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Welcome to this week's Symfony Station news highlights post. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse. There is an abundance of Symfony items this week et c'est très magnifique.
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A Week of Symfony #846 (13-19 March 2023)
Blackfire has:
Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 4 of a series
SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course, and it covers security.
Featured Item
Stitcher.io is not a fan of how PHP is managed by a large committee and thinks it would be better off with a benevolent dictator.
Limited by committee
The problem with benevolent dictators (open source or not) is that they are few and far between, and are likely to devolve into c^nts. Just ask Twitter employees and the doormat citizens of Russia or China. The real solution is more democracy.
This Week
The Droptimes reports on Fabien’s announcement.
Webhook and Remote Event Components Merged to Symfony
In exciting news, Ivo Lukač shares:
Netgen Layouts 1.4 Adds Editable Preview and Component Blocks
SyntaxSeed show us how to:
Convert Symfony Auth Scaffolding Login to use Form Builder
CWD looks at:
Reusable symfony/workflow configuration
Guillaume explores:
Utiliser l’API de ChatGpt dans Symfony 6
Gabor Szabo shows us how to:
Setup local development environment and run tests of PHP Twig
Valentin Crochemore looks at API Platforn with Vue JS:
Mise à jour du Create Client d'API Platform vers Vue 3
Theodo shares why you should:
Love HATEOAS with Symfony and API Platform
Oliver Mensah examines:
Working on Legacy Software: Rewriting technique, experience and lessons
Jolicode shows us how to:
Leverage Symfony VarDumper Component to Enhance your Dumps
CMSs
Golems takes:
A Glance at Tome - Drupal static content generator
And Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert,, explains why static site generators aren’t needed:
Why content management systems can outperform static site generators
I agree with this 2,058 percent.
Currently working on Drupal’s next big leap, Automatic Updates & Project Browser,
Wim Leer explores:
Lemberg Solutions highlight their contributions to Drupal:
How the Lemberg Solutions Team Contributes to Drupal
We need more efforts like these.
The Drupal Association says:
Industry Summits are the place to be at DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023
Axelerant looks at:
Drupal 7 End Of Life: A Guide To Next Steps
And Chromatic asks:
Why is Drupal 7's End-of-Life a Big Deal?
PHP
This Week
The March issue of php[architect] is out:
ActiveHosted shares:
Clean PHP Code: 6 Actionable Tips
Darshan explores:
PHP — The combination of Traits and Magic methods
Moslem Deris has:
A Guide to Union Types in PHP 8: Examples, Best Practices, and Benefits
Yannick Chenot shares how to:
Upgrade your project to PHP 8.2 with Rector
Other
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Hacker News reports:
Pompompurin Unmasked: Infamous BreachForums Mastermind Arrested in New York
GovTech reports:
Experts: As Cyber Booms, So Too Must Preparation
DarkReading reports:
Cybersecurity Skills Shortage, Recession Fears Drive 'Upskilling' Training Trend
BleepingComputer reports:
Facebook accounts hijacked by new malicious ChatGPT Chrome extension
Another reason why (unless required by your job) you should not be on Facebook.
More
The Federal Trade Commission warns:
Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale
Preach, brother.
Lars Lofgren explores:
9 Modern Website Design Trends in 2023 (with Examples)
Take note of these, peeps.
The world’s greatest CSS teacher, Josh Comeau opines on the foolishness of predicting:
The End of Front-End Development
The World’s greatest design teacher, Brad Frost has:
Layout & Grid in Design Systems
Laravel News reports:
MySQL for Developers Course is Live
I will be exploring this, and so should you.
And Mike Harbottle asks:
What is Git Merge, and how to use it?
The Verge Reports
GitHub Copilot gets a new ChatGPT-like assistant to help developers write and fix code
Fediverse
The Conversation UK reports:
Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over the platform – new research
The Fediverse Report reports on:
Jeff Sikes explores:
Mastodon API - Media Only Parameters
ActivityPub rocks examines:
Ideating organization structure for the Grassroots Fediverse (wiki)
The Fediverse Report has:
And this article:
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Compared to the last few weeks, it has been a relatively quiet week in fediverse news. This has allowed me to zoom in on potential longterm impacts of the recent developments, such as taking a look at how WordPress can impact how search is currently used on the fediverse. Luckily, there is still lots of other news.The news
- Mastodon: Research Symposium and Tool Exploration Workshop in June 2023 in the UK.
- Already 25 organisations signed up for the project that allows Dutch universities and research institutes to join a Mastodon server, including some of the Netherland’s biggest universities. You can find my interview with the Program Manager for this project here.
- Microsoft keeps slowly dabbling in the fediverse. This time it is a way to set up a Mastodon node on Azure.
- Pixelfed launches a portfolio feature.
- Mastodon.social suffers a data breach.
- A new fediverse enhancement proposal to help clarify some of the ways that ActivityPub can be used.
- Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, joins the fediverse, via an Akkoma (not Mastodon!) server for people who have contributed to the Linux kernel. It is interesting to see a high profile account not use Mastodon, but instead use Akkoma.
- Moderating the Fediverse, an online event/conversation on April 13th.
- Flipboard allows you to follow Mastodon accounts directly from their app. The CEO promises full fediverse integration beyond Mastodon in the near future.
- The new website of W3C now shows their Mastodon account.
- Mozilla will host a session on the fediverse during their MozFest on March 22nd. It is likely that their Mastodon server mozilla.social will be announced there.
Interviews
- An interview with Adam Davidson, admin of the journa.host server.
- A podcast with the creator of Owncast (a federated streaming platform).
- A big interview with Tim Chambers and Evan Prodromou (both excellent follows) in the big tech magazine IEEE, about the rise of the fediverse.
To keep your eyes on
Not everything is news directly, but an early indication of a trend;
- Mastodon.social seems to be dealing with an influx of porn spam accounts.
- Most confusing and surprising news of the week: A research organisation for investment firms rate Mastodon highly for equity research. Would not have expected that, considering how mainline fediverse culture is not particularly fond of investment firms, to put it mildly.
- An interesting discussion on engagement number comparisons between Twitter and the fediverse.
- Flipboard CEO observes that SXSW is highly focused on generative AI, and barely talks about the fediverse.
#activitypub #fediverse #fediversenews #mastodon
https://fediversereport.com/the-roundup-episode-10/
Mastodon and TikTok among important sources for equity decisions
The burgeoning social media platform is among a range of research sources cited by institutional investorsSteve Randall (Wealth Professional)
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It seems like things are happening via the front end with the cron job off.
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National Puppy Day in the U.S.
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One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pilot project in 1962. The opposition at the time argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
#cities #Copenhagen #cars #streets #denmark
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This is demented https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794?mod=mhp
https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1637817227410825225
Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake
In an uncertain economy, companies post ads for jobs they might not really be trying to fillTe-Ping Chen (The Wall Street Journal)
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March 17, 2023 Symfony Station Symfony and PHP highlights
This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station highlights. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse.
Please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
Thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve profanity.
A significant proportion of the content we curate is on Medium. I highly recommend investing in a membership to access all the articles you want to read. It's a small investment that can boost your career. As you may have noticed, non-members can only access a limited number of articles per month.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added features to create targeted value resolvers, to allow you to select the parser used in DomCrawler component, to support autowiring services as closures using attributes
and to improve Serializer performance.“
A Week of Symfony #845 (6-12 March 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Berlin 2023 - SymfonyLive comes back to Germany on October 5-6!
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Only 7 days to go!
Blackfire has:
The Power of Blackfire Alerting
SymfonyCasts start its second API Platform course, and it covers security.
Featured Item
The Guardian opines that artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous.
The stupidity of AI
This Week
Stefano Alletti shares a:
Step-by-step Guide to use Auth0 with Symfony 6
Ozan Akman examines:
Programming paradigms: Which framework is better?
Jarosław Szutkowski explores:
Behat: The Easy and Effective Way to Write Acceptance Tests
Jérôme Tamarelle shares:
Rendering Twig templates in Storybook
Great stuff here.
Speaking of Twig, this is an interesting project from Wynton Franklin:
CMSs
And speaking of Storybook, Diffy explores:
Drupal shares:
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Aaron Winborn Award
And most importantly:
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 Schedule
Jacob Rockowitz explores:
Providing JSON:API and GraphQL support for the Schema.org Blueprints module
Specbee examines:
My recent article shared some critiques of Drupal’s development, but the work on the frontend is an exception. Great strides have been made in the last year to modernize it.
And this is an effort that is similar to the one I propose in my article:
The Drupal Association Supports ICFOSS/Zyxware Back-to-work Programme
Mike Herchel shares:
Creating Your First Single Directory Component within Drupal
And after automatic updates and starter themes, this is the most exciting development upcoming in Drupal 10.
PHP
This Week
Jetbrains announces:
PhpStorm 2022.3.3 is now available
Regular readers know Jason Knight is one of my favorite writers and a kindred spirit.
He has this spectacularly entertaining case study:
New Client’s Website Had Some Interesting “Problems”
The WP Minute is:
Digging Into the WordPress Block Protocol Plugin
I love the Block Protocol initiative and hope it can integrate with Gutenberg as tightly as possible.
Jorge Castro looks at:
Using ORM in PHP without a framework
This got a lot of love on Mastodon this week.
Freek.dev has:
Discovering PHP's first-class callable syntax
Matt Glaman updates us on:
PHPStan's new @not-deprecated annotation
And Andy Blum has this nifty little tool:
Ryan Chandler has this interesting article on Foreign Function Interface:
Blazingly Fast Markdown Parsing in PHP using FFI and Rust
One of my Mastodon buddies, Grant Horwood, explores:
writing command line scripts in php: part 5; styling output text
Nico Mercado looks at why WordPress is moving forward the way it is, and why it’s having success.
The elePHPant in the room: Wordpress
Other
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
Hacker News reports:
GoBruteforcer: New Golang-Based Malware Breaches Web Servers Via Brute-Force Attacks
Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware
PCMag reports:
US Shuts Down 'Netwire' Malware That Posed as Legit Remote Admin Tool
Forbes reports:
GPT-4 Can’t Stop Helping Hackers Make Cybercriminal Tools
Don’t use autofill on your password manager—especially if it’s Bitwarden
This is good advice I was not familiar with.
More
SWYX says:
Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
Tomasz Dobrowolski shares:
4 Crucial Skills Every Entry-Level Developer Needs but Doesn’t Have (And How You Can Learn Them…
Brain Schnee shows us:
How to Learn and Use TypeScript: A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide
David explains:
Why Svelte Outperforms React: A Deep Dive into Render Performance
Longtime readers know I hate React and love Svelte, so I dug this.
CatlinCodes explores:
One problem that is now solved by CSS Subgrid
And Servebolt shows us:
How To Profile SQL Queries for Better Performance
Fediverse
Wired reports:
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
C^nts gonna c^nt.
Johannes Ernst
As we covered last week, the reaction to this news ranged from incredulous disbelief to horror.
TechCrunch reports:
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can join the Fediverse
Meanwhile, this news was met with joy and acclaim.
Here’s the official statement:
Joe Lotter writes:
Storybench has:
Adam Davidson talks Mastodon, @Journa.Host, and content moderation
If you think the Fediverse would be an interesting option to explore for your side projects, The FediForum is coming up
Here’s an example project from Veronica Berglyd Olsen:
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#BackToBasics #WebDesign #IndieWeb
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Besides making Election Day a state holiday, the new law provides voters on Native land with language translation at the polls (if needed) and polling places that are closer to where they live.
#NewMexico #voting #elections #rights
https://boltsmag.org/new-mexico-voting-rights-package/
New Mexico Is Making It Easier to Vote - Bolts
The legislature adopted a bill to restore voting rights to thousands on probation and parole. It would also strengthen ballot access for Native voters and further automate voter registration.Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
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Dreamy Heron ©Debra Martz
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/dreamy-heron-debra-martz.html
#BirdWatching #birds #Aves
#photography #PhotographyIsArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt
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The image is an illustration. I don't think the above image is a real classification.
See https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/03/googles-ai-turtle-rifle-mit-research-artificial-intelligence for examples.
Shotgun shell: Google's AI thinks this turtle is a rifle
MIT researchers managed to confuse artificial intelligence into classifying a reptile as a firearm, posing questions about the future of AI securityAlex Hern (The Guardian)
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•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅
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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 3/10/23
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station highlights. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. We also cover the Fediverse.
Please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. There is a good bit of Drupal content this week, including the featured item.
Thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold. And will involve profanity.
A significant proportion of the content we curate is on Medium. I highly recommend investing in a membership to access all the articles you want to read. It's a small investment that can boost your career. As you may have noticed, non-members can only access a limited number of articles per month.
Become a member here! The compensation we receive from your use of this link helps pay for our weekly communiqué.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 5.4.21
and 6.2.7 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added support for managing command exit code while handling signals. Lastly, the SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference announced that you can submit your papers until March 6.“
A Week of Symfony #844 (27 February - 5 March 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023: Only 2 weeks to go for the pre-conference workshops!
SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 - Call for paper is open!
Blackfire has:
Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 3 of a series
SymfonyCasts continues its API Platform course.
This week on SymfonyCasts
Featured Item
I am tooting my own horn this week as I have published my first “opinion” piece. It examines if Drupal has a path to growth.
“Idiots have been claiming PHP is dead for years. Guess what? It’s not dying. It’s growing and mainly via WordPress and outside the United States. With Drupal, not so much.
This piece will cover Drupal’s strengths and weaknesses as I see them affecting its growth. And when I talk about growth, I mean the total number of Drupal users, not the profits of companies basing their businesses on Drupal.
Then I will look at three paths its future could take. Those of what I want, what could happen, and what will probably happen.”
Does Drupal Have a Path to Growth?
This Week
Anton Lytvynov has:
Why use Symfony for web development
The Future of PHP and Symfony: Predictions and Trends for Web Development
How to Set Up a Local Symfony Development Environment with Docker Compose
It is great to see Smaine Milianni back with:
Feature Flag and Strategy pattern with the Symfony framework
Mark Caggiano shows us:
How to create a WordPress plugin using PHP and OOP, with Composer for package management, Symfony components for backend functionality, and Twig for frontend templating
eCommerce
Quick Sprout has a:
PrestaShop Review – What Makes PrestaShop Great and Where PrestaShop Falls Short
Shopware shares:
Shopware Community Digest February '23
Edna Ololade compares:
Medusa Vs. Sylius: Which Should You Use for Your Ecommerce?
CMSs
Zyxware Technologies compares:
Drupal Updates vs Upgrades vs Migrations: What's the Difference and When Do You Need Them?
Prometsource shows us:
How to Leverage Load Testing to Scale up a Drupal Site
CKEditor can expand its capabilities:
Drupal Premium Features module now stable
Star Shaped of Lullabot shares her experience at:
Florida DrupalCamp 2023
Mateu Aguiló Bosch of lullabot explores:
Getting Single Directory Components in Drupal Core
This is fantastic news.
Previous Weeks
And Lullabot has this case study.
American Bookseller Association
PHP
This Week
Derry Ross explores:
Mastering PHP for Dynamic Web Development
Dolly Aswin looks at:
PHP Development Trends In 2023
Marcel Bootsman looks at:
Switching to PHP 8.x in Four Steps - An Interview with Juliette Reinders Folmer
This got lots of interest when I shared it on Mastodon this week.
Nikola Stojiljkovic shares:
Impressions on GitHub Copilot and PHPStorm — March 2023
Geek Job shows us how to:
Disable eval in PHP 8
Aminul Islam Sarker examines:
Unlocking the Power of PHP with the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
Great stuff here.
Previous Weeks
İlyas Özkurt shows us how to:
Boost Your PHP Testing Speed with Paratest
Other
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Zack Whittaker opines:
Today’s startups should terrify you
Fast Company reports on:
5 cybersecurity trends people who work from home need to know
Use password managers, two-factor authentication, VPN, etc. peeps.
Tech Republic reports on the:
Top 10 open-source security and operational risks of 2023
New National Cybersecurity Strategy: resilience, regs, collaboration and pain (for attackers)
The Guardian reports:
Sensitive personal data of US House and Senate members hacked, offered for sale
Maybe the fucks will do something about cybersecurity now.
More
Bleeping Computer reports:
GitHub makes 2FA mandatory next week for active developers
Marcus Bentele shares:
How To Become A Git Pro By Mastering Only One Powerful Git Command
Leticia Coelho shows us how to write:
Clean HTML
The acerbic and awesome Jason Knight has:
Adam Wathan (Part 1): Deluded, Predator, Or An Outright Fraud?
Adam Wathan (Part 2): The Ignorance On Full Display
TLDR Tailwind CSS sucks. Don’t be lazy. Learn HTML and CSS.
Cory Doctorow says:
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Yes.
Fediverse
Let’s start with a few items about the biggest driver of Fediverse growth, Twitter.
The BBC reports:
Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk
Musk takes the shittiest thing about Twitter and makes it shittier.
The Verge reports:
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
Stupidity in management = product incompetence.
Daring Fireball reports:
Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
Being a cnt = being a cnt
In late-breaking news, Platformer reports:
Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
Fucking hell. While this will work with Activity Pub, at least these instances can be blocked when the inevitable tracking starts.
Fastly shares:
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.2
Here’s an analytical breakdown of the exodus from Twitter to the Fediverse:
A Snapshot of the Twitter Migration
Daring Fireball reports:
Medium’s me.dm Mastodon Server Opens Up
I mentioned this was coming last week.
TechCrunch provides more detail:
Medium launches a ‘premium’ Mastodon instance as a membership perk
Here the official details:
Join Mastodon with Medium
If you are also interested in content production, marketing, strategy, and related fields, you can follow me at [@mobileatom@me.dm](https://me.dm/@mobileatom).
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Great summary by @joel within a very clear post about indieweb adoption.
https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2023/03/indieweb/
On POSSE and IndieWeb
I’ve gone down into the depths these last couple of weeks with IndieWeb, POSSE and a whole bunch of other arcane terminology. Now that I’ve come up for air, let’s chat about it.Joel Auterson
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•Thank you this is working now for me. I think the service had hung to create the message, it is not appearing now and the daemon has been stable.
What is a 'normal' message queue length? Should you be shooting for zero?
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•Can I get at any of these details via the console app or do I need to do the sql work? Where is a good guide to the table structures in the MariaDB ?
Thanks for all the help!
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•From my experience, I can report that I am overjoyed when a message queue is at 0.
However, the reality is different.
Over time, your instance networks with others, which means that every now and then an instance is offline or unavailable.
If everything goes well, my queues are around 50 incoming and outgoing.
They would be 0, but as I said, there is always something wrong with some instance.
Depending on your hardware, the queue can sometimes rise to 3000 or more during contact discovery. With a slow system, it can even reach 20000 or 50000.
Over time, however, the queue should decrease again.
In the settings of the Contact-Discovery you can define the time between new requests in days. Anything between 3 (fast system) and 14 (rather slow system) is perfectly fine.