Beyond Blocks

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Mike Gifford - Senior Strategist at CivicActions, W3C Invited Expert and Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer - to discuss web accessibility.

Links

• Mike's website
• Mike on Drupal.org
• My Web, My Way
• simplA11yPDFCrawler
• Drupal.org's Accessibility page
• WCAG 2 Overview
• Drupal's core gates
• Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) Community Group
• Sustainable Web Interest Group
• Writing Accessibility tests in Nightwatch
• The Sa11y module
• Drupal's Accessibility Coding Standards
• Shift-left testing

In this episode, Oliver is re-joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the new Modeler API module and progress made with the ECA module.

Links:

• Jürgen on Drupal.org
• The ECA module
• The BPMN.iO module
• Drupal Events, Conditions and Actions with Jürgen Haas
• Drupal Remote Dashboard
• Drupal Recipes
• Discussing Drupal CMS Recipes with Gareth Alexander
• Drupal CMS
• Discussing Drupalisms with Emma Horrell and Luke McCormick
• Model Context Protocol
• The Model Context Protocol module
• Using AI tools for web coding with Luke McCormick

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Ev Maslovskiy - CTO at SystemSeed - to discuss engineering culture after his recent talk at DrupalCamp England.

• https://www.drupal.org/u/spleshka
• https://systemseed.com
• https://www.drupal.org/systemseed
• https://www.drupalcampengland.org
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_9fWVCAUtU

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Gareth Alexander - Drupal CMS Accessibility Tools Track Lead and recent speaker at DrupalCamp England - to discuss Drupal CMS recipes.

## Links

• The Drupal recipes cookbook
• The Recipes Initiative project on Drupal.org
• The Bad Judgement module
• Gareth on Drupal.org
• Gareth's presentation at DrupalCamp England

In this episode, Oliver is joined again by Luke McCormick, this time to discuss using AI for web coding and how to simplify Drupal websites.

Links

• Luke on Drupal.org
• Web Coding for Non-Coders -- using AI, of course
• Cursor - the AI text editor
• The Cache-Size-Block module
• Simplify Drupal

In this episode, Oliver is joined by two guests - Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager at the University of Edinburgh, and Luke McCormick to discuss Drupalisms and Drupal's terminology, the Drupalisms working group and the work being done in Drupal and Drupal CMS to de-jargon Drupal.

For the final Beyond Blocks episode of 2024, I caught up with Mark Conroy to discuss changes since we spoke in February; namely leaving Annertech and setting up The Confident - a digital agency focused on LocalGov Drupal, different ways to charge for development services and being sponsored to work on open source software.

In this episode, Oliver and Jess Archer (Laravel core Team Member) discuss Laravel Prompts and Drush, PHP, Linux and working on the command-line with tools like Neovim and tmux.

https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/25-jess-archer-drush-laravel-prompts

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Chris Ballard to discuss his recent talk at PHP South West about using generative AI in PHP, speaking at meetups and live coding.

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the Drupal Event, Condition, Action (ECA) module.