Friday, October 11, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.3.6 released, along with Drupal 11.0.5
- the plain text field formatter now restricts inaccessible links
- asset ordering is now more strictly determined
- navigation schema is now more consistent
- recipes can now opt out of strict comparisons with existing config
- page cache and dynamic page cache modules' response headers improved
- Experience Builder update week 18 [week 19] [week 20]
- Drupal CMS update for mid-September 2024
- a quick and dirty summary of the Driesnote
- Dries' notes on his state of Drupal presentation
- Pantheon now supports Drupal 11 site creation from the dashboard
- Pantheon providing Drupal 7 long term support
- DrupalCon Barcelona recap
- announcing the adopt a document program
- more on the adopt a document program
- new Drupal Association members
- how to organize content entity forms
- optimizing performance with internal page cache
- add an icon to your custom field type in Field UI
- comparing link generation methods
- how to set up and try out Drupal AI
- next level theming with Pinto
- Vite and Storybook frontend tooling
- AI tool to convert Twig components to SDC
- improving headers in a Drupal site using Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- new to the web platform in September
- ESLint now officially supports JSON and Markdown
- Mozilla's new brand
- submit proposals for Interop 2025
- Automattic: open source, trademarks, and WP Engine
- WP Engine: Automattic has misused their control of Wordpress
- WP Engine: Automattic is running a scorched earth campaign
- cease and desist letter to Automattic from WP Engine
- catching up on WordPress/WP Engine
- Automattic is doing open source dirty
- solving the maker-taker problem
- how to calculate Git repository growth over time
- a practical guide to personalization with user personas
- an introduction to Diffy for visual regression testing
- terminal colours are tricky
- the pitfalls of placing accessibility issues in the backlog
- think like a front-end developer
- preserving intentionally-pixelized images when scaling
- documentation for image-rendering
- searching for a new CSS logo
- what happens when an internet domain goes away?
- Hacktoberfest 2024
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "Driesnote" from DrupalCon Barcelona 2024.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for November 1st.