The website WPHelpers by Aurooba Ahmed is an interesting resource for exploring core blocks and their properties.

For block developers – Here is a coding tutorial from Misha Rudrastyh showing how to create a block variation to display custom loops.

Here is a tip for how to change default settings for the Image Block.

WordPress 6.6 is set to be released. In this video Adam Preiser looks at the new features and then shares his take on why a lot of the new features will not be used. This is sure to be controversial in some circles, but Adam joins the “lets get real” chorus.

In this video Brian Coords show the improvements to the Block Binding API. In the first half of the video he shows how it looks in the editor and in the second half he shows the code needed to implement it.

Here is a table showing the CSS options per Gutenberg block. If you compare it to the list from 6.1, which is linked in the post, it seems that most blocks got 2-3 additional style options.

Coming in a month, WordPress 6.6 introduces overrides in synced patterns. This brings a components-like feature to the block editor and is a very useful enhancement. In this article on the developer blog, Nick Diego gives a full walk-through of synced pattern overrides and how to use them.

For Plugin Developers – WordPress 6.6 standardizes the API for extending the Gutenberg editor so that the same API calls work in the content editor and the Site Editor. This should simplify the process of adding Gutenberg support.

This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.