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
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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
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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!
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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_outlineToday 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:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/556
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 Cadence And Backward Compatibility
- Avoiding Maintainer Burnout
- Maintaining With AI And Xdebug
Resources
- Drush's Final Act
- Drupal cli issue
- DDEV addons
Guests
Moshe Weitzman - weitzman.github.io moshe-weitzman
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Scott Falconer - managing-ai.com scott-falconer
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted insights into how cache is working on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Oct 2019 by Moshe Weitzman (moshe weitzman), today’s guest, a consistent core contributor, a member of the security team, and one of the rare few with a two-digit user id on drupal.org
- Versions available: 2.0.3, 2.1.0, and 2.2.0, the last of which works with Drupal 8.7.7, 9, 10, and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security and test coverage
- Documentation - in depth README
- Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug, but is marked fixed
- Usage stats:
- 37 sites
- Module features and usage
- With this module enabled, your Drupal site will log all cache tag invalidations
- Additionally, cache tag invalidations will be sent to New Relic as custom events, where you can use the rich reporting tools available to mine for further insights. Many Drupal hosting options include New Relic out-of-the-box, and there’s a free tier you can use if you’re self-hosting, so this a reporting tool lots of Drupal sites can use
- Cache hits and misses are also sent to New Relic, so you can investigate things like cache misses as a percentage by cache bin
- Finally, the aforementioned README also includes information about how to use a different analytics provider, in case New Relic doesn’t meet your specific needs
- Drupal sites probably don’t need this kind of visibility on a regular basis, but if you’re troubleshooting any kind of cache-related issue, this could be really useful