During covid lockdowns I had several projects in my spare time to keep me busy. One of them was teaching myself to learn how to read sheet music. Another was building an LCD screen marquee of data powered by a Raspberry Pi 3. One was to learn how to write my own programming language using the...

For many years, Postman was a tool of choice for me when testing APIs while in development. It was a quick way to construct HTTP requests of any type and probe responses, test auth, things of that nature. It made quick work of figuring out how to design consumers, client wrappers and objects in...

We're coming up on almost three years of automated Drupal core updates for my personal site. 

In June of 2022, I hooked up Renovate (you can ...

Forticlient seems to have a lot of issues working correctly on Fedora and/or SAML required setups (where you complete the auth in an external browser). The best I can get from the error logs is that the connection was terminated. Fortinets support of Linux is not the best.

Fortunately you...

It has been perhaps the 3 busiest months of my life between bidding on homes, closing, and moving. Despite my best efforts and planning, there was a lot more work and logistics than I had anticipated. While we are mostly settled now, there is a lot I wish I knew upfront that would make it go...

I've recently taken up maintainership of the Netlify module for Drupal. This module helps bridge the gap between rebuilds and syncing changes that happen in Drupal to ensure your connected Netlify site correctly reflects that data, which is...

I'm on the move again!

After months of searching, we've finally found our dream home. I will have a lot to do between now and the closing date, right after which I need to begin work on the "Drupal 11 Development Cookbook" with Matt.

I wrote about what the new book may contain on the...

Drupal 11 is coming down the pipe this week, are you ready? I've already updated my site to the latest release, even though visually it looks the same to you.

Its been quiet around here lately but I have been efforting a lot of things, including completing a move. Hopefully I will have...

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open...

I know I had set a goal for myself to write more this year, but I have not been motivated to write lately for two reasons.

One, I celebrated a killer 2023 by treating myself and bought a really nice acoustic guitar from the folks at Taylor. The Taylor 324ce is a beautiful looking and...