Friday, June 10, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 9.3.15 released- Drupal 7.90 released
- Drupal 9.4.0-beta1 released, includes all deprecations needed before Drupal 10
- Drupal 9.4.0 final coming
- requirements for tagging Drupal 10.0.0-beta1
- evaluating Drupal's code of conduct
- new member of Drupal's board of directors
- Drupal's GAAD pledge on accessibility
- Drupal 7 .htaccess file update for PHP8 compatibility
- strategic initiatives now have logos
- project update bot refreshed to support Drupal 10 readiness
- why Drupal 7 is still popular
- can Drupal scale down?
- Bookish, an install profile for static Drupal blogs
- Drupal 9's different update hooks and when to use them
- what a Drupal contribution day can look like
Next, we went into general web notes:
- CKEditor 4.19 released
- Chrome 101 reducing information on version number in user agent string
- WebKit features in Safari 16 beta
- new UI preview for JetBrains IDEs
- Xcode now pins elements of code to the top
- getting ready for Google Analytics 4
- WordPress 6.0 released
- Broadcom acquires VMware
- comments on competition in the mobile app ecosystem
- creating a custom Packagist
- the science of interviewing developers
- re-evaluating technology
- context switching
- reasonable colours
- 24x24 pixel cursor bookmarklet
- "spicy sections" progress
- a "perfect" table of contents with HTML and CSS
- HTML file inputs can access photos, videos and audio captured directly from the device
- what can work in the new CSS :has
- paper prototype CSS
- simplifying colour palettes with CSS color-mix()
- Bob Ross Lipsum (a happy little lorem ipsum generator)
- world's best CSS developer trophy for 3D printing
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Which Tests Should We Automate?" from SauceCon 2018.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be a day early, thanks to Canada Day, on Thursday, June 30th at 11:00 am.