Alexander Varwijk
@kingdut.ch
Technical Architect 🖥️ for community platforms at Open Social | PHP, 🦀 Rust, JS/TS, GraphQL | He/Him
Wie maakt ons geld? Veel Nederlanders blijken daar nog altijd weinig zicht op te hebben. 88 procent weet niet dat private banken het grootste deel van ons geld creëren, blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Waarom dit kennisgebrek problematisch is, lees je in de eerste editie van ‘De politieke economie’.
Hebben we dan niets geleerd? De kennis over geldschepping is nog even slecht als twaalf jaar geleden
Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
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Converting my existing stacked PRs into the new GitHub stacked PRs was seamless 🤩 A single GitHub CLI command and push and the new UI was available for navigation 🥳
If only Windows 11 could just leave my desktop background alone, that would be great. I don't want the pictures they select, I want the picture I select.
I love my JetBrains IDEs, but what the heck? At first I thought it was an email about their LinkedIn page. But they want to monitor how I use my IDE so that they can have AI publish it on my LinkedIn profile? Heck no. I'm getting paid for results, not for how a machine judges that I achieve them.
Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.
Regarding AI use in Drupal core and contrib development, this proposal from Théodore Biadala seems like a really good start: 🤖📋 tresbien.tech/blog/proposa... I would add that anything copy/pasted into a d.o. comment from AI should have a length limit as well. ✂️💬
LLM harm reduction, policy proposal for Drupal Core contribution | Très Bien Tech
I've been following and participating in the conversation about applying AI tools to the Drupal core issue queue, and the broader community. I've been listening, reading, and experimenting quite a bit...
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@github.com Stacked PR private preview 🤩 github.github.com/gh-stack/ Our org never signed up for something so quickly, gone are the days of manually making a /note "merge in this order" 🙌 Can't wait to get in on this 🙏
GitHub Stacked PRs
Break large changes into small, reviewable, stacked pull requests with first-class GitHub support.
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GitHub is going to charge 0.002$ per minute for SELF HOSTED runners… what? 🤯 Guess Q1 of 2026 will be about figuring out what CI/CD platform we’re going to migrate to.
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
Preventing a `drush updb` from clearing your caches #drupal #drush mglaman.dev/blog/prevent...
Preventing a `drush updb` from clearing your caches
By default, drush updb clears the cache after applying database updates. For deployments where you want to avoid an unnecessary performance hit, you can prevent this default behavior using a Drush pre...
mglaman.dev
In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign that I DM, I kept forgetting about the passage of time. So I made a little thing to help me keep track of how much time has passed and record noteworthy events. It includes a link you can share with players that hides DM only notes.
dndlog
Track the passage of time in your campaign and keep track of what happened.
dndlog.alexandervarwijk.com
Technology changes rapidly. As a result, we’ll have to re-evaluate the markers that we use instinctively to determine whether something is trustworthy.
Scams at scale
The first things humans invented, before fire, the wheel or baked brie, was trust. Trusting the others in the village. Trusting that you could get a good night’s sleep. Trusting that what you…
seths.blog
Learn how to think about asynchronous PHP, how to use the Revolt event loop and what AMPHP is! If you've missed my talk at DrupalCon Vienna then you can now watch my recorded presentation and view my slides with speaker notes at www.alexandervarwijk.com/talks/2025-1...
Thinking Async | Alexander Varwijk
With the introduction of the Revolt event loop in Drupal Core, we're getting ready for Drupal to tackle an entirely new class of problems: asynchronous applications. In this session you'll find out ho...
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Developers will reinvent whole battle tested libraries while saying it’s not a case of “not-invented-here” but then let AI do a half-baked copy paste job without batting an eye and trusting it blindly.
Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch proposes a bold redesign of #Drupal Core to support async processing, ReactPHP, and background tasks. His plan: decouple the kernel, adopt Symfony Runtime, and modernize bootstrapping across environments. Full deep-dive via TDT: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nftKrj #PHP
Imagine if we could use the Drupal framework for any type of application. In my new blog post I outline the work needed to bring us closer: www.alexandervarwijk.com/blog/2025-09...
Proposal: restructuring Drupal's internals | Alexander Varwijk
Step-by-step restructuring of Drupal’s internals for better async support, clearer responsibilities, and compatibility with modern runtimes — making Drupal more flexible for modern application needs.
alexandervarwijk.com
Streaming services that aren’t Netflix are so incredibly bad at keeping watch progress synced across devices it’s infuriating that content is so spread out across services
It’s either just my repository (or me) or I’m detecting a GitHub outage before their status page ☹️ Good luck to their engineering teams 🙏
Chilling on the couch and playing Word Play on my iPad using a PS5 controller. Great game by @gamemakerstoolkit.com ❤️ (Playing using Steam Link 😉)
🗳️ Meet Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch, candidate for the 2025 #Drupal Association Board Election. From grassroots dev to global platforms, he champions multiple pathways into Drupal, sustainable funding for key modules, and a bold dev advocacy program. Full interview: https://bit.ly/4elExfS
Meet Alexander Varwijk — Candidate for the 2025 Drupal Association Board Election
Learn how Alexander Varwijk aims to enhance entry points for new contributors and promote community-led sustainability within the Drupal ecosystem.
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Did BlueSky remove the “quick follow” button that were on posts or did I hallucinate that that was a thing?
“AI can replace CEOs” does not indicate a danger of AI. It indicates the capitalist problem of people going through the motions rather than using creativity to serve their communities. The danger that AI might pose is a symptom of a different problem we should solve.
The new iconography of the silence coupes in NS trains just doesn’t work..
“We’re getting to a point where if you can’t make AI do that [some development task], then the problem is you” ~ Jamie Abrahams (www.linkedin.com/in/james-abr...)
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Today it’s time for #Drupaljam! Largest Drupal event in the Netherlands, now 100% in English 🥳 Fully sold out and many amazing sessions. Really excited!
The new Firefox tab management is 🔥 Takes me a bit of getting used to that I now need to look to the right (that's a choice) rather than the top of my browser window, but it cleans up nicely and ties in well with Firefox' tab syncing and tab history features 🤩
This would be huge. It’s been _the_ operator I’ve been missing in PHP for years
Laravel News@laravelnews.com · last yr.PHP pipe operator. 🤯 wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-ope...
