I certainly wasn't expecting to be playing with toy unicorns, ribbon, jewels and pine cones during our first in-person meeting of the Breathworks board since I joined back in 2021, but a few weeks ago that's precisely where I found myself!
In Mautic, we make use of the open source tool DDEV heavily as a tool to help you get a local development environment spun up quickly. It's an incredible tool, based on Docker (and can also be used with Colima if you prefer). While I was working on migrating this website to Joomla! 4, I decided to see how it stacked up when working with Joomla.
This weekend after a culmination of nearly a year's training, I completed my first ever marathon - and indeed ultramarathon - race at Endure24 Reading. A 24 hour running race which consists of running as many 5 mile, hilly trail loops as you can, Endure24 was my first ever long distance race, and I think I've got the bug!
During my training for Endure24 I started to pick up small but frustrating problems with my body - painful hip flexors and quads, a Mortons Neuroma, and struggling to progress further than about 8 miles. I had a gait and running analysis done to find out what I was doing wrong, and running re-education sessions to learn how to run properly!
As a fully remote worker at Acquia, I always jump at the chance to meet up with fellow Acquians, especially when we get to spend the day working together to create something to benefit others.
On GivingTuesday, the Mautic project—an open source marketing automation platform—shared its intention to allocate part of its budget each year to financially support the other open source projects on which it depends, as part of the Back Your Stack initiative.
