Drupal.org aggregatorOn October 5, 2023, the W3C published WCAG 2.2 as an official web standard. While WCAG 2.1 remains valid and widely referenced, WCAG 2.2 introduces nine new success criteria and removes one obsolete requirement. These changes reflect a deeper understanding of mobile accessibility, cognitive disabilities, and focus management.
Adoption of WCAG 2.2 varies by jurisdiction:
24 Dec 2025 4:00pm GMT
It's Christmas Eve, and Phil Norton is controlling his Christmas lights with Drupal. You can visit his site, pick a color, and across the room, a strip of LEDs changes to match. That feels extra magical on Christmas Eve.
I like how straightforward his implementation is. A Drupal form stores the color value using the State API, a REST endpoint exposes that data as JSON, and MicroPython running on a Pimoroni Plasma board polls the endpoint and updates the LEDs.
I've gone down the electronics rabbit hole myself with my solar-powered website and basement temperature monitor, both using Drupal as the backend. I didn't do an electronics project in 2025, but this makes me want to do another one in 2026.
I also didn't realize you could buy light strips where each LED can be controlled individually. That alone makes me want to up my Christmas game next year.
But addressable LEDs are useful for more than holiday decorations. You could show how many people are on your site, light up a build as it moves through your CI/CD pipeline, flash on failed logins, or visualize the number of warnings in your Drupal logs. This quickly stops being a holiday decoration and starts looking like a tax-deductible business expense.
Beyond the fun factor, Phil's tutorial does real teaching. It uses Drupal features many of us barely think about anymore: the State API, REST resources, flood protection, even the built-in HTML color field. It's not just a clever demo, but also a solid tutorial.
The Drupal community gets stronger when people share work this clearly and generously. If you've been curious about IoT, this is a great entry point.
Merry Christmas to those celebrating. Go build something that blinks. May your deployments be smooth and your Drupal-powered Christmas lights shine bright.
24 Dec 2025 12:49pm GMT
Symfony BlogAfter our first announcement of the Symfony AI Initiative in July, and bringing it to the big stage at SymfonyCon in Amsterdam, it is about time to release the first tagged version of our Symfony AI packages! It is only the very first tag, it is a v0.1, but…
24 Dec 2025 8:32am GMT
Drupal.org aggregatorYou're tabbing through a form, reading field labels before you decide what to enter. You tab into a dropdown menu just to see what options are available. The instant it receives focus - before you've even opened it - the page suddenly redirects to a completely different page. You didn't select anything, didn't press Enter, just tabbed through. Now you're disoriented and have to navigate back to find your place.
23 Dec 2025 5:00pm GMT
Symfony BlogThis week, we published an article about how we controlled 1,200 screens in real time with Symfony during SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025. We also celebrated a new SymfonyCasts course on building Symfony bundles. Finally, we shared a blog post detailing 20 years…
21 Dec 2025 8:27am GMT
Symfony BlogIn 2025, we're celebrating 20 years of Symfony. Over these years, thousands of people have contributed code to Symfony. Some folks fixed a small typo in a comment, while others added more than 100,000 lines of code. All contributions are welcome and essential…
18 Dec 2025 11:38am GMT