On today’s show we are talking about Single Directory Components in Drupal, How they differ from Web Components, and what are their benefits with guest Mateu Bosch & Mike Herchel. We’ll also cover Component Libraries: Theme Server as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/416

Topics

• What are Single Directory Components?
• Where did the idea of adding Single Directory Components to Drupal come from?
• Where does support for this stand in Drupal Core? Fully supported? Still need a contrib module?
• How do they differ from Web Components? (Mike will take this one)
• How does Single Directory Components make Drupal Theme development easier?
• What is the point of creating a schema for an SDC?
• Can modules or themes override SDCs? How?
• Can SDC be integrated into component library systems like Storybook? How?
• Any other helpful contrib modules that enhance SDCs?
• Does this at all help a headless?
• How can someone get involved or help contribute to Single Directory Components?

Resources

Single Directory Components
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc
JSON Schema
https://json-schema.org/
SDC Display
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_display
SDC Styleguide
https://www.drupal.org/project/sdc_styleguide
Cl Devel
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_devel
CL Server
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_server
CL Generator
https://www.drupal.org/project/cl_generator
SDC Documentation
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3345922
Mike’s blog
https://herchel.com/
SDC Slack Channel (Components channel in Drupal Slack)
#components
https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4EDNHFGS
Drupal Board Elections
https://www.drupal.org/association/board/elections

Guests

Mike Herchel - herchel.com @mikeherchel
Mateu Bosch - mateuaguilo.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

Module of the Week

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Component Libraries: Theme Server

This module lets you use component libraries, like Storybook, in your Drupal project, without Twig.js!

Today we are talking about Front End Performance, Common Front End Issues, and Ways to test and fix said issues with guest Andy Blum. We’ll also cover Webp Fallback Image as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/415

Topics

• How do we break down front end performance
• How do we measure front end performance
• What are web vitals
  • Standard, objective measurements
  • First/Largest contentful paint
  • Cumulative layout shift
  • Time to Interactive/First Input Delay/Time To Next Paint/Total Blocking Time
• What are some common client side performance problems
  • “Flickering”
  • “Slow loading”
  • Image size/resolution issues
  • Render-blocking resources
  • Screen jitters
  • Memory leaks
  • Memory Bloat
• How do tracking scripts affect performance
• Tools to help identify and resolve
• Drupal front end performance

Resources

• Talking Drupal #373 - Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web
• Web Vitals
• Orders of magnitude 100 - 1000 ms
• Orders of 10 source
  • Instant
  • Near instant
  • Subsequent
• Talking Drupal #368 - Image Optimization
• MDN - How Browsers work
• Prefetch
• Web Page Test
• Front End Performance in Drupal
• architecture.lullabot.com article

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
WebP fallback image

• Brief description:
  • Do you want your Drupal site to generate WebP images in the most optimal way? There are a number of modules for that, today we’re going to talk about…
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Jun 2022 by pedrop
  • Versions available: 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 versions available, both of which support Drupal 8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3, 2 of which are bugs
• Has test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 252 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Most recent release is by dj1999
• Module features and usage
  • Anyone using testing tools like Lighthouse will have seen suggestions to use modern image formats like WebP, and with good reason. They allow for much smaller image files at the same quality, which means a better user experience and less bandwidth used by both the server and the visitor. WebP is a natural choice because it enjoys over 95% browser support, but many sites still care about that other 5%
  • Drupal core added its own support for webp in 9.2, but without a fallback image, so browsers that don’t have WebP support have been out of luck
  • Contrib modules have allowed for generating a webp image and a jpeg fallback, to allow for universal support. Typically they have worked by creating the WebP variant from the output of a core image style, so after an image has been saved as something like a jpeg. That means the resulting WebP can’t compress as well, and can show compression artifacts
  • WebP Fallback Image is different because it allows Drupal core to generate the WebP image from the source file, and then creates the jpeg fallback.
  • Also worth noting that this module only creates the jpeg fallback when it’s requested, so it doesn’t add to the storage of your website unless it’s needed

Today we are talking about The Future of Content Management, What we see for Drupal in the future, and How AI might factor in with guest John Doyle. We’ll also cover Access Policy as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/414

Topics

• Digital Polygon
• Content Management can mean many things, what is our definition
• What factors contribute to the changes moving to a more centralized model
• How do organizations manage content for different channels
• Where do design systems collide with content management
• Why is Drupal a good fit
• How does headless fit in
• Maintaining content architecture long term
• Drupal adaptations over the next 5 years

Resources

• Talking Drupal #409 - Data Lakes
• Hey everyone! Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded… Again that code is LFDrupal25 and you can use that at https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ Thank you to the linux foundation!
• Flexible Permissions

Guests

John Doyle - digitalpolygon.com _doyle_

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Access Policy

• Brief description:
  • Does your Drupal site need a flexible way to manage access to content? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2022
  • Versions available: 1.0.0-beta1, works with D9 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, none of which are bugs
• Test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 12 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • partdigital
• Module features and usage
  • Allows a site builder to define different policies that can be used to manage content access or editing capabilities based on various factors, all within the Drupal UI
  • Criteria can include field values of the content, field values on the current user’s profile, the time of day, and more
  • The policy can restrict access, for example view acces to only selected people or people with a certain role or field value on their profile. I
  • Once defined, policies can be assigned manually, or automatically applied based on configurable selection criteria
  • The project page describes this as an Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) architecture, which complements Drupal core’s Role Based Access Control that our listeners are probably familiar with
  • I used it for the first recently, and found that given the power and flexibility the module provides, it’s great that it has in-depth documentation
  • I filed a couple of issues (technically half of the open issues) and partdigital was very responsive
  • The module does also provide an API for defining your own policy type, access rules, rule widgets, and more. So if you need a setup even more custom that what Access Policy can provide out of the box, it’s likely you can extend it to meet your individual use case

On today’s show we are talking about The Drupal Coffee Exchange, How it got started, and How it keeps going with guest AmyJune Hineline.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/413

Topics

• What’s new with AmyJune
• What is the Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How did it start
• Who started it
• Where was the first Drupal Coffee Exchange
• How do you participate
  • Live
  • Mail
• How is it live
• Does it have to be ground or whole bean
• Listener question: Stephen - How can it be added to a camp
• What was your favorite coffee received
• What was your favorite coffee given
• John’s first experience
• Brick of Shame
• When is the next Coffee Exchange
• Where is the schedule
• Favorite type of coffee

Resources

• Our friends at the Linux Foundation are offering Talking Drupal Listeners 25% off on any e-learning course, certification exam or bundle. Good from August 22-Sept 30, 2023. With discount code LFDrupal25 … Please note Bootcamps, ILTs and FinOps courses are excluded.
• Join the Quarterly Coffee Exchange:
• Coffee Exchange Slack
  • #coffee-exchange
• Equator Coffee
• Spinn Coffee Maker
  • Enter the coupon code at checkout, or follow the link below to receive $100 off your Spinn. SMDNI120337 (Affiliate link)
  • https://www.spinn.com/order?code=SMDNI120337
• Vertigo
• Dave’s Coffee
• Link to Brian Perry’s Video
  • https://drupal.slack.com/files/U24L61M26/F03DEUBDPJN/image_from_ios.jpg
• https://www.brickofsha.me/
• Next stops for the Coffee Exchange:
  • DrupalCon Lille
  • Your camp!
• Drupal Coffee Exchange Social
  • Twitter @DrupalCoffee
  • Mastadon https://drupal.community/@DrupalCoffee
  • Hashtag: #DrupalCoffeeExchange

Guests

AmyJune Hineline - volkswagenchick

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Coffee

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to quickly search your Drupal admin UI for the specific page you need to get to? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Nov 2011
  • Covered as MOTW back in episode #45
  • Versions available: 8.x-1.3 (D9 & 10), 7.x-2.3
• Maintainership
  • Number of open issues: 53 open, 13 of which are bugs against the 8.x branch
  • Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • Almost 31,000 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Michaelmol, who appears to have created the module in his first year on drupal.org, now almost 13 years ago
• Module features and usage
  • With a simple keystroke, (option-d or alt-d) you can start your search, and then see suggestions as you type
  • Can use the arrow keys to move between suggestions
  • Listeners who have used Mac apps like Alfred or Spotlight will be familiar with the experience
  • A very fast way to move between different places in your Drupal admin
  • Also includes :add as a quick way to add content of a specific type
  • Provides a hook you can use to define your own commands
  • There is a Coffee Extras module that adds more commands, but it doesn’t work with Drupal 10 and is marked as no longer developed
  • Also worth noting that the Gin admin theme comes with built-in optimization and formatting for Coffee, so you can enjoy Gin and Coffee together

Today we are talking about Lando, the release cycle, and Lando 4.0 with our guest Aaron Feledy.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/412

Topics

• About Aaron
• What is Lando
• Best type of development for Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - I Recently switched to ddev for Mutagen, will Lando support that in the future
• Release schedule
• Development process
• Favorite features
• When is 4.0 and what is in it
• Best reasons to choose Lando
• Adoption rate of Lando
• Listener Q: Stephen - Nic switched from Lando to DDEV, why and what features would he like to see in Lando to go back
• Listener Q: Matthieu - I use Lando and I am trying to convince coworkers to use it as well, any advice

Resources

• Lando
• Roadmap
• Lando Docs

Guests

Aaron Feledy lando.dev - Arrow

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Workflow Participants

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to assign moderated content to specific users to edit or approve it before publishing? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2017
  • Versions available: 8.x-2.6 (D8 & D9), 3.0.0-alpha1 (D9 & D10)
• Maintainership
  • Seeking a new maintainer
• Number of open issues:
  • 17 open, 3 of which are bugs
• Does have test coverage
• Usage stats:
  • 9 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jheadstrom, who maintains his own stable of modules, including a number in the Message stack
• Module features and usage
  • Creates a new tab on nodes, on which a content creator (or anyone with the necessary permission) can assign one or more editors or reviewers
  • Can specifically designate which roles can be editors or reviewers
  • Editors have the ability to make changes and transition content between states, while reviewers can only move between states
  • For each transition in your workflow, can specify if editors and/or approvers are able to perform the transition
  • Can optionally send a notification email to workflow participants as they are added to a piece of content
  • I used to have a boss who liked to say “The surest way to starve a dog is to put two people in charge of feeding it”, so the idea of specifically assigning individuals to individual pieces of content is potentially very powerful

Today we are talking about D.o Issue Etiquette with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/411

Topics

• Episode 361 Credit
• Most recent changes
• AI
• How should project maintainers respond
• How should the community respond
• Consequences
• Who developed the policy
• Who is responsible for enforcement
• How do these policies help maintainers
• Anything missing
• Future updates

Resources

• Talking Drupal #361 - Drupal Credit System
• Issue Etiquette
• Abuse of the Credit System
• Unhelpful comments
• Site moderator queue
• CWG issues
• Introduction to Contribution Best Practices for Organizations
• Slack Channel #contribution-recognition-feedback
• Drupal Association Membership

Guests

Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a simple way to view and store information about the overall health of your Drupal website? There’s a module for that!
• Module name/project name:
  • Site
• How old:
  • Project originally created in Sep 2007, current project looking like it took over the namespacex in June 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.10.0-alpha11 works with D8 and above
• Maintainership
  • Currently very actively maintained, last release was in the past couple of weeks
• Does not have issue enabled, project page says to open issues against ox project, which currently has no open issues
• Usage stats:
  • 3 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Jon Pugh, a founding member of the Aegir project, among many others
• Module features and usage
  • The Site module stores information about the health of your site in a fieldable, revisionable entity
  • Provides a detailed history of the state of your site, including changes to configuration with a log of who changed what, where
  • Will include data on Drupal and PHP version, Git information, and more
  • Health can be based on the core Status report, the Site Audit module report, or a custom SiteState plugin
  • Can display an overall status indicator in the toolbar, so as a site owner or maintainer you don’t have to go to the Site Status page to see it
  • That page will display more detailed information, including the “reason” for the current status, the site’s history, and more
  • Integrates with the Site Manager module (also by Jon Pugh) which provides a UI for monitoring and managing a portfolio of Drupal sites
  • You can try out Site and Site Manager as part of the Operations project (machine name ox) as a Lando-based local setup of four sites, of which one provides a dashboard for the other three

Today we are talking about This and That with our Talking Drupal hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/410

Topics

• Module Builder
• Drupal 10.2
  • Field UI / Admin UX
• Augmentor
• State API
• main / 11.x
• Changes to layout builder

Resources

• Module Builder Session at Drupal Dev Days
• Driesnote
• Augmentor
• AI
• Core 11.x/main branching
• Layout Builder

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Responsive Theme Preview

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to give content creators the power to preview how their posts will look on mobile devices, even before publishing them? There’s a module for that!
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2013
  • Versions available: 2.1.1 for D9 & D10, 8.x-1.1 for D8 & D9
• Maintainership
  • Officially maintenance fixes only, but the last release was in the past week
  • Number of open issues: 21, only 2 of which are bugs on the 2.x branch
  • Test coverage? Y
• Usage stats:
  • 8,258 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • Last couple of releases by Rajeshreeputra, but has a team of maintainers
• Module features and usage
  • Adds a dropdown to the secondary toolbar to select a device whose display resolution you want to preview for the current page
  • Preview launches in a modal overlay, and can be rotated, to see the landscape view
  • The list of devices can be configured to keep up with the most popular devices as they change over time, including phones and tablets
  • If you’re not using the admin toolbar, also offers a block to access the preview links
  • Not a perfect representation of how the page will look on a mobile device, but a useful way to see a quick approximation of how a page will look on different screen sizes

Today we are talking about Data Lakes with Melissa Bent & April Sides.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/409

Topics

• What is a data lake
• Does it have to be NoSQL
• How do organizations use data lake
• How does RedHat use the data lake
• How do you maintain it
• How do you make changes to the data lake
• Who manages Mongo
• How big does it have to be to be considered a data lake
• Why not Solr
• What Drupal modules
• Communication of changes
• Gotchas?

Resources

• Create an Animated GIF From Video On A Mac
• Drupal modules
  • External data source
  • Allow Only One
  • Pattern Kit
  • Search api
  • Mongodb
  • Entity Browser
  • Mongodb Data Lake (Indexing module)
• Presentation
• Where is this used?
  • https://access.redhat.com/products
  • https://developers.redhat.com/learn
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/learn
• Rendered issue
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172

Guests

Melissa Bent - linkedin.com/in/melissabent merauluka
April Sides - weekbeforenext

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Tagify

• Brief description:
  • Provides an entity reference widget that’s more user friendly: visually styles as tags (without showing the reference ID), drag to sort, and more
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Mar 2023
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.19, which works wth Drupal >8.8, 9, and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, latest release in the past week
• Number of open issues:
  • 4, one of which is a bug
• Usage stats:
  • 177 sites
• Maintainer(s):
  • gxleano (David Galeano), who I got to meet in person at Drupal Dev Days
• Module features and usage
  • Tagify is a popular JS library, so this module is a Drupal integration for that
  • Features in the module include deactivating labels when the field’s max number of entries has been reached, allowing the creation of new tags when the field has been configured to allow that, and so on
  • Will automatically disallow duplicate tags
  • Includes a User List submodule specifically for user reference fields, which also shows the user’s profile pic in the tag
  • Project page has animated GIFs that demonstrate how many of these features work
  • A module I started using on my own blog, nice and simple UX. I could see the drag to sort be really useful, for example if you wanted the first term reference to be used in a pathauto pattern

Today we are talking about The Drupal Association with Tim Doyle.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/408

Topics

• Tell us about yourself Tim
• Why Drupal
• What perspective do you bring
• Strategic plan
• Leadership
• Measurements
• Drupal the project vs Drupal the community
• Where will the DA be in 5 years
• Will Drupal be around in 20 years
• Favorite aspect of the strategic plan

Resources

• Director of Philanthropy
• Burnout
• Pitch-burgh
• Alex Moreno
• New Core Product Manager
  • Lauri Eskola (lauriii)
• Tenure of ED/CEOs since formation of DA
  • Jacob Redding
    • March 2010 - February 2013
    • ~3 years
  • Holly Ross
    • February 2013 - May 2016
    • 3 years 3 months
  • Megan Sanicki
    • May 2016 - September 2018
    • 1½ years
  • (interim) Tim Lehnen
    • September 2018 - June 2019
    • 9 months
  • Heather Rocker
    • June 2019 - March 2022
    • 2 years 9 months
  • (interim) Angie Sabin
    • March 2022 - October 2022
    • 8 months
  • Tim Doyle
    • October 2022 - Present (July 2023)
    • 9 months
  • As of February 2026 Tim will be longest-tenured

Guests

Tim Doyle - @TimDoyleMPA

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ActivityPub

• Brief description:
  • Implements the ActivityPub protocol on your site, so readers can follow and respond to content on Fediverse sites like Mastodon, and in the future maybe Threads?
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Feb 2019
• Versions available:
  • 1.0.0-alpha17, works with Drupal 9.4 and 10, release in Mar 2023
• Actively maintained
• Minimally maintained
• Number of open issues:
  • 43 open issues, only 2 bugs but 1 of those fixed in the past week
• Usage stats:
  • 11 sites using it according to drupal.org
• Maintainer(s):
  • Created and maintained by swentel, who also created a module for publishing Drupal content to the Nostr network
• Module features and usage
  • Effectively allows your site to act as a Fediverse server: Mastodon, Pleroma, Picelfed, etc.
  • Users who enable ActivityPub for their account have created @user@domain in the Fediverse
  • At that point the Drupal UI provides some common features of a social client: notifications about subscribers, and so on
  • Provides plugins to define user actions. Default plugins are ‘Accept’, ‘Follow’, ‘Delete’, ‘Undo’ and ‘Inbox reply’, but a site could add or enable others
  • Based on the documentation it sounds like if you update an entity (e.g. change the title) you can trigger an Update activity, which is in stark contrast to a certain bird platform
  • There’s quite a bit more in the module’s README file if anyone wants to better understand its capabilities

Today we are talking about How to improve Drupal Search with Sean Walsh.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/407

Topics

• Drupal core search improvement
• External search backends
  • Database
  • Solr
  • Elasticsearch
  • Opensearch
  • Algolia
  • SearchStax
• Common Modules
  • Facets
  • Search API Autocomplete
  • Search API Exclude
• Improve search for users
• Segmented vs Unified search
• A11y tips
• Common pitfalls

Resources

• Search api solr boost by term
• Search exclude
• Search api autocomplete
• Facets
• Database
• Solr
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
  • https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html
• ElasticSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_search_api
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/elasticsearch_connector/
  • https://www.elastic.co/
• OpenSearch
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_opensearch
  • https://opensearch.org/
• Algolia
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_algolia
  • https://www.algolia.com
• SearchStax
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/searchstax
  • https://www.searchstax.com
• Issues for rendered html
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3220172
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/issues/3274158

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
ECA Commerce
Provides events to the ECA module from all of the commerce core and submodules.

Today we are talking about The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook with Kevin Quillen & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/406

Topics

• What is the Drupal 10 Development Cookbook
  • Contrast with Selwyn Polit’s Drupal At Your Fingertips
• Who is the book for
• How much experience to start
• What should a reader expect to get out of reading the book
• Core or contrib
• Why write the book
• Book writing process
• Co-writing
• Why a physical book
  • Is there a digital copy
  • Does it get updated
• How long did it take to write
  • How did you write it
• How did you break Drupal down to 14 chapters
• Most surprising thing you had to research
• Are you or the publisher going to translate the book
• Would you write another book
• Where is the best place to get the book

Resources

• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook (Amazon)
• Drupal 10.1 Change Records
• Single Directory Components DrupalCon Session
• Blog post about checkbox
  • https://herchel.com/articles/disabling-twig-caching-just-got-helluva-lotta-easier-101
  • https://mglaman.dev/blog/simplifying-frontend-developer-experience-drupal-click-butto
• Talking Drupal #398 - Drupal At Your Fingertips Book
• Driesnote (time stamp 42:30)

Guests

Kevin Quillen - @kevinquillen
Matt Glaman- @nmdmatt

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Drupal 10.1
The module of the week this week is “Drupal 10.1"

Today we are talking about Secrets Management with Dwayne McDaniel.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/405

Topics

• What is new with you?
• Secrets Management
• Why it is important
• Best practices
• Secrets in Drupal
• Common errors
• What does rotating mean
• Best way to rotate
• How often should you rotate
• Git Guardian

Resources

• Talking Drupal 187 - Dwayne McDaniel
• MidCamp
• GitKraken
• Git Guardian
• Lockr
• Hashicorp
• Uber key leak
• Toyota
• AstraZeneca
• Verizon dbir databreach
• Azure keyvault youtube video
• Have I Been Pwned
• State of secrets report
• Dark reading
• Repl.it
• Key Drupal Module
• Lockr Drupal Module
• akeyless

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Security Review
Automatically tests for many easy-to-make site configuration and setup mistakes that can make a Drupal site insecure.

Today we are talking about Drupal Content Modeling with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/404

Topics

• What is Drupal Content Modeling
• How does content modeling help with a project
• What types of entities do you model
• Who should maintain the content model
• Best practices
• What questions should you ask
• How to decide what type of field
• What to do when you get it wrong
• What tools do you use

Resources

• Talking Drupal 78 - Content Modeling

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Sean T. Walsh - @seantwalsh

MOTW

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Field Tools
Provide tools to analyze and manage your use of fields and display modes in your Drupal site.

Today we are Live from DrupalCon Pittsburgh with Jim Birch and Cathy Theys.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/403

Topics

• What is new
• Driesnote
• Pitchburg
• What was great on the first day
• EoL announcement
• Looking forward to
• Next Drupalcon
• Pittsburgh

Resources

• Matt Glaman blog about Retrofit
• Talking Drupal 390 - Employee Owned Companies
• Drupal Security Team Announcement
• New CEO of Drupal association
• Drupalcon Locations

Guests

Jim Birch - @jimbirch
Cathy Theys- @YesCT

Hosts

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

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Retrofit
Provides compatibility layers for Drupal 7 code to allow run on Drupal 10.

Today we are talking about The ECA Module with Jürgen Haas.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/402

Topics

• What does ECA stand for
• What does ECA do
• Is ECA a replacement for Rules
• Team
• Hardest feature to implement
• Performance
• What is BPMN
• Using the module
• When wouldn’t you use the module
• Roadmap
• Helping with ECA

Resources

• Bpmnio
• BPMN
• Camunda
• HTTP Client Manager
• ECA Video Stream/Library
  • Sessions and link to the live stream will be pre-announced in the #ECA channel on Drupal Slack, at the latest an hour prior to the event. It is held on Fridays 3pm CEST/1pm UTC/9am EST/6am PST
• ECA Guide

Guests

Jürgen Haas - www.lakedrops.com @jurgenhaas

Hosts

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

Today we are talking about HTTP Headers with our hosts.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/401

Topics

• What are HTTP Headers
• Why are they important
• Exploring headers
• Types of headers
• What can you discover from headers
• Modifying headers
• Tools to validate

Resources

• Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Dries’ Header Evaluation Tool
• Mozilla Header Documentation
• Good overview of CSP
• Nic’s Header Blog Post

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com @stephencross
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Content-Security-Policy
Adds a Content-Security-Policy header which allows your Drupal site to inform browsers of trusted sources for JavaScript, CSS, and other external resources.

Today we are talking with Dries Buytaert.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/400

Topics

• Favorite improvement to Drupal in last 10 years
• Biggest opportunities and challenges facing Drupal
• Drupalcon Portland Driesnote Ambitious site builder
• Spoilers for the next Driesnote
• Static site generators
• 50,000 projects
• Impact of AI
• People just entering the development market
• Last thing you coded
  • For work
  • For fun
• Digital Public Good

Resources

• Drupal is for ambitious site builders
• Drupal Recognized as a Digital Public Good
• Claro episode
• DrupalCon Innovation Contest
• Drupal vs SSG
• 50K modules
• 50000 module
• Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web
• Dries Site Header Tool
• Getting 10/10
• Makers and Takers

Guests

Dries Buytaert - dri.es

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Stephen Cross - stephencross.com @stephencross
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
OpenAI
Provides a suite of modules and an API foundation for OpenAI integration for generating text content, images, content analysis and more.

Today we are talking about Working Remotely with Alan Sherry & Jordan Graham.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/399

Topics

• Why is remote work great
• Why is remote work hard
• Tips
• Working internationally
• Large vs small company
• Why do you like working from home
• Why do you think companies are pushing back to the office
• What do you miss about the office

Resources

• Talking Drupal #308 - Remote Work
• snackmagic.com

Guests

Alan Sherry - Drupal Profile

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
oEmbed Providers
Extends Drupal’s ability to embed content from third-party sites.

Today we are talking about The D9 Book with Selwyn Polit.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/398

Topics

• What is the Drupal at your fingertips book
• When did you start the book
• How long did the first draft take
• Why is it online only
  • Have you considered printing it
• How often do you work on it
• Most interesting tidbit
  • Most obscure
• What was it like using git for a book
• Any plans to use Drupal for editing
• Do you plan to update it for Drupal 10
• Any AI tools
  • Chat GPT
  • Github copilot
• Any plans to expand to other technologies
• How can you contribute to the book

Resources

• Cloudflare Worker Purge blog: Let Them Eat Cache
• Book
• Notion for notes
• NV Alt for notes
• Pandoc for converting word docs to markdown automagically
• drupal.org book
• Lex Fridman interviewing Sam altman podcast
• ChatGPT
• Github copilot
• Form api reference drupal
• Reddit
• PHPStorm
• VSCode

Guests

Selwyn Polit - selwynpolit.github.io/d9book @selwynpolit

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Cloudflare Worker Purge
Allows your site to use the Purge module to do tag-based cache invalidation on Cloudflare using Cloudflare Workers.

Today we are talking about Semantic Versioning with Mike Miles.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/397

Topics

• What is Semantic Versioning
• Why is it important
• How does Drupal 8 map to Semantic Versioning
  • 8.x
• What about betas, alphas, rcs
• How does it help dev teams stay organized
• When did you start thinking about Semantic Versioning
• Talk at NERD Summit
• Benefits of Semantic Versioning
• Other than the basics, how does your team use Semantic Versioning
• How do you move existing projects over to Semantic Versioning
• If someone wants to start using Semantic Versioning where should they look

Resources

• Drupal.org issue: What could Drupal implement from other CMS or content editors to improve its Admin Interface?
• Blog: Drupal Admin UX Study: What We Can Learn from Contentful, Craft CMS, Squarespace, and WordPress
• Managing Releases Using GIT Tags and Semantic Versioning
• Semantic Versioning Docs
• Mike’s NERD Summit talk
• Rands in repose
• Art of leadership - Lopp

Guests

Mike Miles - mike-miles.com @mikemiles86

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Same Page Preview
Shows your content authors what their content will look like, while they’re creating it.

Today we are talking about Drupal Security with Mark Shropshire & Benji Fisher.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/396

Topics

• Why do you care about security
• Best tips for securing Drupal
• Common Security Issues people have with Drupal
• Convincing module maintainers to do full releases
• Testing to ensure security
• Guardr Drupal security distribution
• What does the Drupal Security team do
• Finding issues
• Review compromised sites
• Becoming a member
• Process for writing security notices
• Helping the security team

Resources

• How to Join the Drupal Security Team
• How to get involved
• Passwords:
  • xkcd
  • Spaceballs
• Discussed at this BadCamp talk - Sleep Better at Night with a Secure Drupal Site
• OWASP
• OWASP Zap baseline
• Benji’s talk introducing the OWASP Top Ten
  • Current
  • Other versions
  • Source code (markdown)
• Github repo building and testing guardr
• Sam Mortenson talk
  • https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C1DD80ZKM/p1550697032017600
  • https://drupal.tv/external-video/2018-02-06/how-write-insecure-drupal-8-code
• Guardr core

Guests

Benji Fisher - tag1consulting.com @benji17fisher
Mark Shropshire - shrop.dev @shrop

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

MOTW

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
CrowdSec
Integrates your Drupal site with the open source CrowdSec Security Engine, a collaborative malicious activity detection and remediation tool.

Today we are talking about Accessibility from the sales process to delivery with Kat Shaw.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/395

Topics

• Where does Accessibility (A11y) begin
• What are the A11y levels
• Who should be thinking about A11y
• How do you research a solution for A11y
• What tools do you use
• What are the biggest struggles with selling A11y
• A11y and regulations
• Selling A11y only projects
• Ensuring delivery
• Ensuring support after launch
• Future of A11y 2.2 and 3.0

Resources

• GAAD
• Tools
  • Axe Devtools
  • ARC toolkit
  • Colorblindly
  • Webaim color checker
  • Webaim link contrast checker
  • Paciello group color checker
• Dominoes
• Screen readers
  • Narrator
  • Orca
  • NVDA
  • Voiceover
• How cool accessibility tools can make your life easier

Hosts

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

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Gesso
A Sass-based, Webpack-based, and Storybook integrated accessible starter theme.

Today we are talking about Open Source in K-12 Education with Stu Keroff.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/394

Topics

• What is the Penguin Corp
• Why is Open Source important
• How can educators bring open soiurce to their classroom
• How difficult is it to change from closed to open source
• What are some resources
• Youtube Channel
• Hurdles to introducing open source
• Types of software you’ve introduced
• Sourcing hardware
• What to say to the question: Why is this important?
• Video games
• Statistics
• Homeschooling
• How to help

Resources

• TD 329 Penguin Corps
• H5P Examples
• H5P Github
• Linux Professional Institute: Clubs Program
• The Linux Club Guide
• Open source north
• Open source jobs report
• Gcompris
• Audacity
• Kdenlive
• Veronica explains
• The linux experiment
• Youtube Channel
• openshot
• gnucash
• SEH architectural
• Caribou coffee

Guests

Stu Keroff - @studoeslinux

Hosts

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

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
H5P
Provides a toolset for adding HTML5 rich content to your site: interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, games, and more.

Today we are talking about Drupal & JavaScript with Andy Blum.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/393

Topics

• Talk at FLDC
• Important Drupal JS features
• Drupal behaviors
• Why use JS
• Users with no JS
• jQuery
• Front end framework
• Bigpipe
• JS components single folder components
• Future of JS in Drupal

Resources

• DrupalCon Pittsburgh training
• Top-10 libraries slides
• Drupal JavaScript Modernization Initiative
• Drupal issue to replace jQuery with vanilla JS
• What is bigpipe?
• Bigpipe in Drupal
• State of JS 2022
• Talking Drupal 386 - Drupal Vs Wordpress
• Devel accessibility tool devel_a11y
• Bigpipe when it was first added showing the contrast between bigpipe and no bigpipe John’s Talk at FLDC
• Nic’s Talk at NERD Summit

Guests

Andy Blum - @andy_blum

Hosts

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

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Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Real-time SEO for Drupal
Provides content authors immediate feedback about how optimized their content is against specific keywords.

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

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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

 if (class_exists('Kint')) {   // Set the max_depth to prevent out-of-memory.   \Kint::$max_depth = 4; } 

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Today we are talking about The Drupal Event Organizers Working Group with Avi Schwab.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/379

Topics

• What is the EOWG
• How was it formed
• What are some of the initiatives
• How does the EOWG support Drupal Events
• How is the EOWG different from the Contrib Events Community Initiative
• What is planned for 2023
• How do you get involved
• Becoming a board member
• Drupalcon
• Midcamp

Resources

• Event Organizers Working Group
• EOWG Initiatives
• First Talking Drupal on EOWG
• Event Platform
  • https://talkingdrupal.com/365
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/event_platform
• Organizing a DrupalCamp

Guests

Avi Schwab - froboy.org @froboy@mastodon.online

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Previous/Next API
Provides a performant way to define a sequence of content.

Today we share interviews conducted at NEDCamp in November 2022. This is an audio only episode.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com380

Topics / Guests

1. John Picozzi
2. Shane Thomas
3. Donna Bungard
4. Chris Wells
5. Jacob Rockowitz
6. Leslie Glynn
7. Mike Anello
8. Mike Miles
9. Nic Laflin

Hosts

Stephen Cross @stephencross

MOTW

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Bookable Calendar Module
https://www.drupal.org/project/bookable_calendar
A very easy to use Bookable Calendar module. Whether you’re giving lessons and want your students to be able to book a lesson or a business trying to stagger traffic into your building, this module aims to get you up and running as fast as possible.

Today we are talking about Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team with Tim Plunkett.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/378

Topics

• What is the Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT)
• Responsibilities
• Previous releases
• Office of the CTO - OCTO
• How big is the team
• Direction
• Priorities for new releases
• Dries’ involvement
• Contribution %
• What are you working on now
• Something you wish you were working on
• R&D
• Planning 2-5 years
• Getting involved

Resources

• Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team
• Ideas queue

Guests

Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Keysave
Adds Javascript to allow editors and admins to save an entity or config using command-s or control-s instead of clicking on the submit button.

Today we are talking about the Drupal State module with Brian Perry.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/377

Topics

• NedCamp
• Drupal State Module
• Who is involved
• Drupal State - a module without a release
• NPM
• Decoupled menus
• What problem does this solve
• How is this different from GraphQl
• In production
• Roadmap
• Getting involved
• Which front-end
• Individual Drupal ecosystems like commerce
• Evaluating JS Frameworks
• Stability

Resources

• Vite
• Snowflakes

Guests

Brian Perry - Brianperry.dev @bricomedy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Christmas Snow
Adds a Javascript snow effect to your website.

Today we are talking about Burnout with Jono Bacon.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/376

Topics

• What is burnout
• Why is it so important to you
• Have you suffered from burnout
• Do different professions have different rates of burnout
• Is it individual or teams / projects / community oriented
• Is it only mental or can it be physical
• What contributes to burnout as a contributor or maintainer
• What can prevent burnout
• How do you recover
• First episode was Talking Drupal #265
• Helping communities
• Signs to watch out for
• What is next

Resources

• Ryan holiday book Obstacle is the way
• Talking Drupal #374 - Neurodiversity
• Talking Drupal #265 - People Powered
• Project Browser module Beta2 release
• Project Browser Strategic Initiative

Guests

Jono Bacon - www.jonobacon.com @jonobacon

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Leslie Glynn - @leslieglynn

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Token
The Token module provides a centralized API for text substitution. Since Drupal 7 some Token support is built into core, but the module provides common and reusable token UI elements and missing core tokens.

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?

Today we are talking about WebOps Enabled Accessibility with Tearyne Almendariz and Blake Bertuccelli.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/371

Topics

• What is WebOps Enabled Accessibility
• Who should be concerned about it
• Describe a few use cases
• What types of tests are good to perform
• If Accessibility is “built-in” why do I need to test for it
• How much accessibility is content related
• Where do you run the tests
• Are they pass / fail or percentage based
• What tools are most common
• How does Pantheon support WebOps Accessibility
• Equalify.app

Resources

• What is WebOps
• An open source project that opens the internet for all
• Equalify.app
• International Accessibility Laws
• Certification Link
• Native Web Components and Accessibility
• Training from Harvard
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/training
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/das-events/accessibility-training-events
• Training from DoJ
• Brian Charlson Keynote
• IAAP Certifications
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/accessible-document-specialist
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certified-professional
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/wascertification
• Accessibility testing on commit
• Equalify Github repo
• UK gov tool audit
• Accessibility statement on Pantheon

Guests

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth - Equalify.app @bbertucc

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

MOTW

Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Entity Comparison

• Brief description
  • Generate a configurable comparison table for two or more Drupal entities: products, events, people, etc
  • Not dependent on Commerce, but should be compatible
• Brief history
  • Created in 2017
• Current version
  • Current 4.0 release created in Aug 2022, ready for Drupal 10, and has security coverage
• Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3 open, 2 have patches
• Usage stats
  • 292 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Generates “Comparison” configuration entities, which specify which entity type and bundle will be used
  • Automatically creates a view mode for the selected bundle
  • Fields set to display will be included in the comparison table
  • Two custom blocks: one to show the link to add to or remove an entity from the comparison (via AJAX), and one to show a link to the comparison
  • Link for toggle of an entity’s inclusion is also available as a field

Today we are talking about A Smaller Core with Théodore Biadala.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/370

Topics

• What is meant by a smaller core
• What modules have been removed already
• What is the process
• Chopping block terminology
• Which modules are under discussion
• When they go to contrib is there a maintainer first
• What is the impact to users of the module
• How long will they be maintained in contrib
• Why is this important
• What modules are next
• What is the commitment to being a core system maintainer
• Is there going to a sub release process

Resources

• Deprecated and obsolete modules and themes
• Drupal core maintainers

Guests

Théodore Biadala - read.theodoreb.net @nod_

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

MOTW

Swagger UI for OpenAPI UI
Swagger UI is a javascript library which allows a user to explore the api documentation for a web services API. This module provides the Swagger UI library for display of OpenAPI specifications within Drupal site. OpenAPI UI is required to use the project, as it provides the underlying architecture.

Today we are talking about PHP End of Life with Josh Waihi & Matt Glaman.

For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/369

Topics

• PHP End of Life (EoL)
• Why does PHP go EoL
• When will php 8.0 EoL
• How are dates scheduled
• Who is in charge
• How do you prepare as a developer
• How do you prepare as a platform
• Acquia is supporting for one more year
• Pantheon has no forced upgrades
• How do you find edge cases
• Do you speak with PHP maintainers
• What are the changes to be excited about 7 > 8
• For D7 this is challenging, any tips?

Resources

• https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8
• https://medium.com/jakob-on-drupal/dont-go-making-major-version-changes-474293dda1d7
• https://dev.acquia.com/article/how-select-drupal-modules-part-3-evaluation-tips

Guests

Matt Glaman - @nmdmatt
Josh Waihi - @joshwaihi

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

MOTW

HTTP Cache Control
HTTP Cache Control module helps fine grain control of Drupal’s Cache Control headers.

Today we are talking about Image Optimization with Martin Anderson-Clutz.

For show notes and more visit:

www.talkingDrupal.com/368

Topics

• Image optimization
• Why it is important
• Performance
• Accessibility and Inclusion
• Techniques with Drupal
• Image formats
  • webp
  • svg
  • avif
• Drupal support
• What to do before uploading
• Educating content editors
• Difference in formats
• Helpful modules and tools
  • Core
    • Image Styles
    • Responsive Images
  • Contrib
    • Blazy for older sites
    • Crop API, and Focal Point or Image Widget Crop
    • WebP or similar
    • SVG Image Field
    • Image Optimize API, and Local Binaries Resmush.it or similar
  • Image Library
    • Imagemagick
    • GD Library
• Anything else

Resources

• Board Elections
• Web Almanac 2022 - Median page weight over time
• Web Almanac 2022 - Median page weight by content type
• PreviousNext - Better image optimisation in Drupal
• Browser Calories extension
• What are NextGen Web Formats?
• AVIF vs GIF: The battle for the animated picture format
• www.Webpagetest.org
  • Shows full waterfall of the page and how it loads
• Helpful Modules
  • Blazy for older sites
  • Crop API
  • Focal Point
  • Image Widget Crop
  • WebP or similar
  • SVG Image Field
  • Image Optimize API, and Local Binaries
  • Resmush.it or similar
  • Imagemagick
• Talking Drupal 348: Carbon footprint

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

MOTW

Toolbar Manager
Allow a site builder to customize what items appear in the toolbar:

• Change text labels
• Add classes (e.g. to add icons)
• Or hide entirely

Today we are talking about Not Gaming the Credit System with Tim Lehnen.

For show notes and more information visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/367

Topics

• Episode 361
• Who governs credit
• What is “Gaming the System”
• What is the motivation to game the system
• What are the penalties
• How is the Credit System used
• How big of a problem is this
• Why is this a difficult problem
• Mike Herchel’s blog post
• First time contributions
• What to do if you see issues

Resources

• Helping Maintain High Value Drupal Contributions
• To participate in the discussion
• Talking Drupal - 361 Drupal Credit System
• Talking Drupal #265 - People Powered

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

MOTW

Facets
The Facet module allows site builders to easily create and manage faceted search interfaces. In addition to the UI components that come out of the box, themers and module developers can build their own widgets that can optionally be contributed back to Drupal.org. Facets work with Drupal Core Search and Search API, meaning that code and configuration can be reused as-is with the most popular search solutions available to Drupal.

Today we are talking about The Schema.org Blueprints Module with Jacob Rockowitz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/366

Topics

• What is Schema.org
• What is the Schema.org first approach
• Is this just for SEO
• What is the Schema.org Blueprints Module
• What are the goals
• How does this module benefit your project
• Can you give us a demo
• Why Paragraphs
• How do you handle schema you do not need
• How do you handle missing schema
• Have any sites used this
• What is your maintenance approach
• Roadmap
• Recommendations
• Contributing to Schema.org

Resources

• Introducing the Schema.org Blueprints Module for Ambitious Drupal Site Builders
• Schema.org Blueprints project page
• Schema.org-first blog posts
  • The future of our Drupal CMS and Schema.org: APIs, UI, and UX
  • Using a Schema.org-First approach to build a single source of truth and a unified Content Management System
  • Exploring a Schema-First approach to Drupal and Content Management Systems
• Videos
  • Here is a 7 minute demo of the module’s features and functionality
  • Here is a demo of a podcast
    Github issue

Guests

Jacob Rockowitz - www.jrockowitz.com @jrockowitz

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

MOTW

Flex Field
Defines a new “FlexField” field type that lets you create simple inline multiple-value fields without having to use entity references.

Today we are talking about The Event Platform with Kaleem Clarkson & Martin Anderson-Clutz.

www.talkingDrupal.com/365

Topics

• Where the idea originated
• What are the main goals
• What does it do out of the box
• Is this a Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) Replacement
• Why make a module and not a distribution
• Does this follow the new recipe or starter kit concept
• Which theme do you target
• What is on the roadmap
• Where can the event platform team use help
• Anything else

Resources

• Event Platform Module
• Smart Date
• Event Organizers Working Group
• COD
• Drupal Event Platform Initiative

Guests

Kaleem Clarkson - kaleemclarkson.com @kaleemclarkson
Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Hosts

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

MOTW

Smart Date
This module attempts to provide a more user-friendly date field, by upgrading the functionality of core in a number of ways.

Today we are talking about Cypress with Jordan Graham.

www.talkingDrupal.com/364

Topics

• What is Cypress
• Why testing is important
• What can you test
• What can you not test
• Test cases
• Difference between Behat and Cypress
• Syntax
• Drupal and Cypress
• Cypress module
• Test DB
• Speed of tests
• Module Ecosystem for Cypress
• Test runner
• Fixtures
• Email testing
• Grouping tests
• Order of testing
• Security

Resources

cypress.io
Email handling extension
Tech Radar #1 tech to adopt
Colorado talk: Not yet online
Webinar version is available at Aten’s website
Repo for project
Cypress Drupal Module

Guests

Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

MOTW

Views Aggregator Plus
As the Views and Views Calc modules rely on the database to perform aggregation, you only have limited options at your disposal.
As the great Merlin himself said: "You can’t aggregate a PHP expression in the database. :/ ".
That’s where Views Aggregator Plus comes in.

Today we are talking about Working Within Your Values with Cathy Theys & Tess Flynn.

www.talkingDrupal.com/363

Topics

• What guides our choices?
• How to maintain values at work
• Matching values with your company
• How to approach conflict or misalignment
• How to consider or change previous choices
• Maintaining values for smaller conflicts

Resources

• ADR
• https://www.lullabot.com/values

Guests

Tess Flynn - https://deninet.com/

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

Representative Image
Allows you to define representative image or media fields for entities like nodes, taxonomy terms and the like. These can then be used in Open Graph meta tags (via tokens); as fields in views; or embedded as tokens. The media module is also supported. A default image can be defined for those entities without images.

Today we are talking about Progressive Web Apps with Alex Borsody and Wilfred Arambhan.

www.talkingDrupal.com/362

Topics

• What are Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
• How is a PWA different from a native app or cross platform app
• What features point towards a PWA
• What features are difficult to implement
• Where do they store their data
• What are some use cases
• What does the PWA module do
• Why would you use the PWA module
• Potential enhancements to the PWA module
• Google’s Plans
• Security

Resources

• A Drupal developer’s guide to Progressive Web Apps
• An almost complete guide to PWAs+, using Drupal as the glue code (though many other technology will do)
• Project Fugu/web capabilities
• Web capabilities tracker.
  • WebAuthn
  • Web Workers
  • Programmable cache
  • What Web Can Do
• Native/App store submission
  • Ionic
  • WKWebView
• evaluateJavascript()
  • https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/wkwebview/how-to-run-javascript-on-a-wkwebview-with-evaluatejavascript
  • https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/trusted-web-activity/
  • https://www.pwabuilder.com/
• Moonraft
• carbonPay

Guests

Alex Borsody - @alexborsody
Wilfred Arambhan - @wilfredarambhan

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

Responsive Tables Filter
It makes the following tables responsive:

• Any tables within fields where Drupal text format filters can be applied
• Views tables

Today we are talking about The Drupal Credit System with Matthew Tift.

www.talkingDrupal.com/361

Topics

• What is the Drupal Credit system
• How is credit given
• How is credit tracked on the backend
• What is the trickiest part of integration
• Contributions are weighted, how is that handled
• Why are contributions weighted
• Are non code contributions included in the Drupal Credit system
• How do you run analytics on the data
• What is changing with the credit system
• Other communities are thinking of integrating a credit system what are lessons shared

Resources

• Drupal Contribution Credits
• Drupal Marketplace
• Matthew’s website (the hub for everything he does)
• How We Compare: Leaderboards and Related Comparison Metrics in the Drupal Community (2021)
• Contribution Recognition and the Drupal Project (2021)
• Drupal’s Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability (2021)
  • All Things Open
  • GitLab Commit
• Leaderboards and Metrics at Drupal.org with Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen
• DrupalCon Seattle: The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars (2019)
• Who Sponsors Drupal Development? (2016)
• The Cultural Construction of Drupal (2015)
• Gitlab issue on credit system
  • Issue
  • Epic
• Interpreting drupal core commit history
• CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics Open Source Software) metric
  • Contribution Attribution

Guests

Matthew Tift - matthewtift.com @matthewtift

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

Entity Redirect
Adds a configurable redirect after saving a node or other entity. The redirect is configurable per bundle. Also, given sufficient permissions (and presuming it is enabled for that specific content/bundle), individual users can configure their own redirects (on their profile edit page).

Today we are talking about Backdrop CMS with Eric Toupin.

www.talkingDrupal.com/360

Topics

• What is backdrop
• How did you hear about it
• Tell us about Aten and your clients
• What type of work is Aten doing with Stanford
• Why was Backdrop CMS considered
  • How long was Backdrop out before you considered it
• Are there features Backdrop has that Drupal does not have
• What are some limitations of Backdrop
• If someone has Drupal 7 what do you consider the criteria for Backdrop vs Drupal 9
• Are you working on other Backdrop sites
• Do you consider Backdrop it’s own CMS
• Have you contributed anything back to Drupal from Backdrop
• Does Aten consider Backdrop a service it provides

Resources

• Talking Drupal #17 - Backdrop
• Talking Drupal #218 - Backdrop
• Talking Drupal # 319 - Backdrop CMS
• Justin Toupin - Talking Drupal #337
• Cypress

Guests

Eric Toupin - www.drupal.org/u/erictoupin

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Cathy Theys - @YesCT

MOTW

hreflang
The core Content Translation module adds hreflang tags only on content entity pages. This module, on the other hand, adds hreflang tags to all pages, and can be configured to defer to Content Translation module on content entity pages. If for some reason you’d like to modify the hreflang tags on a page, you can do so by implementing

Today we are talking about Contribution Events.

www.talkingDrupal.com/359

Topics

• What are contribution events
• What is the contribution event
• What are the key goals
• Can you give us a quick overview of how you started teh community initiative
• Why did each of you feel this was important
• How did you get involved
• What was involved in the first event
• What were lessons learned
• What were the successes of the first event
• How can someone have a contribution event
• Are there differences in having events centered on various areas
• What are the most important resources
• How can someone get involved

Resources

• Contribution Events Initiative
• Contribution Events Slack
• Drupal 10 Porting Day
• John’s Non-Code Contribution talk at DrupalCon Portland
• Contribution Events Project
• Drupal Pod
• Meeting times