A Drupal Couple
Two of us, building with Drupal.
What worked, what broke, and what it cost.
Two of us write here, in English and Spanish, part of the Drupal community in both Latin America and the US. We show what we shipped, what broke, and what it cost. Tell us where your experience differs.
Latest writing
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Drupal could be a great answer for vibe coding
When you vibe an application, the AI picks the stack, and both projects I've looked at came back with the same one. I know Drupal and I contribute to it, so weigh everything here against that bias. But what a vibe-coded application ends up needing, Drupal already has, and the piece still missing is one this community could build. There may be better fits out there. This one is mine.
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The closest thing I have to an answer
Connecting systems isn't hard anymore, so what matters is what you put in the middle. I think that separates into knowledge, decisions, and the terrain those decisions run on, and the thing you'd actually be building is whatever keeps all three true. I've built a version of it for my own tools, and there's good evidence it could make an AI agree with me more, which I don't have a full answer to.
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A conversation in Cartagena
I spent part of a trip talking with an architect and a facade specialist about how buildings behave, and then about when to service them. The systems hold the facts. A person holds the reasoning that turns those facts into a decision, and nobody writes that part down. Most of what follows is me wondering, and I say so where I'm guessing.
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The answers we already tried
This industry has already produced two answers to what developers and agencies sell now. I believed both of them at the time, and neither one held. What's left is finding something that stayed difficult, and I don't think we've done that yet.
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Watching someone not need a developer
A man who runs an insurance agency showed me software he built himself, after paying a development company for months and getting nothing. I sat there listing everything that could go wrong with it, and then realized nobody had asked me to. If building is no longer the hard part, I don't know what the rest of us still bring, and I'd rather work that out in the open than pretend I already have.
We used our own plugins and skills to rebuild our site, here is the story
We pointed the plugins and skills we built ourselves at our own site, and rebuilt the whole thing, brand and all, in about a week of supervised time. Here is what that was actually like: what the tools did well, where they were confidently wrong, and where a human had to step in. These tools will hand you something that looks finished, and whether it is actually good is a separate question. Holding those two together turned out to be the part we could not hand off.
