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Jacob Rockowitz: Providing an Ambitious Site Builder Experience using the Schema.org Blueprints Demo profile and module

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The Schema.org Blueprints module is a comprehensive solution for leveraging Schema.org’s content models to create the ideal content authoring experience to provide an API-first and SEO-friendly website. Besides building a great content model, the Schema.org Blueprints module with additional contributed modules can provide an ambitious site builder experience. To demonstrate an ideal site-building and content-authoring experience, I created a demo installation profile and module.

The Schema.org Blueprints Demo Profile is a simplified version of the Drupal Core’s Standard installation profile, with some features disabled and others enabled. For example, the Comment and Contact modules are not automatically enabled. Meanwhile, the Media module is enabled and properly configured. Additionally, Drupal’s default ‘Article’ content type is not created because it does use media, and the Schema.org Blueprints modules can easily recreate it using media. The Schema.org Blueprints Demo Profile sets up the ideal starting point for installing and configuring modules via the Schema.org Demo module.

The Schema.org Demo module consists of four sub-modules that set up different aspects of an ambitious site builder experience. The main module’s README.md includes more details and installation instructions. Many contributed modules are installed via the demo, and each module’s decisions and use cases are documented in the DECISIONS.md.

Building this demo of the Schema.org Blueprints module can feel overwhelming. Please watch the video below for a step-by-step…Read More

Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates

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Security is our number one priority. Chromebooks get automatic updates every four weeks that make your laptop more secure and help it last longer. And starting next year, we’re extending those automatic updates so your Chromebook gets enhanced security, stability and features for 10 years after the platform was released. A platform is a series of components that are designed to work together — something a manufacturer selects for any given Chromebook. To ensure compatibility with our updates, we work with all the component manufacturers within a platform (for things like the processor and Wi-Fi) to develop and test the software on every single Chromebook. Starting in 2024, if you have Chromebooks that were released from 2021 onwards, you’ll automatically get 10 years of updates. For Chromebooks released before 2021 and already in use, users and IT admins will have the option to extend automatic updates to 10 years from the platform’s release (after they receive their last automatic update). A good thing… Without any additional strings other than are already attached to a Chromebook? This can’t be. In all seriousness, ten years of updates for laptops that are often quite cheap and disposable is simply good news, and ensures that Chromebooks can be passed on for longer than they could before.