Friday, January 18, 2019
This week, we continue the post-break "cleanout" and have even more links than last week. First off, here's what's Drupal-related:
Drupal security releases for both Drupal 7 and 8- a note on the changes to git authentication for Drupal.org projects
- Drupal pitch deck initiative update
- Drupal 8 now, or Drupal 9 later?
- Drupal's 18th birthday
There were still a few notes about "everything else":
- "Can I use..." turns 10
- "Can I use..." has a Patreon
- PHP 5.6 updated
- why you should drop www
- why you shouldn't drop www
- why you should or shouldn't drop www
- using the web for a day with a screen reader
- designing layouts for screen readers
- "fixing" lists for screen readers
- Safari's not announcing some lists as lists is a "purposeful change"
- what the internet looks like in China, Russia, Cuba and India
- the rise and demise of RSS
- how Chrome decides what parts of a URL to display
- when and how to use CSS multi-column layout
- how to stop opening links in new windows without warning
- the ethics of web performance
- CSS and network performance
- designing accessible ways to dismiss modals
- EU starts running bug bounties on open source software
- "nobody is quite wrong" about whether or not you should use new web features
- the cult of the complex
- regarding CSS's global scope
- CSS doesn't suck
- an introduction to CSS containment
- how to learn CSS
- CSS has a new GIF
- a look at what web advertisers' limits are
- don't pay to speak at commercial events
- things to keep in mind if running a design sprint
- games to help learn web technologies
- using DevTools to understand modern layout techniques
- colour tips for chrome DevTools
- title texts suck
- Google Fonts and font-display
- the Google Docs ".new" trick
- SVG images loaded via
don't run JavaScript
- changes to how Twitter displays PNGs
- Twitter changes for the embedded grid display type
- Google Fonts asks what you'd want if they offered variable fonts
- Google Fonts asks what benefits of variable fonts are most important
- automatically remove backgrounds from photos of people
- find the right git commands with Git Explorer
- the book of secret knowledge
- 15 web design books from 2018
- 20 web design trends for 2019
- 12 web design trends for 2019
- what "Smashing Magazine" wished for
- CodePen's top pens of 2018
- CSS-Tricks' 2018 staff favourites
- clever layout pens from CodePen
- styling a select like it's 2019
- the flexbox holy albatross
- understanding the albatross
- the flexbox holy albatross reincarnated
- swappy radio buttons
- slidey radio buttons (swappy radio buttons remix)
- a Venn diagram using CSS
- slicing and dicing a disc with CSS
- about the CSS-Tricks redesign
- CSS wisdom from Goofus and Gallant
- front-end performance checklist 2019
If you've made it this far, you may be wondering how there was time for the usual video after all the notes. The answer is - there wasn't! We'll resume watching videos next week.
The next Web Dev Rev is on Friday, January 25th, in EC2 1021 (Millennium) at 11:00am. Hope to see you there!