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Mike Anello (ultimike)

@mike-anello.bsky.social
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Drupal developer and trainer.

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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 2h
Are your site's privacy policy 📜 and terms of service out of date? I'll bet they are! 🤔 Mine aren't ✅, because I use Termageddon - they do the tedious work of keeping up with the changing landscape so I don't have to. 😌 👉 Check them out at policies.termageddon.com?fp_ref=manello
policies.termageddon.com
Auto-Updating Privacy Policy Generator for Websites
Generate compliant Privacy Policies, Terms & Cookie policies that auto-update as privacy laws change. Coverage for US, EU, UK, Canada & Australia.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 3h
💬 "Drupal core alone has 15,256 issue forks" 🍴 I learned this and a bunch of other really cool stuff 🤓 about #Drupal infrastructure 🏗️ in this article from @hestenet.bsky.social www.drupal.org/blog/the-aws...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
If you use Mautic 📧 and #Drupal, this seems really useful 💡: an easy way to control block visibility 👀 based on the Mautic audience 🎯. bloomidea.com/en/blog/maut... 📝 Blog post from Bloomidea
bloomidea.com
Mautic Audiences for Drupal: personalisation built on the segments you already maintain
Marketing maintains the VIP segment in Mautic, and the website knows nothing about it, so "VIP" gets built a second time as a Drupal role. Mautic Audiences reads the segments and tags you already have...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ownership of the customer relationship 🤝 seems like it should be the only reason that matters for most e-commerce sites 🛒. www.centarro.io/blog/drupal-... Matt Robison compares #Drupal with Shopify ⚖️ in a comprehensive article. Good stuff 👍.
centarro.io
Drupal Commerce vs. Shopify
A detailed comparison between Drupal Commerce and Shopify for 2026. The advantages and disadvantages of both.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The #DDEV release cadence keeps on ticking ⏱️. Last month saw a new v1.25.4 🚀 with updated snapshots 📸 and so much more. ddev.com/blog/ddev-se... Support DDEV with a small monthly donation 💙 and help it continue to move forward.
ddev.com
DDEV September 2026: v1.25.4 Ships, Hobobiker Rides Again, Pressable Goes Official
September 2026 DDEV Newsletter: a three-part live series migrating a Drupal 6 site with Claude, DDEV v1.25.4 with database seeding and reset, a deep dive on snapshots with screencast, Pressable's offi...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
💬 "…Less 'install a plugin for that', more 'this is how the platform works, learn it'. The learning curve is real." Accurate. 🎯 📖 Nice article about migrating 🔄 a WordPress site to #Drupal 11. frederikvanhecke.com/tech-notes/w...
frederikvanhecke.com
I moved my sites from WordPress to Drupal 11. Here's what I learned.
TL;DR. I migrated both my sites to Drupal 11 on shared hosting. It took real work, especially the content cleanup, which is far messier than anyone tells you. This post covers what I ran into, how I u...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm pretty sure Rachel bleeds #Drupal blue. 💙 Her recap from @drupalconeur.bsky.social Rotterdam 🇳🇱 (with lots of fun pics 📸): rachelnorfolk.me/2026/drupalc... Her Women in Drupal award 🏆 (alongside Antonella Severo and Nikita Aswani) was probably a bit overdue. 👏
rachelnorfolk.me
DrupalCon brings love in every drop
So, last week was quite a big week, really. Both for me personally, more of that in a moment, and for the Drupal project as a whole, I think.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nice explainer 📖 from Maciej Lukianski from Droptica about why exposing your site's data via JSON-LD 🧩 is important if you're interested in having #AI chatbots 🤖 link back to your site 🔗. www.droptica.com/blog/why-dru... #Drupal has several modules that can help do this 💧.
droptica.com
Why Drupal sites get read and cited by AI
AI crawlers already fetch product pages during live conversations, but citations stay rare.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
2027 dates for our "AI Inside Drupal Essentials" 🤖 18-hour, live, online class have been announced! 🎉 Dates in Jan, Mar, May & Jul 📅, with alternating start times friendly to North America and Europe. 🌍 www.drupaleasy.com/academy/aide... Next class starts Nov. 9, 2026. 🚀
drupaleasy.com
AI Inside Drupal Essentials
Live, online 18-hour course on responsible AI in Drupal. Learn AI agents, automators, RAG search and local AI with a human in the loop. No PHP required.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wondering what #AI 🤖 news you missed from @drupalconeur.bsky.social Rotterdam? 🇳🇱 I'll be one of the panelists on the webinar talking about just that! 🎙️ 👉 drupalassoc.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🗓️ Tuesday, Oct 13 at 1400 UTC (10am ET, 4pm CET)
drupalassoc.zoom.us
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Inside DrupalCon Rotterdam: AI Breakthroughs & Innovations IT & Marketing Leaders Need to Know. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
Fresh from DrupalCon Rotterdam, our team of agency experts brings you an exclusive debrief on the most impactful developments, keynotes, and product releases shaping the Drupal ecosystem. Designed sp...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Really important work to decrease the cost 💰 of running #Drupal tests 🧪 on drupal.org infrastructure from @catch56.bsky.social from Tag1 Consulting 🙌 www.tag1.com/blog/optimiz... TL;DR Things are much faster ⚡ and cheaper than just a year ago! 🎉
tag1.com
Optimizing Drupal Core CI
Nathaniel Catchpole on how Drupal core CI pipelines dropped from 55 minutes to 5, cutting CI minutes and Drupal Association hosting costs.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
💬 "As a result, the human and their agent communicate clearly." Jacob Rockowitz shares his experience with the /grill-me 🔥 #AI agent skill. 🤖 www.jrockowitz.com/blog/vibing-... Personally, I **love** ❤️ using /grill-me and only ever skip it if I'm asking for something very straightforward.
jrockowitz.com
Vibing Drupal: What’s your take on the /grill-me skill?
I started experimenting with one of the most popular agent skills, /grill-me by Matt Pocock, which proved to be a game-changer. What’s your take on the /grill-me skill? Do you se
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
✨ Solid feature addition to a #Drupal tool that's been around as long as I can remember from @mglaman.bsky.social: 🛠️ mglaman.dev/blog/simplyt... 🚀 SimplyTest.me now allows you to launch a site template demo site! 🎉
mglaman.dev
Simplytest.me can launch Drupal CMS site templates
About a week ago, I wrote about the simplytest.me rewrite and closed on what was next: site templates and recipes.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Multilingual 🌍 just got a big upgrade in #Drupal CMS and Canvas, including a sweet recipe 🍰 and installer in the former! 🎉 www.drupal.org/about/initia... 📝 Blog post from Pamela Barone
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1 month from today I'll start teaching how to leverage #AI 🤖 from inside the #Drupal UI 💧 - be one of the first 8 registrations to join me and come along for the ride! 🎢 www.drupaleasy.com/academy/aide...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you maintain a #Drupal site 💧, then you probably use the Webform module 📋, then you probably recently applied the big security update 🔒 (you did, right?), then you probably have Jacob Rockowitz to thank/blame 😁 He explains the #AI assisted process 🤖 he used: www.jrockowitz.com/blog/vibing-...
jrockowitz.com
Vibing Drupal: Using AI to hammer at the Webform module's security issues
Everyone using the Webform module for Drupal should update to the latest version to mitigate 20+ security vulnerabilities. AI has made it easier to find and exploit security vuln
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love this. 🤩 The intersection of nerdery 🤓, making 🛠️, and rodent mitigation 🐭. hackaday.com/2026/09/20/s...
hackaday.com
Ski Lift Removes Mice From Chicken Coop
Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in. So, while [Super Valid Designs]…
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Time for you and your team to (finally) get up to speed 🚀 with #AI 🤖 inside the #Drupal UI? I can help - spend 18 hours over 2 weeks with me 📅 starting Nov 9 and I'll get you up to speed! www.drupaleasy.com/academy/aide... The first 8 people to register get $100 off! 💰
drupaleasy.com
AI Inside Drupal Essentials
Live, online 18-hour course on responsible AI in Drupal. Learn AI agents, automators, RAG search and local AI with a human in the loop. No PHP required.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💬 "62% higher wages for those with AI skills—wow!" 📈 🚀 Making the case for you and your team to get up to speed with #AI in #Drupal: 👇 www.drupaleasy.com/blogs/gwendo... 📝 Blog post from Gwendolyn Anello
drupaleasy.com
Don’t be afrAId – trAIn!
Prevent the AI skills gap from becoming an expanse
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you want your site data to be easily digestible by search engines 🔍 and AI crawlers 🤖, then JSON-LD is the way to go. This article from Maciej Lukianski at Droptica shows a solid way of providing it from your #Drupal site 📊: www.droptica.com/blog/json-ld...
droptica.com
JSON-LD in Drupal: how to generate structured data from fields with Schema.org Metatag
The safest way to add JSON-LD to Drupal is to map Schema.org properties to existing content fields with Metatag and Schema.org Metatag.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Actually, RC1 has been released since I scheduled this post!
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The #Drupal 🤖 AI Context Control Center module is being built for professional, large-scale use from the very first release - which is almost here. 🚀 Be part of the process, and check it out: 👀 salsa.digital/insights/dru... 📝 Blog post from Kristen Pol
salsa.digital
Drupal AI Context — beta 5 released | Salsa Digital
Beta 5 of Drupal AI Context adds generic context consumers, automators support, documentation, and improved reliability and UX.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Woo hoo! I'll be speaking at DrupalCamp Italy on October 22 in Bologna! 💧🇮🇹 Use the community_DRUPALEASY discount code and get 10% off your ticket at: www.drupalcampitaly.it 🎟️ I wonder if they'll have any good food there… 🍝
drupalcampitaly.it
DrupalCamp Italy 2026 - Bologna, 22 Ottobre
DrupalCamp Italy 2026 a Bologna il 22 Ottobre. La più grande conferenza italiana dedicata a Drupal.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📊 Stats for the #Drupal #AI ecosystem have been updated: ultimike.github.io/ai-module-us... 🚀 There are now 4 modules with more than 10k reported site users and AI Logging up over 850% in just the last 2 weeks! 📈🔥
ultimike.github.io
Drupal AI Dependents
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Celebrating 🎉 our new partnership 🤝 with the #Drupal AI initiative: $100 off 💰 AI Inside Drupal Essentials (starts Nov 9) for the first 8 people to register! www.drupaleasy.com/academy/aide... Only on social media + our newsletter 📰, so grab your spot before they're gone… ⏳
drupaleasy.com
AI Inside Drupal Essentials
Live, online 18-hour course on responsible AI in Drupal. Learn AI agents, automators, RAG search and local AI with a human in the loop. No PHP required.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well-written ✍️ (with a good number of screenshots 📸) article from Shashank Rai (with Specbee) about getting started with #Drupal Canvas 🎨. If you're new to Canvas, this is a pretty good place to start: 🚀 www.specbee.com/blogs/drupal...
specbee.com
Getting started with Drupal Canvas: A frontend developer's first look
Wondering why Drupal needs another page builder? Here's what I learned installing Drupal Canvas, exposing my SDCs, and writing React right in the browser.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DrupalEasy is now on Instagram 📸 - each day I'll post my #Drupal related posts as Instagram stories via goDrupalEasy 💧: www.instagram.com/stories/godr... Follow today! 👉🎉
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The #Drupal #AI 🤖 initiative has an official training partner - us! 🎉 DrupalEasy is proud to partner with the initiative! 🤝 www.drupal.org/about/ai/ini... 📅 First class begins November 9. 🎓
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Powered by Drupal" 🔥 - Nice. 👏 dri.es/acquia-rebra... @dries.bsky.social announces an Acquia rebrand. 🎉
dri.es
Acquia rebrands around content and Drupal
Acquia's new brand puts Drupal front and center, with a focus on trusted content for the age of AI.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know that John Locke was trying to educate me 📚 about using AI to review AI-generated code 🤖, but I was totally distracted by his mention of "an initiative to modernize the old Drupal Groups site" 🚀!!! www.freelock.com/blog/john-lo...
freelock.com
Using AI to review AI-Generated code: Astra vs. Opus vs. DeepSeek | Security, Insights, and Results for your Drupal or WordPress Website
Astra built an impressive amount of working code, but missed serious performance problems. DeepSeek found several of them for 22 cents. Opus cost dramatically more and found a substantially different ...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really interesting article 🧠 about #Drupal sites publishing _capabilities_ for AI agents 🤖 (as opposed to publishing _content_.) from Will Huggins. www.drupal.org/about/ai/ini... I was happy to see the mention for the Tool API 🛠️, which I am a big fan of! 🎉
drupal.org
Yesterday's CMS published pages. Tomorrow's CMS publishes capabilities
Imagine asking an AI assistant: "Show me waterproof jackets under £150, in size M, available for delivery tomorrow". Today, the assistant might search the web, read several retail websites and summari...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Inside #Drupal AI demo site is live 🚀 and a fantastic resource to demonstrate just some of the available functionality! 🤖 Here's an overview from @breidert 👇 www.drupal.org/about/ai/ini... Our course covers most of what is included in the demo! 🎓✨ www.drupaleasy.com/aide
drupal.org
Client Challenge
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📣 Promote #Drupal online and get a contribution credit! 🏆 www.drupal.org/association/... This sounds like something I might want to start doing 😉 📝 Blog post from Ryan Witcombe (@drupalassociation.bsky.social Product Marketing Director)
drupal.org
Client Challenge
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It really is amazing the work that is going into streamlining #Drupal core 12 as much as possible 🚀 — recently, the Search module 🔍 and the Olivero and Claro themes 🎨 were removed from the main branch! www.drupal.org/node/3586217 www.drupal.org/node/3595089 www.drupal.org/node/3584639
drupal.org
Client Challenge
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I really like this 👍 — a public declaration of how Four Kitchens uses AI 🤖. www.fourkitchens.com/blog/develop... Easy-to-read-and-understand regardless of your skill level or role. I'm pretty sure I'm going to write something similar for DrupalEasy.com ✍️ Thank you, Dave Hansen-Lange! 🙌
fourkitchens.com
How we build with AI, and where we draw the lines - Four Kitchens
A look at how Four Kitchens uses AI in development and QA, and the guardrails, human review, and policies that keep it in check.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big congrats 🎉 and thanks 🙏 to the folks at DrupalForge for hosting the official #Drupal AI 🤖 initiative demo site! 🚀 www.drupalforge.org/template/dru...
drupalforge.org
Drupal AI Demo
Explore the power of artificial intelligence in Drupal. Instantly launch a pre-configured Drupal AI demo site in seconds for free with Drupal Forge—no local setup required.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💬 "The gap is between #Drupal and its reputation. The platform kept moving; the narrative didn't." 📈 I love this quote - well said Max Pogonowski 👏 www.sitback.com.au/insights/art...
sitback.com.au
Is Drupal outdated? I tried to rebuild it from scratch
Is Drupal outdated? One developer set out to design a better CMS over a free weekend and spec'd current Drupal feature for feature.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👋 Bytes has arrived at @drupalconeur.bsky.social Rotterdam! 🇳🇱 Win a free registration for #DrupalConOrlando 🌴 by taking a selfie 🤳 with Bytes - he's at the @drupalassociation.bsky.social booth in the expo hall! 🎉
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The #Drupal #AI 🤖 initiative has an official training partner - us! 🎉 DrupalEasy is proud to partner with the initiative! 🤝 www.drupal.org/about/ai/ini... 📅 First class begins November 9. 🎓
drupal.org
Introducing our official Drupal AI Initiative training program: AI Inside Drupal Essentials
As we see our goals for Drupal AI innovation under responsible human guidance flourishing at such a remarkable pace, we recognize a growing community need for practical, responsible ways to learn it. ...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The #Drupal contribution credit system is one of the community's crown jewels. 💎 @dries.bsky.social explains why: dri.es/the-60-secon...
dri.es
The 60-second procurement test
Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Triple debt", "skill rot", "delegate effectively", and "don't be a meat puppet" Thought-provoking quotes from @mandclu.bsky.social's #ai Dev Summit talk at DrupalCon Europe Rotterdam.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have zero tolerance for AI "brat mode". 😤 In fact, I view clearing context in the middle of a task as a way to punish the model and reassert my dominance over it. 💪 Jacob Rockowitz explains: 📝 www.jrockowitz.com/blog/vibing-...
jrockowitz.com
Vibing Drupal: Switching from "Brat mode" to "Drupal mode"
AI can be stubborn and frustrating. Can Drupal become an AI harness that steers humans and AI, both inside and outside Drupal, toward success, without Drupal losing its openness, s
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💬 "If you're using Twig's raw filter with #Drupal, you're doing it wrong" Agreed. ✅ Do what Lee Rolands says 🎯 (and share this with junior devs 👨‍💻.) www.previousnext.com.au/blog/if-your...
previousnext.com.au
Blog post: If you're using Twig's raw filter with Drupal, you're doing it wrong
With some recent security advisories for Cross Site Scripting (XSS), it feels like an opportune time to remind those who author Twig templates for Drupal:If you're using Twig's |raw filter, you're pro...
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A question well worth asking: 🤔👃🎭 www.popsci.com/science/what... 📝 Via @popsci.com #muppets
popsci.com
What kind of animal is Gonzo? What kind of animal is Gonzo? The Muppets won't say, so we asked biologists.
Gonzo’s most distinct feature is also his most baffling: his beak. (Or is it a nose?)
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On December 10 there could potentially be more than a quarter million unsupported Drupal 8, 9, and 10 sites. 😱 Lots of interesting stats like this from Shaker Abday at Gspikes. 📊 gspikes.com/drupal-11-ad...
gspikes.com
Drupal 11 Adoption Tracker: The Curve, the Cliff, and 260,000 Sites | Gspikes
Drupal 11 is on 36% of reporting Drupal sites — and climbing at roughly half the speed Drupal 10 managed at the same age. On 9 December 2026 Drupal 10 reaches e
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"channel your inner hate" 😈 In most circumstances, this is a very negative sounding phrase. @mandclu.bsky.social explains in this excellent blog post 📝 how Mike Madison used it in a very powerful way 💥 when talking about disrupting organizations. 🚀 www.drupal.org/about/ai/ini...
drupal.org
Client Challenge
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're already familiar with #Drupal and you're using an AI agent to create a new project, it probably makes sense for you to direct it to use Drupal. 🤖 www.adrupalcouple.us/drupal-answe... Blog post from @camoa2005.bsky.social
adrupalcouple.us
Drupal could be a great answer for vibe coding
When you vibe something, the AI picks the stack. Why Drupal fits vibe-coded applications, what it already has, and the wish for a Drupal AI like Drupal CMS.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Honor my Dad's 87th(!) birthday today 🎂 by checking out the "AI Inside Drupal Essentials" class I'll be teaching starting October 5. drupaleasy.com/aide Presented in a work-week (and European) friendly schedule 🌍: MWF, 9am-noon EDT (1300-1600 UTC). Here we are at Yankee Stadium recently! ⚾
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Think you're an #AI big shot because you know what "cosine similarity" is? 🤓 @dries.bsky.social takes it a step or two further in this **fantastic** blog post about implementing "related posts" functionality on his site: 🔍 dri.es/finding-rela...
dri.es
Finding related posts with embeddings
How I built related posts for my blog using embeddings, and why the obvious way of comparing them made almost every post look related.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I like the idea behind this, but I don't understand the decision to implement this as a #Drupal module 🤔 instead of an AI skill or something else. 🧩 www.specbee.com/blogs/drupal... Blog post by Zeeshan Khan from Specbee 📝
specbee.com
Are you building a Drupal module that already exists? Meet Module Scout
Building a Drupal module? We built Module Scout that uses AI to search Drupal.org’s live project directory and help you find existing modules before you start from scratch.
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