Talking Drupal Newsletter #489
#489 - IXP Community Initiative
Today we are talking about The IXP Fellowship Initiative, Workplace Developer Training, and making Drupal better for the little guy with guests Carlos Ospina & Mike Anello. We’ll also cover Cloudflare Turnstile as our module of the week.
Topics
What is the IXP initiative
Why does the community think this is important
What is the current status
What changed in the last 10 years
How do we encourage businesses to do this
How can people get involved
Resources
Alternatives
https://www.drupal.org/project/hcaptcha - privacy-focused alternative, still image-based
https://www.drupal.org/project/altcha - open, self-hosted option. Seems more basic.
Posts referencing Irvine study
#ixp-fellowship on the Drupal Slack Workspace
Guests
Carlos Ospina - adrupalcouple.us camoa
Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Avi Schwab - froboy.org froboy
Module of the Week
with Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
The Cloudflare Turnstile module uses the Turnstile web service to augment the CAPTCHA system and protect forms. For more information on what Turnstile is, please visit: https://www.drupal.org/project/turnstile
Upcoming Episodes
#490 Drupal Contrib First with Steve Wirt. Recording February 18.
#491 OpenY with Kylie Aldridge-Ogden. Recording February 25.
#492 Pantheon Content Publisher with John Money & Chris Reynolds. Recording March 4.
#493 Drupal Developer Survey with Mike Richardson. Recording March 11.
Submit your questions on the #TalkingDrupal channel on Drupal Slack.
Artisan Theme: On the Workbench
by Martin Anderson-Clutz
Since I started working on the Drupal Event Platform initiative, a request that I've heard more than once is for a configurable theme. I have considered making a subtheme of Olivero that would expand the number of configuration options available, to allow for more options in the overall site styling, potentially including things like spacing, border-widths, and border-radius. I've spent some time under the hood with the Gin admin theme, which makes extensive use of custom properties (aka CSS variables) and even exposes a few of them as configuration options. When I revamped this site a few months back, I decided to follow a similar approach, leveraging properties as much as possible. So I knew a configurable theme was possible, but I also knew it would be a lot of work. A LOT.
That's why I was excited to read a blog post about the Artisan theme. It sounded like it might be exactly what camp organizers have been wanting for the Event Platform: a way customize the looks of their camp website without having to write code. I even covered it in a Module of the Week segment of the Talking Drupal podcast. I recently had the opportunity to do a deeper dive with the Artisan theme. Here are some initial observations.
First off, as promised the theme does indeed allow you to tweak the formatting of your Drupal site through the UI. The catch is that you need to run npm to turn that configuration into CSS. So working locally, you'd probably want to run the provided command that has npm continuously watch for changes, while you're customizing your theme….Continue reading at www.mandclu.com
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