Selwyn Polit has created a fantastic Drupal 9 and 10 developer reference guide called Drupal at your fingertips.

Jeff Geerling recently announced that the DrupalVM project is officially archived. DrupalVM was crucial in helping provide standardized local development for Drupal developers. DrupalVM was a customized Vagrant setup with batteries-included tooling powered by Jeff's many Ansible roles.

One of Drupal's greatest features, and often mysterious underworking to many site builders and developers, are its caching layers especially render caching. We have all been there before: we have no idea why it's not quite working, so we press "Cache rebuild" (or more infamously, "Flush all caches" of the pre-Drupal 8 eras), and like magic, things are displaying properly.

The Drupal 10 Development Cookbook is officially out! Special thanks to Kevin Quillen for his amazing assistance in writing the book. And my good friend Justin Cornell as a technical reviewer.

When building my wife's web store, I used a new feature in Drupal 10 when templating her product display pages. Drupal 10 introduced a new Twig filter called add_suggestion.

One of my favorite features of Drupal is the user access control experience. Drupal has a robust permission and role (access control list) API that allows for fine-tuned control of what users can and cannot do. Drupal developers end up interacting with Drupal's access system in one way or another. Every project has some request to enhance or alter how normal access works.

Recently I wrote about launching my wife's web store for her holiday cookie orders. During the launch, I had a little hiccup. The homepage controller has code to display the available published products. When it came time, I published the products, and...

My wife owns her custom cookie shop, which sells decorated sugar cookies. On top of her regular custom orders, she does special cookies and cookie sets for each holiday. Recently she moved from PayPal to Square for her invoicing to leverage their more extensive offering of tools to merchants.

Leading and trailing whitespaces. The bane of normalized data everywhere. It seems like a constant task that needs to be performed on incoming user data. When working with Laravel, I use the TrimStrings middleware.

Phil Karlton is quoted as having said, "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." As someone who suffers horribly from the latter, I'm glad Drupal's caching APIs make the former a breeze.