Directus 🐰

I debuted a new talk "Guiding Agentic AI with @vuejs and Pinia" earlier this year at @vuejsamsterdam. If you weren't able to catch it then, or prefer it in text form, it's now up on @directus' blog as well! Link below 👇

In 2023, decided to give it an upgrade. I was exploring different headless CMS, and @directus was the perfect fit. Designed a schema, imported emojis into Directus, and used readymade APIs & Flows to build emoji pages. No custom backend needed. Directus did the heavy lifting.

For a long time, staging changes to content in Directus meant editing the live item directly and hoping nothing broke before you hit save. In Directus v12, every item in a versioned collection has a clear line between what's live and what's in progress. Change something, like a header image, and Directus stages it in a draft automatically. The published version stays exactly as it was until you're ready. When you publish, you get a side-by-side look at exactly what changed before it goes live, so there's no guessing what you're about to overwrite. It works across every layout: table, cards, calendar, kanban, map, and on singleton collections too. See how it works in our docs: directus.com/docs/guides/co…

This year @directus has gotten 6× as many security reports as we did over the whole of 2025. This spike started in February, which is when Opus 4.6 launched (surprised? no) AI is great for improving security research, but the value has to be quality over not quantity of reports

Early access: monospace.io

We've been quietly building something for months. Today it's officially in public preview. Here's the shift we kept seeing: AI has made everyone a builder. Business users, developers, and AI agents all want to build apps and workflows on your company's core data now. The catch is most of them can't actually get at that data, so good ideas stall before they ever ship. And the people who can hand out access have no clean way to control what gets built, or by whom. Lock it all down? You kill the momentum. Leave it open? You lose control. So we built Monospace: the unified backend your whole organization builds on. Connect your data sources, get an instant API to build on, and give platform teams one place to govern access across everything. We've had early customers testing it in private. Today we're opening it up.

Live Office Hours | Directus (July 8, 2026) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Live Office Hours | Directus (June 24, 2026) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

he's back! highly recommend this guy 😄

What is an AI Agent with Dan Farrelly | Episode 1 | Bry Learns AI. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

New show premiere tomorrow! 🎬 Follow our guy Bry as he learns AI from some of the best in the biz. First episode with our friends at @inngest!

Today I tried a new AI workflow - "Rolling Wave Engineering" by @rijkvanzanten 🙌 Most of the AI workflows base on the idea that you develop a plan with your AI from start to finish. So you know exactly everything that is coming out the end. And then let AI write the whole thing. For people like me, who like to be more in the code rather than just writing a plan document for 3 days that doesn't work. What Rijk is proposing is a system that uses AI to help you do a workflow very closely as you would do in the pre-AI era. Instead of planning everything out beforehand, you build our feature step by step. Or "slide by slice" to use the framework nomenclature. You prepare a slice, implement it, test it, review it. There are nice guards to make sure each of the parts you build is solid (from start to finish). You also don't need know which pieces exactly you need to move/implement for your feature to work. You start with a general idea and in each slice explore and concreticize together with AI what you exactly need. You can also just skip the implementation of a step and do it yourself. And let AI do everything around it. I feel like this keeps me way more in the driver seat as other methods. I'll let you know the coming days or weeks how this experiment continues. If you want to give it a whirl, here's the repo 👇 github.com/rijkvanzanten/…

Becoming a Speaker & Beyond Episode | F* It. Ship It. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/2HsmKioZv… YouTube - youtu.be/WVX3CC3cz1w

F* It. Ship It. episode #3 with @marcba and @alvarosabu drops later today! We'll be streaming it here at 10 AM EST / 3 PM BST.

Directus v12 is now generally available! • Native draft and publishing workflow • AI translations for enterprise content ops • JSON filtering support • Connect AI agents and LLMs via MCP OAuth 2.1 • And a good ol' fashioned UI refresh Learn more: directus.com/resources/v12-…

Live Office Hours | Directus (June 10, 2026) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

*source available 😄

ICYMI - our docs got a MAJOR upgrade last week. Alongside our V12 RC release, we've also totally rebuilt our documentation from the ground up. Cleaner structure, better search, and a customization option so you can get docs tailored to your specific stack. Just want a quick answer without digging through pages? Say no more. We've ALSO added a new AI assistant to fetch what you need, right when you need it. Whether you're just getting started or going deep on the API, it's all there. Happy building! 👉 directus.com/docs