Andy Blum

🤖 Lead (Front End) Engineer @ Lullabot
👨‍🔬 Science e̶d̶u̶c̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ advocate
🐱 Ohio U Alum
🏛️ Political junkie
👨‍👩‍👧 Dad & Husband

Posts are mine and do not necessarily reflect the positions of organizations with which I am affiliated.

2025-06-17

@keithamus CSS scoping! I’ve been watching that issue for about a year anxiously waiting for the day I can start using it in design systems

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2025-06-05

@drupal is trying to grow their audience in the #fediverse

"We're actively building presence on Mastodon and Bluesky, platforms that align with our open-source values. We’ll give it 6 months of effort and see if we can grow audiences, and then re-assess.

"If either platform reaches 5,000 followers, we’ll promote them to being a priority platform. We’d love to see them become our preferred platforms."

drupal.org/project/drupal_cwg/

Help us get Drupal off the birdsite!

#followfriday #OpenSource

2025-05-30

@drupal is trying to grow their audience in the #fediverse

"We're actively building presence on Mastodon and Bluesky, platforms that align with our open-source values. We’ll give it 6 months of effort and see if we can grow audiences, and then re-assess.

"If either platform reaches 5,000 followers, we’ll promote them to being a priority platform. We’d love to see them become our preferred platforms."

drupal.org/project/drupal_cwg/

Help us get Drupal off the birdsite!

#followfriday #OpenSource

Andy Blum boosted:
captain acab :antifa:redsad@ohai.social
2025-05-04
My gas utility wanted me to fill out an online survey.

What do we do well as a company that keeps you a customer?

Be a monopoly.

What could we do to better serve you?

Be acquired by a public entity (municipality, etc.) via eminent domain to be operated solely in the public interest by publicly-accountable individuals.
2025-05-04

@hotsauce

It’s tests…

But in bash

2025-05-03

It's honestly wild how my different work streams have all converged on "Andy needs to get better at writing tests" this week.

Client work:
* backstop.js
* jest
* cypress
* phpunit

Drupal Contrib:
* phpunit
* nightwatch

Personal Project:
* bats

Andy Blum boosted:
Zach Leatherman :11ty:zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-04-15

“This is what a digital coup looks like” shows that Carole Cadwalladr yet again understands the moment we’re in and is willing to say it out loud directly to the techbro oligarchy: “You are collaborators. You are complicit.”

ted.com/talks/carole_cadwallad

Andy Blum boosted:
2025-03-23

TIL of the bad.horse traceroute

the bad.horse traceroute has the entire lyrics to the sound
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Mr. Funk E. DudeMrfunkedude
2025-03-23

This is your reminder...

There is no algorithm that brings posts to your timeline. The only posts you will see under your Home tab will be either people that you follow, or the boosts from people that you follow.

BOOSTING IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF MASTODON.

If you read something that is interesting, funny, thought provoking, news worthy, or beautiful, then BOOST IT.

Hitting "Favorite" lets the poster know that you liked it BUT IT DOESN'T LET ANYONE ELSE KNOW.

Keep Mastodon alive. BOOST.

2025-03-21

@Klara @chrisfromredfin @ultimike @jpoesen @ddd

That’s fantastic, I would love to see something available in the Americas like this.

2025-03-21

@chrisfromredfin @ultimike

I worry DrupalCons are too expensive for beginners to attend, so a beginner track is probably a waste.

2025-03-09

@skippy originally from the Columbus area, now in the cornfields northwest of you!

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2025-03-08

This week, my employer (Lullabot), laid off 16 of the most brilliant, talented and amazing human beings I have ever met (though I was not one of them, and you better believe the survivors guilt is rough).

If you or your company are looking for a #frontend, #backend, or general #webdev developer within the #drupal community (or outside of it), please message/reply so I can make a connection!

#fedihire

Andy Blum boosted:
2025-02-16

Number of times posted in 2025: 1

Stencil spotted in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

A stencil mural on a red brick wall in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The artwork features a bold yellow background divided into two sections. The top shows a single large black fish surrounded by smaller fish scattered in disarray, with the text "DO NOT PANIC." The bottom section illustrates the smaller fish united to form a larger, powerful fish, swimming together to face the bigger fish, accompanied by the text "ORGANIZE." The piece delivers a powerful social message of unity and collective strength against challenges. A black fence runs along the bottom edge of the mural.
2025-01-20

There’s only one mug in the cabinet for days like today.

Coffee mug with a facetiously happy sun and the text “this bullshit again”. Out of focus news coverage of the inauguration proceedings in the background.
Andy Blum boosted:
Christopher DeLucachrisd@micro.blog
2025-01-02

I’m running an in person workshop to help empower folks to better understand the internet by building it. If you live in the NYC metro area, I’d love to see you at You Own the Internet.

Andy Blum boosted:
2024-12-31

📝 Closing out the year with a new blog post about "how I wish #WebComponents worked" - specifically as a tool for building #DesignSystems. Includes code samples and a ✨demo✨ at the end.

andy-blum.com/articles/how-i-w

Andy Blum boosted:
Belle (she/her)RavynWitch@kind.social
2024-12-30

Oh look, it’s me 🤣😅

The “pick a button” meme. The left button is labeled “actually take some time off” and the right button is labeled “work on personal projects and call it ‘relaxing’”

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst