13 Aug 2026

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Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #565 - That Geerling Guy

Today we are talking about Open Source sustainability, becoming your own content creation machine, and how drupal influenced some of that with guest Jeff Geerling. We'll also cover AI Metering as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/565

Topics

Guests

Jeff Geerling - jeffgeerling.com geerlingguy

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike JD Flynn - dorficus

MOTW Correspondent

Mike Anello - drupaleasy.com ultimike

13 Aug 2026 6:00pm GMT

The Drop Times: Tiffany Farriss Says Public-Sector Budgets Should Fund Open Source Maintenance

Open-source software still depends on infrastructure and human maintenance that carry real costs. Farriss argues that institutions should plan for those costs before contracts are awarded.

13 Aug 2026 3:13pm GMT

Replatform Radar: Drupal to Headless: Taxonomy and Media Reference Traps

The most dangerous moment in a Drupal-to-headless migration is the one where everything looks fine. The content exported. The article titles are all there. Then an editor opens a launch-ready page and half the images are missing, the "related articles" block is pointing at a press release from 2019, and one product's category is now, somehow, a staff bio. Nothing errored. Nothing turned red. The references just quietly stopped meaning what they used to mean. That is the trap, and it lives in taxonomy, media, and entity references specifically because Drupal stitches your content together with numbers instead of names. Drupal is a house where everything is labeled by drawer, not by name Picture a house where nobody wrote what anything is. Instead, every object has a little tag: see drawer 47 . The cookbook says "pairs with drawer 112." The remote says "belongs to shelf 9." It works…

Read the rest at Replatform Radar

13 Aug 2026 2:00pm GMT