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The web I want for my kids

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Last week, I published an opinion piece on CNN featuring my thoughts on what is wrong with the web and how we might fix it.

In short, I really miss some things about the original web, and don't want my kids to grow up being exploited by mega-corporations.

Commercial sponsorship and Open Source sustainability

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

Recently, GitHub announced an initiative called GitHub Sponsors where open source software users can pay contributors for their work directly within GitHub.

There has been quite a bit of debate about whether initiatives like this are good or bad for Open Source.

Drupal-powered Justice.gov sustains traffic surge from Mueller report post

On the day that the Drupal-powered Justice.gov website released Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report on Russian interference in the U.S. election, the site experienced a 7,000% increase in traffic.
The report was successfully delivered without interruption via Acquia, using Drupal. 

Drupal 8.7.0 is available

This release introduces powerful features that will help us all take Drupal to a whole new level. The new stable JSON:API core module as well as the intuitive and accessible stable Layout Builder are game-changing.

Welcoming Heather Rocker as Drupal Association Executive Director

The Drupal Association is announcing that Heather Rocker, former CEO of Girls, Inc. and Executive Director of Women in Technology, is joining as its next Executive Director.

State of Drupal presentation (April 2019)

Recently many Drupalists gathered in Seattle for DrupalCon North America, for what was the largest DrupalCon in history.

As a matter of tradition, I presented my State of Drupal keynote.

How to prepare for Drupal 9

Upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 should be easy if you regularly check for and remove the use of deprecated code.

The privilege of free time in Open Source

Open Source communities often incorrectly believe that everyone can contribute. Unfortunately, not everyone has equal amounts of free time to contribute.

JSON:API lands in Drupal core

Drupal core now provides an out-of-the-box JSON:API implementation, marking another major milestone toward making Drupal API-first.

The Open Web can still win

Today, the world wide web celebrates its 30th birthday. In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web and changed the lives of millions of people around the globe, including mine.

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