Tuesday, May 12, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.3.9 release
- Drupal Canvas 1.4.0 release
- string formatter will be able to link to an entity's edit form
- SDC components will be able to be used as form elements
- library definitions will support a fonts key for preloading
- HTML5 validation will be disabled in Drupal 12
- CKEditor 5 will use UMD builds instead of DLL builds
- Brotli compression support being added for CSS and JavaScript aggregates
- GitLab issue migration: a contributor's perspective
- sites must update to Drupal 11.3.0 or higher before updating to Drupal 12
- Drupal AI Learners Club is here, and you're invited
- Drupal should not use full CSS required marker in forms according to WCAG
- the format of the Git commit message
- improvements to Drupal.org project maintainers syncing with GitLab project members
- how we are collaborative
- guide for a production-ready Drupal Workspaces workflow
- Devel in Drupal: a known tool for devs, a secret gem for marketers
- Drupal is all in on AI, not comes the hard part
- AI rewards strict APIs
- Drupal AI playground: using the AI Schema.org JSON-LD module to feed the machines
- zero-effort schema markup: AI Schema Markup generator for Drupal
- who will inherit the code?
- building a new Drupal Canvas SDC module with AI, in under 6 hours
- using AI without compromising values
- quality infrastructure for Drupal's AI era (v2)
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- Pantheon's global CDN beta has built-in bot protection
- new to the web platform in April
- introducing GPT 5.5
- higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
- ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years
- the WordPress 100-year plan
- Lovable mass data leak
- Canvas (not Drupal Canvas) outage resolved after exam-season cyberattack
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI module on your device
- Mozilla pushes back against Google's Prompt API
- Chrome's Prompt API concerns
- AI is quietly reshaping developer hiring
- "Tokenmaxxing" as a weird new trend
- GPT image generation models prompting guide
- the speed of writing code is not the problem
- is your site agent-ready?
- making your site visible to LLMs
- strong opinions, loosely held - and what that means in the age of AI
- the "bug-free" workplace - how AI is disrupting building strong teams
- AI era Mythbusters: bad bot edition
- AGENTS.md outperforms skills in agent evals
- open web vs AI: what can W3C do?
- AI doesn't fix accessible systems, it depends on them
- a spec-first prompt instruction file for AI coding assistants
- a context system for building accessible software by default
- DOJ delays US web accessibility deadline
- #AltAtSource - a campaign to fix the biggest gap in accessibility
- Alt text: how to make meaning obvious to humans and machines
- why some images look brighter on your screen
- what "better search" means, and how to get there
- six levels of dark mode in CSS
- font-family doesn't fall back the way you think
- building a UI without breakpoints
- the end of responsive images
- using safe-area-inset to build mobile-safe layouts
- containment breaches in cascade layers
- StyleBop visual CSS editor for Mac
- Datatype variable font that turns text into charts
- replace port numbers with stable, named local URLs
- what is known about you just from visiting a page
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "A Dashboard that Works: Giving Editors What They Want, But Focusing on What They Need" from Stanford WebCamp.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for June 2nd, 2026.