Two Modules to Help Tame Large Drupal Menus
I recently used the Big Menu and Menu Select Modules to address client struggles managing a large menu in Drupal.
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My Own Personal Bird of the Century
Summer has allowed me to admire my most obscure yard decoration.
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Talking Drupal API Client on Talking Drupal
I was a guest on a recent episode of Talking Drupal to discuss the Drupal API Client.
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Matching Drupal’s GitLab CI ESLint Configuration in a Contrib Module
After adding GitLab CI to a Drupal contrib module, our JavaScript linting was passing locally but failing in CI. Here's how I ensured the local configuration matched CI.
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Drupal API Client 1.0 Release
The 1.0 release of the Drupal API Client includes a fully functional JSON:API client and completes our commitment as a result of funding from the 'Pitch-burgh' innovation contest.
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2024 Best Picture Nominees
My thoughts after watching this year's batch of best picture nominees.
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Extending The Drupal API Client
We're building the Drupal API Client to be easily extended. This post demonstrates that extensibility by creating a client for the Decoupled Router module.
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Winter Builds
Assembled some puzzles and some Legos over the slow holiday period, as is tradition.
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The 2023 New England Patriots
A terrible year for the Patriots was still a pretty fun year for a fan.
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44 in 2024
Reflecting on a birthday and a new year at the end of an extended holiday break.
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An Update on The Drupal API Client
The Drupal API Client Project has made substantial progress, including publishing our first POC release.
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Decoupled Menus (and Beyond) at DrupalCon Portland
Lots of exciting work to do and news to share related to the Decoupled Menus Initiative and Decoupled Drupal in general. Here's what I'll be focusing on in Portland at DrupalCon.
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Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
Being transported to a galaxy far, far away almost made me forget that I was visiting Disney World during a huge Covid surge.
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Deafheaven: Infinite Granite
A substantially mellower version of their sound, but one much closer to my personal wheelhouse.
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How Drupal's Preview Works
I recently needed to dig into the specifics of how Drupal's node preview actually worked only to find that all of my assumptions were wrong.
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Identifying Circular Dependencies in JavaScript Modules
Using tools to track down circular dependencies in JavaScript can be just as easy as introducing a circular dependency in the first place.
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GitHub Copilot is My Copilot
My first few days using GitHub Copilot were a roller coaster of emotions.
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Using Apollo Client Without React
By default, Apollo Client 3.0 expects that you are using React, but importing Apollo using a slightly different entry point allows you to use Apollo in a vanilla JS project.
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Working Around React's Web Component Limitations
React still has some limitations when it comes to using web components, but @lit-labs/react makes it much easier to work through them.
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Framework Detection with @netlify/framework-info
I recently needed a way to detect which framework was being used to build a site. Not only does Netlify have a solid handle on how to do that, but they also open sourced their utility.
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New Beaches, New Basements, and New Jobs
It has been an eventful couple of weeks with a job change, some time off, and a flooded basement.
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Running GitHub Codespaces on an iPad
GitHub Codespaces can provide a fully featured development environment on an iPad. Heres how I configured a Node environment to make updates to this site.
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Creating a CodeSandbox from a GitHub Repository
Need to quickly stand up a live example based on an existing repository? Creating a CodeSandbox for a GitHub repository couldn't be easier.
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Configuring Tugboat Live Previews For Drupal General Projects
A quick example of how to set up Tugboat Live Previews for a general project on drupal.org that uses NodeJS.
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2021 Best Picture Nominees
I watched all the best picture nominees so you don't have to.
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What I'm Excited About in Lit 2.0
I've really enjoyed the developer experience improvements that Lit-element and Lit-html have offered for building web components, and I'm even more excited for these new features in Lit 2.0
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We're In The Golden Age of Contributing to Drupal
A series of tooling changes have made it easier than ever to contribute to Drupal and frankly, I'm excited about it.
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Help Build a Decoupled Menu Web Component at DrupalCon
As part of the Decoupled Menus Initiative I've started work on the Generic Drupal Web Components project. If you're interested in getting involved, we could use your help at DrupalCon North America.
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Using Screen Recordings to Identify Page Load Performance Issues
Sometimes a picture (or in this case a video) is worth a thousand words, and identifying page load performance issues is no exception.
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How I Exercised in this Cold Pandemic Wasteland
When I couldn't run indoors or outdoors, I've turned to these home options to maintain some kind of exercise.
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Gearing Up For Midcamp 2021
My local Drupal Camp is back this year for another virtual event and trying some new things to combat Zoom fatigue.
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Recent Drupal Podcast Appearances
I continue my trend of talking to anyone who will listen, this time on podcasts.
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Running Lighthouse CI Server Locally
While it would be better in almost every way to host Lighthouse CI Server somewhere, running it locally can still be a useful way to to collect some baseline performance measurements. These are the steps I followed to run an instance locally and collect some initial data.
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Embedding a File From Github as a Gist
In cases where prism.js syntax highlighting isn't practical on my site, these tools to create a gist-like embed from any github file have come in handy.
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Adding Simple Pagination to an 11ty Collection
11ty can handle pagination really well, but finding the right subset of the many pagination features can be a little difficult to figure out. Here's how I added simple previous and next links and post totals to the list pages on this blog.
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Configuring Lighthouse CI with Github Actions
I'll be spending time auditing web performance over the next couple of weeks, and wanted to start with some simple baseline measurement. Lighthouse CI was an easy entry point - here's how I set it up using Github actions.
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Adding Excerpts to an 11ty RSS Feed
There are a couple of ways to add excerpts to 11ty feeds, here is a look at the approach I ended up using for this site.
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Running Lando on an Apple Silicon Mac
While I've done some development on my M1 MacBook, I had been procrastinating on doing any Docker based development. Decided to take the plunge today.
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Talks: Florida Drupal Camp 2021
Presented 'Web Components From The Eyes of a Newcomer,' along with a very serious lightning talk.
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Configuring gatsby-source-drupal to only Import Referenced Images
Configuring the gatsby-source-drupal plugin to only import a subset of your content is possible, but wasn't immediately clear to me from the docs.
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Creating Multiple Feeds with the 11ty RSS Plugin
A few small configuration adjustments that can be used to create multiple filtered feeds using the 11ty RSS plugin.
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Gatsby Debugging in VS Code
A few useful links to configure server and client side debugging in Gatsby projects
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