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Mark Conroy Demonstrates Drupal Workspaces Techniques at LocalGov Drupal Content Meetup Mark Conroy presented a session at the LocalGov Drupal Content Meetup demonstrating practical techniques for working with Drupal’s Workspaces module. The talk explored strategies for staging content updates, previewing unpublished changes, and managi...

Mark Conroy @mark.ie shared practical techniques for using Drupal’s Workspaces module at the LocalGov Drupal Content Meetup. @localgovdrupal.bsky.social

The session explored staging content changes, managing revisions, and selectively publishing updates.

https://bit.ly/47dO6eg

#DrupalCMS

Experimental Drupal module explores WebMCP for browser AI assistants

Mark Conroy @mark.ie released the experimental WebMCP User Forms module for Drupal.

It adds WebMCP attributes to core login, password reset, and registration forms—testing how browser-based AI assistants could interpret and act on Drupal interfaces.

https://bit.ly/4cCC4yR

#DrupalAI #WebMCP

Photo of a pier looking out to Clew Bay. It is the morning and the sky is pink and the sky a light blue.

Hello. Hope the day is treating you well. Here's a photo of a beautiful morning in Murrisk looking out to Clew Bay.

This is such an exciting day for me, with the premiere of the film made about my 17 years rewilding an Irish Atlantic rainforest (also the film's title).

What a surreal moment in my life it'll be to see the ecosystem I know and love so well on a big cinema screen!!

DrupalCamp England 2026: Practical Conversations on Accessibility, Scale, and AI Beyond the headlines of AI and performance gains, DrupalCamp England 2026 turns its attention to the practical realities of building responsibly. From accessibility failures in everyday components to the infrastructure demands of large-scale AI, thes...

At #DrupalCamp England 2026, the conversation shifts from capability to consequence.

Sessions by Maria Young, David Bishop, and Antje Lorch examine real accessibility failures, AI at scale, and the environmental and social costs of adoption.
https://bit.ly/4scUkTY

#Accessibility #AI

Nature's wonderful patternings in rock lichens.

AI Single Page Importer: Fast, Flexible Single-page Imports for Drupal AI Single Page Importer is a Drupal contributed module designed to help bring content into a Drupal site from a single URL or source page in a streamlined way.

The new #Drupal AI Single Page Importer module seems like an elegant solution to a common task. 🤖✨

mark.ie/blog/ai-sing...

Via @mark.ie 🚀

Rosette Nebula from my yard near Atlanta (with a little moonlight bleeding in).

Celestron Origin, H-Alpha and 30% IR pass. Captured and stacked directly via OLV and PixInsight.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Apple pulls select iOS updates due to connectivity issues Apple this week released an array of iOS updates, including iOS 26.2.1, iOS 18.7.4, and more. Now, however, it appears that Apple has pulled some of these new updates due to problems with network connectivity in Australia. more…

Apple pulls select iOS updates due to connectivity issues

Chain - comiCSS comiCSS Games: games about CSS. Coded in CSS (mostly).

Only [really-low-made-up-number-😅]% of web developers will solve this CSS puzzle. Can you?

It's the latest game added to comiCSS: Chain comicss.art/games/7/

Find the 7 hidden CSS words!

#css #game #webdev

Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever ($50,000) > ... we need to be honest about what's happening: the infrastructure that powers modern software development is under financial strain, even as usage reaches all-time highs.

Supporting Open Source in 2026: Why It Matters More Than Ever ($50,000)

> ... we need to be honest about what's happening: the infrastructure that powers modern software development is under financial strain, even as usage reaches all-time highs.

Custom Views Style Plugins Bring UI Control to Drupal Grid Layouts James Nettik of Aten Design Group introduces a method to apply component grid layouts to Views using custom style plugins. The approach improves clarity, reduces duplication, and empowers site builders to manage display styles through the UI.

James Nettik (Aten Design Group) introduces a custom Views style plugin for Drupal.

It surfaces layout options like column counts in the admin UI—no more buried Twig logic.
https://bit.ly/3NxDEay

#DrupalViews #ComponentTheming #DrupalUX #AtenDesignGroup

Dibujo minimalista con los personajes del Mago de Oz, titulado "El Mago de Ux". El león pide valor, el espantapájaros pide un cerebro, el hombre de hojalata pide un corazón y Dorothy pide "programadores web que se preocupen por la accesibiliad"

Versión en español del último cómic.

#css #desarrolloWeb #español #spanish

Drupal Iberia 2026 Set for 8–9 May in Braga, Tickets Now Available

Drupal Iberia returns May 8–9 in Braga 🇵🇹

Forum Braga will host devs and contributors from across Spain and Portugal for talks, workshops, and connection.

Event details via TDT: https://bit.ly/49K1zLr

#Drupal #DrupalIberia #OpenSource #DrupalEvents

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Behind the scenes this week is organisation, learning, some cybersecurity digging, and easing back into LocalGov Drupal work. Feeling good about the year ahead.

#Drupal #OpenSource #LocalGovDrupal #Community

AI Single Page Importer: Fast, Flexible Single-page Imports for Drupal AI Single Page Importer is a Drupal contributed module designed to help bring content into a Drupal site from a single URL or source page in a streamlined way.

In among the celebrations, Mark Conroy dropped a genuinely handy single-page importer module with a short walkthrough video. One of those tools I wish I had on several past projects.

#drupal | Hayden Baillio Heard it’s Drupal’s birthday today… so, here’s my best attempt at wooing it. #drupal

Drupal turned 25 last week.

Lots of great posts, but my favourite was Hayden Baillio doing his best attempt at wooing Drupal.

Started web dev same year as #Drupal. Joined at Drupal 8. That first theme is still running on Drupal 10. We’ve aged and kept moving.

#Drupal25Words #CelebrateDrupal #Drupal25

Quiet desks gather
Light fades from once-busy rooms
Time locks the front door

Understanding REST in Drupal: Acquia Certification Module 2.9 Module 2.9 of the Weekly Drupal Acquia certification prep series focuses on REST and web services in Drupal core. Saroj outlines when REST is appropriate, how to expose resources securely, and why Views is often a better choice for internal use cases...

🌐 REST in Drupal made clear—Module 2.9 of Saroj K’s Weekly Drupal covers API access and exam prep.

Learn how core modules, auth, caching, and JSON/HAL serialization fit into real-world workflows.

https://bit.ly/4pmbTis

#DrupalAPI #REST #AcquiaCertification #DrupalDev

An Irish rainforest sky at dusk

Nature's artistry.

Sunshine in Co Mayo

Goodbye 2025.
Fare thee well.
You were gone in the blink of an AI.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Eyeries Cascades, nearby on the Kealincha River.

There's still some residual oak, rowan, willow, and other native tree species around, but I can't help imagining how magical this must have been when it was enclosed in thick, wild Atlantic rainforest.

Without sheep, it could be again.
#Rewilding 🌎

LocalGov Drupal Connect Midlands Set for January 2026 in Gedling

📍 LocalGov Drupal Connect Midlands happens Jan 29 in Gedling.

A chance for UK councils to collaborate on real-world LocalGov Drupal @localgovdrupal.bsky.social use.

Details: https://bit.ly/4pUlpuk

#Drupal #LocalGovDrupal #OpenSourceGov #UKGovTech

It's beginning to look a lot like CSSmas
Everywhere you scroll
Take a look at the grid and flex, they're box-shadowed once again
With conic-gradients and border-shapes that glow

Merry CSSmas!