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We had a great time over the weekend both sponsoring and participating in the Brattleboro Retreat's Ride for Heroes. The Retreat is a longtime customer of ours and we were glad to help in their fundraising efforts. This year they raised over $50,000 to fund the Uniformed Service Program at the Retreat, which helps service members dealing with PTSD and addiction.

The new Drupal distribution for YMCAs shows how far distributions have come. I wish it was available when we were building the YMCA of Greater Boston!

http://buytaert.net/how-the-ymca-uses-drupal-to-accelerate-its-mission

How the YMCA uses Drupal to accelerate its mission | Dries Buytaert The YMCA is a leading nonprofit dedicated to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Today, the YMCA serves more than 58 million people in 130 countries around the world. The YMCA is a loose federation, meaning that each association operates ind...

Google's figured out how to stop spam without annoying humans in the process. Thanks Google! https://www.lowyat.net/2017/127012/google-uses-machine-learning-get-rid-captcha/

Google Uses Machine Learning To Get Rid Of CAPTCHA - Lowyat.NET Google has killed the CAPTCHA; or at least hidden it from view.

Had a great time last night meeting one of Pantheon's co-founders in Boston. Worth the trip. Thanks for the drinks guys!

Researchers stored and retrieved an operating system, a movie, and some other stuff on DNA.

DNA could be the future of data storage A full operating system and film stored on DNA were recovered with no errors.

It's mind boggling that in one week the internet has seen two massive failures, Amazon's S3 outage and Cloudbleed at Cloudflare, both because of simple *typos*.

Giphy is a great way to lighten up a Slack conversation. I'm dying to try some of these.

The Secret GIPHY Slack Commands Explore our menu of secret GIPHY Slack Commands. Just as tasty as In-n-Out’s secret menu, but a lot more fun!

http://buytaert.net/distributions-remain-a-growing-opportunity-for-drupal

Dries Buytaert says Distributions remain a growing opportunity for Drupal Personally, I've had mixed experiences with distributions. In the past, it was either a perfect fit or a straightjacket. The promise of faster to create and more flexible distros in the…

"We’re not paid to write code, we’re paid to add value (or reduce cost) to the business." I recently stumbled upon that quote in an article on software engineering and it couldn't have rung truer for me. Great code is nothing unless it powers a solution that solves the client's underlying problem.