Talking Drupal #561 - The Aaron Winborn Award
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Aaron Winborn, The award named after him, and what winning is like with guests George DeMet & April Sides. We’ll also cover Summit as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Who Was Aaron Winborn Award Origin Story How Winners Are Chosen Why Community Matters What Winners Share April Learns She Won Handcrafted Award Stories On Stage Emotions After Winning Reflections How To Contribute Nominations And Makers Surprise Award Ideas Wrap Up And Contacts Resources Guests April Sides - George DeMet - Hosts Nic Laflin - John Picozzi - Ashraf...
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Talking Drupal #560 - Content Sync
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Content, syndication, and Synchronization between Drupal Sites with guest Thiemo Müller. We’ll also cover Drupal core 11.4 as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Origins and Use Cases Hub Model and Flexibility Media Sync and Governance Composable Pages Challenge Governance With Blocks Canvas And Recipes Real Time Syndication Scaling To Thousands GEO And AEO Explained GEO Audits And Loops ContentSync Recommendations Permissions And Drupal 11 AIM Assess Improve Monitor Boosting Drupal AI Presence Ecosystem Alignment Signals Recency And Messaging...
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TD Cafe #018 - Drupal Site Templates
Talking Drupal
Join Martin, Andy and Mike as they discuss what Drupal site templates are and how they differ from Drupal’s traditionally bare-bones starting point, aiming to reduce setup effort and total cost of ownership while making Drupal competitive again for small nonprofits and smaller sites. They compare building templates versus client sites, covering the evolution from early Layout Builder/Recipes work to today’s simpler packaging via a Drush site:export workflow, plus tooling like DripYard Recipe Builder for extracting reusable “recipe” parts. For show notes visit: Topics Martin...
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Talking Drupal #559 - Marketing Drupal
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Marketing, AI, and Drupal with guest Paul Johnson. We’ll also cover Curated Colors as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Paul's Current Projects Enterprise AI Summit Details Marketing the AI Initiative Partnering on Event Booths Drupal's Outside Perception What's Working Now Growing the Marketing Team How to Contribute Outside In Storytelling Case Study Examples AI Initiative Impact Roadmap and Launch Planning Finding New Adopters Where Pros Research Conference Pitch Story Local Event Playbook Funnel and Webinars Industry Guides and Demos SEO...
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Talking Drupal #558 - Agent Management System
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about AI, Agents, and A System to manage them with guest Luke McCormick. We’ll also cover AI Auto-reference as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Introducing Agent Management Origin Story Claude Credits Scrum Meets AI Retention Handoff Protocol Filesystem Why Handoffs Work So Well Examples and Human Loop Agent Roles and Model Costs Choosing Models by Task Not Drupal Specific Works With Any Model Scrum Sprints For Agents Human Cognitive Overload Tuning Autonomy Levels Setup And Handoff File Updating Customized AMS Persistent Memory Artifacts Demand...
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Talking Drupal #557 - Test-Driven Drupal eBook
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Test Driven Development, ebooks, and Drupal with guest Oliver Davies. We’ll also cover Juicer Social Feed as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is Test Driven Drupal Why Automated Tests Matter How TDD Works AI and Test Quality Balancing Test Coverage When to Write Tests Why Write the Book Why Write an Ebook From Email Course to Ebook Ebook vs Print Tradeoffs Who the Book Helps What You Will Learn Keeping Content Updated Publishing Tools Workflow Lessons and Drupal Changes Podcast and Future Books Mob Programming Explained Free Ebook and...
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Talking Drupal #556 - A Chat with Moshe
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Drush, Core Contributions, and Drupal’s Past with guest Moshe Weitzman. We’ll also cover Cache Metrics as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Moshe Updates and Clients Maintaining Drush Long Term Locale Performance Overhaul CLI in Core Initiative Which Commands Make the Cut Roadmap Contrib Commands Moving Commands Technical Hurdles How to Help From AI Initiative DDEV Add-ons for Local CI MySQL Toolkit Database Images Testing With Real Databases Devel Module Status Organic Groups Origins Where Ideas Come From Finding Drupal Early Days Release...
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TD Cafe #017 - Drupal Beginners with Mike and Rod
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Mike Anello and Rod Martin discuss the sharp decline in demand for beginner Drupal training. Drawing on data from their businesses, events, and other training providers, they explore factors including AI-driven self-service learning, Drupal’s growing complexity for newcomers, and limited community-wide marketing. They also discuss how initiatives like Drupal AI and broader promotion efforts could help attract and support the next generation of Drupal users. For show notes visit: Topics Mike Anello Mike, widely recognized by his Drupal.org username "ultimike," is a prominent figure in the...
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Talking Drupal #555 - AI Learners Club
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about AI, How to stay up to date with it, and if it will really take our jobs with guests Angie Byron & Amber Matz. We’ll also cover AI Best Practices for Drupal as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics What Is AI Learners Club Amber Defines the Club Origin Story and DrupalCon AI Debate and Community Tensions Issue Queue Conduct and Moderation Thread Tone vs Substance AI Adoption Outside Drupal Conflict Mediation Playbook Maintainer Burnout and Flood Safe Space Learners Club How the Club Started Picking Topics and Demos AI Taking Our Jobs Future of...
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Talking Drupal #554 - Hey! Scott Tolinski!
Talking Drupal
Today we are talking about Web Education, Level up Tutorials, and life after Drupal with guest Scott Tolinski. We’ll also cover Views Row SDC as our module of the week. For show notes visit: Topics Scott Origin Story Level Up Tutorials Era Syntax Podcast Beginnings Growing The Audience Web Components Debate Leaving Drupal Behind What Drupal Still Nails Agency Project Highlights Booking Podcast Guests Scott Work Week Setup Running Syntax Team Canvas HTML Experiments Livestream Tools Challenges Funding Via Sentry Project Ideas Process Conference Speaking Journey Speaking Logistics Family...
info_outlineIn Episode 549, Randy Fay and Stas Zhuk join us to discuss what DDEV is, recent improvements, and where it’s headed. Module of the week is the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on. Randy and Stas discuss priorities like reliability, consistent UX, add-ons discoverability, and new features including revamped ddev share with Cloudflare and rootless Podman support. They also cover coder.ddev.com, a cloud-based DDEV environment built on coder.com for easier onboarding and contribution, plus sustainability, community support, and challenges such as AI-driven PR volume and Stas’s development constraints in Ukraine.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/549
Topics
- Module of the Week - DDEV Drupal Contrib
- DDev Drupal Contri Overview
- Contrib Workflow Q&A
- Drush in Core Debate
- Add-on Registry and Contact
- Drupal AI Summit Plug
- What Is DDev
- Stas Origin Story
- Recent Releases and Priorities
- DDev Share and Podman
- Developer Experience Changes
- Database Upgrade Pain Points
- Coder DDev Cloud IDE
- Cloud DDEV Basics
- VS Code Remote Workflow
- Pair Programming Training Wins
- Docker Desktop Alternatives
- Onboarding Teams Faster
- Windows Support Reality
- Building Through War
- Roadmap Env File Fixes
- Beyond Drupal Adoption
- Addons Discovery Tools
- Funding Community Health
- AI Pull Requests Pressure
- AI Agents MCP Plans
- How To Get Involved
Resources
DDEV - https://ddev.com/
DDEV Add-on Registry - https://addons.ddev.com/
Introducing coder.ddev.com: DDEV in the Cloud - https://ddev.com/blog/coder-ddev-com-announcement/
About Stas Zhuk - https://ddev.com/blog/introducing-maintainer-stas/
Power Through Blackouts: How DDEV Community Helped Me in Ukraine - https://ddev.com/blog/power-through-blackouts-ddev-community-support/
Drush command in core - https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3453474
Drush's Final Act - https://weitzman.github.io/blog/drush-final-act
coder.com - https://coder.com/
Service hosting coder.ddev.com - https://www.hetzner.com/
Funding DDEV - https://ddev.com/blog/sustainability-for-ddev/
Gen AI DDEV newsletter note - https://ddev.com/blog/ddev-march-2026-newsletter/
Sharing Coder.ddev.com workspaces - https://github.com/ddev/coder-ddev/issues/80
Guests
Stas Zhuk - stasadev
Randy Fay - ddev.com rfay
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Rod Martin - DrupalHelps.com imrodmartin
Module of the Week
with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
DDEV Drupal Contrib - DDEV integration for developing Drupal contrib projects. As a general philosophy, your contributed module/theme is the center of the universe.