Today we are talking about Being a Creative Director with Randy Oest.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/375

Topics

• What is a Creative Director?
• How is being a CD at a technical company different?
• Do Drupal CD’s need additional skills?
• Sometimes things get lost in translation between design and development how do you bridge that gap?
• How do you mentor?
• How do you interview for creative positions?
• Do you hire developers too?
• Optimal makeup for a team.
• Guiding the Four Kitchen’s team
• Inpiration

Resources

• NEDCamp Videos
• Bits and Mortar
• WTI Yale
• Sanity
• PenPot
• Quant-Ux
• Four Kitchens

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA
ECA is a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly rules engine for Drupal 9+. The core module is a processor that validates and executes event-condition-action plugins. Integrated with graphical user interfaces like BPMN.iO, Camunda, ECA Core Modeller or other possible future modellers, ECA is a robust system for building conditionally triggered action sets.

Today we are talking about Neurodiversity with Matthew Saunders.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/374

Topics

• What is Neurodiversity
• People first
• What got you interested in Neurodiversity
• Youtube series My Neurodivergent Brain
• How does it apply to Drupal
• How can the community help Neurodivergent folks
• How does this impact work relationships
• How do you attend camps and cons
• Is there testing we can apply to our projects to help
• What are best practices in design
• Will this be at DrupalCon
• How would you improve the world for neurodivergent folks
• Representation in media

Resources

• My neurodivergent brain youtube
• Drupalcon talks about Neurodiversity
  • Pivot Points - Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019
  • Neurodivergence in Tech - Drupalcon Portland 2022

Guests

Matthew Saunders - @Creech

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Views User Term Filter
Make your site experience aligned to your users by showing them content that share a taxonomy term with their user profile
Created to demonstrate how Drupal can make a site feel “customized” based on a user’s profile

Today we are talking about Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web with Andrey Lipattsev & Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/373

Topics

• What is the Open Web and what does it have to do with performance and privacy
• What do we mean by web performance
• What are the core vitals
• What are the non core vitals
• What is the benefit of performance
• Performance is usually granular for a developer, what is different when looking at industry trends from a browser side
• What does d.o do
• DA and Google at DrupalCon
• What is privacy
• What is the privacy sandbox in chrome

Resources

• Web Vitals
• MOTW discussion
• Performance
  • https://web.dev/learn-core-web-vitals/
  • https://pagespeed.web.dev/
  • https://web.dev/vitals-business-impact/
  • https://make.wordpress.org/performance/2022/07/26/welcome-to-the-performance-team-blog/
  • Example: https://web.dev/measure/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrupal.org
  • https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-stack-packs/blob/master/packs/drupal.js
  • https://github.com/tag1consulting/google-drupal/projects/1
• Privacy
  • https://privacysandbox.com
  • https://github.com/WICG/first-party-sets
• cls - cumulative layout shift
• IMDB pagespeed
• Core vital affect on search ranking blog post
• Direct business impact
• Collaboration on lazy load
• Core vital tech report
• Talks on performance for chrome
  • Lessons learned from performance monitoring in Chrome | Annie Sullivan | performance.now() 2019
  • Annie Sullivan :: Understanding Cumulative Layout Shift :: #PerfMatters Conference 2020
• webp
• Webprofiler

Guests

Andrey Lipattsev - www.linkedin.com/in/andreylipattsev @AndreyLipattsev
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Autocomplete Anchor
Nominated by matthieu, who has been a guest on the show and is himself a maintainer of a number of useful modules
Provides a widget that allows users to add anchors to entity reference links

Today we are talking about CKEditor 5 with Wiktor Walc & Piotrek Koszuliński.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/372

Topics

• What is CKEditor
• What does it do for Drupal
• Differnece between CKEditor 4 and 5
• Biggest benefit
• Improvements to the editing experience
• Plugin ecosystem
• Plugin language
• Roadmap
• Paid Features
• Supporting the Drupal community
• Security
• Native Web Components

Resources

• CKEditor Premium Features Module
• CKEditor Inspector
• Firefox github extension

Guests

Wiktor Walc - ckeditor.com @w_walc
Piotrek Koszuliński - ckeditor.com @reinmarpl

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Metatag

Previously discussed in episodes: 70 as MOTW (8y ago!) and mentioned in 31, 46, 137. And 185
Brief description: Allows your Drupal site to provide meta tags on content to implement SEO best practices and maximize online findability
Brief history

• How old: created in 2009
• Versions available: Supported versions for Drupal 7, 9, and 10
• Current version released Sep 29, 2022
  Usage stats: 381,821
  Maintainer(s): Dave Reid and DamienMcKenna
  - renowned Drupal contributors
  Module features and usage
  Allows content editors to populate common (and uncommon) meta tags either manually for each piece of content, or to have them filled out programmatically using tokens
  A wide variety of submodules to address different use cases where meta tags are helpful: social sharing, verifying site ownership (e.g. for Google Search Console), and more
  For any site that considers SEO a priority (which is probably most public-facing sites), setting Metatag should really be one of the first things
  Discussion: Given how widely used this module is, does anyone have specific experience with Metatag to talk about?