Dries Buytaert

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2025

• The Orchestration Shift October 29th
• State of Drupal presentation (October 2025) October 23rd
• Unexpectedly playing Kasparov October 22nd
• Funding Open Source like public infrastructure August 13th
• AI and the great digital agency unbundling July 23rd
• State of Drupal presentation (March 2025) March 31st
• Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation February 3rd
• Drupal CMS 1.0 released January 15th

2024

• My solar-powered and self-hosted website October 15th
• Solving the Maker-Taker problem October 2nd
• 1,000 loans on Kiva June 28th
• Building my own CO2 monitor April 7th
• Building my own temperature and humidity monitor March 12th
• Two years later: is my Web3 website still standing? February 29th
• The little HTTP Header Analyzer that could February 1st
• The Watchmaker's Approach to Web Development January 3rd

2023

• The new old: Jamstack and MACH's journey towards traditional CMS concepts December 27th
• Hiking the Pemi Loop: an unforgettable adventure September 28th
• Acquia's vision and strategy: an integrated ecosystem of world-class products August 7th
• The Drupal Open Web Manifesto June 28th
• Mautic to become an independent Open Source project April 18th
• The evolution of Drupal's composability: from the command line to the browser April 4th
• Why content management systems can outperform static site generators March 20th
• Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web February 27th

2022

• A photo stream for my site November 6th
• A Composable Digital Experience Manifesto October 6th
• Drupal is for ambitious site builders May 4th
• My first Web3 webpage February 24th
• Principles for life January 4th

2021

• Drupal celebrates 20 years! January 15th
• Can someone add some more HTML tags, please? January 6th

2020

• Defending the Open Web December 21st
• Public money, public code September 17th
• Pledging $100,000 to support the Drupal Association April 14th

2019

• Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source September 19th
• Our wedding in Tuscany July 16th
• Scrambling in Snowdonia June 25th
• Acquia delivers during Mueller report traffic surge May 23rd
• The privilege of free time in Open Source April 10th
• The Open Web can still win March 12th
• Headless CMS: REST vs JSON:API vs GraphQL February 11th
• Pulling the plug on Facebook February 4th
• How to decouple Drupal in 2019 January 24th

2018

• Drupal's long-term growth obstacles December 21st
• Relentlessly eliminating barriers to growth December 17th
• Drupal's commitment to accessibility December 5th
• Forty November 19th
• My thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion October 28th
• From a world wide web to a personal web October 8th
• Defining Drupal's values and principles April 10th
• To PESOS or to POSSE? February 6th

2017

• Most influential OOPSLA 2007 paper award October 26th
• Acquia's first decade: the founding story June 29th
• Drupal is API-first, not API-only April 25th
• How Nasdaq offers a Drupal distribution as-a-service February 13th

2016

• Drupal's collective purpose October 3rd
• The transformation of Drupal 8 for continuous innovation September 28th
• Traveling through Tuscany September 18th
• Drupal is for ambitious digital experiences June 29th
• Can we save the Open Web? March 16th
• Founder dilution March 4th
• A history of JavaScript across the stack February 22nd
• Dries meets the King and Queen of Belgium February 2nd
• Drupal: 15 years old and still gaining momentum January 15th

2015

• The future of decoupled Drupal September 24th
• Winning back the Open Web June 23rd
• The Big Reverse of the Web March 10th

2014

• Business model innovation beats technical innovation December 1st
• Scaling Open Source communities September 30th
• A better runtime for component-based web applications August 27th
• A method for giving credit to organizations that contribute code to Open Source June 4th
• Do well and do good March 26th

2013

• The Assembled Web December 9th
• To start an Open Source project or not? October 7th

2011

• The Drupal mood cycle June 9th
• Acquia product strategy and vision January 24th

2010

• Drupal benefits from venture capital December 13th
• Stock options and employee equity November 16th
• The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project October 25th
• Drupal 7, the cocoon and the butterfly July 8th
• On business models for Drupal distributions May 19th

2009

• On Microsoft's anti-Drupal ad December 16th
• Whitehouse.gov using Drupal October 24th

2008

• Thirty November 19th

2007

• Acquia raises $7 million series A December 19th
• Acquia, my Drupal startup November 30th
• Statistically Rigorous Java Performance Evaluation August 1st
• Drupal learning curve March 10th
• Drupal Association launched February 26th

2006

• Drupal distributions October 30th
• Complexity is a disease May 3rd
• The Ockham's Razor Principle of Content Management Systems January 11th