March 15, 2024

mglaman.dev – March 15th, 2024

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Here's your weekly newsletter from me, Matt Glaman!

My latest blog post

I can't think of another open source project that has been able to turn contributing to open source as a marketing opportunity, thanks to our tooling on Drupal.org. I find it a fascinating, unique feature of our community.

Drupal has made contributing to open source a marketing opportunity

Drupal has done something unique with contributing to open source. Our community has made contributing to the open source project a marketing opportunity for organizations using Drupal. Generally, contributing to open source projects reflects at the individual level. There isn't a great way to reflect if the individual did it out of some intrinsic value to improve open source or by sponsored work with their employer or a customer. As far as I know, Drupal is the only open source project providin...

MidCamp

MidCamp is next week! It's an amazing conference that I look forward to every year. I'll give my Tighten up your Drupal code using PHPStan talk at 11:15 am.

I'm leaving Friday afternoon, but I plan on attending the Contribution Day activities on Friday before I head out.

Tighten up your Drupal code using PHPStan | MidCamp

Interesting links

• Processing One Billion Rows in PHP!
  • I love this article, and not because of the fact one billion rows in a CSV were processed. I love that the author goes through an iterative process to solve a problem with small enhancements along the way.

• How HEAD works in git
  • I feel like I understood what HEAD meant in my local Git repository. Turns out I was mostly right. Great article to explain HEAD in your repository.

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