About

This is my personal blog. I use it to write down everything I learn and run into, at work and in my own side projects, so I don't have to learn it twice.

I've been building for the web for a long time now. Years of PHP and Drupal, from site building and Views to custom modules, the Entity API, Twig themes and migrations off Drupal 7, plus the Composer, Drush, MySQL and Redis underneath them. Somewhere along the way I noticed that the notes I kept for myself were the most useful thing I owned, and that most of them would have saved me a weekend on my last project.

So here they are, cleaned up. Each post is something I actually did: a bug that ate an afternoon, a Drupal setup I keep coming back to, a thing the docs explain in one line that took me a week to really get. I run the code before I post it and I say which Drupal and PHP versions I used, because nothing is more annoying than a tutorial that worked once on somebody else's laptop.

The name says what it is: hacks, in the old sense of clever, practical shortcuts. If you're new to Drupal, welcome, I'll show you the path I took and where I tripped. If you've been around a while, I hope you still find a trick or two.

Some links might earn me a small commission. That never decides what I write about or recommend. If I wouldn't use it myself, it's not here.

Found something broken, or want me to write about something? Drop me a line. I read everything.