Friday, August 14, 2020
This week's Web Dev Rev notes started with Drupal:
DrupalCon edition of what's new on Drupal.org- what order Drupal updates and configuration import/exports should be run
- modules, coding practices, and server configuration for improving Drupal 9 performance
- building software to be proud of
- Olivero theme releases first beta
Next we had the more general web notes:
- Google's Waterloo team behind new content visibility feature for Chrome
- explaining content-visibility
- stop Twitter from cropping your image previews
- designing a technical interview
- Adobe shutting down PhoneGap
- Axe browser extension now available for Edge
- extension to toggle off CSS features for testing
- announcing early access to the next generation of the Twitter API
- introducing a new and improved Twitter API
- Mozilla laying off approximately 250 people and reaction from: Eric Meyer; @ppk; @fantasai; Michal Purzynski; Una Kravets; Rachel Andrew; Graham Lee; @tabatkins; @enichan; Bruce Lawson; Lea Verou; Robin Berjon; Julia Evans; Sean Coates; Brandon Dail; @nburdy; Gregory Koberger; Mike Shaver
- MDN website not going anywhere right now
- Firefox Developer Tools not going away
- the cult of the free must die
- reimagining the vendor-only model
- layoffs cause panic among developers
- Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal
- browsers reinvented everything
- web history: browsers
- stacked cards with sticky positioning
- drawing with zerodivs.com
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Checking under the hood: Auditing your website for a smooth ride" from Drupal Chicago's August 2020 meetup.
Web Dev Rev will be back next week, on Friday, August 21st at 11:00am.