Inserting boilerplate text into CKEditor in Drupal If you’re pasting the same content in many places on your site, it’ll be a hassle if you need to go back and change it later. Drupal provides many ways to solve “Don’t Repeat Yourself” problems using entities. I describe one way: Set up a toolbar button in CKE ditor that inserts taxonomy terms containing boilerplate text. jstrecker 2026.07.21 @…
For you, I'll make an exception Looking back at the Exceptional Behavior demo and pairing it with the MIG stuff from even further back gave me an idea. Since the MIG stuff can generate both a client and a server, could we do something … surprising? cwright 2026.07.14 @ 15:31
Support Ohio amendment to ban big data centers I sure don’t want any massive data centers built near my house. Do you? Here in Ohio, there’s a petition to put a proposed amendment on the ballot to ban the construction of data centers that consume over 25 megawatts of energy. If you live in the Buckeye State, look for a volunteer collecting signatures or visit the Conserve Ohio website to learn…
Twice the Price In Exceptional Behavior we got to see a bare-bones mach message to mig server loop in the function exception_server . To summarize the function, mach_msg is used to receive a message, it’s passed along to mach_exc_server for handling, the return value is negligently ignored, and finally the reply is sent out also using mach_msg . Since these interfaces hail from the late 1980’s…
Figuring out autowired Dependency Injection of custom services with OOP hooks I was switching over from using procedural hooks to object-oriented programming ( OOP ) hooks today. I ran into an error that was confusing to me because I had already defined services: Cannot autowire service “Drupal\nokoto_social\Hook\ActorHooks”: argument “$activityManager” of method “__construct()” references class…
A fragment of SEO history, brought to you by the Wolohan Lumber Company (1964–2006) Tonight, in the woods about a hundred meters behind our house, my partner found a tag from Wolohan Lumber Company for a Rhododendron catawbiense . This might be the same between-14-and-33-year-old rhododendron that currently lives next to our front door. smokris 2026.04.02 @ 22:03
A Drupal migration that wraps values in paragraphs Sometimes the way that we’ve structured a site’s content originally is no longer ideal after several years. Here I’ll share an example of using a Drupal migration to restructure content. This example transforms an entity reference field to a paragraph field that wraps the entity reference. jstrecker 2026.01.09 @ 13:50
I coulda been a contender! Contemplating ways to further explore the cache characteristics of my M2 , a philosophical question came to mind: How many threads can dance on the head of a cacheline? Answering this question proves to be both decidable and illuminating. cwright 2025.11.18 @ 16:03
Cache on delivery There was a period of two to three years where I conducted a couple technical interviews per week, totaling hundreds of interviews. We were trying to fill a role, and had somewhat esoteric requirements (getting the right personal, technical, and interpersonal skills for our team was quite demanding). One of my favorite questions was this: “Describe in detail what this line of…
Line in the sand, or, Cache me outside Recently I’ve been poking at a JIT . Long ago, The Story of Mel captivated me with the line “If a program can’t rewrite its own code, what good is it?” The idea of self-modifying code was fascinating, but also infuriatingly annoying on x86 with its variable instruction length. ARM thankfully makes it pretty straightforward, with uniform instruction sizes (4…