

Rate Limiting an aggressive bot in Nginx
High load isn't necessarily an emergency, but it may be a heads-up before a site noticeably slows down. Sometimes there are weird spikes that just go away, but sometimes this is an indication of a Denial of Service.

Deploying blocks and content to other site environments
If you have a current Drupal site (built in Drupal 8 or later) you no longer need to entirely rebuild your site -- ever again. That doesn't mean it couldn't use a freshening up now and then.

Software we're grateful for #3 - NextCloud
To wrap up our round-up of awesome open source packages, and to get back to business, our final selection for the year is NextCloud.

Software we're grateful for #2 - HomeAssistant
For the holidays, we're highlighting some awesome Free/Open Source software -- three amazing platforms that have gone far beyond any commercial/proprietary competitor.

Software we're grateful for #1 - Matrix
In the spirit of the holidays, we're doing a few posts on Free/Open Source projects that we use every day, that isn't what we sell.

A new approach to Drupal theming, just in time for Drupal 10
Over the past few months, I've fielded a lot of minor styling requests, and as I work through each problem, I've almost always ended up with substantially less code than was there before.