Tuesday, January 27, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal releases 11.3.2
- Drupal CMS releases 1.2.9; 2.0.0-rc1
- Drupal Canvas releases 1.0.3
- introducing the main branch for Drupal core
- announcing Drupal 12.0.0 platform requirements
- Views table alignment style options now relies on core alignment classes
- Drupal turns 25: a quarter-century of open-source innovation
- Drupal 25th anniversary timeline
- 25 years of Drupal - what I've learned (Dries)
- Drupal turns 25 today
- ChatGPT Drupal README.md optimizer
- AGENTS.md tool to speed up Drupal development
- Drupal AI TV
- Drupal developer certification learning plan
- Drupal core metrics - code quality dashboard
- DrupalCon Chicago 2026 session schedule
- when backward compatibility became an advantage
- measuring Drupal core code complexity
- AI single page importer
- simplified Drupal Views styling with custom style plugins
- Kanopi acquires Chapter Three
- Uppy: advanced file uploading with interactive image editing in Drupal
- planning for another great DDEV year in 2026
- Christmas lights, powered by Drupal
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- jQuery 4.0.0 released
- new method to store secrets in the Pantheon dashboard
- top Pens of 2025 on CodePen
- the 2025 Web Almanac
- AI flattens interacts and deepens foundations
- you should never build a CMS
- the third audience
- AI is a business model stress test
- nobody knows how large software products work
- programming principles for self taught front end developers
- the enshittifinancial crisis
- a sharp tool can still run the cut
- layoffs at Tailwind
- evolution of <img> - animated GIF without the GIF
- font with built-in syntax highlighting
- a tale of two fonts
- the copyrightability of fonts
- tips on how to pick the right icons for your website
- how to annotate design system components for accessibility
- a fun trick for getting discovered by LLMs and AI tools
- vibe coding has a 12x cost problem
- why unique ID attributes matter
- introducing CSS grid lanes
- Masonry layout is now grid-lanes
- new Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS grid lanes
- when CSS grid lanes will arrive and how long until we can use it
- directional CSS with scroll-state(scrolled)
- vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
- text-decoration-inset is like padding for text decorations
- 4 CSS features every front end developer should know in 2026
- Chrome Devtools features you should use all the time
- how to @scope CSS not that it's Baseline
- popover context menus with anchor positioning
- ReliCSS can detect CSS hacks and modernize your code
- accessible faux-nested interactive controls
- lowering the specificity of multiple rules at once
- using 100vw is now scrollbar-aware in Chrome 145+, under the right conditions
- how customizable selects work with multiple select
- death to scroll fade
- CSS optical illusions
- AI use guidelines at the University of Waterloo
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the Talking Drupal podcast episode on Composer Patches 2.0.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for February 17th, 2026.