Wednesday, October 30, 2024
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupalcon Atlanta 2025 program at a glance
- details about the CKeditor vulnerability from the last Drupal release
- support coming for object oriented hook implementations
- new config action to clone config entities
- new config action to create entities
- Experience Builder week 21 updates
- Drupal CMS base recipe update for initial release
- presenting the Drupal CMS v1 content strategy
- researching possible backend implementations of auto-save, drafts, and publishing
- the Drupal Open University project
- a eulogy for Drupal 7
- more Drupal 7 sites moved to WordPress than any other single solution
- community driven development
- need to knows before enabling state cache
Next, we moved on to general web (and other) notes:
- WordPress.org's latest move: taking control of a WP Engine plugin
- employees describe the environment inside Automattic
- timeline of the WordPress drama
- Jeffrey Zeldman: why I stayed
- WordPress.org now requiring denouncing affiliation with WP Engine
- Matt Mullenweg's original response to an article about "doing open source dirty"
- the revised response
- open source royalty and mad kings
- a legal perspective on Automattic's trademarks for WordPress
- San Francisco ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source
- the open source pledge
- jQuery UI 1.14.1 released
- self-hosting a solar powered website
- Internet Archive back after cyberattacks
- what founders learned from trying to take on Twitter
- AI environmental impact report
- Git rerere
- CSS min() all the things
- the blockquote element
- blockquotes in screen readers
- CSS music video using no images
- WCAG challenge arena
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Everything you need to know about cookies but are afraid to ask!" 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 22nd.