Friday, August 13, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 9.2.3 released- Out-of-band security release announced
- Security issue results in new Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 releases
- Angie "Webchick" Byron leaves Acquia
- Webchick notes job posting
- Job application for Principal Community Manager at Acquia
- Drupal looking for a second Core Commiter Team facilitator
- Drupal considering moving Quick Edit to contrib
- Quick Edit will no longer be enabled by default in the "standard" profile
- contribution recognition and the Drupal project
- the DrupalPod project gets an update
- proposal to have the Project Update Bot automatically commit patches to contrib modules for Drupal 9 compatibility
- Drupal Steward expands availability after successful pilot year
- changes coming to Config Split
- accelerating Drupal adoption with Drupal Rector
- the Drupal bug report wit the "most WTFs/minute"
- participate in the Drupal Business Survey 2021
- introducing the Media File Delete module
- how to add an RSS feed to a Drupal website
- testing GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted Drupal development
- what if you don't upgrade from Drupal 8?
- creating a layout plugin with dynamic regions
- design your CMS to enhance workflows and foster collaboration
- Drupal Multisite guide
- the Lego Druplicon is moving
Next, we went into general web notes:
- Mozilla downgrades user agent client hints to "harmful"
- Chris Coyier on Chrome's removal of alert() and related functionality
- Yoav Weiss on Chrome's removal of alert() and related functionality
- Chrome's intent to remove statement for cross origin subframe JS dialogs
- how Chrome broke the web by removing alert() and related functionality
- GitHub's Git password authentication is shutting down
- previewing content minimap functionality in CKEditor 5
- the 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results
- editor's draft of a proposed standard for CSS nesting
- a new CSS reset
- overview of the RenderingNG architechture
- mid-year update on the Compat project to eliminate browser compatibility problems
- why WCAG colour contrast ratio is not a perfect system
- exploring uses for
- introducing CSS accent-color properly to colour form controls
- prevent unwanted layout shifts caused by scrollbars with the scrollbar-gutter CSS property
- CSS logical properties and values
- web features that may not work as you'd expect
- practical use cases for scroll-linked animations in CSS with scroll timelines
- Layoutit Grid is a nice free CSS Grid interface builder
- prepend "cache:" to URLs in Chrome to find out when Google last indexed your site
- a dev environment setup for Apple Silicon (M1) chips
- your image is probably not decorative
- an inclusive approach to video production
- a colourblind designer says please stop using red and green together
- a plain language guide for writing inclusive digital content
- don't "egg-nore" your punctuation
- what makes for the best workshops
- for developers, Apple's Safari is "crap and outdated"
- Safari "isn't protecting the web, it's killing it"
- dealing with compiled files in Git
- should minified CSS be stored in Git?
- GitHub developer conference-exclusive Lego set
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "How captions increase ROI and audience for media creators", from TEDxFultonStreet.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on Friday, September 3rd at 1:00pm.