28 Jul 2026
Drupal.org aggregator
Dries Buytaert: From personal AI experiments to shared tools
In April 2025, I published Claude Code meets Drupal, my first public experiment with an AI coding agent. I have been experimenting with coding agents ever since, often by building tools to solve problems in my own work.
Last week, I joined the Drupal AI Learners Club to discuss several experiments I had already published. Angie Byron started the club and runs it with co-organizer Amber Himes Matz. It gives people in the Drupal community a place to show how they are using AI and talk honestly about what works and what does not.
I spent an hour walking through the experiments, starting with Drupal Digests, a tool that uses AI to summarize key developments across Drupal Core, Drupal CMS, Drupal Canvas, and the Drupal AI initiative.
Drupal Digests led to another experiment: AI-generated Rector rules. When a Drupal Core change deprecates an API, Drupal Digests analyzes the issue and code changes and generates a rule that can automate the corresponding upgrade in other Drupal projects.
I also showed an API catalog that helps AI agents discover my website's search API.
These are only some of my AI experiments. Most begin as tools I build for myself, and many never go any further. When one seems useful beyond my own work, I publish it so others can try it and improve it.
Once it is public, we can see whether people use it and want to help improve it. If they do, it may eventually become a community project. If not, that is useful to know too.
The recording goes into much more detail, with demonstrations of the tools and questions from the group. You can watch it below.
28 Jul 2026 8:06pm GMT
W3C - Blog
WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C's work on fonts on the web.
28 Jul 2026 2:40pm GMT
Drupal.org aggregator
BloomIdea: Shipping with MRW from Drupal Commerce: no more copy-pasting into the carrier portal
Several of the e-commerce stores we build and run ship with MRW, one of the main carriers in Spain and Portugal. Until recently, shipping an order meant leaving the store: open MRW's customer portal, retype the customer's address, print the label, then copy the shipment number back into Drupal so the customer gets a tracking link. Multiply by every order, every day, and add returns, which meant doing the same dance with the addresses swapped.
We replaced that with a Drupal module. It now runs the daily expedition of the first of them, and we are releasing it to the community: Commerce MRW is available on drupal.org, with a 1.1.0 release.
What it does
Commerce MRW integrates Drupal Commerce with MRW through SAGEC, the carrier's SOAP webservice for creating and managing shipments (envíos). The whole expedition cycle happens on the shipment admin pages the team already uses:
- Transmit shipments (TransmEnvio): one click creates the shipment on MRW's side and stores the returned shipment number as the Drupal shipment's tracking code, feeding the customer-facing tracking link.
- Labels on demand (GetEtiquetaEnvio): the transport label PDF is streamed straight from SAGEC every time someone asks for it. Labels are never stored locally, so MRW stays the single source of truth and there is no stale-file problem.
- Cancel (CancelarEnvio) transmitted shipments before the courier picks them up.
- Return pickups: a request can carry a pickup address (DatosRecogida), so MRW collects the parcel at the customer's door and delivers it back to the store. Returns stop being a manual job in the carrier portal.
- Tracking: a client for MRW's TrackingServices webservice queries the current status, or the full status history, of any shipment: by MRW number, by your own order reference, individually or in bulk.
- "Transmit as": shipments whose shipping method is not MRW (say, a generic "Free shipping" flat rate) can still be shipped with MRW. The operator picks the executing method at transmit time and the choice is recorded on the shipment.
Service codes cover the SAGEC catalogue (Ecommerce, Urgente 19 Expedición, Urgente 13 and friends), and PRE (test) and PRO (production) environments are separate credential sets with a test-mode toggle, so you can validate the integration with your franchise before a single real parcel moves.
Small module, sharp edges
The SAGEC manual is short; reality is not. A few of the edges the module rounds off for you:
- Postal codes are per-country folklore. Spain wants 5 digits with leading zeros, Portugal wants only the first 4 of its 7-digit codes, Andorra's letters become zeros, and Gibraltar is always 00010. The module normalizes all of it before SAGEC ever sees an address.
- The tracking service hides behind a WCF quirk: it only accepts SOAP posts on its relative endpoint address, and answers 404 on the address the documentation leads you to. We found out so you do not have to.
- No PHP SOAP extension required. Both clients build their envelopes by hand over Drupal's HTTP client, which also makes every request fully testable with mocked responses; the module ships with a kernel test suite that asserts the exact XML that goes over the wire.
Your store's rules stay yours
Carrier integrations die by hardcoding someone else's workflow, so Commerce MRW deliberately does not have one. Site-specific data travels through an event: subscribe to the TransmEnvio request event and fill whatever your store knows, the consignee's phone number, a NIF, delivery observations for the courier, or a full pickup address to turn a transmission into a return pickup. In one of our stores, three small subscribers do exactly that: one copies the customer's phone, one sends the backoffice's "carrier notes" field as delivery instructions, and one swaps the addresses when a shipment is flagged as a return.
Tracking follows the same philosophy. The module gives you the client and a documented integration recipe, but ships no polling and changes no shipment states: whether "delivered at destination" should transition your workflow, or just inform a human, is your call. That store runs an hourly cron that mirrors the last MRW status into the expedition dashboard, next to each tracking code; marking a shipment delivered stays a human decision, now an informed one.
Battle-tested, then released
Like our other contrib modules, this one shipped to drupal.org only after running a real store's daily expedition: real transmissions, real labels handed to the courier, and a tracking client validated against the production webservice before its release was tagged. The test suite (42 kernel tests at the time of writing) covers the SOAP envelopes, the postal code rules, the backoffice forms and the tracking parsing.
Get it
composer require drupal/commerce_mrw:^1.1
Requires Drupal 10.3+ or 11 and Commerce Shipping 3.x, plus SAGEC credentials from your MRW franchise (ask your franchise; ours enabled both the shipping webservice and the tracking service on request).
If you run a Drupal Commerce store shipping in Spain or Portugal, this is for you. The issue queue is open, and international shipments, ZPL labels and MRW delivery points are on the roadmap.
28 Jul 2026 2:00pm GMT
Specbee: Understanding Drupal's Service Container and Dependency Injection
Learn how Drupal's service container and dependency injection work, why they matter for testable code, and what Drupal 11 changes for your service classes.
28 Jul 2026 11:20am GMT
24 Jul 2026
W3C - Blog
Simplified task force enrollment and participant management
This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team that puts task force participation management directly in the hands of participants and chairs.
24 Jul 2026 10:35am GMT
20 Jul 2026
W3C - Blog
Threat modeling age-based content restrictions: what we learned at EIC 2026
At the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC 2026) in Berlin, we explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in age-based content restriction systems. Starting from an Issuer-Holder-Verifier model, participants built harms such as exclusion, surveillance, profiling, and correlation, then mapped them back to flows, actors, and assumptions. The exercise showed how compliance choices can become Web architecture.
20 Jul 2026 9:23am GMT
18 Jan 2026
Official jQuery Blog
jQuery 4.0.0
On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading
18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT
11 Aug 2025
Official jQuery Blog
jQuery 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1
It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading
11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT
17 Jul 2024
Official jQuery Blog
Second Beta of jQuery 4.0.0
Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading
17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT
29 May 2023
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
7 Types of Article Headlines: Craft the Perfect Title Every Time
When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]
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29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT
09 Apr 2023
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
5 Product Management Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]
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09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT
11 Dec 2022
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
The Key Strengths of the Best Product Managers
The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]
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11 Dec 2022 4:43pm GMT
01 Apr 2004
Planet PHP
ezSystems are classy folks
Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.
Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!
On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.
01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT
PHP april fools...
1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:
1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.
2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.
3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?
4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...
5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!
I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!
01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT
PHP Virus Attacking Web Hosts
Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...
01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT