Dries Buytaert

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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Drupal's reputation has not kept up with what the platform has become. https://t.co/vsrNW0ngRI

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The EU's sovereignty framework scores Open Source at roughly 4%. It should be a prerequisite, not a rounding error. https://t.co/Xg4zYZbqwG #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

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Drupal 12 will use Argon2id for password hashing by default. Existing passwords migrate automatically on next login. Most site owners never think about password hashing, so getting the defaults right matters most. 🛡️🎯💪 https://t.co/KJtP5IZGLs

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@matthewtift wrote a beautiful post about the Quiet Room at DrupalCon and why pausing matters, especially at a conference where everything moves fast. Worth a read. https://t.co/mB5P7rglNC #drupal #drupalcon

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Final call: Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala

Ticket sales close March 18 (only 2 days left) and tickets will not be available at the door.

Let's celebrate 25 years of Drupal together!

https://t.co/FPYcz90Dmi

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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. https://t.co/GXpZRCeDE9

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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! https://t.co/r89wStJRnR

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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! https://t.co/2ltI8F1Ei6

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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 to run it are gone.

Full four year scorecard on my blog: https://t.co/zyf6htRMra

#web3 #ipfs #ens #blockchain #web #ethereum

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I built a small experiment called Drupal Digests that uses AI to summarize noteworthy changes across Drupal Core, Drupal CMS, Drupal Canvas, and the Drupal AI initiative: https://t.co/DsyzDmmMmF

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Drupal's AI roadmap for 2026: https://t.co/9jK43WNObi

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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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Blog post: Software as clay on the wheel https://t.co/FvWihrdcNp

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Drupal turns 25 today. A quarter of a century. I captured 25 lessons from the journey. https://t.co/ENEK74KFxH #foss #opensource #web

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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. 😲 https://t.co/UD0h22AZEC

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Blog post: When backward compatibility became an advantage https://t.co/zMug33lwaQ #drupal

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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: https://t.co/17rJOo1BhU

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Blog post: Claude is growing a tomato plant https://t.co/TIZjKpijoc

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My blog turns 20 today: https://t.co/WOJ11djain

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Blog post: The Control Layers of AI https://t.co/6il4TdVHP0