kevinquillen.com - Still coding. Still rocking. Still ranting.

Obtaining a Masters in Computer Science

Kevin — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

After more than twenty years building software professionally, I plan to go back to school for a master's degree in computer science. I do not need another degree to prove that I can write software. I want to understand more.

Migrating from Drupal to Astro on Cloudflare Pages

Kevin — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:53:18 GMT

I recently moved my personal site from Drupal to Astro on Cloudflare Pages. The decision was not driven by a technical problem or limitation with Drupal. It came down to how I want to spend my limited time and budget.

Add fields to the Drupal Canvas Page entity

Kevin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:07:36 GMT

Add fields to the Drupal Canvas Page entity

Been going deep on a handful of projects this summer, wanted to take a moment to contribute a Drupal module that solved a problem for us called Canvas Fields - the ability to assign standard fields to Canvas Page entities. Text fields, reference fields, list fields. Why? So we can tag or reference other structures to include Pages in the relationships we need on sites. Maybe you have a need for Views filtering, or Search API integration, or better ways of creating lists of content based on several properties of a Page.

Kevin August 17th, 2026

Auryn: A Unified View of Your AI Coding Sessions

Kevin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:29:14 GMT

Auryn: A Unified View of Your AI Coding Sessions

Over the last year, AI coding assistants have become a regular part of my development workflow. Like many developers, I have spent countless hours working with tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot CLI. These tools have become incredibly capable partners for everything from debugging difficult issues to planning new features, exploring unfamiliar codebases, reviewing architecture decisions, and generating documentation.

As these tools became more deeply integrated into my day-to-day work, I started noticing a new problem.

Kevin June 22nd, 2026

Testing htaccess rules in VS Code or JetBrains IDEs

Kevin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:56:40 GMT

Testing htaccess rules in VS Code or JetBrains IDEs

In my last post I alluded to some software projects I was working on, and in the nick of time I have two ready to share before we enter 2026.

I have published and released plugins for VS Code and JetBrains (PHPStorm, WebStorm, Intellij etc) that help in testing htaccess rules so you don't have to wait until its in the cloud to see the result. The plugins were inspired by the htaccess madewithlove website that I have literally used for years and always wished existed within my editors - now it is possible.

Kevin December 31st, 2025

2025 Wrapped

Kevin — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:01:18 GMT

2025 Wrapped

Welcome to my ~~Spotify~~ 2025 Wrapped! I don't have Spotify, so this is my year end wrap from my point of view. Like previous years, I didn't get to write as much as I wanted to, but I've also been juggling a lot more than before. That's okay because I had a very productive year professionally and personally.

Here are the highlights!

Kevin December 16th, 2025

Using computed fields in Drupal 11 and Views

Kevin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:53:33 GMT

Using computed fields in Drupal 11 and Views

Every so often I run into something in Drupal that reminds me why I still enjoy working with it after all these years. Recently, while working with the Group module, I needed to display a few pieces of dynamic information: the number of members in each group and a handful of user thumbnails. I wanted these values both on the Group entity itself and inside a Views listing like a “Group Directory” page.

That led me to computed fields, how they behave on entities, how they behave in Views, and why you often need two different implementations even though the logic is the same.

Kevin November 24th, 2025

Tabuccino - the Chrome browser plugin that keeps your tabs refreshed

Kevin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:32:07 GMT

Tabuccino - the Chrome browser plugin that keeps your tabs refreshed

I published my second Google Chrome plugin today. I was getting tired of being logged out constantly of certain services and have to get my phone out to 2FA dozens of times per day. Some services have a very low lifetime and it interrupts my workflow. If you're like me and that gets annoying - this plugin is for you.

Kevin October 21st, 2025

Life happened

Kevin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:05:55 GMT

Life happened

Whoever gave the 60 day prognosis was right on the mark, unfortunately. It's always a shock, followed by a sense of relief that someone is no longer suffering the hardships of one of the worst kinds of cancer.

We're seeing it happen with someone else too, sadly.

I'll have more tech oriented posts soon, I promise.

Also, Gran Turismo 7 on PS5 Pro is absolutely gorgeous. I love the series and finally got it. There is comfort in its flawless beauty.

Kevin October 20th, 2025

60 Days to Live

Kevin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:36:46 GMT

60 Days to Live

What would you do if you were told you had 60 days to live?

That is a question that has been on my mind lately. Someone I know was more or less told that this month. I wondered, what would you do? What can you do? Would you feel like you had a good run? Are you leaving things better than you found it? Will you be remembered, and for what? What is our true purpose here?

Kevin August 22nd, 2025