Friday, August 15, 2025
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal releases 10.5.2; 11.2.3
- recipe input now accepts environmental variables
- disruptive deprecations should now be scheduled for removal in Drupal 13.0.0
- content:export command added to help with receipt development
- CKEditor 5 now offers a UI for setting list type
- promoted to front page now defaults to false for new content types
- the ban module is deprecated
- promoted/sticky fields are hidden by default for new node types
- Drupal's social media focus for 2025 and beyond
- marketplace share out #7 - the MVP proposal
- marketplace share out #8 - FAQ and what's changing post-feedback
- Drupal Association announces 2025 board election winner and additional board members
- Drupal's new contribution records system
- AI initiative marketing June update
- Drupal AI initiative monthly report for June
- Drupal AI 1.2.0-alpha1 is out and ready to be tested
- share views on the Drupal AI roadmap
- why Drupal is built for the AI era
- introducing the Drupal AI initiative
- breaking complexity to democratize AI in Drupal
- taking a tour of the Tour module
- DrupalCon Chicago 2026 call for speakers
- Experience Builder pushes Drupal's boundaries
- nineteen years in a twenty-four-year old Drupal
- CKEditor Drupal modules: email configuration helper and layout tables
- Drupal core's Single Directory Components introduce component variants
- Pantheon search no longer available for Drupal 8.0 - 9.3 starting October 21
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- jQuery 4.0.0 RC1 released
- GPT-5 is here
- PhpStorm 2025.2 now available
- new to the web platform in July
- July 2025 baseline monthly digest
- Siteimprove introduces new mobile solutions suite
- Siteimprove launches agenetic content intelligence platform
- JetBrains increases subscription pricing
- Pantheon requiring TLS 1.2 or 1.3 for external connections
- Pantheon makes PHP 8.4 available via PHP runtime generation 2 (and users will have to switch from generation 1)
- Pantheon making certain configuration files no longer publicly web accessible
- a look at bot traffic on Pantheon
- how AI vibe coding is destroying junior developer's careers
- gaslight-driven development
- funding open source like public infrastructure
- Google changing plans to remove goo.gl links
- GitHub gets less independent after CEO resignation
- Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
- how to make accessibility "stick"
- why designers sound negative (and why that's a good thing)
- designing better UX for left-handed people
- a friendly introduction to SVG
- Chrome: help us build CSS masonry
- Webkit (Safari): next steps for masonry
- get the number of auto-fit/fill columns in CSS
- creating a scroll-spy with 2 lines of CSS
- the figcaption problem
- getting creative with quotes
- another article about centering in CSS
- 5 useful CSS functions using the new @function rule
- a gentle introduction to anchor positioning
- 2025 Stack Overflow developer survey
- takeaways from the State of Dev 2025 survey
- State of CSS 2025
- a handful of reasons JavaScript won't be available
- address formats around the world
- pronounce GIF the correct way, without question
- does AOL ditching dial-up kill dial-up?
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch a review of form widget actions in Drupal AI 1.2.0-alpha1.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for September 5th.