Friday, December 16, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 7.93 released; also 7.94- Drupal 9.4.9 released
- Drupal 9.5.0 released
- Drupal 10.0.0 released
- Drupal 7 core now passes tests on PHP 5.3 through 8.2
- Dries on the Drupal 10 release
- Drupal.org on the Drupal 10 release
- explore the best of Drupal 10
- Drupal and CKEditor: taking content editing to the next level
- funding "xjm" as a Drupal core release manager
- CKEditor 4 contrib module to allow support in Drupal 10
- what's new on Drupal.org - Q3 2022
- node_revision_load and related functions deprecated
- config entities' dependencies can be validated
- block content now provides a UI for viewing, reverting, and deleting revisions
- Drupal's Project Browser empowers ambitious site builders
- simplify the installation of Drupal modules with Project Browser
- inclusive user outreach - a key ingredient in digital accessibility
- community contribution by ImageX's developers
- using ECA to send emails when creating nodes
- 5 simple ways to increase your Drupal contributions without gaming the system
- Drupal 10 song
Next, we went into general web notes:
- Chrome 109 beta notes
- jQuery 3.6.2 released
- CKEditor 4.20.1 released
- PHP 8.2.0 released
- PHP 8.2.0 changelog
- PhpStorm 2022.3 released
- Mozilla collaborating with WebKit and Google Chrome on Speedometer 3
- 2022 advent calendars for web designers and developers
- open web advocacy
- does WWW still belong in URLs?
- setting up a screen reader testing environment
- swearing and automatic captions
- better accessible names
- Divvi Up - a privacy focused alternative to site tracking
- how to verify site ownership on Mastodon profiles
- warning to not use Hive Social because of security issues
- State of CSS 2022 report
- futuristic CSS
- finding the most expensive CSS selectors
- newer things to know about HTML lists
- first look at the CSS object-view-box property
- looking at the new CSS viewport units added in 2022
- how to transfigure wireframes into HTML
- layout & grid in design systems
- OpenAI invites everyone to test ChatGPT, a new AI-powered chatbot
- ChatGPT: optimizing language models for dialogue
- teaching ChatGPT to invent a language
- building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT
- links on "AI-related stuff"
- you don't need HTML
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "How to write for the online medium" from DrupalSouth 2022 Brisbane.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. Due to the winter break, the next one will be Friday, January 20th at 11:00am.