Tuesday, September 15, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.4.6 released; also Drupal 12.0.0-alpha1
- Drupal AI Context beta 5 released
- the Shortcut module is deprecated
- roles can now have descriptions
- link field validation constraints are more specific
- Drupal no longer collects legacy hooks outside of the main extension file
- Drupal core releases will no longer include tests
- user_role-related commands are deprecated
- admin compact node logic has been moved to the frontend
- early bird registration is now open for DrupalCon Florida 2027
- Drupal security team marks 16 contributed projects unsupported in 10 weeks
- your next website visitor might not be human
- the Drupal Association announces 2026 board election winner
- a Composer plugin to make it easy to upgrade patched Drupal modules
- yesterday's CMD published pages; tomorrow's CMS publishes capabilities
- Module Scout helps determine if the Drupal module you're thinking of building already exists
- Decoupled Days recap
- it's time to prepare your Drupal modules for Admin's dark mode
- six small ECA models that make Drupal editors happy
- if you're using Twig's raw filter with Drupal, you're doing it wrong
- your client is not a ticket
- vibing Drupal: switching from "Brat mode" to "Drupal mode"
- Drupal content revisions as a user-friendly backup and recovery tool
- Chrome extension: Drupal Visual Debugger
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- new to the web platform in August
- Firefox 155 release notes for developers
- Firefox intends to ship support for JPEG XL
- calling for Interop 2027 proposals
- htmx 4.0.0 has been released
- CSS units - the complete reference
- HTML boilerplate in 2026
- balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance
- feature detecting "undetectable" CSS features iwht @supports-named-feature()
- using the emergent CSS random() function in all browsers
- CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
- the best dark mode toggle is probably none
- why CSS-Tricks has been quiet lately
- the email verification API
- twenty years of jQuery
- GitHub's August 2026 availability report
- 99% of my website traffic is bots
- creepy crawlies
- how AI-ready is your design system
- you have to beat the models at something
- we must pace the frontier
- what the bliss taught us
- nobody pays for open source - we can force them to
- Homebrew 7.0.0 released
- Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
- Automattic CEO put on "leave of absence"
- make your logo brighter than white
- a macOS browser for taking clean website screenshots
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch Rachel Andrew's "A pragmatic guide to browser support" from Pixel Pioneers 2026.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks, though the next session is currently scheduled for October 2nd, 2026.