Beyond Blocks

Web Accessibility with Mike Gifford

11 July 2025

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Mike Gifford - Senior Strategist at CivicActions, W3C Invited Expert and Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer - to discuss web accessibility....

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/32-web-accessibility
Modeler API with Jürgen Haas

27 June 2025

In this episode, Oliver is re-joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the new Modeler API module and progress made with the ECA module.Links:Jürgen on Drupal.orgThe ECA moduleThe BPMN.i...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/31-modeler-api
Growing Engineering Culture with Ev Maslovskiy

11 June 2025

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Ev Maslovskiy - CTO at SystemSeed - to discuss engineering culture after his recent talk at DrupalCamp England.https://www.drupal.org/u/sples...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/30-growing-engineering-culture
Drupal CMS Recipes with Gareth Alexander

30 May 2025

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Gareth Alexander - Drupal CMS Accessibility Tools Track Lead and recent speaker at DrupalCamp England - to discuss Drupal CMS recipes.## Link...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/29-drupal-cms-recipes
AI tools for web coding with Luke McCormick

23 May 2025

In this episode, Oliver is joined again by Luke McCormick, this time to discuss using AI for web coding and how to simplify Drupal websites.LinksLuke on Drupal.orgWeb Coding for ...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/28-ai-tools-web-coding-luke-mccormick
Discussing Drupalisms with Emma Horrell and Luke McCormick

01 March 2025

In this episode, Oliver is joined by two guests - Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager at the University of Edinburgh, and Luke McCormick to discuss Drupalisms and Drupal's term...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/27-drupalisms
The Confident and open source sustainability with Mark Conroy

01 January 2025

For the final Beyond Blocks episode of 2024, I caught up with Mark Conroy to discuss changes since we spoke in February; namely leaving Annertech and setting up The Confident - a...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/26-mark-conroy-the-confident
Drush and Laravel Prompts with Jess Archer

07 November 2024

In this episode, Oliver and Jess Archer (Laravel core Team Member) discuss Laravel Prompts and Drush, PHP, Linux and working on the command-line with tools like Neovim and tmux.h...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/25-jess-archer-drush-laravel-prompts
Generative AI in PHP with Chris Ballard

16 October 2024

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Chris Ballard to discuss his recent talk at PHP South West about using generative AI in PHP, speaking at meetups and live coding. ...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/24-chris-ballard-generative-ai
Drupal Events, Conditions and Actions with Jürgen Haas

09 October 2024

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Jürgen Haas to discuss the Drupal Event, Condition, Action (ECA) module.

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/23-jurgen-haas-eca
Static Analysis with Dave Liddament

30 September 2024

In this episode, Oliver is joined by Dave Liddament - Director at Lamp Bristol and Organiser of PHP South West - to discuss PHPStan and static analysis.

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/22-dave-liddament
Violinist, Render Arrays and Feature Flags with Eirik Morland

13 September 2024

Oliver is joined again by Eirik Morland (the first returning guest) to discuss recent improvements and enhancements to Violinist, such as Team support (a.k.a. multi-user subscrip...

Podcast Episode: https://www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/21-eirik-morland-violinist-2