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VS Code: University Colour Palettes

I like changing colour palettes on my various workspaces. It’s especially nice when in situations like jumping between personal and work spaces of the same app, or multiple clients, or dev vs stagi...

Drupal Dev Environment Updated: The DevContainer

This continues from a previous post about a new Drupal dev environment, a significant upgrade from some previous posts that you can find on the Drupal Docker tag. That covered the Dockerfiles, whil...

Drupal Dev Environment Updated: The Dockerfiles

A while ago I wrote about building a Docker Desktop dev environment for Drupal. It was built on Oracle Linux, a requirement in that context, with three images for Apache, PHP, and MySQL. But there ...

Drupal: Open Menu

In a previous related post, I wrote about some lessons in a co-design project of an open menu, with a video where we presented about it to the IDRC. That was mostly about the process and this is ab...

Dark Content Mode

In case you haven’t caught it yet, there’s new functionality coming to browsers for dark mode applied to content. This could come as a surprise to web developers who did not plan for dark mode in t...

VS Code Extensions: My Workflows

When it comes to my VS Code extensions, I have mine set up a few different ways depending on what kind of project I’m working on: Default These are the default plugins I have locally installed, f...

Text Underline Position

This one is a quick accessibility CSS tip. I have long been a proponent of the old standard of underlining links, and never underlining anything else. It helps make it clear that it is a link. Add ...

IDRC Presentation on Open Menu

I recently joined the Inclusive Design Research Centre to present along with a couple of colleagues how we designed an “open menu”, a header-focused main menu navigation that works much better for ...

Church Website Content

This is not my usual type of content for this site, but I was reminded of it from a Mastodon conversation and wanted to put it somewhere more or less permanent. Before building the latest iteration...

Drupal: Add Role Based on File

A while ago I wrote about, and shared sample code for, adding a role to a user when they log in if their name appears in a file on the server. That was a Drupal 7 sample. I’ve now updated that for...