

Use Drupal Flake for PHPUnit testing
Drupal Flake is a new way of doing local Drupal development (running a self-contained Drupal site on your desktop or laptop).

Use Group Purl on your Group site!
One big missing part of the Group module is setting up friendly URLs that contain the group in the path for group content. You can't set this up in Pathauto -- the tokens are too limited to handle this correctly.

Easy unit testing with Drupal Flake and AI - Group PURL, a case study
AI does not replace system engineering. Stories abound about AI running amok, deleting production databases, exposing private data, failing to deliver on promises.

Upcoming Sales Tax changes for Washington
Starting next month (October 2025), Washington businesses and residents will be paying sales tax on a slew of new services -- including custom web development, IT services, digital advertising, and even temporary workers.

Automating all the things - 24 ideas for things you can automate with your website
Last December I wrote up 24 specific things we've automated on Drupal, and published them as an Advent Calender -- one little nugget each day.

Unleashing the power of ECA: No-code coding for ambitious site builders
Last year I gave a presentation at DrupalCon about automating things using the powerful ECA Module. Here's the recording!

Website Availability - handling an outage
How do you get a website back up, when it goes down?

Sustainable Business and AI
Call me a radical, but I don't think a handful of billionaires controlling the majority of a country's wealth is a good thing. I don't think the ultra-wealthy need more benefits at the expense of everyone else.

Containerless Dev environments for Drupal development with Nix
The recording of my talk from DrupalCon this year is now available!
This is perhaps my most technical talk, meant for developers and tinkerers who would like an easy way to get started with Drupal.

Ask Freelock: Do I need a Web Application Firewall?
Craig asks,

Adding power to your shell - my home manager configuration
At Freelock, we're starting to use Nix to manage different PHP environments, and be able to incrementally update websites.

Ask Freelock: Sortable tables?
Kevin asks,
Is there a Drupal Add On or Widget that would allow users to sort tables as they're displayed on the website?
Hi, Kevin,
Several options here: