Wednesday, July 3, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.3.0 released
- Drupal 10.3 release post
- 3rd party libraries and supply chains security advisory
- default changing for who can register accounts
- images in CKEditor will be able to be marked as decorative
- Experience Builder week 3 update [week 4] [week 5]
- page builder research 2024
- documenting supported component modeling approaches
- Drupal upgrades: tools and workflow
- new community initiative: frontend bundler
- Drupal Association membership update
- support Drupal and open source by recoming a "ripple maker"
- a week's worth of Drupal core contributions
- 2024 Aaron Winborn award winner
- increase Drupal website security with the Drush Firewall module
- seamless 3rd-party integration in Drupal forms via Webform Remote Fields module
- stress-free unit testing using the Test Helpers module
- the Visual Debugger module, a modern take on an old idea
- why DDEV is still the one
- a bash script to set up Drupal for local devlopment using DDEV
- Drupal community in the 500 largest cities in the world
- the woman who revived her life with Drupal
- the essential role of women in tech
- some perspectives on Starshot
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- over 110,000 websites affected by hijacked polyfill supply chain attack
- polyfill.io owner slams Cloudflare after domain shutdown
- Google distrusting Entrust certificates
- new to the web platform in June
- demystifying screen readers: accessible forms & best practices
- using the page visibility API
- an intro to CSS anchor positioning with basic examples
- CSS container queries
- inline conditionals in CSS
- inline conditionals in CSS, but now
- W3's web platform design principles
- after 10 years, A Single Div comes to an end
- US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
- Plasmic visual page builder
- AI-generated songs cause lawsuits
- the font that is also a also a large language model and an inference engine for that model
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch a video introduction to the new Drupal AI module.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks, though they may get rescheduled or canceled over the summer months, possibly on the day of (as this one was); the next session is scheduled for July 19th.