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Dries Buytaert

On digital experiences, Open Source, Open Web, Drupal, and our digital future.

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My website is snowed in

My solar-powered website just crossed 500 days of uptime. It took the biggest snowstorm in nearly three years to put that streak at risk. Winter st...
Posted on 28 December 2025 | 10:53 am

Christmas lights, powered by Drupal

Drupal-blue LEDs, controllable through a REST API and a Drupal website. Photo by Phil Norton. It's Christmas Eve, and Phil Norton is controlling...
Posted on 24 December 2025 | 12:49 pm

AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations

Lee Robinson, who works at Cursor, spent $260 in AI coding agent fees to migrate Cursor's marketing site away from Sanity, their headless CMS, to M...
Posted on 23 December 2025 | 12:44 pm

Adaptable Drupal modules: code meant to be adapted, not installed

Over the years, I've built dozens of small, site-specific Drupal modules. None of them live on Drupal.org. It makes me wonder: how many modules lik...
Posted on 18 December 2025 | 9:31 am

A RAID for web content

If you've worked with storage systems, you know RAID: redundant arrays of independent disks. RAID doesn't try to make individual disks more reliabl...
Posted on 16 December 2025 | 12:22 pm

I open-sourced my blog content

Last week I wrote that a blog is a biography. But sometimes our most advanced technology is also our most fragile. With my blog turning twenty year...
Posted on 15 December 2025 | 10:15 am

A blog is a biography

My mom as a newborn in her mother's arms, surrounded by my grandparents and great-grandparents. I never knew my great grandparents. They left no...
Posted on 12 December 2025 | 8:17 am

Can AI clean up its own mess?

In The Big Blind, investor Fred Wilson highlights how AI is revolutionizing geothermal energy discovery. This sentence stood out for me: It is won...
Posted on 10 December 2025 | 9:44 am

'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)

This week, Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson and WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg started fighting about what "open source"...
Posted on 9 December 2025 | 10:22 pm

The house and the town square

Elizabeth Spiers recently wrote a great retrospective on early blogging. Spiers was the founding editor of Gawker, a provocative blog focused on ce...
Posted on 8 December 2025 | 8:16 am