Friday, September 23, 2022
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal releases 9.4.6; 10.0.0-beta1; and even 7.92- Drupal 10 expected December 14, 2022
- Drupal Association election
- CKEditor 5 a stable core module as of Drupal 9.5.0
- CKEditor 4 deprecated as of Drupal 9.5.0
- path load function will now consistently load the newest alias
- Starterkit theme generator replacing the Classy theme
- Stable theme deprecated
- Bartik theme deprecated
- what's new on Drupal.org for Q2 2022
- Drupal founder Dries Buytaert to keynote GitKon 2022
- DrupalCon call for speakers goes out
- Smart Date module's community-driven features and the road ahead
- asking if cheatsheets are still a thing for Drupal developers
- McGill's migration from Drupal 7 to 9
- debugging cache problems with the Cache Review module
- helping maintain high value Drupal contributions
- grading Drupal contributions
- Acquia originally intended to drop PHP 7.4 support on October 1
- DrupalCon Prague had coincidentally-named room controls (and rooms)
Next, we went into general web notes:
- WebKit features in Safari 16
- how git-check-ignore works
- accessibility and supporting Internet Explorer
- web design beyond the UX phrase
- visualizing Git history
- Composer.json schema cheatsheet
- "Stranger Things" caption case study
- writing for the web tips for great content
- diving into how The Verge's new website was put together
- new updates to emoji
- Adobe buys Figma
- Replit's History++ for versioning
- experimenting with serving real HTML content to make a website faster
- CSS features we're thankful for and CSS features we need
- switching from Docker Desktop to Colima
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch " Demystifying Git - Version Control From First Principles" from Drupal Camp Ashville.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. We skipped Thanksgiving week, so the next one will be on Friday, November 4th at 11:00 am.