Friday, August 18, 2023
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.1.2 released
- schema checker now checks strictly, including validation constraints
- field types can now specify weight
- blocks can now be displayed or hidden according to a 200, 403 or 404 response
- CKEditor 5 version updated in Drupal, to support empty inline elements
- updated coding standards proposals up for final discussion
- ensuring a fair Drupal contribution credit system
- bug smash initiative 3-year update
- Drupal 7 end of life partners
- improving Simplytest's maintainability
- protect your investment in Drupal 7 with Retrofit for Drupal
- one vendor's DrupalCon boot experience
- innovating within Drupal's core competency
- modern methods for improving Drupal's largest contentful paint core web vital
- 4 "must-have" Drupal modules for public sector websites
- properly injecting dependencies
- Single Directory Components a game-changer for theming
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web notes:
- getting started with CSS nesting
- scroll progress animation in CSS
- Tailwind conference recap
- how to tell if something was written by ChatGPT
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Generative AI and Drupal" from Drupal Developer Days Vienna 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks, though the next session is scheduled for September 15th.