Friday, April 30, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal core security advisory- Drupal 9.2.0-alpha1 will be released the week of May 3rd
- DrupalCon North America 2021 conference recap
- DrupalCon North America Dropbox for session documents
- Webchick asking how to empower site builders to build ambitious experiences with low code
- April 2021 state of Drupal presentation from Dries
- Upgrade Status 3.5 released
- "If I was to rebuild Drupal.org, what would I want it to look like?"
- choosing view modes with the View Mode Switch Field module
- favourite Drupal modules from the Evolving Web team
- how to rescue an abandoned/neglected Drupal module
- core web vitals in Drupal
- 6 must-have Drupal spam prevention modules
- the body field is dead
- handling the Webform module's issue queue
Next, we went into general web notes:
- what's new in Chrome 90
- what's new in Firefox 88
- what's new in Safari 14.1
- what's new in CKEditor 5
- get ready for three digit user agent strings
- PHP's anniversary, from launch as a CGI script toolset
- PhpStorm tips and tricks
- commonly used Git tips and tricks
- WordPress may automatically disable Google FLoC
- DuckDuckGo extension to block FLoC available for Chrome
- the beauty of tiny enhancements in CSS
- guide to CSS units part 3: percents, viewports, magic and best practices
- guide to CSS units part 4: angles, time, dpi and values without units
- understanding browser cookies
- float an element to the bottom corner
- text that sometimes turns into emojis
- how to style the file input "browse" button
- sticky headers are especially bad when zooming in
- Dragon doesn't support inputs wrapped in label tags
- making content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities
- climate crisis font
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "Driesnote" video on the state of Drupal, from DrupalCon North America 2021.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings have moved to a "once every 3 weeks" schedule. The next one will be on Friday, May 21st at 11:00am.