🕑Jun 02, 2026 🖋John Locke
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"Argo-nizing" Our Platform for AI Development
How grouping related repos into a single parent directory made AI coding assistants significantly more useful
Dev Corner
🕑May 18, 2026 🖋John Locke
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The Rules Have Changed: Security in the Age of AI-Assisted Attacks
Security is getting dramatically harder and more expensive. AI is simultaneously driving an explosion in vulnerability discovery and weaponizing the exploits that follow. The question for every organization with anything online is no longer whether to invest in resilience — it's whether that investment is already in place before the next incident arrives.
🕑May 06, 2026 🖋John Locke
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When Your WordPress Site Launches Into a Performance Crisis
A real-world post-mortem on 15 performance issues we fixed in 4 days — and what every WordPress site owner should know before going live.
🕑Apr 21, 2026 🖋John Locke
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When Views meets Drupal Canvas -- getting dynamic content into your Canvas page
From early days, "views" has been the killer feature of Drupal. Views is a powerful querying tool built into Drupal that allows dynamic lists and displays of content to be created without writing custom code.
🕑Sep 22, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Use Drupal Flake for PHPUnit testing
Drupal Flake is a new way of doing local Drupal development (running a self-contained Drupal site on your desktop or laptop).
🕑Sep 22, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Use Group Purl on your Group site!
One big missing part of the Group module is setting up friendly URLs that contain the group in the path for group content. You can't set this up in Pathauto -- the tokens are too limited to handle this correctly.
🕑Sep 22, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Easy unit testing with Drupal Flake and AI - Group PURL, a case study
AI does not replace system engineering. Stories abound about AI running amok, deleting production databases, exposing private data, failing to deliver on promises.
🕑Jul 14, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Unleashing the power of ECA: No-code coding for ambitious site builders
Last year I gave a presentation at DrupalCon about automating things using the powerful ECA Module. Here's the recording!
🕑Jun 12, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Website Availability - handling an outage
How do you get a website back up, when it goes down?
🕑May 01, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Containerless Dev environments for Drupal development with Nix
The recording of my talk from DrupalCon this year is now available!
This is perhaps my most technical talk, meant for developers and tinkerers who would like an easy way to get started with Drupal.
🕑Feb 01, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Adding power to your shell - my home manager configuration
At Freelock, we're starting to use Nix to manage different PHP environments, and be able to incrementally update websites.
🕑Jan 12, 2025 🖋John Locke
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Creating Product Bundles in Drupal Commerce
As we start developing mini-products to offer to our clients, we've found we actually need to group multiple products under one purchase.