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.
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All the best for 2026! Happy coding.
Christmas tree. Gifts at the base. Text that says Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas and all the best for 2026!
Dries Buytaert Open Sources 20 Years of Blog Content on GitHub
🗂️ Dries Buytaert has open-sourced 20 years of blog content to GitHub as Markdown files!
Each change auto-commits from his Drupal site—framing a new model for digital content resilience.
Read via TDT: https://bit.ly/4j1PJRb
#Drupal #OpenSource #DigitalPreservation #ContentStrategy
🚀 Publishing large Drupal updates just got easier.
Mark Conroy @mark.ie shows how Workspaces let you stage and launch entire site sections—menus, pages, and all—in one click.
Watch the tutorial via TDT: https://bit.ly/3KYNxgy
#Drupal #ContentWorkflow #Workspaces #GovCMS
Drupal 11.3 is here with the biggest performance boost in a decade. 🚀
👉 Serve 26-33% more requests with the same database load.
👉 New native HTMX support enables rich UX with up to 71% less JavaScript.
🔗 Learn more at www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-...
#Drupal #WebDev #Performance #HTMX
Why apt update is important.
Check your apps and stay safe out there. Happy coding!
Reading the RTÉ piece on Ireland’s tech sector and this line stayed with me: “Organisations must invest in continuous learning, upskilling and reskilling.”
It has been a hard year in tech, but we still need skilled people and real pathways that help people grow.
I'm launching a course: Build a LocalGov Drupal Website.
Wanna keep up to take with progress (and perhaps - probably - get a discount code before it launches)?
the-confident.com/courses/buil...
Today we're having a look at Automated Patching.
Cloudflare seems to be having another rough morning. Services all over the place are wobbling again, including LinkedIn and Downdetector. Always interesting to see how wide the ripple gets when a backbone provider struggles.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
We're kicking off a weekly series to bridge the gap between technical decisions and business outcomes. Every Monday, you get practical insights on code, stability, strategy, and content. If there is something we can help you with, please reach out.
Tomorrow's the last day!
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Great deals from @piccalil.li at the moment.
Just bought Mindful Design, can't wait to watch it.
piccalil.li/black-friday/
Call for Nominations: Celebrate the People of Drupal in the 2025 Advent Calendar
Call for nominations: The 2025 Drupal Advent Calendar will spotlight unsung community contributors—not code.
Submit someone who deserves recognition this December.
Full details via @lostcarpark.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/48ozDfs
#DrupalCommunity #DrupalAdvent #OpenSource #Recognition
Free today! And the next, and the next. Enjoy!
How about a #CSS property called "property" that you could use like this:
.class {
property(font-size, top, left, margin-bottom): 1rem;
}
instead of:
.class {
font-size: 1rem;
top: 1rem;
left: 1rem;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
Like :where() except for properties.
Quick recap on the recent LocalGov Drupal Week.
Neo having to accept a cookie from Oracle during her talk with him is the best program related joke of all-time.
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Been running quick SiteImprove checks on a bunch of sites this week. One issue we keep seeing: missing H1s.
It’s a small thing with a big ripple effect for accessibility and clarity.
If you’re seeing the same warnings on your site and want a hand fixing it, JFM Digital Works is here to help.
Tried Google Antigravity after watching their YouTube demo.
Used the exact same prompt. Their app looked slick. Mine did not.
Gave it feedback and it replied with
“Recovering from Failure…”
as if I’d hurt its feelings. 😭
Didn’t realise AI came with emotional patch notes.
Cloudflare is having a rough morning and the Global Network seems to be wobbling. Days like this remind me how much of the internet quietly leans on a handful of services to stay upright.
It is a good time to check your own fallback plans.
#cloudflare #devops #webperf #internetinfrastructure
I really enjoyed this LocalGov Drupal Week session yesterday.
Great turnout, lots of engagement and a smart look at how AI can help councils modernise how they publish content. If you missed it, the recording is well worth a watch.
#LocalGovDrupal #Drupal #OpenSource #PublicSector #AI
LocalGov Drupal Week starts today.
Really interesting follow up to the Composer 2.9 security improvements.
Packagist is now working on a transparency log to give the PHP community clearer visibility into package activity.
#PHP #Composer #Security #OpenSource #SupplyChainSecurity
Composer 2.9 has a small but important change that I think deserves more attention.
It now automatically blocks updates to packages with known security advisories.
Worth a read if you haven’t looked at the release notes yet.
#Drupal #PHP #Composer #Security #OpenSource
