XB week 21: web standards-powered bug fixes
The typical post-DrupalCon slow week — from travel woes to taking some time off, to passing on learnings to the rest of the team.
XB week 20: 0.1.0-alpha during DrupalCon!
DrupalCon week!
XB week 19: flickering cliffhanger
Last week ended with 12 remaining issues. Did we make it? :D Major loose ends Like last week, I’m starting with the major loose ends.
XB week 18: DriesNote deadline
With DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 only two weeks later, the focus this week is on tying up loose ends.
XB week 17: drag and drop party
We matched last week’s record: again 26 MRs merged! :D
XB week 16: better UX thanks to ghosts & Redux
A new record week: 26 MRs merged! :D Too much to cover, so going forward, I will only write about the most notable changes.
XB week 15: docs & DX
Monday August 19, 2024 definitely was a milestone:
XB week 14: early christmas tree
How does cta1href sound to you? Gibberish, right? :D
XB week 13: location, location & OpenAPI
The first prominent leap forward this week was built by Harumi “hooroomoo” Jang: they added the ability to Experience Builder (
XB week 12: component previews & StorablePropShape
The back-end heart of Experience Builder (XB) is its two-property field type.
XB week 11: live updates
This week started with undoing the horrors that y’all were subjected to last week: TwoTerribleTextAreasWidget featured prominently.
XB week 10: no field widget left behind
The Cypress front-end testing infrastructure clean-up landed on Monday, so this week we’ve already been seeing increased velocity!
XB week 9: front-end locomotive gathering steam
Experience Builder (XB) allows crafting an experience using components. A tree of components.
XB week 8: design locomotive gathering steam
Last week was very quiet, July 1–7’s #experience-builder Drupal Slack meeting was
XB week 7: Drupal Dev Days Burgas
It’s Drupal Dev Days week!
XB week 6: diagrams & meta issues
1.5 week prior, Lee “larowlan” + Jesse fixed a bug in the undo/redo functionality and added the fir
XB week 5: chaos theory
We started the week off with a first MVP config entity: the component config entity.
XB week 4: annotated data model test
My Monday started with a pleasant surprise that is only possible in cross-timezone collaborations: Ted “tedbow”
XB week 3: shape matching
Monday was a U.S. holiday, which meant I was able to go full-steam ahead on the sto
XB week 2: outlines emerging
Experience Builder (XB) must be able to render single directory components (SDC
XB week 1: 0.x branch opened!
Acquia is sponsoring me full-time to operate as the tech lead for Experience Builder — thanks!
Hands-on with Drupal configuration validation
This is a follow-up to my DrupalCon Pittsburgh talk.
DrupalCon Lille 2023 Initiatives keynote
As has become a tradition since DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019, all Drupal core initiatives with leads attending DrupalCon Lille took part in a
Drupal's next leap: configuration validation
Drupal 8 shipped with many exciting new concepts, including “configuration”, “configuration and content entities”, “validation constraints” and “API-First”.
High concurrency Composer
On behalf of Acquia I’m currently working on Drupal’s next big leap: Automatic Updates