While handling user data in Drupal 8 is made significantly better by the inclusion of Twig as a templating engine, sometimes a developer might want to make…
In Personal News: We spent this last weekend on a bikepacking trip in the Chugach National Forest in South Central Alaska - specifically the Ressurection Pass…
I’ve been volunteering at my local college radio station (KSUA) since my very first year as a student at University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2006 – it’s amazing…
In the process of building a new website for my weekly Chiptune radio show - Power Glove, I immediately knew that with the kind of cadence of content release…
Gatsby has rapidly become one of the most popular ways to build a decoupled Drupal 8 website. And for good reason, too! Gatsby’s performance-first mindset…
Twig folks, be honest: how many times have you written a snippet of Twig code that looks like this? This is a very common piece of conditional logic we might…
GatsbyJS is everywhere these days. The upstart react-based site generator has come a long way from its humble beginnings. A couple of years ago, Gatsby…
PHPStorm is great, but I don’t think I’m alone in the belief that it’s a little bit of a memory hog. For the longest time, I’ve split my development time…
Visual regression testing is an incredibly helpful tool in any developer’s toolbox, making it possible to programmatically check for unexpected CSS changes on a…
This past week I had the awesome opportunity of visiting Austin for TexasCamp, where I presented about BackstopJS, visual regression testing, and my (Backstop…
I love Lando – it’s one of the easiest to use docker-based local development solutions I’ve ever tried, and it has an amazing amount of extensibility for front…
If you come from a largely bare-metal or shared hosting server environment (like myself) you might get a little aggravated at times with the hoops you need to…
A quick snippet on migrating other formats of datetime strings into Drupal 8: This will bring in values for node creation and last update (assuming source…
I’ve wanted a 3D Printer for a really long time. I’ve had a few friends that have owned them, and I’ve even designed a few plastic printed parts for my own use…
Here’s a common use-case for a Drupal 8 migration: I want to migrate all of the data from an existing type of content (let’s say Blog Posts) from a legacy…
