👋 Hi, I'm Mike Herchel, and I use Drupal, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies to kick various asses throughout cyberspace.
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I wrote an article for Smashing Magazine that just got published that details the work that goes into improving the Umami profile’s largest contentful paint (LCP) metric.
Drupal 10 comes with a number of brand new Twig filters. In this article, I’ll walk you through using two of these to set the fetchpriority attribute on an image.
Pittsburgh was a DrupalCon for the ages. Talking with friends on the way home, we all agreed that this year felt more natural and “drupal” than last year in Portland (which was the first after the pandemic shutdown).
Next week I’m attending DrupalCon Pittsburgh and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m arriving late on Friday night to attend a Drupal Association Board of Directors retreat over the weekend, and I’ll be staying an entire week to take in the ‘con.
New to Drupal 10.1 (coming this June) is a group of settings that will make Drupal front-enders' lives a lot easier (especially newbies). We can now control Twig caching (and disable render, and page caches) from the UI!
This was my very first time to MidCamp, and my first time to Chicago since DrupalCon in 2011.
Single directory components (SDC) is the biggest paradigm shift in Drupal since the introduction of Twig in 2013! At its core, SDC allows you to gather related files from a component (CSS, JS, Twig), and group them into one directory. SDC will automatically generate the library and load it when the component is called.
Last week, I launched the new version of my buddy’s website in Drupal 9, The Masters Lawn Care (aka TMLC). While this website sees magnitudes less traffic than the vast majority of Drupal sites on the web, I still consider it to be rather ambitious.
Last week I had a chance to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. What follows is a harrowing tale of danger, mistrust, greed, and treasure.