Dries
@dries.bsky.social
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AI is changing how code gets written, but it shouldn’t change the responsibility that comes with contributing Open Source code.
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Never submit code you don't understand
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/never-submit-code-you-do-not-understand
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Open source software is free to download. But the infrastructure behind it is not. Most Open Source projects are funded through a fragile mix of donations and goodwill. Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model!
dri.es/open-source-...
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Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on...
https://dri.es/open-source-infrastructure-deserves-a-business-model
11 days ago
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Drupal turned 25 this year. We're celebrating at DrupalCon Chicago with a 25th Anniversary Gala. This is a separate ticketed event, and ticket sales close March 18. Come celebrate with us!
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Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala at DrupalCon Chicago
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/drupal-25th-anniversary-gala-at-drupalcon-chicago
17 days ago
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Four years ago, I created a Web3 webpage and walked away. The page is still online today, but most of the services I used are gone. The protocols improved, gas fees fell 1000x, but the commercial ecosystem thinned. Full four year scorecard on my blog:
dri.es/my-web3-site...
#web3
#ipfs
#ens
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My Web3 site survived four years of neglect
After four years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights into Web3's progress for website hosting.
https://dri.es/my-web3-site-survived-four-years-of-neglect
25 days ago
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Drupal's AI roadmap for 2026:
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Drupal's AI roadmap for 2026
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/drupal-ai-roadmap-for-2026
about 1 month ago
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European Open Source Academy (EOSA)
about 2 months ago
Should Europe be building an equivalent of
@microsoft.com
or
#Google
? In his latest article,
#EOSA
Member Dries Buytaert (
@drupalassociation.bsky.social
)delves deeper into why open source is the most credible path to digital sovereignty. Check out Dries' latest blog now :
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Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers.
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Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.
https://dri.es/funding-open-source-for-digital-sovereignty
about 2 months ago
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Blog post: Software as clay on the wheel
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Software as clay on the wheel
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/software-as-clay-on-the-wheel
about 2 months ago
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Drupal turns 25 today. A quarter of a century. I captured 25 lessons from the journey.
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#foss
#opensource
#web
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25 years of Drupal: what I've learned
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/25-years-of-drupal-what-i-have-learned
2 months ago
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This morning I made a small change to my site: I made every page available as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. I expected maybe a trickle. Within an hour, I was seeing hundreds of requests from ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and OpenAI’s SearchBot. 😲
dri.es/the-third-au...
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The third audience is AI
I made my website easier for AI agents and crawlers to read, and within an hour it was getting hundreds of requests.
https://dri.es/the-third-audience-is-ai
2 months ago
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Blog post: When backward compatibility became an advantage
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#drupal
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When backward compatibility became an advantage
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/when-backward-compatibility-became-an-advantage
2 months ago
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Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team. AI isn’t killing open source though. It’s stress-testing business models built on "describable things". I wrote more about what this means for developer tools and where durable value lives:
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AI is a business model stress test
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
2 months ago
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Blog post: Claude is growing a tomato plant
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Claude is growing a tomato plant
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/claude-is-growing-a-tomato-plant
2 months ago
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My blog turns 20 today:
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20 years of blogging
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/20-years-of-blogging
3 months ago
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Blog post: The Control Layers of AI
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The control layers of AI
As AI grows more capable, the workflows around it will matter just as much.
https://dri.es/the-control-layers-of-ai
3 months ago
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Blog post: AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations
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AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/ai-flattens-interfaces-and-deepens-foundations
3 months ago
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Blog post: I open-sourced my blog content
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#digitalpreservation
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I open-sourced my blog content
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/i-open-sourced-my-blog-content
3 months ago
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Blog post: A blog is a biography
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A blog is a biography
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.
https://dri.es/a-blog-is-a-biography
3 months ago
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Blog post: The house and the town square
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The house and the town square
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
https://dri.es/the-house-and-the-town-square
3 months ago
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Business logic is moving out of individual applications and into the orchestration layer. Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. I call this the Orchestration Shift, and I think it might reshape enterprise software architecture.
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The Orchestration Shift
Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. Why the layer that connects your tools could be the next critical infrastructure.
https://dri.es/the-orchestration-shift
5 months ago
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I just blogged my DrupalCon Vienna keynote at
dri.es/state-of-dru...
Many people don't realize how much Drupal has evolved or how much heart the community puts into it, so check it out!
#drupal
#drupalcon
#php
#openweb
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State of Drupal presentation (October 2025)
In my DrupalCon Vienna keynote, I talk about how Drupal is adapting to an AI-driven web through AI-enabled visual editing, site templates, autonomous agents, and workflow orchestration.
https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-october-2025
5 months ago
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When I was ten, my uncle gave me a Kasparov chess computer. Last night I was lucky enough to have dinner with Kasparov. I also learned that Daniel Naroditsky, whose YouTube videos rekindled my love for chess, had passed away. I'll be thinking about them both for a long time.
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Meeting one chess master, mourning another
Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
https://dri.es/meeting-one-chess-master-mourning-another
5 months ago
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To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
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#foss
#opensource
#sovereignty
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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure
7 months ago
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AI is changing the digital agency model. Here is how and why it matters:
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AI and the great digital agency unbundling
AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and reposition themselves around strategy, or...
https://dri.es/ai-and-the-great-digital-agency-unbundling
8 months ago
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The Open Web was built on a fair exchange: content in return for visitors. AI broke that deal. We need new systems to support creators, not leave them behind. My thoughts on the forward:
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/cc
@cloudflare.social
#openweb
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The web's broken deal with AI companies
AI companies are breaking the web's economic model by extracting content without compensating creators, but new enforcement tools and content licensing marketplaces could restore fair compensation.
https://dri.es/the-webs-broken-deal-with-ai-companies
9 months ago
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I just shared my State of Drupal presentation from DrupalCon Atlanta! Get an update on Drupal CMS 1.0's launch and what is next: Experience Builder, AI agents, Site Templates, and a potential marketplace. Watch the keynote or download my slides.
dri.es/state-of-dru...
#drupal
#drupalcon
#ai
#xb
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State of Drupal presentation (March 2025)
DrupalCon North America 2025 DriesNote presentation
https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2025
12 months ago
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reposted by
Dries
Chris Reynolds
12 months ago
Y’all No joke Drupal Experience Builder is what the WP full site editor SHOULD be
#DrupalConAtlanta
#Drupal
#WordPress
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A few weeks ago, I started exploring how AI can improve alt-text for images on my website. What seemed like a simple fix turned into a multi-step challenge. In my latest post, I share how I'm scaling this process to handle 9,000 images while keeping some control over quality.
dri.es/automating-a...
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Automating alt-text generation with AI
How I created an automated system that uses AI to generate alt-text for all the images on my website.
https://dri.es/automating-alt-text-generation-ai
about 1 year ago
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I tested 12 LLMs to generate alt-text for 9,000 images missing descriptions. Not surprisingly, cloud models performed best. For local options, Llama variants and MiniCPM-V were ok. Local models align with my values, but cloud models would serve visually impaired users better.
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Generating image descriptions and alt-text with AI
I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.
https://dri.es/generating-image-descriptions-and-alt-text-with-ai
about 1 year ago
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Yes, it's mind-blowing to watch AI agents *use a browser* to seamlessly browse your site and edit content. 🤯
dri.es/i-gave-an-ai...
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Blog post: An updated plan for Drupal 11, or how #Drupal aims to be the top choice for ambitious site builders through user-friendly site building tools, enhanced content editing, and simplified upgrades.
https://dri.es/an-updated-plan-for-drupal-11
over 2 years ago
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80 KitKat websites switched to Drupal and Acquia in less than 18 months. The result: a massive 1,000% boost in traffic, a 50% drop in bounce rate, and 3 times the pageviews compared to their old sites. More details here:
https://dri.es/kitkat-gets-a-break-with-drupal-and-acquia
over 2 years ago
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Last week, around 1,500 Drupal-ists gathered in Pittsburgh for DrupalCon. In good tradition, I gave my State of Drupal keynote (aka #DriesNote). Check out the video of my keynote or slides at
https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-june-2023
. Special, late-breaking bonus announcement included …
almost 3 years ago
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I updated my website,
https://dri.es/
, to the latest version of Drupal, which is Drupal 10.0.9. It's incredible to see how much work goes into each release, even into a bug fix release. You can get a good sense by checking out the release notes:
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/10.0.9
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drupal 10.0.9
This is a patch (bugfix) release of Drupal 10 and is ready for use on production sites. Learn more about Drupal 10. Drupal 10.0.x will receive security coverage until December 2023. Important update information If you are updating from Drupal 9, refer to Preparing your site to upgrade to a newer major version for tools you can use to check the Drupal 10 compatibility of modules, themes and sites. Then, upgrade from Drupal 9 to 10. You should also check the Drupal 10.0.0 release notes.
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/10.0.9
almost 3 years ago
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I wrote an article for
opensource.com
about how Drupal helps preserve and promote the Open Web.
https://opensource.com/article/23/4/preserving-open-web-drupal
#drupal #openweb
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https://opensource.com/article/23/4/preserving-open-web-drupal
almost 3 years ago
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Test post!
almost 3 years ago
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