Practical Drupal talk from the project room.
Talking Drupal follows Drupal practitioners as they compare tools, projects, events, and platform choices in plain technical conversation. Episodes move from a specific module, site, or guest project into the messy details of adoption, maintenance, client needs, and community practice.
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Talking Drupal is a long-running technical conversation about Drupal as people actually use it. The show is not trying to sand the platform into a clean product pitch. It sounds closer to a table of Drupal practitioners comparing notes after installing modules, inheriting sites, watching community priorities shift, and working through the consequences for clients. Recent episodes cover Drupal CRM, developer adoption, DrupalCon Chicago, DKAN, World Cancer Day, Commerce 3.x, AI, and Mautic. Each topic gets treated as something with edges. A CRM discussion becomes a question about contact entities, relationship tracking, email capabilities, agency incentives, and what should remain small in a base project. A conversation about AI turns toward junior engineers, boilerplate, Stack Overflow, open issue queues, Slack, and how learning actually happens inside development teams. Open data and civic technology episodes bring in public-sector use cases, nonprofit needs, product care, and the practical discipline of contrib-first work. Marketing automation is handled through consent, deletion requests, do-not-contact flags, hosting, GDPR, CCPA, and the reality that software can provide tools without forcing good behavior. The weekly module segment keeps the show anchored in Drupal objects: social media links, native observability, modern dashboards, PDF Ally, field widget actions, Mautic ECA, and addresses. Guests add domain context, but the show keeps asking the Drupal questions. Who maintains this? How will a site builder experience it? What happens in production? Why would a developer choose something else? The pacing is measured, with room for mispronunciations, small jokes, live-panel hiccups, and follow-up questions. That looseness works because the substance is specific. Talking Drupal is best for listeners who want community-aware technical judgment from people comfortable living inside Drupal's details.
Made for: Talking Drupal is for Drupal developers, site builders, maintainers, agency teams, civic-tech practitioners, and technically literate web professionals who care about how Drupal decisions land in real projects.
What sets it apart: The show pairs module-level specificity with community context, so a feature discussion often becomes a useful look at maintainership, adoption, client pressure, and production tradeoffs.
Talking Drupal is a weekly chat about web design and development by a group of people with one thing in common: We Love Drupal. With hosts John Picozzi, Nic Laflin, and Martin Anderson-Clutz
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Talking Drupal connects Drupal's tools and projects to concrete questions about software ownership, adoption, architecture, and AI-assisted development.
Talking Drupal turns a specialist open-source ecosystem into a practical conversation about how software gets built, adopted, and maintained. John Picozzi, Nic Laflin, and Martin Anderson-Clutz use guest-led discussions to connect Drupal with AI-assisted development, managed…
At Nick Laughlin's Drupal table, even 16 million colors invite the question you'd be shy to ask.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical Drupal CRM discussion that centers scope, contribution, and contact data as the core design questions.
Talking Drupal 548 treats Drupal CRM as a question of scope, not spectacle. The base project is kept intentionally small, while a wider ecosystem is expected to carry more of the weight.
A practical AI discussion that stays rooted in Drupal work, support channels, and community habits.
Talking Drupal 542 brings Scott Falconer together with John Pacozzi and Catherine Zbukas for a discussion of AI that stays close to the work Drupal people actually do.
Open source marketing automation framed through Drupal, compliance, and real hosting concerns.
Talking Drupal 541 keeps its attention on Mautic, its ties to Drupal, and Ruth Cheesley's role as project lead for the open source marketing automation platform.
A practical DrupalCon preview for nonprofit Drupalers thinking through connection, sessions, and AI.
Talking Drupal Cafe gives the nonprofit summit at DrupalCon a clear, practical frame: what the day is meant to offer, and what nonprofit Drupalers are already wondering about.
Acquia Source is framed as a practical Drupal SaaS with an export path, not a locked-in promise.
Talking Drupal #540 keeps its focus on Acquia Source and the practical questions that matter most: how quickly a team can start, how much control it keeps, and what the export button really changes in the long run.
Drupal's adoption gap is framed through old perceptions, Composer friction, and the stark 1.4 percent desire figure.
Drupal's adoption problem comes through as a mismatch between how much the software has changed and how many developers still carry older expectations into the conversation. J.D.
A practical tour of CSS color limits, wider gamuts, and what they mean for Drupal theming.
Talking Drupal spends this episode on color in CSS, Sass, and Drupal theming, with Aubrey Sambor keeping the discussion tied to practical implementation.
Power Platform news with practical static.
This episode of Talking Drupal features an interview with Mike Anello about single directory components, Drupal training, and the Drupal Easy platform, including a module of the week segment.
This episode of Talking Drupal features an interview with James Sandsbury, CEO of Tugboat, discussing how Tugboat enhances CI/CD processes for Drupal development, along with a segment on the Shirley module for URL shortening.
Talking Drupal episode 473 features lead engineer Aubrey Sambor discussing modern CSS color handling with Sass and Drupal.
Drupal still has baggage.
Talking Drupal #572 features Elizabeth Barron, executive director of the PHP Foundation since March, explaining why a community-owned language needed a funded foundation almost five years ago.
Georgia's GovHub applies one Drupal multisite codebase to more than 90 state agency websites, so one patch covers them all.
Matt Stelfer says Laravel packages compatible components so developers avoid repeatedly choosing authentication and database tools.
Talking Drupal 548 looks at how to build a CRM with Drupal.
This episode explores why developers often avoid choosing Drupal for web projects, featuring guest J.D.
A live panel discussion from DrupalCon Chicago covering the Dries note, new features, and future developments in Drupal.
This episode of Talking Drupal discusses the DKAN open data platform, its applications in Drupal, and features guests Liz Tupper and Dan Fader from Civic Actions, along with a module of the week on modern Drupal dashboards.
This episode of Talking Drupal discusses how Drupal is used by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) for World Cancer Day initiatives, featuring guests Charles Andrew Revkin and Diego Costa.
This episode discusses Drupal Commerce 3.x updates and features with guest Ryan Sharma, who has extensive experience in Drupal e-commerce development.
Episode 542 is another AI show.
Talking Drupal 541 looks at Mautic, where it came from, and what it actually takes to run open source marketing automation in real life.
Talking Drupal Cafe #015 previews the Non-Profit Summit at DrupalCon 2026 in Chicago, with Stephen Musgrave and Karen Horloks explaining why the Monday program matters.
Talking Drupal 540 centers on Acquia Source, Acquia's fully managed Drupal SaaS.
This episode of Talking Drupal features an interview with Mike Anello about single directory components in Drupal, Drupal Easy's training programs, and the Markdown Easy module.
This episode of Talking Drupal discusses AI integration in Drupal, focusing on privacy-focused solutions like Amazee AI and the LightLM AI Provider module.