Friday, July 9, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 9.2.0 and 9.2.1 released- bug from Drupal 4.2.0 fixed in 9.3.x
- module/theme info files can now contain a lifecycle key
- content editor role being added to Drupal by default in standard profile
- change to Drupal's favicon output
- menu_list_system_menus() and menu_ui_get_menus() are deprecated
- several procedural functions from Taxonomy have been deprecated
- Drupal will no longer keep track of permissions that don't exist
- permissions can now define dependencies
- PSA on Drupal 8 end-of-life
- Drupal Steward now available to all
- Call for interest to work on the update framework signing server for Drupal packages
- recognizing people who hold key contributor roles in the Drupal community
- Drupal Community Update for July 2021
- women of the Drupal community: Heather Rocker
- looking at the Drupal 10 readiness initiative
- Drupalize.me experimenting with purchasing power parity
- best 10 Drupal integrations you'll need in 2021
- encouraging organizations to sponsor the Webform module's Open Collective
- improve your users' experience with Quicklink 2.0
- why and how to upgrade to Composer 2
- issue queue analysis by TAG's Drupal core contributor
- load testing with Goose, with Drupal 9 Umami on Pantheon with Fastly
- the evolution of Drupal's token system
- the best Drupal content you'll see all week
Next, we went into general web notes:
- the 2021 developer survey
- Safari turns 18
- CKEditor 4.6.1 released
- CKEditor 4 release notes
- CKEditor 5 v28.0.0 brings document versioning
- TablesNG developer notes
- TablesNG resolves 72 Chromium bugs around tables
- RenderingNG
- Firefox to roll out DNS over HTTPS for Canada
- Mozilla H1 2021 performance tools newsletter
- Twitter delays removing support for embedded like, collection, and moment timelines
- debugging dropdown interactions using VoiceOver
- using to enhance forms with suggested values
- CSS fonts module level 5
- media queries in times of @container
- multi-column sortable table experiment
- useful and useless code comments
- optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
- intent to experiment: multi-screen window placement
- browsers decode images differently
- 10 git aliases for faster and productive git workflow
- Amazon blocking Google's FLoC
- GitHub Issues - project planning for developers
- GitHub and OpenAI launch a tool that generates its own code
- GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot reactions
- GitHub Copilot may autocomplete other's paid API keys
- GitHub Copilot used all public GitHub code, regardless of license
- VSCode extension for code suggestion using StackOverflow
- please publish a stable release
- the pretend code on this site's laptop stock photo is user-editable
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "A Georgia.gov Case Study: Structured Content and Flexible Layouts", a recording of a webinar hosted by Lullabot.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings haved moved to a "once every 3 weeks" schedule. The next one will be on Friday, July 23rd. For this term, the meetings will be at 1:00pm.