Thoughts, deep dives and technical notes from the field.
The owner of a 3D printing workshop could no longer keep up with client requests. Printing took little of that time. Most of it went into retyping an address on the GLS portal, digging through WhatsAp...
Native Observability started as a way to look inside Drupal with a dashboard of its own: route timings, cache and slow queries, measured by the site and read by a person on an admin page. Now an AI ag...
My delegation system for Claude Code is a multi-agent orchestrator: Opus designs, assigns and verifies, and subagents running Sonnet or Haiku write the code, each in its own context window. The genera...
Audio has no picture to put an icon on, so the European Code of Practice asks for it to be declared by voice. Here I follow how version 1.0.0-beta1 of AI Disclosure, the module I created on drupal.org...
An AI-generated image can reach a Drupal site with a digital signature attached, and leave it with another one. Three modules sit in between, and each does one job. Here I follow them one by one on a ...
An AI-generated video that looks real has to be declared to the people watching it, and on a site the declaration has to be both on the page and inside the file. Here I follow how AI Disclosure, the m...
With version 1.0.0-beta1, released on 12 October 2026, AI Disclosure, the module I created on drupal.org within the Drupal AI Initiative, labels images, video and audio as well as text. Here I start f...
I'm Giorgio Pagano, a freelance Drupal developer: I use AI agents across my whole development workflow, and I created AI Disclosure, the Drupal AI Initiative module for declaring AI use in content. He...
ctx-memory is an experiment: a decision memory for Claude built as a Drupal 11 site, with four custom entity types, Search API and Typesense. For about five months it has been one of the tools I use m...
I work with AI by following a common thread. In my experience, asking Claude or ChatGPT for one thing at a time gives you pieces that each work and never add up to a whole. My method decides what to a...
With I.T.Svil I took two municipal sites built in Drupal 9 through the assessment for measure 1.4.1 of Italy's Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), «Citizen experience: improvement of the quality and ...
Taking meeting minutes with AI while keeping the audio at home takes three steps on your own machine: transcription, speaker separation, and a summary written by a local model. Trusting those minutes ...
The machine-readable part of the AI label is written by AI Disclosure, the module I created on drupal.org from the Drupal AI Initiative plan. When the label is mandatory is covered in the article on A...
How do you find out why a Drupal page was not cached? You read the reason Drupal itself writes on the response, provided you kept it. The page cache and the dynamic page cache put their verdict in th...
How do you find out which external service slows down a Drupal page? You time every outgoing call while the page is still being built, and write the page name next to the timing. The external service...
This article looks at how AI Disclosure turns Article 50(4) into data and into a label on the page. What the module is and how it is built is covered on the project page. It is not legal advice: it s...
Which query is slowing down a Drupal page, and how do you find it? You find it only if something wrote the page name next to the query while the request was running. Afterwards it cannot be reconstru...
How much does Native Observability slow Drupal down? Native Observability is the Drupal module that records what happens inside every request, and instrumenting a site with it costs about 4.7 and abo...