Today we are talking about Public Speaking with Marjorie Freeman & AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/392

Topics

• Why Public Speaking is important
• Why people are afraid of Public Speaking
• Tips to overcome
• Imposter Syndrome
• What makes a good experience
• Never do’s
• Favorite Public Speakers
• Alternatives
• Podcasting as Public Speaking
• Writing Workshop
• How to get started

Resources

• Diverse Speaker Training Group Handbook (Jill Binder)
• SFDUG Writer’s Workshop
• Drupal Camp Asheville Neurodiversity Initiative
• A11yTalks
• SFDUG is looking for speakers
• Dak Prescott Walter Peyton acceptance speech
• Pedro Pascal monologue
• Matt Kleve
• opensource.com
• Enable architect

Guests

Marjorie Freeman - @the_mjfreeman
AmyJune Hineline - @volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Kat Shaw - drupal.org/u/katannshaw @katannshaw

MOTW

Correspondent

Stephen Cross @stephencross
Environment Indicator
Adds visual indicator to identify which admin environment is being accessed.

Today we are talking about Building Your Career with Mike Anello.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/391

Topics

• How we started our careers
• Broad career opportunities
• Mentorship
• Roles
• First step after graduating
• First step in switching
• Common hurdles
• Resources like Drupal Easy
• Value of a career in Drupal
• How do you find jobs
• How do you build and maintain your Drupal career
• How about your Drupal resume
• Any advice

Resources

• Drupal easy
• Drupal Jobs
• Kint snippet

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Guests

Mike Anello - Drupal Easy @ultimike

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Devel Debug Log
Allows developers to inspect the contents of variables. If those are classes you can inspect nested properties and all methods available.

Today we are talking about Employee Owned Companies with Seth Brown.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/390

Topics

• What is employee ownership
• Why did Lullabot choose this path
• What is the process
• Other examples
• Has it improved the culture
• Are employees more engaged
• Retirement
• Why don’t more companies do this
• Favorite part of working at an employee owned company
• Least favorite part of working at an employee owned company
• Favorite part as CEO
• Does it reduce pressure
• Tugboat / Drupalize.me
• How to get started

Resources

• Lullabot.com
  • https://www.lullabot.com/articles/employee-owners-us
  • https://www.lullabot.com/news/lullabot-officially-becomes-employee-owned-company
• Planted game
• Employ owned companies
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies
  • https://nceo.org
• Stake in the outcome by Jack Stack

Guests

Seth Brown - https://www.lullabot.com/about/seth-brown

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Registration
Allows users on your Drupal site to register for events as an example, but really anything that’s an entity.

Today we are talking about Headless and if it’s really all it’s cracked up to be with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/389

Topics

• What is headless
• What started you writing the blog post
• Where does headless make sense
• Does headless perform better than Drupal
• Are APIs always important
• How does progressive decoupling work
• Where does headless not make sense
• Are people putting too much faith in headless
• What is the future of CMSs

Resources

• Coveo search
• A Quick Take on Headless and Performance
• How to decouple Drupal in 2019
• Core Web Vitals Show
• Escaping The Website Relaunch
• Bounteous Blog On Progressive Decoupling
• Gartner Research

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
JSON:API Search API
Allows your headless Drupal site to also provide a search service.

Today we are talking about Valhalla Content Hub with Shane Thomas.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/388

Topics

• Joining Netlify
• Changes at Gatsby
• What is a content hub
• How does that differ from a content repo
• What is Valhalla
• How does it work
• Data stitching with GraphQL
• Can you massage / normalize data
• Benefits
• Privacy
• Production examples
• How is it structured
• Do you have to use Gatsby
• Integrations with Drupal
• Timing
• Cost
• How to sign up

Resources

• Valhalla

Guests

Shane Thomas - www.codekarate.com/ @smthomas3

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Entity Share
You configure one site to be the Server that provides the entities, and content types or bundles will be available, and in which languages.

Today we are talking about ChatGPT with Ezequiel Lanza.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/387

Topics

• What is ChatGPT?
• What is AI?
• What is Machine Learning?
• Common misconceptions
• How does it work?
• Accuracy
• Programmer bias
• Use cases
• Impressiveness
• Drupal
• Significance of Open Source

Resources

Hey GitHub - Coding with your voice
ChatGPT Wolfram Alpha

Guests

Ezequiel Lanza - github.com/ezelanza @eze_lanza

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Search API Solr Boost By User Term
Allows your site to boost search results that share taxonomy term references with your users.

Today we are talking about Drupal & Wordpress with Maciej Palmowski.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/386

Topics

• What is Wordpress
• Do you have Drupal experience
• Pros of Drupal over Wordpress
• Pros of Wordpress over Drupal
• Selecting a CMS
• What sites don’t work well with Wordpress
• What sites don’t work well with Drupal
• Headless in Wordpress
• Will Wordpress use Symfony?
• Who wins?

Resources

• Talking Drupal #315 - Communities: Wordpress Vs Drupal
• Talking Drupal #16 - Wordpress Vs Drupal
• Yoast for Drupal (Real-time SEO)
• 295 31 Days of Migration
• 352 Migration
• 381 A Modular Web
• PHP Compatibility
  • https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/php-compatibility-and-wordpress-versions/
  • https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements
• Statamic
• Sanity Io
• Cassidy Williams Talk
• Matt Mullenweg on licensing derivative works
• Code and Coffee
• Security report

Guests

Maciek Palmowski - maciekpalmowski.dev @palmiak_fp

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
WordPress Migrate
Supports migrating Wordpress exports into Drupal, including posts, pages, attachments, tags, and categories.

Today we are talking about Drupal 10, Skills Rot, and Contrib with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/385

Topics

• Contribution
  • Smart Date
  • Calendar View
  • Core
• Keeping up to date
• Using Drupal 10
• Dependency issues for Drupal 8

Resources

• Smart Date
• Calendar View
• Nic’s Smart date issue
• Nic’s Core Issue
• Martin’s Open source article

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Pathauto
Automatically generates SEO-friendly URLs (path aliases) for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually provide one.

Today we are talking about The Drop Times with Anoop John.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/384

Topics

• Tell us about the Drop Times
• Tell us a bit about yourself
• Getting involved with Drupal
• People behind Drop Times
• Mission of the Drop Times
• Content source
• Current audience
• Attribution issues
• How has the beginning been
• Funding
• Roadmap
• Non-profit
• Contribution of content
• How can we help

Resources

• DrupalCon Global 2020: Mind-blowing content planning in native Drupal
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAqb7cJgovY
  • https://bit.ly/drupal-community-vision
• John’s Winning Meme
• Five for the Future
• The Drop Times Contribute Form
• The Drop Times Handles
  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-drop-times
  • https://twitter.com/thedroptimes
• Non-Code Contribution: Using your passion and skills to power open source.

Guests

Anoop John - zyxware.com @anoopjohn

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Katherine Druckman - katherinedruckman.com @katherined

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Content Planner
Helps you to create, plan and manage content. It offers a dashboard, a content calendar and a todo list.

Today we are talking about Programming the Physical World with Stephen Cross.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/383

Topics

• What is meant by Programming in the Physical World
• How do people interact
• How are we focusing today’s topic
• What is a Microcontroller
• What would you not use a microcontroller for
• How do they get programmed and what language
• How do you contain the device
• Do you need to solder
• How does this relate to Drupal
• What have you used it for in the past
• Where should I get started

Resources

• Dries blog that mentions Alexa module (includes a video)
• DrupalCon Seattle session: Hello Alexa, I’m Drupal
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• Thonny
• Bread Board

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Alexa
Currently provides only a basic integration, for a developer to create a customized handler module to implement the specific functionality they need. An alexa_demo submodule provides a reference.

Today we are talking about A11y Test Automation with Nightwatch with Daniel Mundra and Ben Mullins.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/382

Topics

• What is Nightwatch
• Integration with Drupal
• Dev workflow
• How long part of Drupal core testing
• Type of a11y testing
• How does it save time
• How often do you run
• Recommendation on types of projects
• Cypress
• Contrib adoption
• Exceptions and false positives
• Resources

Resources

• Whoops library
• Accessibility testing progress in Drupal core:
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci/issues/2857808
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3293469
• Nightwatch testing
• Talking Drupal #364- Cypress
• Previous accessibility discussions:
  • Talking Drupal #371 - WebOps Enabled Accessibility
  • Talking Drupal #350 - Accessibility Scanning & Testing
• Pa11y
• Axe

Guests

Ben Mullins - www.drupal.org/u/bnjmnm
Daniel Mundra - danielmundra.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Whoops
Integrates a library to show detailed error reporting for better debugging.

This is episode #381 A Modular Web with Sam Bhagwat.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/381

Topics

• Gatsby
• Founding Gatsby
• Modular: The Web’s New Architecture
• When did you decide to write the book
• Key tech changes over time
• What is the Modular Web
• Successful architecture
• Is it similar to serverless
• Challenges
• Drupal focused companies and modularity
• Advice on transitioning
• Drupal
• 2023 and Gatsby
• Staying competitive in JS
• Kindle Book

Resources

• Modular: The Web’s New Architecture: (And How It’s Changing Online Business)
• gatsby-plugin-drupal-i18next
• Gatsby and Drupal (224, 260)
  • https://talkingdrupal.com/224
  • https://talkingdrupal.com/260
• The Website Owners Manual by Paul Boag
• tc39
• Gatsby: The reactive site generator (and a live demo tour of how we got here)

Guests

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Decoupled Interface Translations
Allows a headless application to use Drupal-managed interface translations.