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Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 8min

Talking Drupal #381 - A Modular Web with Sam Bhagwat

This is episode #381 A Modular Web with Sam Bhagwat. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/381 Topics Gatsby Founding Gatsby Modular: The Web’s New Architecture When did you decide to write the book Key tech changes over time What is the Modular Web Successful architecture Is it similar to serverless Challenges Drupal focused companies and modularity Advice on transitioning Drupal 2023 and Gatsby Staying competitive in JS Kindle Book Resources Modular: The Web’s New Architecture: (And How It’s Changing Online Business) gatsby-plugin-drupal-i18next Gatsby and Drupal (224, 260) https://talkingdrupal.com/224 https://talkingdrupal.com/260 The Website Owners Manual by Paul Boag tc39 Gatsby: The reactive site generator (and a live demo tour of how we got here) Guests Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - www.StephenCross.com @stephencross MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Decoupled Interface Translations Allows a headless application to use Drupal-managed interface translations.
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Dec 26, 2022 • 56min

Talking Drupal #379 - The EOWG

Today we are talking about The Drupal Event Organizers Working Group with Avi Schwab. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/379 Topics What is the EOWG How was it formed What are some of the initiatives How does the EOWG support Drupal Events How is the EOWG different from the Contrib Events Community Initiative What is planned for 2023 How do you get involved Becoming a board member Drupalcon Midcamp Resources Event Organizers Working Group EOWG Initiatives First Talking Drupal on EOWG Event Platform https://talkingdrupal.com/365 https://www.drupal.org/project/event_platform Organizing a DrupalCamp Guests Avi Schwab - froboy.org @froboy@mastodon.online Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Previous/Next API Provides a performant way to define a sequence of content.
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Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 54min

Talking Drupal #380 - Happy New Year

Today we share interviews conducted at NEDCamp in November 2022. This is an audio only episode. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com380 Topics / Guests John Picozzi Shane Thomas Donna Bungard Chris Wells Jacob Rockowitz Leslie Glynn Mike Anello Mike Miles Nic Laflin Hosts Stephen Cross @stephencross MOTW with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Bookable Calendar Module https://www.drupal.org/project/bookable_calendar A very easy to use Bookable Calendar module. Whether you’re giving lessons and want your students to be able to book a lesson or a business trying to stagger traffic into your building, this module aims to get you up and running as fast as possible.
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Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 7min

Talking Drupal #378 - Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team

Today we are talking about Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team with Tim Plunkett. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/378 Topics What is the Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT) Responsibilities Previous releases Office of the CTO - OCTO How big is the team Direction Priorities for new releases Dries’ involvement Contribution % What are you working on now Something you wish you were working on R&D Planning 2-5 years Getting involved Resources Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team Ideas queue Guests Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Keysave Adds Javascript to allow editors and admins to save an entity or config using command-s or control-s instead of clicking on the submit button.
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Dec 12, 2022 • 50min

Talking Drupal #377 - Drupal State

Today we are talking about the Drupal State module with Brian Perry. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/377 Topics NedCamp Drupal State Module Who is involved Drupal State - a module without a release NPM Decoupled menus What problem does this solve How is this different from GraphQl In production Roadmap Getting involved Which front-end Individual Drupal ecosystems like commerce Evaluating JS Frameworks Stability Resources Vite Snowflakes Guests Brian Perry - Brianperry.dev @bricomedy Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Christmas Snow Adds a Javascript snow effect to your website.
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Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 10min

Talking Drupal #376 - Burnout

Today we are talking about Burnout with Jono Bacon. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/376 Topics What is burnout Why is it so important to you Have you suffered from burnout Do different professions have different rates of burnout Is it individual or teams / projects / community oriented Is it only mental or can it be physical What contributes to burnout as a contributor or maintainer What can prevent burnout How do you recover First episode was Talking Drupal #265 Helping communities Signs to watch out for What is next Resources Ryan holiday book Obstacle is the way Talking Drupal #374 - Neurodiversity Talking Drupal #265 - People Powered Project Browser module Beta2 release Project Browser Strategic Initiative Guests Jono Bacon - www.jonobacon.com @jonobacon Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - @leslieglynn MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Token The Token module provides a centralized API for text substitution. Since Drupal 7 some Token support is built into core, but the module provides common and reusable token UI elements and missing core tokens.
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Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 9min

Talking Drupal #375 - Being A Creative Director

Today we are talking about Being a Creative Director with Randy Oest. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/375 Topics What is a Creative Director? How is being a CD at a technical company different? Do Drupal CD’s need additional skills? Sometimes things get lost in translation between design and development how do you bridge that gap? How do you mentor? How do you interview for creative positions? Do you hire developers too? Optimal makeup for a team. Guiding the Four Kitchen’s team Inpiration Resources NEDCamp Videos Bits and Mortar WTI Yale Sanity PenPot Quant-Ux Four Kitchens Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu ECA ECA is a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly rules engine for Drupal 9+. The core module is a processor that validates and executes event-condition-action plugins. Integrated with graphical user interfaces like BPMN.iO, Camunda, ECA Core Modeller or other possible future modellers, ECA is a robust system for building conditionally triggered action sets.
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Nov 21, 2022 • 1h 12min

Talking Drupal #374 - Neurodiversity

Today we are talking about Neurodiversity with Matthew Saunders. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/374 Topics What is Neurodiversity People first What got you interested in Neurodiversity Youtube series My Neurodivergent Brain How does it apply to Drupal How can the community help Neurodivergent folks How does this impact work relationships How do you attend camps and cons Is there testing we can apply to our projects to help What are best practices in design Will this be at DrupalCon How would you improve the world for neurodivergent folks Representation in media Resources My neurodivergent brain youtube Drupalcon talks about Neurodiversity Pivot Points - Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019 Neurodivergence in Tech - Drupalcon Portland 2022 Guests Matthew Saunders - @Creech Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Views User Term Filter Make your site experience aligned to your users by showing them content that share a taxonomy term with their user profile Created to demonstrate how Drupal can make a site feel “customized” based on a user’s profile
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Nov 14, 2022 • 1h 17min

Talking Drupal #373 - Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web

Today we are talking about Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web with Andrey Lipattsev & Tim Lehnen. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/373 Topics What is the Open Web and what does it have to do with performance and privacy What do we mean by web performance What are the core vitals What are the non core vitals What is the benefit of performance Performance is usually granular for a developer, what is different when looking at industry trends from a browser side What does d.o do DA and Google at DrupalCon What is privacy What is the privacy sandbox in chrome Resources Web Vitals MOTW discussion Performance https://web.dev/learn-core-web-vitals/ https://pagespeed.web.dev/ https://web.dev/vitals-business-impact/ https://make.wordpress.org/performance/2022/07/26/welcome-to-the-performance-team-blog/ Example: https://web.dev/measure/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrupal.org https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-stack-packs/blob/master/packs/drupal.js https://github.com/tag1consulting/google-drupal/projects/1 Privacy https://privacysandbox.com https://github.com/WICG/first-party-sets cls - cumulative layout shift IMDB pagespeed Core vital affect on search ranking blog post Direct business impact Collaboration on lazy load Core vital tech report Talks on performance for chrome Lessons learned from performance monitoring in Chrome | Annie Sullivan | performance.now() 2019 Annie Sullivan :: Understanding Cumulative Layout Shift :: #PerfMatters Conference 2020 webp Webprofiler Guests Andrey Lipattsev - www.linkedin.com/in/andreylipattsev @AndreyLipattsev Tim Lehnen - @hestenet Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Entity Autocomplete Anchor Nominated by matthieu, who has been a guest on the show and is himself a maintainer of a number of useful modules Provides a widget that allows users to add anchors to entity reference links
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Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 17min

Talking Drupal #372 - CKEditor 5

Today we are talking about CKEditor 5 with Wiktor Walc & Piotrek Koszuliński. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/372 Topics What is CKEditor What does it do for Drupal Differnece between CKEditor 4 and 5 Biggest benefit Improvements to the editing experience Plugin ecosystem Plugin language Roadmap Paid Features Supporting the Drupal community Security Native Web Components Resources CKEditor Premium Features Module CKEditor Inspector Firefox github extension Guests Wiktor Walc - ckeditor.com @w_walc Piotrek Koszuliński - ckeditor.com @reinmarpl Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Metatag Previously discussed in episodes: 70 as MOTW (8y ago!) and mentioned in 31, 46, 137. And 185 Brief description: Allows your Drupal site to provide meta tags on content to implement SEO best practices and maximize online findability Brief history How old: created in 2009 Versions available: Supported versions for Drupal 7, 9, and 10 Current version released Sep 29, 2022 Usage stats: 381,821 Maintainer(s): Dave Reid and DamienMcKenna - renowned Drupal contributors Module features and usage Allows content editors to populate common (and uncommon) meta tags either manually for each piece of content, or to have them filled out programmatically using tokens A wide variety of submodules to address different use cases where meta tags are helpful: social sharing, verifying site ownership (e.g. for Google Search Console), and more For any site that considers SEO a priority (which is probably most public-facing sites), setting Metatag should really be one of the first things Discussion: Given how widely used this module is, does anyone have specific experience with Metatag to talk about?

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