Thursday, August 8, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.0.0 released
- Drupal 11 release post
- About Drupal 11
- updated core release cycles
- Drupal 11 will require Node.js 20 for core development
- Drupal 11 is around the corner
- the power of Drupal 11
- Drupal 11 promo video
- Drupal 11 preparation checklist
- FAQs about Drupal 7's end of life
- Drupal Association announces HeroDevs as inaugural partner for Drupal 7 extended security support provider program
- join the Drupal Starshot team as a track lead
- announcing the Drupal Starshot Advisory Council
- open source Drupal Starshot slide deck with recording is now available
- trial experience for Starshot update
- Experience Builder week 6 update [week 7] [week 8] [week 9] [week10]
- Drupal.org login flow is changing
- configuration forms can now show if there is overridden configuration
- the "metadata" node.html.twig variable is deprecated
- items moved from block_settings to block_content config schema
- the feature to install a new extension from a URL has been removed
- config actions have been standardized on camel case
- new API to mark database updates as equivalent
- the view variable passed to node templates is deprecated
- Media Library opener services should be tagged or autoconfigured
- changed return value for dayOfWeekName()
- DrupalCI and patch testing turned off for good on drupal.org
- forward compatibility checking of extensions for Drupal 12, 13, etc.
- introducing Drupal Association's Ripple Makers individual membership program
- DrupalCon Portland 2024 event impact recap
- transforming Drupal site building
- ending pages.drupal.org support for Composer 1
- Drupal business survey 2024
- Drupal access policy demystified
- a guide to real-time content optimization in Drupal
- personalizing experiences in Drupal
- streamlining data integration with views CSV source
- modernizing Drupal's data management with JSON integration
- a talk with Dries Buytaert
- AI Interpolator module for any AI-driven Drupal workflow
- set up automated actions on your Drupal site via the ECA module
- CKEditor plugin pack for Drupal
- running Drupal on the edge with WebAssembly
- revision UI API for all entity types
- Drupal at your fingertips
- detailed introduction to the new Drupal AI module
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- new to the web platform in July
- Interop 2024 mid-year update
- @property - next-gen CSS variables now with universal browser support
- Floorp browser
- new class action lawsuit against AccessiBe
- the first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived
- retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft teams (updated)
- a new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
- third-party cookies have got to go
- 5 basic rules to keep your website dependencies secure
- explaining Google Consent Mode
- Google URL shortener links will no longer be available
- MacOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompts for screenshot and screen recording apps (e.g. Teams)
- A Book Apart has shut down
- additional into on A Book Apart
- where you can still get A Book Apart titles
- "Practical SVG" is now free to read online
- "Design for Real Life" news
- "HTML 5 for Web Designers" is now free to read online
- CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
- latest studies suggest targeted advertising is not more effective
- knowing when to ask for help
- your bad LCP score might be a backend issue
- thoughts on accessibility overlays
- Components variations in Storybook
- anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
- incremental font transfer proposal
- the magic of clip path
- a new technique for fit-to-width text
- how not to use box shadows
- external, styleable, and scalable SVG
- get the screen width and height without JavaScript
- how to use container queries now
- poppin' in
- letter spacing is broken and there's maybe nothing we can do about it
- magic colour picker
- a conference about the joy, excitement and surprise of computing holds its last ever event
- slash pages
- explaining the anchor element
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the song parody, "Everybody's Free (to Make Websites)".
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for August 29th.