I'll take the opportunity to promote NormalizedException.

In T331276#8784458, @Tgr wrote:

I'll take the opportunity to promote NormalizedException.

Oh nice, I’ve needed something like this before (e.g. for the issue we eventually solved with Improve Exception loggability and Reduce logspam, cc @Michael) but had no idea it existed. Thanks!

Yes! This is indeed exactly what we did there. Will definitively use it a lot in the future! Thanks for mentioning it 🙏🙌

(unless we widen the scope to the JS side too? but I’m more aware of PHP-side improvements)

We have a separate session for T333611: [Session] An introduction to Codex: the design system for Wikimedia as well, but here are some ideas for JS/CSS stuff you could include:

• Briefly mention that Codex is now available, and that there's a separate session about it
• Briefly mention that the skin variables have been expanded a lot, now that they contain all the Codex design tokens
• ES6 is now the default (can be used everywhere, 'es6' => true is no longer needed)
• The default target for a ResourceLoader module is now ['desktop', 'mobile'], which is what you usually want (previously, it was ['desktop'], which kept causing problems)

In T331276#8787641, @Catrope wrote:

(unless we widen the scope to the JS side too? but I’m more aware of PHP-side improvements)

We have a separate session for T333611: [Session] An introduction to Codex: the design system for Wikimedia as well, but here are some ideas for JS/CSS stuff you could include:

• Briefly mention that Codex is now available, and that there's a separate session about it
• Briefly mention that the skin variables have been expanded a lot, now that they contain all the Codex design tokens
• ES6 is now the default (can be used everywhere, 'es6' => true is no longer needed)
• The default target for a ResourceLoader module is now ['desktop', 'mobile'], which is what you usually want (previously, it was ['desktop'], which kept causing problems)

I think you could fill a third session just with all the JS features that ES6 unlocks 😅 but mentioning the things you said is definitely a good idea. I’ll start a Google presentation (based on the template the organizers sent around) and link it here soon.

Slides will be here (but so far I’ve just dumped everything into a TODO slide, will expand later); feel free to comment there: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d7-pEX9xFcsqLM8ogNnBmdPgEEb7W5u1bMvDzAg_C3A/edit

After the session I’ll also put the finished slides on Commons, of course.

I think the presentation slides are mostly done now, and I did a test run at just about 25 minutes, so that works out very well ^^

Below you may find the link attached that redirects the user to the corresponding Etherpad:

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/whm2023-Cool_new_things_in_MediaWiki_code

Slides are on Commons now: File:Cool new things in MediaWiki code – Wikimedia Hackathon 2023.pdf