Talking Drupal

Today we share interviews conducted at NEDCamp in November 2022. This is an audio only episode.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com380

1. John Picozzi
2. Shane Thomas
3. Donna Bungard
4. Chris Wells
5. Jacob Rockowitz
6. Leslie Glynn
7. Mike Anello
8. Mike Miles
9. Nic Laflin

Stephen Cross @stephencross

with Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Bookable Calendar Module https://www.drupal.org/project/bookable_calendar A very easy to use Bookable Calendar module. Whether you're giving lessons and want your students to be able to book a lesson or a business trying to stagger traffic into your building, this module aims to get you up and running as fast as possible.

Today we are talking about Acquia's Drupal Acceleration Team with Tim Plunkett.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/378

• What is the Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT)
• Responsibilities
• Previous releases
• Office of the CTO - OCTO
• How big is the team
• Direction
• Priorities for new releases
• Dries' involvement
• Contribution %
• What are you working on now
• Something you wish you were working on
• R&D
• Planning 2-5 years
• Getting involved

• Acquia's Drupal Acceleration Team
• Ideas queue

Tim Plunkett - @timplunkett

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Keysave Adds Javascript to allow editors and admins to save an entity or config using command-s or control-s instead of clicking on the submit button.

Today we are talking about the Drupal State module with Brian Perry.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/377

• NedCamp
• Drupal State Module
• Who is involved
• Drupal State - a module without a release
• NPM
• Decoupled menus
• What problem does this solve
• How is this different from GraphQl
• In production
• Roadmap
• Getting involved
• Which front-end
• Individual Drupal ecosystems like commerce
• Evaluating JS Frameworks
• Stability

• Vite
• Snowflakes

Brian Perry - Brianperry.dev @bricomedy

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - redfinsolutions.com @leslieglynn

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Christmas Snow Adds a Javascript snow effect to your website.

Today we are talking about Burnout with Jono Bacon.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/376

• What is burnout
• Why is it so important to you
• Have you suffered from burnout
• Do different professions have different rates of burnout
• Is it individual or teams / projects / community oriented
• Is it only mental or can it be physical
• What contributes to burnout as a contributor or maintainer
• What can prevent burnout
• How do you recover
• First episode was Talking Drupal #265
• Helping communities
• Signs to watch out for
• What is next

• Ryan holiday book Obstacle is the way
• Talking Drupal #374 - Neurodiversity
• Talking Drupal #265 - People Powered
• Project Browser module Beta2 release
• Project Browser Strategic Initiative

Jono Bacon - www.jonobacon.com @jonobacon

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Leslie Glynn - @leslieglynn

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Token The Token module provides a centralized API for text substitution. Since Drupal 7 some Token support is built into core, but the module provides common and reusable token UI elements and missing core tokens.

Today we are talking about Being a Creative Director with Randy Oest.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/375

• What is a Creative Director?
• How is being a CD at a technical company different?
• Do Drupal CD's need additional skills?
• Sometimes things get lost in translation between design and development how do you bridge that gap?
• How do you mentor?
• How do you interview for creative positions?
• Do you hire developers too?
• Optimal makeup for a team.
• Guiding the Four Kitchen's team
• Inpiration

• NEDCamp Videos
• Bits and Mortar
• WTI Yale
• Sanity
• PenPot
• Quant-Ux
• Four Kitchens

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu ECA ECA is a powerful, versatile, and user-friendly rules engine for Drupal 9+. The core module is a processor that validates and executes event-condition-action plugins. Integrated with graphical user interfaces like BPMN.iO, Camunda, ECA Core Modeller or other possible future modellers, ECA is a robust system for building conditionally triggered action sets.

Today we are talking about Neurodiversity with Matthew Saunders.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/374

• What is Neurodiversity
• People first
• What got you interested in Neurodiversity
• Youtube series My Neurodivergent Brain
• How does it apply to Drupal
• How can the community help Neurodivergent folks
• How does this impact work relationships
• How do you attend camps and cons
• Is there testing we can apply to our projects to help
• What are best practices in design
• Will this be at DrupalCon
• How would you improve the world for neurodivergent folks
• Representation in media

• My neurodivergent brain youtube
• Drupalcon talks about Neurodiversity
  • Pivot Points - Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019
  • Neurodivergence in Tech - Drupalcon Portland 2022

Matthew Saunders - @Creech

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Views User Term Filter Make your site experience aligned to your users by showing them content that share a taxonomy term with their user profile Created to demonstrate how Drupal can make a site feel "customized" based on a user's profile

Today we are talking about Performance, Privacy, and the Open Web with Andrey Lipattsev & Tim Lehnen.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/373

• What is the Open Web and what does it have to do with performance and privacy
• What do we mean by web performance
• What are the core vitals
• What are the non core vitals
• What is the benefit of performance
• Performance is usually granular for a developer, what is different when looking at industry trends from a browser side
• What does d.o do
• DA and Google at DrupalCon
• What is privacy
• What is the privacy sandbox in chrome

• Web Vitals
• MOTW discussion
• Performance
  • https://web.dev/learn-core-web-vitals/
  • https://pagespeed.web.dev/
  • https://web.dev/vitals-business-impact/
  • https://make.wordpress.org/performance/2022/07/26/welcome-to-the-performance-team-blog/
  • Example: https://web.dev/measure/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrupal.org
  • https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-stack-packs/blob/master/packs/drupal.js
  • https://github.com/tag1consulting/google-drupal/projects/1
• Privacy
  • https://privacysandbox.com
  • https://github.com/WICG/first-party-sets
• cls - cumulative layout shift
• IMDB pagespeed
• Core vital affect on search ranking blog post
• Direct business impact
• Collaboration on lazy load
• Core vital tech report
• Talks on performance for chrome
  • Lessons learned from performance monitoring in Chrome | Annie Sullivan | performance.now() 2019
  • Annie Sullivan :: Understanding Cumulative Layout Shift :: #PerfMatters Conference 2020
• webp
• Webprofiler

Andrey Lipattsev - www.linkedin.com/in/andreylipattsev @AndreyLipattsev Tim Lehnen - @hestenet

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Entity Autocomplete Anchor Nominated by matthieu, who has been a guest on the show and is himself a maintainer of a number of useful modules Provides a widget that allows users to add anchors to entity reference links

Today we are talking about CKEditor 5 with Wiktor Walc & Piotrek Koszuliński.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/372

• What is CKEditor
• What does it do for Drupal
• Differnece between CKEditor 4 and 5
• Biggest benefit
• Improvements to the editing experience
• Plugin ecosystem
• Plugin language
• Roadmap
• Paid Features
• Supporting the Drupal community
• Security
• Native Web Components

• CKEditor Premium Features Module
• CKEditor Inspector
• Firefox github extension

Wiktor Walc - ckeditor.com @w_walc Piotrek Koszuliński - ckeditor.com @reinmarpl

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Randy Oest - randyoest.com @amazingrando

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Metatag

Previously discussed in episodes: 70 as MOTW (8y ago!) and mentioned in 31, 46, 137. And 185 Brief description: Allows your Drupal site to provide meta tags on content to implement SEO best practices and maximize online findability Brief history

• How old: created in 2009
• Versions available: Supported versions for Drupal 7, 9, and 10
• Current version released Sep 29, 2022 Usage stats: 381,821 Maintainer(s): Dave Reid and DamienMcKenna - renowned Drupal contributors Module features and usage Allows content editors to populate common (and uncommon) meta tags either manually for each piece of content, or to have them filled out programmatically using tokens A wide variety of submodules to address different use cases where meta tags are helpful: social sharing, verifying site ownership (e.g. for Google Search Console), and more For any site that considers SEO a priority (which is probably most public-facing sites), setting Metatag should really be one of the first things Discussion: Given how widely used this module is, does anyone have specific experience with Metatag to talk about?

Today we are talking about WebOps Enabled Accessibility with Tearyne Almendariz and Blake Bertuccelli.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/371

• What is WebOps Enabled Accessibility
• Who should be concerned about it
• Describe a few use cases
• What types of tests are good to perform
• If Accessibility is "built-in" why do I need to test for it
• How much accessibility is content related
• Where do you run the tests
• Are they pass / fail or percentage based
• What tools are most common
• How does Pantheon support WebOps Accessibility
• Equalify.app

• What is WebOps
• An open source project that opens the internet for all
• Equalify.app
• International Accessibility Laws
• Certification Link
• Native Web Components and Accessibility
• Training from Harvard
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/training
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/das-events/accessibility-training-events
• Training from DoJ
• Brian Charlson Keynote
• IAAP Certifications
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/accessible-document-specialist
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certified-professional
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/wascertification
• Accessibility testing on commit
• Equalify Github repo
• UK gov tool audit
• Accessibility statement on Pantheon

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth - Equalify.app @bbertucc

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu

Entity Comparison

• Brief description
  • Generate a configurable comparison table for two or more Drupal entities: products, events, people, etc
  • Not dependent on Commerce, but should be compatible
• Brief history
  • Created in 2017
• Current version
  • Current 4.0 release created in Aug 2022, ready for Drupal 10, and has security coverage
• Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3 open, 2 have patches
• Usage stats
  • 292 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Generates "Comparison" configuration entities, which specify which entity type and bundle will be used
  • Automatically creates a view mode for the selected bundle
  • Fields set to display will be included in the comparison table
  • Two custom blocks: one to show the link to add to or remove an entity from the comparison (via AJAX), and one to show a link to the comparison
  • Link for toggle of an entity's inclusion is also available as a field

Today we are talking about A Smaller Core with Théodore Biadala.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/370

• What is meant by a smaller core
• What modules have been removed already
• What is the process
• Chopping block terminology
• Which modules are under discussion
• When they go to contrib is there a maintainer first
• What is the impact to users of the module
• How long will they be maintained in contrib
• Why is this important
• What modules are next
• What is the commitment to being a core system maintainer
• Is there going to a sub release process

• Deprecated and obsolete modules and themes
• Drupal core maintainers

Théodore Biadala - read.theodoreb.net @nod_

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tearyne Almendariz - @tearyneg

Swagger UI for OpenAPI UI Swagger UI is a javascript library which allows a user to explore the api documentation for a web services API. This module provides the Swagger UI library for display of OpenAPI specifications within Drupal site. OpenAPI UI is required to use the project, as it provides the underlying architecture.