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Introducing the Catalog of Agent Neutralization Techniques (CANT): a comprehensive, named field guide to the excuses AI agents make. Every one caught in the act or borrowed from those who have, plus the counter for each. It turns out a 1957 criminology paper saw all of it coming.
Read more about The 28 rationalizations your AI coding agent uses to break your rules
A pattern for scheduled maintenance agents that never break anything on their own: a deterministic script applies the changes, and a Claude Code task reads the log and tells you what actually happened.
Read more about Deterministic by design: scheduled routines with Claude Code
Design, migration, and build — all in a weekend, with Claude as the collaborator. Here's what that process actually looked like and what it produced.
Read more about I rebuilt this website in a weekend using AI
If you've been to a Drupal camp in the last few years, you've probably seen Kevin sprinting from session room to session room, making sure every speaker hit the big red record button.
Read more about I'd like to nominate Kevin Thull for this year's Aaron Winborn Award
Building on last week's Paragraphs carousel, here's how to drive a Bootstrap Carousel from a field — handy for a Featured Image field doing double duty as hero and Open Graph image.
Read more about One or Multiple: a Bootstrap Carousel from a multiple-value Drupal field
A similar approach to the multi-column section, this time for a slideshow — giving content admins an easy way to add a carousel to any page.
Read more about Making a Bootstrap Carousel with Drupal Paragraphs and a single Twig template
Theming the HTML select to look consistent across browsers is a task unto itself. Here's a CSS-only approach applied to an exposed filter on a view.
Read more about Styling Views exposed-filter selects in Drupal 8
One Paragraph bundle that renders a 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-column layout — each column able to hold any of the bundles you define.
Read more about A multi-column content section with Drupal Paragraphs and Bootstrap
Holistic SEO is where content, marketing, technical best practices, performance, security, and user intent come together to make the ideal URL on a given topic.
Read more about Holistic SEO and Drupal
I read a lot about Drupal and the web — but I learn even more when I listen. A big list of Drupal podcasts to subscribe to for the commute or the treadmill.
Read more about Drupal podcast guide
Teaching myself Drupal 8 theming from an empty folder on top of core's Stable theme — and getting the Bootstrap Navbar working far more simply than in Drupal 7.
Read more about A Bootstrap Navbar in Drupal 8 with four easy template changes
I am working on a site where the client requested that the Library tab be the first tab in the Media module's File browser pop up. While this is a seemingly simple request, it is one that I have ne...
Read more about Changing the Order of Drupal 7 Media Module File Browser Tabs