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Maybe some other time Docker: Fast, declarative and reproducible developer environments using Nix

What if I told you you could reliably share your development environment configuration and version control it, all without the overhead of running a VM? And you could switch between them by changing directories, nearly instantaneously? It’s possible, with Nix and its ecosystem. In this talk we’ll give an overview of the components of the […]

Building a homegrown university portal with a tiny team

Follow our small web team of two on our journey to build a homegrown campus portal in the Drupal CMS we dubbed My.Fred. We’ll cover the steps we took to gather requirements and user feedback from our campus users to build and deliver a stable, simple, user-centric web portal service. Because the simple core of […]

Theme family trees and the future of WordPress

Parent and child themes aren’t anything new, but a changing WordPress led us to look at them in a new light. We were looking to create a new design system and site architecture that simultaneously: furthered the reach and standard usage of our visual branding, expedited creating new sites with customization abilities and allowed for […]