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I'm migrating this website from Drupal to Gatsby.js.

Why Switch from Drupal?

This site has been running on Drupal 7 for almost exactly 10 years. I originally created it to get a free beer at the Drupal 7 release party on January 11, 2011. Not a bad run and Drupal 7 still has nearly 2 years left before EOL.

The main reasons to switch away from Drupal are:

Yes, I did actually return from Colombia.

Cleaver Barnes interviewed on Opensource.com.

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Confession time: I used to think carousels were a good idea and I was wrong.

If you haven't seen it yet: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ demonstrates through annoying use of a carousel, exactly why you should never use a carousel on a website.

The site explains why carousels are a bad idea, but why did I think they were a good idea? My belief was based on the idea that the carousel makes more use of the limited screen real estate by putting more content in the same number of pixels. "Real estate" is a dated term, and the whole idea comes from the flawed idea of keeping content "above the fold".

I will be attending the first Drupalcon in Latin America.