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The Missing Journaling Workflow

Of the difficulty to drop Day One

When I first heard of my Day One becoming a subscription service I – once again – started to reconsider how I want to keep my journal.

I’ve been using Day One for years and I’m really grateful for who they made regular journaling work for me. It’s hard to argue that whatever kind of journal system one employs: it’s worthless if you don’t actually use it. Continue reading →

Set Front Page from settings[.local].php in Drupal 8

When working on Drupal projects I usually need to set a static front page by referencing a Node’s ID. When working with different environments chances are high that Node ID varies from environment to environment.

Luckily we can easily override any configuration value in the settings file and thus have different values in settings.php than in settings.local.php. It’s simple as that: $config['system.site']['page']['front'] = '/node/1';