Dev Corner

Meltdown
🕑Jan 15, 2018 🖋John Locke 💬0

Meltdown notes

The Meltdown vulnerability leaked out into public news a full week before patches were available for many distributions. When patches did become available, sometimes the patch caused further trouble.

🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬0

Post Salt events into a Matrix room

In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.

Rock climb
🕑Aug 05, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬2

Getting the group into the URL with Purl

The corners of Drupal 8 that aren't there are quickly dwindling, but there are still some that need to get worked out. While upgrading our internal issue tracker, we hit a new one -- getting a group context set via a URL alias, and generally keeping posts within a group.

🕑Apr 17, 2017 🖋John Locke 💬3

Nginx: Fix for redirect loop on D8 sites

On one of our D8 sites, after upgrading to 8.3.0, we had a "too many redirects" loop going on on the dev server. For quite some time, we've had the site path repeated with "?q=".