👋  Hi, I'm Mike Herchel, and I use Drupal, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies to kick various asses throughout cyberspace.
This is huge! New to Twig in Drupal core (as of 9.5.x) is a much improved version of {{dump()}}!
Drupal 10 has completely refactored off-canvas stylesheets! While the look and feel is the same, it’s now dramatically easier to customize, and will likely have a new design soon.
Earlier today a new killer feature was committed to Drupal 10 core: Views Responsive Grids. But, it’s more than that.
In a normal (e.g. client) website project, we have an idea on how many menu items will appear in the menu. But, when you’re developing a default theme for Drupal core, any assumptions get thrown out the window. We have no clue how many menu items the user will add.
How do we handle this ?
As of version 9.1, Drupal automatically lazy-loads images by default. This functionality adds a loading="lazy" attribute when outputting an <img> tag. When the browser sees this, it will not download the image until it enters the viewport. This can save your user (and your web host) gobs on bandwidth by not downloading images that will never be used.
For the first time since 2019, the Drupal community has gotten together at a DrupalCon, and whew, it was a lot! Last month I attended DrupalCon in Portland, Oregon. This was my thirteenth in-person DrupalCon!
FFMPEG is a free open source command line tool used to convert any video type into any other video type! It's used by the likes of Youtube (who are major contributors), VLC, and many more.
Slides and video from #DrupalGovCon
Tips and techniques to optimize webperf on older sites
Rockin' out with Chrome Developer Tools