I don’t know who chose the thumbnail image for the video of my Drupalcon Dev Days keynote, butt the positioning of the YouTube play button…chef’s kiss! 😘

I gave a talk at BAD Camp this week on declarative (read: server-side rendering) Shadow DOM. One day this will replace React.js. And I learned so much researching this soon-to-be widely available tech; its "newly available" now and will officially be "widely available" in February 2027.

I posted my slides in the presentations section of my website and will be doing this talk a couple more times this year in Vienna and Japan.

It's my 20th Drupalversary! drupal.org/u/john-albin-wilkins

20 years ago I was looking for an open source CMS because I was tired of building everything on my own. I have never once regretted joining the Drupal community. We are so much more than a group of web developers.

Thank you to all the wonderful people I have befriended and worked with these past 20 years. I literally couldn’t have done it without all of you — that’s how Open Source works!

I just spoke with the good folks at the Talking Drupal podcast to discuss my recent work on the Next Drupal project. Next Drupal is both a collection of Drupal modules to aid content editors with decoupled websites and a JavaScript tool to integrate Next.js with Drupal’s JSON:API or GraphQL capabilities.

We’re currently doing a major upgrade to version 2 of the JavaScript tool to work with the newest features of Next.js. And we need more contributors!

😢 Today was one of the most challenging days of my life…

My day started off with two panic attacks, one of which my mind very conveniently scheduled for the waiting area of my therapist’s office. 😂 But I want to quickly assure you that I’m feeling much better now.

I’ve been slowly recognizing a past trauma and the panic was triggered when I realized that I only partially understand that trauma’s effects. I’ve still got work to do.