Friday, November 10, 2023
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.1.6 released
- Drupal 9 is end of life
- DrupalCon Pitch-burgh October updates
- state of Drupal (October 2023)
- Dries in Lille: storytelling or escapism?
- Dries discusses a safe and accessible web for everyone
- new members and process for the Coding Standards Committee
- Drupal Association announces new board members
- coding standards proposals
- plugin implementations should use PHP attributes instead of annotations
- plugin types should use PHP attributes instead of annotations
- HTML utility classes now output HTML 5
- Drupal core's GitLab CI testing is now five times faster than DrupalCI
- CKEditor 5 now offers "show blocks" functionality
- DDEV being considered as the "official" Drupal development environment
- PHPStan is now running for all Drupal modules on GitLab CI
- writing backward-compatible deprecation fixes for contrib modules will be much easier for Drupal 11
- documentation added for supported hooks and APIs in Retrofit for Drupal
- love thy CMS
- essential Drupal books
- Drupal's toolbar redesign
- implementing automated testing with Codeception
- how to onboard the next generation of Drupal engineers
- best Drupal modules found at DrupalCon Lille
- final takeaways from DrupalCon Lille
- using pre- and post-commit Git hooks in Drupal
- Kevin Thull on the Drupal Recording Initiative
- access control strategies for enterprise Drupal websites
- Gander: the future of Drupal performance and scalability
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web (and other) notes:
- new to the web platform in September
- preparing for the end of third-party cookies
- CSS text-wrap: pretty ships to Chrome
- stop "fixing" font smoothing
- the negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
- Georgia Tech College of Computing adds office to provide open-source expertise
- Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads
- how to deliver great team updates
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "Driesnote" video from DrupalCon Lille 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for December 1st.