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LLM harm reduction, policy proposal for Drupal Core contribution

theodore — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:58:34 +0000

LLM harm reduction, policy proposal for Drupal Core contribution

I've been following and participating in the conversation about applying AI tools to the Drupal core issue queue, and the broader community. I've been listening, reading, and experimenting quite a bit in and out of Drupal. It's been a wild ride since last December and for the past few weeks a few things started to solidify.

theodore April 21, 2026

Dig for gold in Drupal Contrib code

theodore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:02:59 +0000

Dig for gold in Drupal Contrib code

Fixing the contrib code search problem.

theodore February 20, 2026

The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values

theodore — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:30:00 +0000

The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values

I don't usually fail at making my life easier, but hey, it's a whole new world lately. To try my hand at LLM during my trial of AI-assisted coding, I wanted to see if I could customize an LLM for a specific task: assigning user credit on Drupal Core issues. Depending on the complexity, activity, and number of contributors involved it can take me anywhere between 30 seconds and 30 minutes to assign credit when I commit an issue to Drupal Core. Maybe I could automate some of it?

theodore February 4, 2026

…and now I'm recovering

theodore — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:20:00 +0000

…and now I'm recovering

After just a month of use I can see that my relationship with Claude Code is unhealthy. Like I mentioned when I tried Claude Code for a month, even when it was wasting my time I was having fun. Pretty big red flag.

theodore January 26, 2026

I tried Claude Code for a month…

theodore — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000

I tried Claude Code for a month…

Large Language Models are a pretty fascinating piece of technology. Back in December I saw some chatter about Claude Code and I wanted to try it out myself. It is really fun, it's jQuery in 2010 levels of fun. And, more concerning, it's fun even when it waste my time.

I tried it on a few things in the past 4 weeks:

theodore January 22, 2026

How to use HTMX with forms in Drupal 11.3

theodore — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:13:29 +0000

How to use HTMX with forms in Drupal 11.3

After a shorter than expected time in the core issue queue the HTMX integration in now usable in Drupal Core, Let's see how we can use it!

HTMX has a respectable pool of examples to choose from, today we'll focus on forms. How can we make an equivalent of the cascading select HTMX example in Drupal?

theodore September 13, 2025

Drupal and PHP fun with FrankenPHP

theodore — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:12:15 +0000

Drupal and PHP fun with FrankenPHP

I've been looking at FrankenPHP for a while because I really think it will help Drupal. I had fun looking into this, some of what I came across is below, whether it should be used like this or not I can't say yet :)

Let's assume we're in some flavor of Linux, with curl and sqlite3 already installed somewhere. PHP doesn't need to be installed:

theodore July 18, 2025

Drupal BigPipe now uses HTMX

theodore — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:46:59 +0000

Drupal BigPipe now uses HTMX

The BigPipe module in Drupal is a very clever and efficient little module. It's just a little bit heavy on it's frontend. How is HTMX helping?

theodore July 17, 2025

A Summer of Sponsored Drupal Contribution

theodore — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:40:26 +0000

A Summer of Sponsored Drupal Contribution

Much like my last update things are going well. I am able to spend 2 full days every week on contribution and my commit activity has increased quite a lot.

theodore August 8, 2024

Drupal is pretty expensive to host and maintain. There is already work well under way to address this with automatic updates and project browser. It’s great, and it’s not enough. What if we could ship drupal with a production-ready webserver that can handle real-time features? What if we could make HTTPS certificate management easier? What if we could significantly improve the performance of Drupal?

theodore April 5, 2024

A better Drupal marketplace ranking

theodore — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:16:46 +0000

A better Drupal marketplace ranking

or a few years now I’ve been quite unhappy with the atmosphere of discussions regarding Drupal credit system. It turns very ugly, very fast. As an example, what’s being discussed on the DA blog lately is not healthy to me. Talking about “high” and “low” value contribution is looking at the problem from the wrong end. The main reason we’re having those discussions is because the Drupal marketplace ranking is directly impacted by getting or not getting contribution credit.

theodore September 12, 2022

Can Drupal scale down?

theodore — Mon, 30 May 2022 14:12:29 +0000

Can Drupal scale down?

Over the years we’ve heard of massive Drupal websites, site factories, traffic spikes, etc. Which is impressive that it’s possible to do with Drupal, although with enough time, money, and hardware that’s to be expected to some extend.

theodore May 30, 2022

Très Bien Blog

LLM harm reduction, policy proposal for Drupal Core contribution

Dig for gold in Drupal Contrib code

The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values

…and now I'm recovering

I tried Claude Code for a month…

How to use HTMX with forms in Drupal 11.3

Drupal and PHP fun with FrankenPHP

Drupal BigPipe now uses HTMX

A Summer of Sponsored Drupal Contribution

Sponsored Drupal Contribution

Drupal needs infrastructure innovation

A better Drupal marketplace ranking

Can Drupal scale down?