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Dries Buytaert
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Dries Buytaert's personal blog at buytaert.net covers programming and startups. Since 2008, 65 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “The future of decoupled Drupal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dries Buytaert's blog for Drupal release announcements, roadmap and framework-choice posts, and for his responses to the 2017 controversy over a Drupal contributor's removal.
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- One commenter calls the post on the Drupal 8.0.0 release a read-worthy post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dries Buytaert is the founder of Drupal and Acquia. Explore his blog, photography, and projects.
Most-linked posts?
- /living-our-values6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-03-26
- The future of decoupled Drupal5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-09-25
- Twitter using Drupal for their developer community site3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-08-03
- Selecting a client-side framework for Drupal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-06
- Acquia CEO outs community member and asks them to leave3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- How to move an entire government to a new digital platform3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-29
- Making Drupal upgrades easy forever2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-10
- /whitehouse-gov-using-drupal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-25
- The future is a RESTful Drupal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-16
- Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-07
What Hacker News says?
Here is another large project (Drupal) that decided against React because of the PATENTS file: http://buytaert.net/selecting-a-client-side-framework-for-dr... "The Virtual DOM, among React's most compelling features, has also seen its core ideas filter into other framework projects. But more importantly, React is licensed with what I believe to be a potentially unacceptable patent clause, which states that an organi…
Comment linking /selecting-a-client-side-framework-for-drupal
on “Angular 2 versus React”Submitted Drupal: 15 years old as a story · 87 points
HN discussionWhile this is mainly about technical issues, it does mention Acquia/Dries, so I'll give my 2 cents to that part: There is a lot of FUD these days about Dries and Acquia's role in Drupal. Dries wrote some blogposts that try to answer the most common questions people have. The criticism about the bug count explosion in Drupal has already been addresses with an "Issue queue thresholds for Drupal core": http://buytaert.…
Comment linking /why-acquia-acquired-cyrve-and-gvs
on “The Drupal Crisis”Submitted Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework? as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI believe Dries's words in his apology post were sincere, so I do submit that as evidence but understand you may find him untrustworthy. However, the willingness of people who practice BDSM who actually work for him to speak out on that post provides even more compelling evidence that Dries isn't known for discriminating on that basis: http://buytaert.net/comment/132641#comment-132641 If Preston and other BDSM pract…
Comment linking /comment/132641
on “Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter”Submitted The freemium business model: giving away pays as a story · 40 points
HN discussionNon sequitur, but you might be at least comforted by Drupal 9 abandoning the philosophy of backwards incompatibility. : ) http://buytaert.net/making-drupal-upgrades-easy-forever
Comment linking /making-drupal-upgrades-easy-forever
on “Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter”Submitted Acquia CEO outs community member and asks them to leave as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis isn't working with just any C or OS code. I'd assume that. It would take a modified or clean-slate runtime whose language can work with it. It might not tolerate virtualization, either. As I was heading for bed, I decided to at least Google to see if anyone did anything with FPGA's and GC's to not leave your head with nothing to think on tonight. ;) Here's what I found: FPGA-aware garbage collection in Java (20…
Comment linking /files/fpl05-paper.pdf
on “Go GC: Prioritizing low latency and simplicity”Submitted Drupal 8 released as a story · 15 points
HN discussionFor those of you in this field...how influential is the NYFed trying out (and apparently being satisfied with) Julia to other government agencies, computational economists, and/or academics? Is it "OS X is Unix/BSD-based" influential, or "Whitehouse.gov uses Drupal [1]" influential? [1] http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal
Comment linking /whitehouse-gov-using-drupal
on “Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia”Submitted 8 steps for Drupal 8 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionDrupal lead, Dries, also wrote a read-worthy post on the release: http://buytaert.net/drupal-8-0-0-released
Comment linking /drupal-8-0-0-released
on “Drupal 8.0.0 released”Submitted Living Our Values – Dries Buytaert on Drupal and Larry Garfield as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIndeed. Drupal 8 does exactly this. Use Drupal 8 for data modeling and storing the data. Use its forms if you want to. Retrieve the data using GraphQL and do all the rendering yourself. It even is capable of a hybrid model, where it serves pages BigPipe-style, and you do client-side rendering for the most dynamic/interactive parts. See http://buytaert.net/the-future-of-decoupled-drupal .
Comment linking /the-future-of-decoupled-drupal
on “Relax – A CMS on Top of React and Node.js”Submitted The future is a RESTful Drupal as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe new database layer is... nice-ish, but what ever happened to Dries Buytaert's prediction/dream of finally having an object-relational mapper in Drupal ( http://buytaert.net/drupal-predictions-for-2008 )? Last I heard was that a Doctrine integration got rejected chiefly because "it would slow Drupal down".
Comment linking /drupal-predictions-for-2008
on “Drupal 7 Released”Submitted Microsoft apologizing for IE6 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionStraight from the man himself: http://buytaert.net/files/fpl05-paper.pdf Abstract: During codesign of a system, one still runs into the impedance mismatch between the software and hardware worlds. This paper identies the different levels of abstraction of hardware and software as a major culprit of this mismatch. For example, when programming in high-level object-oriented languages like Java, one has disposal of o…
Comment linking /files/fpl05-paper.pdf
on “Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.”Submitted Can we save the open web? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe order of reading seems to be like this: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing http://buytaert.net/living-our-values https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/60y9mq/larry_garfie... https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2
Comment linking /living-our-values
on “Response to conversations about me”Submitted Selecting a client-side framework for Drupal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd the response from Dries, the man who made the decision to ban Garfield from the Drupal project: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values He seems to allude that not all the facts are out, so it's hard to tell if this decision was a knee jerk reaction or a reasonable response.
Comment linking /living-our-values
on “Response to conversations about me”Submitted Winning Back the Open Web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't agree with the decision. But, he was not ejected for S&M hobbies. He was ejected because he was perceived to believe that women are subservient to men (evidently this was part of some of his online writing). Here's a timeline of blog posts: 1. Larry's (the ejectee) initial blog post: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing 2. Dries' (founder of Drupal) following blog post: http://buytaert.net/living-our…
Comment linking /living-our-values
on “Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies”Submitted The red press of Drupal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe original source would be this link: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing Followed by this by Dries Buytaert, Drupal BDFL: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values And then there was this other response from Larry: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2 And besides techcrunch, there was this other piece by inc.com: http://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/drupal-larry-garfield-gor.html
Comment linking /living-our-values
on “Drupal project imploding, core developers ejected for S&M hobbies”Submitted The future of decoupled Drupal as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> It's the perspective of the other Drupal members who ousted him that his beliefs are not in fact cabined in that subculture, but in fact bleed out of it into his interactions with the broader world. They cite evidence. I didn't see any evidence cited in Dries Buytaert's blog [1] that the ousted member's BDSM stuff affected how he interacted or behaved within the Drupal community. In particular, I didn't see anythi…
Comment linking /living-our-values
on “Sex and Gor and open source”Submitted Amazon invests in Acquia as a story · 3 points
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