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Technical articles, field notes and /now editorials, with a strong Drupal focus.

fri 5 dec 2025 Drupal Entity Hook Drupal 11 Drupal 10 Drupal 9

Drupal - How to override your nodes with bundle classes

This is not exactly news: bundle classes were introduced in core back in Drupal 9.3, in 2021. Yet I still see a lot of projects that do without them, and I've wanted to cover the topic here for a long time. It's a feature that changes the…
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mon 27 oct 2025 Gitlab Linux CentOS AlmaLinux

Migrating a GitLab instance to a new server

With CentOS reaching end of life, I had to migrate my GitLab installation to a new server. I chose AlmaLinux 9 (https://almalinux.org/) for this: it is also based on Red Hat, with the same package system, so I wouldn't be lost. This…
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tue 5 nov 2024 Drupal Hook Drupal 11 Drupal 10

Drupal 11: Using the new object-oriented syntax for hooks

In December 2024, Drupal 11.1 introduced a new, object-oriented way to implement hooks! It is now the approach recommended by core, and almost every hook is covered. Update, August 6, 2026: article revised for Drupal 11.4. Since it was…
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wed 3 apr 2024 Drupal SearchAPI Searchstax

Drupal + Search API + SearchStax: fixing the "internal server error"

A strange issue I ran into on a Drupal project with searchApi connected to SearchStax. On some pages I was getting a 500 "internal server error" response, while many others worked without any problem... There aren't really any logs on…
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tue 30 jan 2024 Fedora Linux DNS

Fedora: Redirect an entire TLD to your machine without touching the hosts file

In just a few minutes, you can redirect an entire TLD (for example *.test ) to your machine using dnsmasq. Installing the software Configuration Edit the /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file to add the line dns=dnsmasq at the end…
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Drupal - How to override your nodes with bundle classes

Migrating a GitLab instance to a new server

Drupal 11: Using the new object-oriented syntax for hooks

Drupal + Search API + SearchStax: fixing the "internal server error"

Fedora: Redirect an entire TLD to your machine without touching the hosts file