Thursday, May 16, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.2.6 released (also Drupal 11.0.0-alpha 1)
- Drupal 11 release timing updates
- install profiles no longer need to add an administrator role to user 1
- more helpful links added to block layout page
- jQuery form library forked into core
- the new Navigation module and Layout Builder
- evolving Drupal's Layout Builder to Experience Builder
- state of Drupal presentation (May 2024)
- Drupal lead announces new version of the Drupal CMS (and, below, many articles about this, any many more have been written that aren't included)
- introducing Drupal Starshot and charting a new course for the future
- thoughts on Drupal's new Starshot initiative
- ambitious Drupal Starshot initiative announced
- digital agency supports the new Drupal Starshot
- download and install Drupal Starshot
- 15 reasons to be excited about Drupal's new Starshot initiative
- Starshot, a recipe to cook up ambitious Drupal applications
- Starshot is Drupal's "Moonshot"
- new, revolutionary Drupal CMS version underway
- DrupalCon Portland 2024 day 1 highlights (day 2) (day 3) (day 4)
- DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 announced
- detailed overview of the 2024 Drupal Developer Survey results
- de-jargoning Drupal
- polishing Drupal's admin UI
- getting Smart Date dialed up to 11
- comparing page builders in Drupal, Wordpress, and Webflow
- cspell and drupalorg CLI - useful tools for contrib module maintainers
- Drupal 7 vs Drupal 10
- understanding what Drupal editors and authors need
- enhance your Drupal experience with the free CKEditor 5 plugin pack
- how an upstream platform fixed split higher ed websites
- top 10 most installed Drupal modules and what they can do for your website
- 4 important improvements to Drupal Core performance
- accessing nested paragraph fields in Drupal
- how to create multilingual Drupal websites
- a new CEO for Pantheon
- Drupal Advent Calendar 2024 call for ideas
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- new to the web platform in April
- popover API lands in Baseline
- alternative proposal for CSS masonry
- concerns about tabbing behaviour, rather than syntax and name, for CSS masonry
- do you still need SASS?
- self-modifying CSS variables
- modern guide for making CSS shapes
- on minifying CSS
- on highlighted text
- misconceptions about CSS specificity
- relevance of web-safe fonts in 2024
- printing music with CSS grid
- detecting JavaScript support in CSS
- isBooleanTooLongAndComplex
- securing client-side JavaScript
- nerd fonts (particularly for developers)
- Oh My Zsh (homepage)
- the man who killed Google Search
- with the rise of AI, web crawlers are controversial
- Google overhauling results with AI overviews and Gemini organization
- AI safety for fleshy humans
- OpenAI's spring update
- Apple's iPad event was shot on iPhone - with Panavision lenses
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Using Layout Builder: Practical Advice from the Field " from DrupalCon Portland 2024.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for June 7th.