Friday, September 15, 2023
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 10.1.3 released
- modules with the same name as a theme can not be installed and vice versa
- DeprecationHelper helps modules support multiple versions of core
- button values and messages during field creation workflow have change
- menu link "parent link" limited to the current menu for new links
- search filter added to permissions form
- DrupalCon Pitch-burgh updates (August 2023)
- Drupal Association election 2023 open for voting
- how theme template overrides work in Drupal
- end of life for Drupal 7: what's next
- Drupal for government websites
- 6 innovations from a digital agency's ideathon
- new ways to improve content editing on a Drupal website
- designing content authoring experiences that editors don't hate
- contrib modules that have been proven over time and are still thriving in Drupal 10
- what's new on the journey from Drupal 10 to 11
- how to convert regular components into single directory components
Next, we moved on to the handful of general web notes:
- new to the web playform in July
- the new CSS math: round()
- Molly Holzschlag, "the fairy godmother of the web", dead at 60
- Eric Meyer's memories of Molly
- Meta's Threads finally available on desktop
- announcing the MDN front-end developer curriculum
- WOFF has left the building
- using HTML landmark roles to improve accessibility
- how to automatically rebase all your merge requests on GitLab when pushing on master
- learn Git with the game "Oh My Git!"
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "An introvert’s guide to open source communities" from Drupal Developer Days Vienna 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks, though the next session is scheduled for September 29th.