This will be a pretty short post - I've quit social media.

I actually quit a majority of them many years ago. Last spring I locked my Twitter and never looked back. That was something I said I was going to do for a while, and then finally did. I've had enough.

I also quit looking...

In the first post of this series, I spoke about reviving a Quake mod from a quarter century ago to see if it can still be played in 2021. Here I discuss some of the bugs and UI tweaks I fixed in my quest to get the game running....

In 1996, id Software released a game that forever changed the gaming landscape of both the single player experience and multiplayer experience that still influences games to this very day. With a soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor, a gritty setting and lightning fast playstyle,...

I am now an Acquia Cloud Platform Pro Certified professional! Acquia Cloud has powered the infrastructure behind the Drupal projects I have worked on for many years.

I am now certified in a number of areas:...

Today I am a newly minted certified professional for Acquia Site Studio 6.0. Site Studio is a low-code component based page building power suite for Drupal.

Velir worked with Site Studio throughout 2020 to...

After 11 years I have decided to leave the Apple ecosystem for doing development work and move to a dedicated Linux environment.

Back in 2009, I leapt from Windows to Mac after being disgusted with the availability of development tools on Windows as it pertains to open source development...

Composer 2.0 was recently released with much improved performance in fetching and updating dependencies. If you are running projects on Drupal 8 or 9, you are going to want to switch as soon as you can.

Before...

At Velir, I've spearheaded the usage of Docker for local development since 2017. One of the most invaluable tools to lowering the barrier of entry for people was adding Ahoy to our toolbox.

What is Ahoy?

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Today, I am pleased to be posting that I have received certifications in two areas of Drupal 9 from Acquia:

• Drupal 9 Developer
• Drupal 9 Site Builder

I knocked these two exams out...

This year has afforded me a lot of time to pick up another old habit: reading. In previous years with a much busier city lifestyle, my level of reading took a backseat to most things, just like running.

With all the time now, I've maintained supreme discipline in commitment to the...