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mherchelon Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

Doesn't have to stop them, just has to redirect them

mherchelon Jamstack Handbook – All things Jamstack with 3 step-by-step tutorials

Contentful just abstracts away the complexity (for money). It's still complex, but you're paying instead of dealing with the complexity.

mherchelon ‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease

Literally "the internet of sh*t"

mherchelon Headless CMS Is Killing the Buy vs. Build Decision

Keep in mind that many FOSS CMS's can also do headless. Drupal has very robust JSON:API support (as well as GraphQL through a contrib module), and WP has its own Rest API. Drupal also has a distribution specifically geared toward headless/decoupled: https://www.contentacms.org

mherchelon The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety

It's harder to implement on cars.

1) People would (and do) cheat at mandatory breathalyzers.

2) It's not speeding that injures people, it's the speed differences that cause issues. Limiting a car to 70mph won't help when it's icy, and they should be driving 40mph.

3) How exactly would a car detect reckless driving? How would it know that it wasn't warranted (ie swerving to avoid a kid)?

mherchelon Cybercriminals Use Malicious Memes That Communicate with Malware

If I were in a band, I'd seriously consider naming it the "Malicious Memes"

mherchelon Mothers who regret having children are speaking out

No one can ever be 100% prepared for children.

mherchelon 'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story

No, there were multiple F18s. Each with a pilot. Multiple radar contacts, with the associated radar operators.

Also, why do you say, "none of the other three pilots involved or ship crewmen backing his story up." That's not true.

mherchelon Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M led by General Catalyst

Yeah, I can't see them being worth that much money. Between WP and Drupal's Contenta distribution (http://www.contentacms.org/), you can deploy a free open source system that's way more extendable than a proprietary system ever will.

mherchelon Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies

I don't agree with the decision. But, he was not ejected for S&M hobbies. He was ejected because he was perceived to believe that women are subservient to men (evidently this was part of some of his online writing).

Here's a timeline of blog posts:

1. Larry's (the ejectee) initial blog post: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

2. Dries' (founder of Drupal) following blog post: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

3. Statement from the Drupal Association's Exec Director: https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-statement-from-the...

4. Another blog post from Larry where he clears up misconceptions and answers questions: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2

More Info:

* Drupal community discussion on /r/Drupal: https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/60y9mq/larry_garfie...

* A great non-partial tldr; blogpost from Drupal developer Mike Ryan: http://virtuoso-performance.com/blog/mikeryan/thoughts-drupa...