Drupal Development
I’ve been building websites, applications, and online systems with Drupal since 2010 - which in Drupal years probably makes me something close to a dinosaur already. Over the past 15+ years I’ve worked across multiple Drupal generations, from older procedural builds to modern Drupal 10 and 11 architectures. This section is where I share practical Drupal knowledge, including custom modules, debugging tricks, workflow improvements, performance optimizations, and the countless small fixes that usually come only from maintaining real production systems for years.
Alongside Drupal itself, a large part of the work involves the surrounding infrastructure that keeps everything running reliably. That includes Ubuntu servers, Nginx configurations, deployment workflows, caching, SSL, database tuning, automation scripts and more.
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Ādģēri: The 30K Mistake That Turned Into a Long-Term Experiment
In 2023, we bought Ādģēri in an online auction.Price: just over €30,000.Financing: ~6% interest.Total expected payment over ~5 years: ~€40,000.Status (April 2026): more than half already paid.On paper, it was a bad deal.Realistically, we overpaid by at least 5–6× relative to what the property was objectively worth at the time. No serious buyer…
Berlin Zoo and Aquarium: One of the Best Things To Do in Berlin With Kids
At the start of April 2026, during our roughly five-day trip to Berlin, we finally visited the famous Berlin Zoo for the first time - or at least the first time I can actually remember. There is a chance my mom might have taken me here sometime in the early 1990s, but if so, those memories are long gone. This visit felt completely new, and…