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So if you think there's a crazy bug in permission to access text formats...

...it's probably because there is already content in the text area that is set to something to which the user no longer has access.

It seems really freaky when you have access to one text format, and it says:

"This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit."

So you add another text format, and now you have access to the field... and the format it must have been saying you didn't have permissions for before, what???

Give custom blocks template suggestions by type and views blocks by view ID

<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_theme_suggestions_HOOK_alter() for blocks.
 */
function kidneys_theme_suggestions_block_alter(array &$suggestions, array $variables) {

Argument 2 passed to hook help() must be an instance of RouteMatchInterface

I got this error message, that argument two passed to my module's implementation of hook_help() "must be an instance of RouteMatchInterface, instance of Drupal\Core\Routing\CurrentRouteMatch given", and it's a misleading one.

CurrentRouteMatch in fact (unsurprisingly) implements the RouteMatchInterface. The problem was i hadn't actually defined CurrentRouteMatch— i needed to have a use statement at the top of my module (or use the full PSR4 path in the parameter definition of the hook implementation, but i went with the former). Like so:

How to get the base path for your Drupal 8 site in a Twig template

In page.html.twig you will have a working {{ base_path }} variable. Why it isn't available in every template, i have no idea. As i think it should be and everything else looks messy, my preferred solution is to do exactly as Drupal does in the preprocess page function for any place i need it.

Embedding a content add form in a block in Drupal 8

The Form block module, mentioned in the Drupal.org forum post how to embed node add form in a block?, is still going strong in Drupal 8.

https://www.drupal.org/project/formblock

Resources for visual accessibility of web sites

Presented by Catharine McNally at TCDrupal2016

Color blindness simulator

http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/

If the design fails to work well in simulator, send it back, before implementation.

4.5% of world is colorblind: 8% of men, 0.5% of women.

Drupal 8 default content the Agaric way

For the moment, we're following the crowd and using the Default content module. It is nice and has built-in integration with installation profiles, but the export could be more convenient (multiple items of content at once, please!) and import could be made much more robust (given half a chance, we'll reimplement it on migrate).

What to do when developing a Drupal 8 module and a class file just isn't being autoloaded even though it is definitely there

Short answer: Restart apache or disable the APC classloader in your local.settings.php (see settings.php).

While working on the Give module, which follows the same pattern for donation forms as Drupal 8 core's Contact module uses for contact forms, an access control handler was not being found even though i quadruple checked that my handler annotation described the handler correctly for the name and location of its file.

The ConfigEntityType annotation for the access handler, with most other annotations removed:

Why are twig template comparisons such annoying strings?

A boolean field told in display settings to show as zero or one is actually rendered like this:

" 0 "
" 1 "

That is, a string of the number with a space on either side. Why?

That is from testing using {% set lightbox_class = content.field_lightbox|render %}

At least this works:

{% set lightbox_class = content.field_lightbox|render|trim == 1 ? ' lightbox' %}

So does:

{% set lightbox_class = content.field_lightbox|render|trim ? ' lightbox' %}

Laptop inconsistently detecting and using external audio (heaphone jack) — workaround

Searching to solve this problem i found lots and lots of other problems that didn't quite sound like mine: My headphones/speakers jack seemed to have developed a loose connection for Lenovo T420 running Debian Mint. Sometimes it will stop (or not start) playing audio through the headphones, and fall back to playing through the internal speakers.