Friday, September 3, 2021
We started with Drupal-related notes:
August 2021 Drupal Community update- new provisional Drupal 9 core committers
- Drupal now uses ESLine to validate YAML
- phpstan-drupal, drupal-check, drupal-rector, and upgrade_status
- seeking maintainers for modules removed from Drupal 10 core
- meet 2021 Discover Drupal student Nadia Faucon
- from imposter syndrome to core committer
- how Drupal patches work and why they are important
- every tool you could need for the Drupal 9 upgrade
- Drupal 10 readiness will be hugely automated
- the Scheduler module
- improve the editorial experience with Type Tray and Page Templates
- focus on innovation with Autopilot on Pantheon
- Drupal Business Survey 2021
Next, we went into general web notes:
- new in Chrome 93
- Microsoft Edge release notes
- key data structures and their roles in RenderingNG
- iOS engine choice in Depth
- Google to pay $15 billion to remain default Safari search engine
- why WebKit supports AVIF but Safari does not
- how Slack designs their APIs
- building a resilient frontend using progressive enhancement
- why hyperlinks are blue
- CSS pseudo-commas
- accessibility of the section element
- initial explainer for the proposed element
- the original proposal for how CSS would work
- WordPress classic editor plug-in to be supported through 2022
- is the classic editor support tacit acknowledgement that Gutenberg has not achieved its promised accessibility?
- Google AI generates high fidelity images from thumbnails
- something to remember every time there is discussion on AI enhancing images
- Docker's announcement on changing its subscription model
- ZDnet article on Docker changing its subscription model
- 10 best Docker alternatives in 2021
- suggestion for naming the "inevitable" Docker Desktop OSS implementation
- Knights of the Flexbox Table
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Accessing the Layers of Help in Drupal", from a Drupalize.me webinar.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings happen once every 3 weeks. The next one will be on Friday, September 24th at 1:00pm.