I am a Drupal back end engineer. I work to give you control over the technology you use. That means open source technology without vendor lock-in.
This is a bare-bones Drupal 11 site I set up to record things I learn. Many times, Iāve had to learn something a second time because I didnāt keep notes the first time. I hope to fix that by keeping notes here. I also hope the notes help you, whether youāre learning something for the first, the second, or the hundredth time.
I get offers almost every day from recruiters looking for Drupal talent. I appreciate sincere offers, but most fail in ways that are obvious to me as a candidate. I used to write a response to every offer, but that took too much time. Now I delete most offers as soon as I receive them. If you are a recruiter, this may baffle you. Why would I ignore your offer if Iām open to work? For recruiters who have been waiting to hear back from me, consider this my response. For recruiters who want to do better, here are some suggestions.
I needed to test a Drupal module I was working on in a Docker container. The code was not in a location accessible to Docker. I tried to use Composer to copy it over. This would have worked if the code contained a composer.json file. I could have used a Composer path repository with symlink set to false. But it did not contain a composer.json file, so I had to use a Composer package repository. Composer kept symlinking instead of copying.
I use cheap shared hosting from Dreamhost for my Drupal sites. Dreamhost shared hosting does not support memory-based caches like Redis and Varnish. But that doesnāt mean I have to settle for poor performance. The File Cache and Boost modules use the file system to provide an experience as good as memory-based caching.
This week I updated the Drupal CMS demo on Drupal Forge. Normally, a GitHub workflow takes care of this. We have a special script for Drupal CMS that preinstalls required recipes. We still show all the install steps to the user, but the preinstalled recipes make installation run faster. Our pre-install script failed because Drupal 11.3 stops installation with a warning if URL rewriting is not enabled.
I have been a DreamHost customer since 2006. I love the affordability and flexibility of their shared hosting. DreamHost allows customers to compile custom PHP extensions on shared hosting. I used this to add LDAP support to PHP. This worked fine until DreamHost upgraded their shared hosting servers to Ubuntu 22.04.
The docker-compose and docker-buildx formulae from Homebrew say to enable them by adding
After Cognizant installed Zscaler on my work Mac, DDEV could no longer retrieve images from Docker Hub. It complained that it could not verify the TLS certificate. I use Colima as my Docker provider, which apparently does not yet automatically update its root certificate authorities to match the machine it runs on.
In Floridaās election we have a constitutional amendment on abortion rights to vote on. I believe that choosing to abort a child is wrong in almost all circumstances. My belief is founded on both moral and religious convictions. Every abortion causes me anguish. Yet I am voting for the amendment to restore abortion rights in Florida. Why?
I am not voting on whether to have abortions. I am voting on whether to harm women and doctors who terminate a pregnancy before a child is able to survive outside the womb. Here is the text of the amendment: