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Dries Buytaert

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Creator of Drupal, Drupal project lead, co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia. Young Global Leader at WEF. Building the world we want to exist in.

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Dries Buytaert
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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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Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. Why the layer that connects your tools could be the next critical infrastructure.
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Dries Buytaert
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I just blogged my DrupalCon Vienna keynote at https://t.co/cpMxGrOwcM 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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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.
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Dries Buytaert
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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 Garry Kasparov. I also learned that Daniel Naroditsky, whose YouTube videos rekindled my love for the game, had passed away.
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Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
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Dries Buytaert
3 months
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://t.co/k3yF0yMqYf #foss #opensource #sovereignty
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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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Dries Buytaert
3 months
Drupal accidentally prepared for an AI-driven world. The architectural decisions that made Drupal 8 painful to adopt now make it uniquely capable of deep AI integration.
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Drupal accidentally prepared for AI. The architectural decisions that made Drupal 8 painful to adopt now make it uniquely capable of deep AI integration.
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Steve Cortes
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My interview from the "Davos of the Americas," the IEFA Global Forum in Toronto. I make the case for tariffs and for America First patriotic populism. Not exactly a receptive audience, as you might imagine! But we need to make our case everywhere, calmly and with facts!
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Dries Buytaert
4 months
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 Cloudflare's big announcement and ways forward: https://t.co/5SCdy3sVJV /cc @Cloudflare
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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.
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Dries Buytaert
4 months
How I use Obsidian to build a knowledge base that helps me think better, connect ideas in writing, and pursue projects. https://t.co/a1Nne8KOyc /cc @obsdmd @kepano
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How I use Obsidian to build a knowledge base that helps me think better, connect ideas in writing, and pursue projects.
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Dries Buytaert
9 months
A few weeks ago, I started exploring how AI can improve alt-text for images on my website: https://t.co/kWn6rxaa43 /cc @simonw
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How I created an automated system that uses AI to generate alt-text for all the images on my website.
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Dries Buytaert
11 months
Exciting news! This week, we launched the first-ever beta of Drupal CMS (Drupal Starshot)! ๐Ÿš€ Ready to dive in and explore? Follow my simple guide at https://t.co/uKxHCqlJKO. Your feedback is appreciated! ๐ŸŒŸ
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Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
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JAXXON
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When performance meets style, it looks like this. JAXXON, the choice of athletes who never compromise.
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
Blog: I'm excited to share an experiment I've been working on: a solar-powered, self-hosted website running on a Raspberry Pi.
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How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
In light of the recent discussions within the #WordPress community, I decided to share my perspective on the 'Maker-Taker challenge' in open source, drawing from my experience with #Drupal.
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How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal's contribution credit system and recommendations for WordPress and other open source communities.
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
Last week, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote at DrupalCon Europe. I demoed 17 key innovations in Drupal Starshot, including AI for site building, the experience builder, recipes, and more. Watch the demo at https://t.co/bMUOyOjNK2! #DrupalCon #Drupal
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DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 DriesNote presentation
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
I spent 30 minutes verifying that https://t.co/s1k61hB328 is ready for the upgrade to Drupal 11. It's ready, and I'm excited about it. I then spent another 30 minutes documenting the tools and workflow I use to update my custom Drupal code.
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CRAIG gILLINGHAM
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"Teach smarter: listen to your students first." -Craig
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
This week, approximately 1,400 Drupal enthusiasts came together for DrupalCon North America in Portland, Oregon. As a matter of tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote, often referred to as "DriesNote".
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DrupalCon North America 2024 DriesNote presentation
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
The #Drupal community will evolve the Layout Builder into the Experience Builder, enhancing its intuitiveness, expanding out-of-the-box functionality, and introducing in-browser theming capabilities. https://t.co/S9exbX7S3b
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The Drupal community will evolve the Layout Builder into the Experience Builder, enhancing its intuitiveness, expanding its out-of-the-box functionality, and introducing in-browser theming capabili...
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
Great tutorial by @gaborhojtsy on how to update #Drupal modules to Drupal 11. The process leverages GitLab, Drupal Rector and Drupal's Project Update Bot to manage module compatibility and automate updates.
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Drupal's adoption of GitLab lead to five times faster test runtimes but for this post I will look at how it makes it much easier to update modules to a new major version. It is now possible to fully...
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@hekint
Hektoen International
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Susan Sontag wrote that illness is the night side of life. Everyone holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and that of the sickโ€ฆ sooner or later, each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
How I created a Champagne and wine monitoring system using open hardware and Drupal as an Internet-of-Things (IoT) backend. Sometimes, more is more!
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How I created a Champagne and wine monitoring system using open hardware and Drupal as an Internet-of-Things (IoT) backend. Sometimes, more is more!
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
Next week, I'm traveling to Japan and Australia. My goal is to connect with the local #Drupal community in each country, discussing the future of Drupal, learning from each other, and collaborating. See https://t.co/afFVh5v1JZ. Hope to see some of you there!
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Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.
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