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🌐 Fork Preview for PR #722

https://pr-722.ddev-com-fork-previews.pages.dev

This preview updates automatically when you push changes to your fork.

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Update: Ah just saw you already prepared two sections, awesome! :party: I'll have a look and confirm!

Hey @rfay, thanks very much for the ping! Proposal:


Matthias Andrasch has prototyped Quick DDEV Previews—a self-hosted service designed to easily spin up preview environments for DDEV projects. You can watch a demo video of the setup running on a Hetzner VPS. This experiment is a fork of the upcoming knecht.works tool by Austrian developer Samuel Reichör. Samuel developed a memory efficient technique with a shared daemon, saving RAM on VPS or homelab servers. Check out his blog post describing the technical architecture here: Back to the shared daemon, one preview for 180 MB. By the way: Samuel is currently looking for beta testers and interested agencies working with DDEV.


If you want to feature https://knecht.works/ with a own section first, I can adjust my snippet text. Guess it would be better to mention knecht.works first, my experiment is just based on it. :-)/cc @samuelreichor

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Looks good to meet.

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Thanks for the feature!! – Samuel from Knecht Works

Covers a GitHub star ask, the DDEV IntelliJ/PhpStorm plugin's move into
the DDEV org (AkibaAT), a blog roundup, community highlights and
tutorials from around the web, a 2026-plans check-in, governance, and
sponsorship figures.

## Manual Testing Instructions

Preview at https://20260818-august-newsletter.ddev-com-front-end.pages.dev/blog/ddev-august-2026-newsletter/

- [ ] Verify feature image renders and alt text is correct
- [ ] Click through all external links (community tutorials, highlights, events)
- [ ] Confirm internal links resolve (2026-plans.md, coder.ddev.com announcement, love-letter and shopware posts)
- [ ] Check sponsorship figures and advisory group meeting details for accuracy

🤖 Developed with assistance from Claude Code

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Matthias Andrasch <777278+mandrasch@users.noreply.github.com>
## Summary
- Added a link to the new Umbraco on DDEV blog post under "What's New on the Blog" in the August 2026 newsletter.
- Added a "DDEV Training Starting Up Again This Fall" section announcing three sessions: managing huge databases with DDEV (Moshe Weitzman, Sept 23), Shopware with DDEV (Benny Poensgen, Oct 21), and advanced Coder.ddev.com techniques (Nov 11), each with a Google Calendar link and downloadable .ics file.
- Verified the encoded UTC times against IANA timezone data so none of the sessions land in the ambiguous week between the US (Nov 1) and EU (Oct 25) daylight-saving transitions in 2026.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…from DrupalCamp Tokyo

## Summary
- Merged the two kgaut.net database-dump bullets into one, since the second post is a direct follow-up to the first (same author, same site, related commands).
- Removed the standalone "Umbraco CMS on DDEV" GitHub link from Community Tutorials, since the newsletter now links directly to the full Umbraco on DDEV blog post.
- Noted the DrupalCamp Tokyo report is in Japanese and linked the two English-language `git worktree` posts for readers who want that coverage in English.

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Looks good to me.

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