Tuesday, August 25, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.4.5 released
- phpstan-drupal 2.1.0 released with stricter defaults
- CKEditor core module moving to contrib
- testing profile no longer installs page cache and dynamic page cache
- status messages now use ARIA live region roles
- PHP test methods can be skipped by applying an attribute
- core library definitions support before/after ordering
- archive, glossary and recent content block views removed from core
- how Drupal AI delivers fast, on-brand movement
- the next phase of the Drupal AI initiative
- Drupal Association 2025 audit and financial overview
- the Drupal Association Insider for July 2026
- the software business after code scarcity
- MCP Server Views contrib module
- first look at the DrupalCon Orlando venue
- Southwestern Ontario DrupalCamp announced for Oct 23 and 24, 2026
- vibing Drupal: choosing a model for Drupal development
- vibing Drupal: losing my skills
- why PreviousNext signed Drupal's manifesto for an open source future
- choosing a multisite approach in Drupal
- building safer AI workflows in Drupal with Tool Belt and Workspaces
- agent skills storage and distribution vary across AI coding tools
- Schema markup and AI: does it actually help SEO?
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- TIME is serving AI bots a different website, with ads built in
- new EU guidelines for AI labelling
- open source must be fun (or it will die)
- State of CSS results for 2026
- Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
- browser-based video editor
- native-first carousel
- gap decorations are now available
- cheatsheets for flex, grid, anchor positioning and invoker commands
- the CSS lh unit
- the image element can overflow
- improved CSS text-stroke
- dark mode toggles: two states are enough
- declarative route and navigation matching in CSS
- future CSS: target multiple classes with the class prefix selector
- you don't know HTML lists
- how Baseline can help you ship less JavaScript
- alt text can pass automated checks and still not be any good
- GitHub's August 17th outage
- PBS broadcaster loses access to 70 years of TV history after cloud vendor goes defunct
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch an episode of "Web Dev Challenge", where teams have 4 hours to complete a unique developer challenge and demo their apps. Episode 1 is embedded here.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is currently scheduled for September 15th, 2026.