Friday, January 12, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.2.0 and 10.2.1 released; also 10.1.7 and even 7.99
- Drupal 10.2 is now available
- Drupal 7's minimum PHP version now 5.6
- new option to set heading level for pagers in views
- adding aria-current attribute to links to the current page
- update on Drupal's response to the EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act
- request for comment: Project Update Working Group
- meet the first Ukrainian board member of the Drupal Association
- effortless inspecting of Drupal database queries
- deep dive into Drupal's API client initiative
- exploring AI for Drupal Development
- Andrew Berry on what differentiates Drupal from SaaS offerings
- keyboard accessibility in Drupal
- test-driving the Rancher Desktop Docker provider with DDEV on MacOS
- managing software updates for hundreds of websites
- Drupal theming do's and don'ts
- component-based design using single directory components in Drupal
- Drupal Advent calendar 2023
- Acquia retrospective 2023
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web (and other) notes:
- Firefox 121.0 release notes
- Firefox 121 for developers
- introducing JavaScript support in MySQL
- the most dangerous Canadian internet bill you've never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
- Figma and Adobe abandoning proposed merger (Adobe's version) (Verge article)
- Penpot, an open source design and prototyping tool alternative to Figma/XD
- HTMHell Advent calendar 2023
- top front-end tools of 2023
- PHP in 2023
- CSS wrapped: 2023
- state of CSS 2023 report
- CodePen's top 100 pens of 2023
- pseudo-selector :nth-child() explained interactively
- CSS at-rules every web developer should know
- a CSS Christmas wishlist
- making sense of "senseless" JavaScript features
- giving a damn about accessibility
- Monaspace, a "superfamily" of fonts for code
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Defaults, cloning, referencing and content prototypes - editors' UX for similar content creation" from DrupalCon Lille 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session will be on February 2nd.