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Fri, 02/10/2023 - 07:09
A sprinter kneeling in the starting blocks

A Quick Take on Headless and Performance

There are a number of great reasons to consider a headless architecture for a web project. I sometimes hear site speed listed as a primary motivation. Is a headless website guaranteed to be faster? Let's explore this idea.

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  • Headless
  • Drupal
Sun, 01/15/2023 - 07:24

Markdown Tutorials in Acquia CMS Headless and Next.js

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  • Headless
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 09:12
Simple clock face, without numbers

Getting Personal With Dates and Times

Conversations with other people in the Drupal community, and related communities, has been a continued source of inspiration for me. Back in September, in a discussion at the San Francisco Drupal Users Group, someone mentioned a Backdrop module that uses Javascript to automatically format dates and times in the timezone of any visitor using Javascript.

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  • User Experience
  • Drupal
Tue, 12/13/2022 - 12:13

Drupal 10 is worth a fresh look

Sun, 12/11/2022 - 13:33
Command key on a Mac keyboard

Keysave: A Step Towards A More Intuitive Admin UX

One of my early Drupal mentors, Khalid Baheyeldin, used to say that a big part of the value of working with open source software is the freedom to scratch your own itch. And if, as a community, we pool those improvements, we can have free software that's always evolving and getting easier to use.

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  • Admin Experience
Mon, 11/21/2022 - 13:01
Bird taking flight

Learning to Fly

Few people who read my occasional scribblings on here will know that for a brief but glorious period of time I played men's roller derby. In fact, during my tenure I was assistant captain for the local team, and through a series of unfortunate events blew out my knee during tryouts for the national men's team. Anyone who knew me growing up would have never thought I had any business even participating in national tryouts for an athletics team (except maybe bowling), but in a number of the tests I held my own, and it's a memory I will always cherish.

Sat, 09/03/2022 - 09:22
Medieval clock in Prague

Smart Date: Community-Driven Features and the Road Ahead

It's been a while since I shared an update on how Smart Date is evolving, so I thought I should do a rundown of some of the recent features and developments. Even people using the module every day may not be aware of all the changes, unless they've been combing through the release notes.

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  • Dates and Times
  • Drupal
Mon, 07/11/2022 - 04:09

Date Content: Upgrade the Capabilities of Your Site’s Event Handling

My work on the Smart Date module began with a simple idea: make managing dates and times in Drupal as easy as users have come to expect in using popular calendar applications. Many of the ideas for features and improvements built into the module have come from the community: recurring events, calendar integration, timezone handling, and many more.

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  • Dates and Times
Mon, 07/11/2022 - 04:08

Configuration Kits: Site Building Blocks for Your Composable Future

It’s well understood that a robust, API-first Content Management System (CMS) is a crucial part of a Composable Enterprise. What’s discussed less often is the degree to which the implementation approach for the CMS can also contribute to the key ideals of a Composable Enterprise: being able to quickly innovate, evolve, and adapt to changing market conditions.

Sat, 07/09/2022 - 07:48

Image Optimization: The Oft-Forgotten (But Crucial) Performance Step

When we think about how to make a Drupal website load faster, we often focus on how to make Drupal render the pages faster: optimizing queries, caching entities, and so on. But out of the box Drupal has several layers of caching enabled by default, and many popular Drupal hosts have additional systems in place like memcached and Varnish to further enhance the overall page load. In practice, the load of the page itself is often a small fraction of the overall time and data needed for a visitor to view a page.

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  • Performance

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Module of the Day

Unlimited / Multi-valued Fields Extra Settings

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Drupal.org

This modules add extra config to fields that allows you to configure the initial number of items to display for unlimited and multi-values (with cardinality bigger than 1) fields.

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  • Admin Experience
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Recent Talks

Headless - Fact or Fiction

When
Feb 28 2023 | 11:30am - 1pm EST
Where
Talking Drupal

There's a lot of excitement around headless headless websites. Is headless always better?

Simplifying Your Admin Experience

When
Feb 18 2023 | 1 - 1:45pm EST
Where
Florida DrupalCamp

We often talk about UX as a focus on making a site intuitive and easy-to-use for anonymous visitors, or perhaps registered users who need manage their account, make a purchase, and so on.

Recording
Preview image for the video "Simplifying Your Admin Experience".

The Geek Within Ep105

When
Feb 1 2023 | 8 - 8:30am EST
Where
YouTube

I sat down with Jeremy Wood to discuss careers in tech, my own journey, and what lies ahead.

Recording
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Talking Drupal #368 - Image Optimization

When
Oct 4 2022 | 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Where
Talking Drupal

The Talking Drupal hosts and I had a spirited discussion about why image optimization is important, and what tools are available.

Recording
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An Eye on Acceleration: Optimize your images to make your site load faster

When
Sep 20 2022 | 5:40 - 6pm CEST (11:40am - 12pm EDT)
Where
DrupalCon Europe 2022

Your site speed is a crucial element of good UX, and an important part of technical SEO efforts.

Recording
Preview image for the video "MAKERS & BUILDERS - An Eye on Acceleration: Optimize your images to make your site load faster".
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