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A review of Flow Engineering by Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis — how collaborative mapping exercises help teams see constraints, build shared clarity, and focus on what actually matters.

A personal reflection on David Farley's Modern Software Engineering — why its principles of feedback, learning, and modular design are the essential foundation for the age of agentic coding, vibe coding, and AI software factories.

Installing an unauthenticated homelab tool sparked a deep dive into self-hosted authentication—exploring Cloudflare Access, Authelia, Pocket ID, Keycloak, and landing on Tinyauth with Nginx Proxy Manager.

Why terraform init threw SignatureDoesNotMatch through Cloudflare Tunnels, and what AWS SDK v2 is doing behind the scenes.

After discovering MinIO's repository was archived, I evaluated SeaweedFS and Garage for self-hosted S3 storage.

Why I wrapped Terraform in Bash to isolate Proxmox LXCs and VMs per VMID, how the state backend evolved to S3, and how a Python discovery engine auto-generates live infrastructure catalogs.

Why Ollama suddenly ran everything on the CPU on my AMD APU box, and the one environment variable that brought the GPU back.

How I integrated LLMs into my PKM converter, refactored API abstractions, debugged network/port quirks, and compared local model performance.

Why and how I built a custom Python migration CLI to extract semantic note structures from Logseq and bridge the gap to document-based PKM vaults.

Why and how I shifted my development workflow from local laptops to a Proxmox-based remote setup, optimized for agentic workflows.

My experience attending the AWS Jam in Toronto, diving into DevOps and Generative AI, and unexpectedly taking the top spot.

A deep dive into a manual PostgreSQL 15 to 18 migration for Immich on TrueNAS SCALE, using Warp's AI agent to navigate a broken upgrade path.

My journey modernizing an old Ansible role for chezmoi, navigating the shifts in the Ansible ecosystem, and learning to treat AI as a senior peer.

My journey to solve fragmented terminal history by self-hosting an Atuin sync server using Docker and Coolify.

When working with Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate content, there's always a risk of losing your unique perspective.

It’s been a while.

This DrupalFest series of posts is about to end and I thought that a fitting end would be to talk about the future of Drupal.

I began writing this series of posts on April 1st, 2021 to celebrate DrupalFest, Drupal's 20th year.

The configuration API is one of the major areas of progress made in Drupal 8.

Just as I published yesterday's article on the tech stack, I realized that I missed a few important things.

The title of this post is not really accurate, but I can't think of another way to say it.

Over the years, I have significantly lesser time for development and an increasing need to move around.

I thought I was done with the series of posts on object-oriented programming after my last one.

Update: Read the follow-up to this post where I discuss a mixed approach combining both of the approaches here.

I have been contributing to Drupal in a few different ways for a few years now.

We at Axelerant have been contributing to Drupal in our own ways for a long time.

Drupal 8 was a major revolution for the Drupal community in many ways, not least of which was because of the complete rearchitecting of the codebase.

Now that we have discussed some of the concerns with career growth, let's talk about beginning a career in Drupal.

As the Director of Drupal services at Axelerant, one of the things I often worry about is the growth of each of the members of my team.

As of this writing, there are 47,008 modules available on Drupal.org.

I picked up this topic from my ideas list for this #DrupalFest series of posts.

Drupal is a CMS.

As I was leaving home for the park, I wondered aloud what topic should I write about today.

It’s spring and I decided to come out to a park to work and write today’s post.

I have been setting up computers and configuring web servers for a long time now.

Here's a quick post to show how we can run Drupal in a CI environment easily so that we can test the site.

Today, I want to share my thoughts from a book passage related to Drupal.

Today's DrupalFest post is on the lighter side.

Today's post is going to be a quick one; not because it is an easy topic but because a lot has been said about it already.

I missed joining the DrupalNYC meetup today.

I am going to keep today's DrupalFest post simple and talk about the API to access content on drupal.org.

I recently opened up a spreadsheet where people can put in their ideas of what I can write about in this DrupalFest series.

This is the fourth post in my DrupalFest series and I am excited to keep it going.

PHP 7.4 introduced the concept of preloading classes (files) on server start-up into the PHP opcache.

This post will cover quickly setting up a Drupal website for testing, experimentation, or evaluating features on your local system.

Now that I have announced my "a blog a day" DrupalFest attempt, here's the first one.

It has been 20 years since Drupal began its journey in a dorm room and reached enterprises.

I recently set up a new laptop for work and was about to get most of the way using my dotfiles.

I have been trying to learn Go (golang) this week a bit more formally.

A long time in a galaxy far away...