Saving a link field is quite different from saving a text value in drupal 8. here's how its done.

Populating geolocation field programmatically in drupal 8 is different from normal field values. This snippet does the trick:

When using content moderation, the view_unpblished module does not work. But I really needed to get a user role to see all nodes created of this type and have access to it. With the following snippet, I fixed this. 

Sometimes you forgot to uninstall a module when you removed it. To keep thing clean, uninstall the module using the following drush script.

A thing that is very nice about drupal 8 is the flexibility of views In this tutorial, a snippet about how to show a 'total' count of results of some number fields of a table.