Tuesday, April 21, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.3.8 release
- functions in menu_ui.module deprecated, moving to hooks
- image functions deprecated
- PHP attributes can be used for route definition and discovery
- inline links in help topics are no longer rendered as absolute
- deprecated email addresses will no longer pass validation
- Drupal Canvas 1.3.3 release
- Drupal AI 1.3.3 release
- PHP 8.5 now available on Pantheon
- vibe coding a custom module extending CKEditor
- making the DriesNote demo real
- Drupal AI initiative showing significant progress and major releases
- DrupalCon Chicago 2026 retrospective
- DrupalCon Chicago 2026: where innovation meets the open web
- April Sides wins the 2026 Aaron Winborn award
- beyond the "AI Average": how Drupal is the future of "quality at scale"
- Dripyard's Drupal contributions for March 2026
- AI coding tools for Drupal development
- Drupal CMS leadership changes
- policy on the use of AI when contributing to Drupal
- proposal for an LLM policy for Drupal Core contribution
- LLM use in Drupal core contribution, AGENTS.md guidelines
- Admin Theming Tools module
- Drupal AI playground: adding more structures
- Drupal AI playground: training and practicing building a module using AI
- Drupal core AGENTS.md issue closed amid AI governance debate
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- introducing headers.dev
- introducing Claude Opus 4.7
- GitHub introduces stacked PRs
- AIMee: an accessible accessibility-focused AI chatbot
- Google's new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
- Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO)
- proposal to add minimum-release-age config to Composer to filter newly-released packages
- cookie consent management in 2026, part 1: overview
- cookie consent management in 2026, part 2: technical tips
- France launches government Linux desktop plan as Windows exit begins
- WebAIM's accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages
- State of AI 2026
- Stanford's AI index for 2026 shows the state of AI
- someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
- "I stopped using AI as a chatbot. Here's the system I built for Drupal teams"
- what Claude Design actually changes for designers
- Git commands for code insights
- the vertical codebase
- screen readers are not testing tools
- no need to include "navigation" in navigation labels
- alternatives to CSS's !important keyword
- making complex CSS shapes using shape()
- light/dark favicons, @mixin, object-view-box and more
- making emojis and icons screen reader accessible
- CSS subgrid is super good
- the radio state machine
- Unicode variation selectors
- you're looking at the wrong Pretext demo
- Pretext review
- <select> your fruit
- rendering DOOM in 3D with CSS
- CSS or BS?
- porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "From Autocomplete to Autopilot" from the Drupal AI Learners Club.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for May 12th, 2026.