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