A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.
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I accidentally found a cool keyboard shortcut for PhpStorm, and probably every IntelliJ IDE. On macOS, you can use Shift + CMD + Apostrophe to force your tool window to expand to the entire screen. I'm assuming for Linux and Windows this is Shift + CTRL + Apostrophe. I don't know about anyone else, BUT I AM VERY EXCITED.
I use DDEV-Local for my local development stack. DDEV leverages mkcert for trusted local development certificates. The mkcert tool has been a missing component in my local development stack for a long time. And, the best part, it has worked without any problems. Until this week.
This is the first of two blogs detailing how to build a middleware leveraging ReactPHP to consume data from an API, normalize it, and then push that data into Drupal through JSON:API. In this example will be grabbing data from the PokéAPI.
The other week, I was asked about how I maintain my PHPUnit config file for my Drupal projects. When running Drupal's PHPUnit test suites, you typically copy and modify the distribution phpunit.xml.dist file which lives in the web/core subdirectory. There is just one problem.
Sunday, July 26th, at 10:00 AM CST I'll be doing a development live stream. I need to do some maintenance development for phpstan-drupal and drupal-check, and also use it as an "Ask Me Anything" session.
Catch the lives tream here: https://youtu.be/_-ZI10U9b_g
Sunday, July 5th, I did my livestream exploring DDEV-Live. DDEV-Live is the hosting counterpart of DDEV-Local. I use DDEV-Local as my local development stack, and I love its simplicity for running local environments with Docker.
I got an email today that CodeFund was shutting down. Two years ago I started using CodeFund to provide ethical advertising target towards a developer audience on my website. I used it as a way to supplement my income for my additional off-hours time spent on open source.