Commenting in Drupal hasn't noticeably changed in 15 years. That changes now.
đź•‘Oct 13, 2026 đź–‹John Locke
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HTMX
đź•‘Oct 10, 2026 đź–‹John Locke
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Drupal Meets Matrix part 2: Live Comments with ECA and HTMX
A comment thread in Drupal works totally fine. You fill in a form, click submit, and your comment gets posted. Same way it has for over 20 years.
But if somebody else replies when you're on the page, you don't see anything change, you don't get any notification.
đź•‘Sep 13, 2026 đź–‹John Locke
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Using AI to review AI-Generated code: Astra vs. Opus vs. DeepSeek
Astra built an impressive amount of working code, but missed serious performance problems. DeepSeek found several of them for 22 cents. Opus cost dramatically more and found a substantially different set of problems, especially around UI and accessibility.
Case Study
From Drupal 5 to Drupal Canvas: Keeping KSER on the Air Through Two Decades of the Web
KSER is a community radio station. Community radio doesn’t get downtime — or a huge IT budget.
We started maintaining KSER’s Drupal 5 site in 2013, even though Drupal 5 had already reached end-of-life. For more than a decade, we kept it secure, stable, and useful while the station put its resources where they mattered most.
Now KSER has a new home on Drupal 11 and Drupal CMS, with Drupal Canvas for easier content management and a persistent audio player that keeps the station streaming while visitors move through the site.
Sometimes the right answer isn’t “rebuild now.” It’s maintain what you have well, then replace it when the time is right.
đź•‘Apr 21, 2026 đź–‹John Locke
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When Views meets Drupal Canvas -- getting dynamic content into your Canvas page
From early days, "views" has been the killer feature of Drupal. Views is a powerful querying tool built into Drupal that allows dynamic lists and displays of content to be created without writing custom code.
Status Messages
You click "Add to Cart" and a little notification pops up: "Item added!" You submit a form and see "Thank you, your message has been sent." You start typing in a search box and results appear below as you type. These instant feedback messages are everywhere on modern websites - but are they accessible to everyone?
For sighted users, these visual cues are obvious. But for someone using a screen reader, these dynamic updates can be completely invisible unless they're coded properly. The page content changed, but their screen reader said nothing about it.