by Berdir, who we recently mentioned as the maintainer of TMGMT in episode #426 Module features and usage The Flag module provides a flexible system that can reference any kind of entity, so content, users, comments and so on When you create a flag type, you set the target entity type, and then you can optionally choose specific bundles that can be flagged Flags can be per-user, like bookmarks, or global, meaning that they're the same for everyone Links to Flag or Unflag content or other entities can be displayed in a variety of ways: in a field, in entity links, as contextual links, and more By default flag links are rendered as AJAX links that flag or unflag content without reloading the page, but you can configure them to display in various ways, including a links to a field entry form, because flag types are also fieldable There is extensive views integration, so it's easy to list flagged content, for example to show a user content they've flagged as their favorites. The ecosystem of modules around Flag includes one called Views Flag Refresh that can trigger a view to automatically update via AJAX as soon as any content in that view is flagged or unflagged Not long ago I used Flag as part of a lightweight task management system within Drupal, and anyone wanting to try that out can install the Tasks module