ultimike
@ultimike
Florida-based Drupal developer and trainer. Mastadon: https://drupal.community/@ultimike
We all know that #Drupal-related AI development is moving at a blistering pace ⚡🤖. Here’s what’s coming in v1.2 of the AI module: drupal.org/about/starshot… IMHO, Field Widget Actions is HUGE 🛠️🧠. Integration with ECA and keeping humans in the loop is the right direction 👥✅.

I’m linking to this post from @johnpicozzi for two reasons: 1. It has solid info about spinning up a fresh #Drupal site with #DDEV ⚙️🧪 2. It includes an AI disclosure statement 🧠📝 (which I think should be a requirement for Drupal Planet items.) picozzi.com/notebook/2025/…

A great example of open-source software 💪🌍 A #ddev user had a pain point related to installing on Windows 🪟. They solved it, and then volunteered the code back to the DDEV project 🤝 colan.pro/blog/dropping-… Thanks Colan Schwartz for the contribution and the blog post! 🙌

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While preparing for a #drupal training gig, I had a reason to play around with the new-ish xhgui integration in #ddev - super cool and so easy to use in a very ddev-y way. ddev.com/blog/xhgui-fea… xhgui is a nice interface for xhprof - a lightweight PHP performance analyzer.

Nice overview about whether you should be using Automatic Updates with your #Drupal site from @amberhimesmatz 🧠🔄: drupalize.me/blog/automatic… The elephant in the room 🐘 (IMHO) is that I’m not aware of any hosting besides drupito.com that supports it out-of-the-box.
Hostile governments or not, there are a lot of good ideas in here about retaining control of your content in the event of a crisis. 🛡️🌐💡 devcollaborative.com/blog/protectin… Written by @ClaytonDewey ✍️

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Great background info from @dries on Cloudflare’s recent decision to block AI crawlers by default 🤖🚫 dri.es/the-webs-broke… 🔍🌐

I love this stuff: behind-the-scenes post about a recent #drupal security advisory 🔐🧠 Includes details on how the security team tackled this issue. xjmdrupal.org/blog/anemone This blog post by xjm really shows the professional manner the security team goes about their tasks! 👏
Interesting new #drupal contrib module that checks permission before allowing a user to create a new entity when using the Autocomplete widget 🛡️✨ computerminds.co.uk/articles/new-a… Blog post by @anotherjames 📝🔍

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Simple, straight-forward explainer on how to configure #ddev to use specific versions of tools 🔧💻 ddev.com/blog/ddev-bund… Bill Seremetis from @annertech explains using Terminus as an example 📘🛠️ I used this tip immediately on a Drupal 7 project!

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Is this anything #drupal-y going on at the Open Source Summit in Amsterdam in August? events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

I am super-happy to be a small part of the team that made this happen 🎉💙 More (financially) accessible DrupalCons have only upsides, IMHO 🙌💰 All the details: drupal.org/association/bl… On average, DrupalCon Chicago 2026 will be about $300 less than DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 💸🏙️