A deep, practical tour through every caching layer in Drupal — from the render cache to chained fast backends.
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This past Sunday I did a livestream where I tried out the new issue forks functionality on Drupal.org. The feature is currently beta and project maintainers need to opt-in for the functionality. At the moment you can create a repository fork for an issue, create a work branch, and commit to that branch.
Have you heard that Drupal.org now has issue forks for Git-based contribution versus patches? This means we can now work in a pull-request style workflow on Drupal.org issues. It's an opt-in beta, and I have not had a chance to work with the feature yet.
On Sunday I did my first live stream where I upgraded my personal site to Drupal 9. It was a fun experience and I learned a few things – both for streaming and upgrading.
Sunday, June 21st at 10:00 AM CST, I'll be doing my first live stream. While upgrading my site, glamanate.com, to Drupal 9, I ran into several Composer dependency conflicts. I know Composer dependency conflicts are sometimes a developer nightmare, so I figured I should walk through it via a live stream. We'll fix them live and watch as I deploy Drupal 9 to my site.
You can tune in here: https://youtu.be/4MyqR-wz6qs, and opt-in to get notified when I go live!
Here and there I have recorded some screencast tutorials on my YouTube. Actually, it turns out the last time I even tried to was years ago. So, no "here and there", mostly "there." It is something that I have wanted to do more of, but never really dived into due to various excuses.
Randomly my homepage blog teasers randomly have no template associated, causing them to render incorrectly and not even link to the blog. I have not been able to figure it out. Currently this site is hosted as a Kubernetes deployment with a Redis sidecar. I'm going to try disabling the Redis cache and see if that is part of the problem.
I use the Content Moderation module on my personal site to managed my publication workflow. One of my pet peeves if when I accidentally forget to adjust a blog post's creation timestamp once published. Sometimes it is only a few hours old, sometimes it is a week. I finally sat down to fix this small annoyance.
There is a lot happening in the world. I am not talking about COVID-19, which is still a pandemic and hasn't magically become mild. But, I am talking about the civil unrest in the United States. Some are frightened, some are angry in solidarity, some are angry and do not agree. I am hopeful. I firmly believe we have a problem in the United States with our militarized police forces.
I write a lot of tests for all of my Drupal code. I try to live by Test Driven Development. It delivers cleaner code. It helps define your architecture without full implementation details. I also despise clicking and manually testing things.
Earlier this month, I signed up as a sponsor for Jeff Geerling on GitHub.