Friday, February 23, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.2.3 released
- View's column classes to get reset if "add default classes" is turned off
- new "EntityBundleExists" validation constraint
- event added for database statement execution failure
- Taxonomy to provide a UI for revisions
- default shipped image styles to include webp conversion
- destructible services to be destructed on page cache hits
- RFC to remove support for Windows in production in Drupal 11
- DrupalCI and all patch testing to be turned off on July 1, 2024
- what's new on Drupal.org - Q2 - Q4 2023
- bounty program extension for innovative modules and ideas
- single sign-on coming to Drupal.org
- nominations open for 2024 Aaron Winborn Award
- introducing Drupal's innovation hub
- new Drupal Association board member
- Drupal Association co-founds the Open Website Alliance
- Drupal 10's cache API
- improving page loading speed in Drupal with different caching solutions
- how Drupal can deliver scalability and flexibility for the public sector
- onwards to Drupal 11 and ways to get involved
- looking for input for DrupalCon Portland 2024 initiative highlights
- to patch or not to patch
- Drupal use at University of Colorado
- Pantheon's WebOps Certification program
- Drupal's Project Browser: what it is and how it works
- DrupalCon Portland 2024 schedule
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web (and other) notes:
- Dries Buytaert's HTTP header analyzer
- jQuery 4.0.0 beta released
- Storybook 8 beta released
- Google Bard is now Gemini, and available in Canada
- introducing Gemini 1.5
- the killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video
- introducing Sora AI video generation
- Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups
- Google will stop caching web pages
- the UX of Threads' downfall
- Monotype's 2024 type trends report drops
- 2024 design trends
- new HTML control lands in Safari
- comparing Interop 2024 choices to the popular vote
- a practical guide to designing for colourblind people
- web development is getting too complex, and it may be our fault
- in loving memory of the square checkbox
- animating font palette
- indicating mandatory fields in an accessible way
- don't disable form controls
- digital accessibility at McGill
- the new CSS math
- a highly configurable switch using modern CSS
- basic dialog usage and gotchas
- scroll-locked dialogs
- fixing the invisible scrollbar in iOS browsers
- syntax highlighting without spans
- new Composer plugin to install 3rd party tools
- update on dependency patch resolution
- how to test a browser extension locally
- sorting Git branches
- why reflows regatively affect performance
- encoding and decoding URLs in JavaScript
- browsers are weird right now
- how to Favicon in 2024
- Tailwind marketing and "misinformation"
- making a PDF that's larger than Germany
- the world's most ethical AI model
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Composer behind the scenes" from DrupalCon Lille 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; however, the next session is currently scheduled for March 22nd.