Friday, June 13, 2025
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal releases 10.4.8; 11.1.8; 10.5.0-rc1; 11.2.0-rc2
- new image effect to convert to AVIF (with fallback)
- tests with PHPUnit 10 attributes are now supported
- the evolution of the Drupal Event Platform
- UX as a first class citizen in Drupal core
- marketplace share out #5: turning insight into actions
- Marcus Johansson's return to Drupal with AI at core
- the code and commitment that carries Drupal: a conversation with David Bekker
- accelerating AI innovation in Drupal
- Drupal launches new AI initiative
- what Drupal agencies are bringing to London's AI summit
- the future of Drupal is intelligent
- building Drupal, building community
- securing DDEV's future
- building truly global Drupal communities
- the challenges of launching the Drupal IXP program
- Keep your website pixel-perfect with Backstop Generator
- Pantheon: Drush 5 and 7 no longer available
- Pantheon: PHP 5.3 and 5.5 no longer allowed
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- Cloudflare's June 12 service outage
- Storybook 9 released
- comparing local LLMs for alt text generation, round 2
- do not publish your designs on the web with Figma Sites
- State of CSS 2025 open for submissions
- a brief history of JavaScript
- how template culture is dumping down UX
- having AI skeptic friends
- 10 updates from Google I/O 2025
- use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation
- exploring the OKLCH colour ecosystem and its tools
- 1fr 1fr vs. auto auto vs. 50% 50%
- container query for "is there enough space outside this element?"
- what we know (so far) about CSS reading order
- making web pages look good when printed
- a new way to style gaps in CSS
- design beyond barriers
- CSS Minecraft
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "1 Codebase, a Bunch of Tools and 100+ Websites" from MidCamp 2025.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for July 4th.