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mike-anello.bsky.social
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Solid article about image optimization methods in #drupal from Nadia Nykolaichuk at ImageX 📸🧠 IMHO, the WebP stuff deserves its own headline — it’s that important 🔥📰 imagexmedia.com/blog/drupal-... I didn’t know about the WebP module until now — seems super-useful! www.drupal.org/project/webp

He had me at Quadringentoheptapentacontuple. 🤯😂 eiriksm.dev/drupal-deplo... Blog post (one in a series) about #drupal deployment strategies by Eirik Morland @orkj 📦🛠️🧠

AI-powered maintainer tools for #drupal contributors? This and other interesting ideas discussed by @mandclu.bsky.social and Jacob Rockowitz on the new TD Cafe @talkingdrupal.bsky.social podcast sacstudio.libsyn.com/talking-drup... (Thanks for the IXP mention!)

Spend 5 minutes with @camoa2005.bsky.social and you’ll be infected with his #drupal enthusiasm 💙 – it’s happened to me more than a few times! I’m proud to be working with him on the IXP Initiative. Learn more in this interview in @thedroptimes.bsky.social www.thedroptimes.com/interview/48... 🎤🌟

Early-bear admission for Drupal Camp Asheville ends June 9 🐻⏳ – if you love #drupal and the outdoors 🌲⛰️, then this is the #drupal event for you! www.drupalasheville.com DrupalEasy is a proud sponsor 🤝 – even if I won’t be able to attend 😢

The #drupal CMS privacy track is (IMHO) super interesting to follow 🔐👀 as it is showing best-practices that can now (and in the future) be implemented in **any** Drupal site. Here’s a presentation from @jurgenhaas.bsky.social about it from Dev Days: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CUt... 🎥🌍

The structure of the #drupal marketplace discussions is really freakin’ impressive 🧠🧱 Read the latest share-out and I’m 97.45% sure you’ll agree 📈✨ www.drupal.org/about/starsh... Via Tiffany Farris from Palantir.net

I think demos of two or three open-source alternatives to commonly-used business tools (especially NextCloud!) would make a great #drupal event session. 💻🌱 This article from @freelock.com shows the way: www.freelock.com/blog/john-lo...

When she decides to honor me by looking at the camera, Stella is almost always quite photogenic! 📸🐶✨😍

Yes, this one is a bit late, but I love this quote from Kevin Quillen’s @drupalcon.bsky.social Atlanta recap: “ECA: The New Views” 🤯 I never thought about it this way, but I think he might just be correct! 💡 www.velir.com/ideas/2025/0... #drupal 🧩🔧

The folks at Palantir.net are ahead of the curve when it comes to fostering new #drupal talent 🚀🧠 – I’m honored to be part of it! 🙌 www.thedroptimes.com/48298/foot-i... www.thedroptimes.com/interview/48... Thanks to The Drop Times for helping to spread the word! 📰💬

🚀 Want to grow as a Drupal community leader? Take the lead on Back-to-Basics - a new initiative to support beginner devs at events. Big impact, tons of support. Learn more: www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimi... 🙌 #Drupal 💙

A solid 15 minutes with Dries Buytaert and the team at @talkingdrupal.bsky.social: 🎙️👥 talkingdrupal.com/501 Dries’ “cobweb” is Twig variables - join the club! 😅🧠 #drupal #podcast 🧩📡

“Inputs coming from an LLM certainly should be considered ‘untrusted’ in general” 🤖⚠️ I believe this qualifies as an understatement. Great explainer by Drew Webber about how AI modules can be exploited 🧠💣 — I fear this is only the tip of the iceberg 🧊 www.mcdruid.co.uk/article/hack...

This year’s edition of #drupal @midcamp.org was pretty darn good 🎉👏. Great program, solid venue, and amazing people all in a fun city ✅✅✅✅. While I’m contractual obligated to say that @fldrupal.camp is the best Drupal event anywhere (and it really is!) 🐊☀️, MidCamp does a pretty nice job as well.

If you’re a #drupal developer or contributor, put Dev Days on your event bucket list ✅ – there’s nothing else like it 💡🤝 drunomics.com/en/blog/drup... Wrap-up via @wolfz.bsky.social 🧑‍💻📣 #DrupalDevDays #opensource #community

“…the biggest mistake with using ARIA is its overuse. It's very important to always default to native HTML, and use ARIA only when necessary.” Via @katannshaw.bsky.social 🧠🛠️ www.thedroptimes.com/interview/48... #a11y #HTML #webdev

I’ve been aware of the CSS “owl” selector for a while, but never felt I really understood it well enough to use it. 🦉💡 @imariohernandez.bsky.social does a great job of explaining it in the perfect amount of detail (for me at least!) 📚✨ mariohernandez.io/blog/underst...

An important thing missing from the video description is that a supportive employer is often a big part of the process – this can’t be understated. 🙌💼 🎥 Video about Daniel Veza bocomin a #Drupal subsystem maintainer: www.previousnext.com.au/blog/my-jour... Thank you, @previousnext.com.au xt 🙏🌟

WhirlyBall is the new official sport of #drupal @midcamp.org

The #drupal @midcamp contribution room is packed this morning!

During a recent DrupalEasy office hours (held weekly for our students and alumni), we took a look at www.drupal.org/project/webf... and then used an LLM to generate the .yml for a 10 question multiple choice quiz! Pretty nifty!

Variants look like a useful addition to Single Directory Components coming in #drupal core 11.2.0: www.drupal.org/node/3517062 Change record via @penyaskito.bsky.social

Get inside the head of Jacob Rockowitz as he builds his first #drupal module with AI 🤖🧠 www.jrockowitz.com/blog/buildin... Two things stood out to me: 1️⃣ Could he have written the module in less time than it took to write the prompt? ⏱️🤔 2️⃣ 👍 for the prompt as part of the module’s documentation. 📄💡

The #ddev maintainers are being proactive about helping DDEV add-on maintainers 🙌🧩 This is a sign of a healthy project 💪🌱 ddev.com/blog/ddev-ad... Blog post by Stanislav Zhuk (github.com/stasadev ) ✍️

The #drupal Marketplace “share outs” continue to proceed at a meaningful pace. 🛍️⚙️ Ensure your voice is heard – or at least just keep yourself in the loop. 🗣️👀 If we decide to proceed, it will change the Drupal ecosystem. 🔁🌐 www.drupal.org/about/starsh...

Beginner-level #drupal article by Suresh Prabhu from @specbee.bsky.social about creating custom blocks: 🧱✨ www.specbee.com/blogs/progra... My only complaint: next time mention “drush generate”! ⚡🛠️

Another free AI trial for a specific #Drupal use case 🤖🆓 dxpr.com/drupal-blog/... Sometimes the biggest hurdle is just typing in a credit card number (rightly so!) 💳🙅‍♂️ — stuff like this removes that barrier. Via DXPR

Crises averted. Phew. 😅🙌 osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... For backstory, see: osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... and www.drupal.org/association/...

Ooooooo Config Checkpoints UI seems like a really good idea. 🧩💡 nuvole.org/blog/2025/ap... It's an easy way to provide a way to revert your #drupal site's config back to a known state without using Git or Drush. 🔄🛠️ Via Fabian Bircher

Allow me to summarize and inject my opinion into this lengthy blog post about why creating a powerful content editor experience that’s also easy to use is difficult: Too many options is bad. 🧠⚙️😵‍💫 evolvingweb.com/blog/content... Via Jesse Dyck from EvolvingWeb

I think it’s a sign of a healthy #drupal community when I have to look up where Ruhr is… DrupalCamp Ruhr is September 12-13, 2025 in Germany (a bit north of Dusseldorf.) drupalcamp.ruhr Sidenote: TIL “Ruhr” is a region in western Germany.

"Do not accept any errors in the logs." ⚠️📛 @jurgenhaas.bsky.social has some stringent requirements about keeping a #drupal site running in tip-top shape. 🛠️🚀 www.lakedrops.com/en/blog/real...

Looking to hire a junior #drupal developer for things like keeping modules up-to-date, quality assurance, site building, or basic theming? 🔧🧪🎨 If so, consider a new #drupal developer and get 250 contribution credits! 💥💯 Learn more about the Drupal IXP program: www.drupal.org/ixp 📘🚀

Just a photo of my dog, Stella 🐶, being very patient with me during her photo shoot 📸🧘‍♀️💕

“The first few hours someone spends with #Drupal often determine whether they stick around or walk away” ⏱️🚪 Super blog post by Balint Pekker about innovations in the Drupal community to make it easier to get started 🚀💡 bpekker.dev/the-rise-of-...

Figuring out which modern #drupal Bootstrap-powered base theme to use isn’t easy 🤔 - I’ve used a few of them in the past few years. I did a bit of a deep dive 🏊‍♂️ into some of the most well-known contenders - here’s what I found: www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimi... 🔍💻

New #drupal community members can have a difficult time obtaining the required permission to maintain contrib modules 🧱🛑 - Kevin Reynen has been surfacing this issue lately. Here’s a summary from The Drop Times 📰🧩 www.thedroptimes.com/48238/blocke...

Our company, DrupalEasy, published a Star Wars themed newsletter yesterday 🌌✨. If you’re not a subscriber, you might want to check it out: 🔗 info.anelloconsulting.com/email/previe... Subscribe to the 1x/month newsletter here 📬➡️ www.drupaleasy.com/newsletter

I was helping a client new-ish to #Drupal set up a dev site, and for whatever reason, the site’s file permissions were all jacked up 😩🔐 I found this script via drupal.org and it worked like a charm! 🛠️✨ github.com/Metadrop/dru...

Doing (almost) anything 500 times is an achievement – unless it’s a bad habit. 😅 The @talkingdrupal.bsky.social folks are the exception — a bad habit can also be an achievement. 🥳🎙️🎉 sacstudio.libsyn.com/talking-drup... (I was honored to be part of the festivities! 🙌)

ADRs from Lullabot are always valuable 📄💡, including this new one regarding ImageMagick and #drupal 🖼️🐘. architecture.lullabot.com/adr/20250409... While I understand that ADRs are not the place for specific examples, I’d love to see a detailed comparison with GD that led to this decision 🤔📊.

Fascinating LinkedIn thread about a potential #Drupal marketplace initiated by Jürgen Haas 🔥🧩 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... My favorite bits from the comments (so far!) ✨ - “Everything in this area is a bloody minefield 😬💥“ - The idea of using drupal.com for any marketplace 🌐🛍️

A couple of weeks ago Martin Anderson-Clutz and I found ourselves outside the door of a dormitory that was the source of us ever meeting in the first place. 🏫🔑😊 Here’s a hint: www.acquia.com/blog/what-is... 🧩🌐

The force is strong with the next DrupalEasy newsletter 💫🧑‍🚀 – some of our best work yet! Don’t miss out, young Padawan… www.drupaleasy.com/newsletter 📡🌌

A hill I will die on: Andor is the best media ever created in the Star Wars universe. 🏔️🔥✨ May the 4th be with you! 🌌🛰️💫 #StarWarsDay #starwars

If you’re a #Drupal developer who uses PhpStorm and DDEV, then you’ll definitely want to check out this comprehensive blog post about configuring all the things ⚙️🛠️ (including front-end tools 🎨) for an efficient development environment. iamdroid.net/blog/dev-tools Via Andrey Yurtaev

Not surprising that the #Drupal AI project is using an industry standard… 😏🤖 velvetshark.com/ai-company-l... www.drupal.org/project/ai

During his Dev Days presentation Gábor Hojtsy showed the #Drupal CMS Design System sizzle reel from the folks at Mediacurrent - exciting stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l34U...

A few thoughts about the @drupalcon.bsky.social Atlanta attendance stats: 1️⃣ How does the country diversity compare with previous years? 🌍 2️⃣ 41% of tickets were complementary! 🎟️😲 3️⃣ 97 sponsorships – nice! 🙌 www.drupal.org/association/... Blog post by Meghan Harrell.