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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
20 days
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: /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
27 days
How I use Obsidian to build a knowledge base that helps me think better, connect ideas in writing, and pursue projects. /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
5 months
A few weeks ago, I started exploring how AI can improve alt-text for images on my website: /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
8 months
Exciting news! This week, we launched the first-ever beta of Drupal CMS (Drupal Starshot)! 🚀 Ready to dive in and explore? Follow my simple guide at Your feedback is appreciated! 🌟.
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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
9 months
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
10 months
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
10 months
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 #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 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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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
1 year
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.
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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
1 year
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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Dries Buytaert
1 year
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
1 year
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 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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Dries Buytaert
1 year
Two years ago, I launched a simple Web3 website using IPFS and ENS. Back then, Web3 tools were getting a lot of buzz. After two years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights in Web3's progress for website hosting. #web3 #ipfs #ens.
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After two years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights in Web3's progress for website hosting.
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Dries Buytaert
1 year
Martti Malmi's old email conversations with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unveil their joint efforts on launching Bitcoin's website using Drupal. Cool!
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Martti Malmi's old email conversations with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unveil their joint efforts on launching Bitcoin's website using Drupal.
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
RT @ryanszrama: Good observations from @Dries re: web application architectures and the case for #Drupal. Perhaps we should refer to the “c….
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
How #Jamstack, #MACH, and traditional CMSes like #Drupal and #WordPress are evolving by learning from one another. Also, debunking some myths in Jamstack and MACH marketing.
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How Jamstack, MACH, and traditional CMSes like Drupal are evolving by learning from one another. Also, debunking some myths in Jamstack and MACH marketing.
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
RT @DropIsMoving: Drupal 10.2 is now available: improves content modeling, block management, menu and taxonomy organization, and permission….
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Dries Buytaert
2 years
RT @DropIsMoving: Announcing a new major release schedule with long term support for Drupal 10 until Drupal 12's release in mid-late 2026.….
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