This is a condensed version of a communiqué that originally appeared on Symfony Station.

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.

There is plenty of good content in each category this week, so please take your time and enjoy the ones most relevant and valuable to you. An uptick in Symfony articles this week is fantastic, including our newest effort, which is decent. ;)

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

• Symfony
• PHP
• Other
• Cybersecurity
• More programming
• Fediverse

Once again, 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.

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 6.3.0 beta2 and beta3 were released, so you can test them in your own projects and report bugs before its final release. Meanwhile, we continued adding features to the new AssetMapper component. Lastly, we announced a round of lightning talks during the SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference.“

A Week of Symfony #854 (8-14 May 2023)

Symfony announced:

New in Symfony 6.3: HttpClient Improvements

New in Symfony 6.3: DX Improvements (Part 2)

New in Symfony 6.3: DX Improvements (Part 3)

New in Symfony 6.3: Notifier Integrations

New in Symfony 6.3: WebProfiler Improvements

Symfony UX Svelte Documentation

Awesome!

Symfony core team members selected at the API Platform Conference 2023

Blackfire has:

Meeting Uwe Kleinmann: Shopware performance optimization with Blackfire

SymfonyCasts continues its API Platform course: ???

This week on SymfonyCasts NEW LINK

Featured Item

We are tooting our own horn this week with our newest article. It is a follow-on to our article, How Symfony components power Drupal’s drive to new frontiers. We look at the nuts and bolts of four of the components/libraries Drupal uses, plus the Twig templating engine.

How four Symfony Components + Twig help simplify Drupal Core

This Week

Eternal Learner shows us how to:

Dynamically Convert Request Content to DTO with Symfony

Jmau continues a series:

Symfony internals and security

What's the problem with my API?

Symfony's magic: dependency injection

Jarosław Szutkowski explores:

Applying Content Security Policy in Symfony to Reduce XSS Risks

Nico Anastasio examines:

Managing User Sessions in Symfony 6: A Beginner’s Guide PT2

David Garcia looks at:

Unlocking real-time capabilities in web applications with Symfony and Mercure

Frederic Leaux has:

Tuto Symfony, 15 minutes pour mettre en place des tests automatiques qui vont vérifier toutes les…

ProgWorld demonstrates:

Automatic scaling of Symfony consumers in Kubernetes

Markus Staab puts the the Symfony docs repo through a:

Doctor Rst Speedup

Nacho Colomina Torregrosa shares:

Adding criteria to your doctrine queries easily

eCommerce

Lewis Blakeney opines:

Magento vs. other eCommerce Platforms: Why Magento Development is the Best Choice

Lemberg Solutions:

How to Integrate Apple Pay into Your Drupal Commerce shop?

Ryan Szrama tells us:

How to learn more about Drupal Commerce at DrupalCon Pittsburgh

I agree with Ryan 2037%, and it’s why I am going to WordCamp US and not DrupalCon.

CMSs

Drupal Association provides a:

Drupal GAAD Pledge 2023 Update

ZYXware explores:

Unlock the Power of Engaging Digital Experiences with Drupal 10

Matt Glaman looks at:

Simplifying the frontend developer experience in Drupal with a click of the button

Specbee explores:

Testing Drupal Websites for Accessibility with WCAG 2.1

Acquia shares:

DrupalCon Survival Guide: Making the Most of Your Conference Experience

Florida DrupalCamp speaks out on:

Inclusion For All

In response to the continuing lurch toward fascism in the shithole state I live in, the organizers are adapting for next year.

PHP

This Week

JetBrains announces:

PhpStorm 2023.1.2 is released

Miladev explores:

Abstract Factory design pattern in PHP

Command design pattern in PHP

PHP Swoole

Ramy Hakam examines:

The Power of Remote Debugging for Developers

Zubair Idris Aweda explains:

How Method Overloading Works in PHP

And David Duymelinck responds with:

PHP method overloading

A rebuttal article!

Other

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Cybersecurity/Privacy

Fast Company reports:

Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them

TechRadar reports:

Hackers are using malicious Microsoft VS Code extensions to steal passwords

Dark Reading shares:

Microsoft Digital Defense Report: Nation-State Threats and Cyber Mercenaries

Forbes shares:

An Overview Of Supply Chain Attacks And Protection Strategies

The Washington Post reports:

Cybersecurity faces a challenge from artificial intelligence’s rise

Infoworld explores:

Solving the SBOM crisis with WebAssembly components

ReadWrite opines:

Forrester's No-Code Citizen Development Security Breach Prediction Misses the Mark

Bobby R demonstrates:

The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD

It is mind-boggling how fucking stupid tech bros and big tech are.

More Programming

The Markup reports:

Section 230 Just Survived a Brush with Death

The Supreme C*nts decided not to fuck up the internet (and more importantly the Fediverse). For now.

The NewStack reports:

Developers Put AI Bots to the Test of Writing Code

Speaking of which, GitHub shares:

How GitHub Copilot is getting better at ~~understanding~~ stealing your code

I fixed the headline.

Fellow spirit and frontend demi-god Jason Knight has:

Improving My HTML Video Facades

Utility Classes And Atomic CSS. Predatory Propaganda Deflection!

Maybe That Code Isn’t “Clever”, Maybe You Aren’t!

Chris Ferdinandi asks:

What's your problem with Tailwind?

Mine is that it sucks and is used by JavaScript bros who are too lazy (or ignorant - see article above) to learn how to use HTML and CSS properly.

Smashing Mag examines:

Solving Media Object Float Issues with CSS Block Formatting Contexts

Alan looks at:

Building a Frontend Framework; Reactivity and Composability with Zero Dependencies

Fediverse

The Fediverse Reports explores:

Trends in Fediverse structure

Open Indie looks at:

Assembling Community OS

CSS Demi-god Chri Coyier examines cross-posting social media:

Cross-Posting

And David Rutland shows us:

How to Use gomphotherium: A Complete Fediverse Client for Your Linux Terminal

Speckyboy asks:

Could Niche Web Communities Come Back?

Let’s hope so.

Anže Pečar examines:

Mastodon Instances with Software Developers

Find your home in the Fediverse, as long as it’s not mastodon.social.

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This week’s highlight post is a condensed version of a communique that originally appeared on Symfony Station.

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station news 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.

There is plenty of good content in each category this week, so please take your time and enjoy the ones most relevant and valuable to you. There is a big bump in Drupal items this week as well.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

• Symfony
• PHP
• Other
• Cybersecurity
• More programming
• Fediverse

Once again, 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.

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, the first beta of Symfony 6.3 was released so you can test it in your applications before its final release at the end of May 2023. Meanwhile, Symfony UX 2.8 version was published with two new components and massive updates in live components. Finally, we published more information about the workshops of the upcoming SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference.“

A Week of Symfony #853 (1-7 May 2023)

Symfony announced:

New in Symfony 6.3: Emoji Improvements

New in Symfony 6.3: Webhook and RemoteEvent Components

New in Symfony 6.3: Clock Improvements

New in Symfony 6.3: DX Improvements (Part 1)

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Take the lightning talks challenge!

SensioLabs shares:

Interview: We describe your future job at SensioLabs

SymfonyCasts continues its API Platform course:

This week on SymfonyCasts

Featured Item

Chris James says user expectations of the web are now that you have this super-smooth no-reload experience. Unfortunately, it's an expectation that is usually delivered with single-page applications (SPAs) that rely on libraries and frameworks like React and Angular, which are very specialized tools that can be complicated to work with.

A new approach is to put the ability to deliver this UX back into the hands of engineers that built websites before the SPA-craze, leveraging their existing toolsets and knowledge, and HTMX is the best example I've used so far.

HTMX is the Future

It might not be the future by itself. But it and similar solutions like Hotwire will be.

This Week

John Kim has this article that reeks of AI but is still useful for newbies:

How To Become A Symfony Developer: Skills And Tips - Stars Fact

Jean-Yves Curien explores:

SOLID Principles: Part 5, Dependency Inversion

Rafel Beraldo examines:

Symfony/Doctrine migrations for multiple databases

jmau111

Symfony 5: The ubiquitousness of API Platform

CMSs

Amazee Labs looks at the:

Benefits of Drupal Gutenberg for Content Editors

And they are bounteous.

Christophe Jossart expands the discussion with:

Gutenberg with Drupal part 1: Blocks attribute decorator

Drupal itself has:

New Drupal core branching scheme introduced

Also for Drupal core, The Droptimes shows us:

How Drupal Improves Accessibility

Jacob Rockowitz asks:

How is the Schema.org Blueprints module different from a Drupal Distribution and Recipe?

This is good.

Veniz Guzman presents:

The Non-Profit’s Guide to Drupal Structured Data SEO

See schema above.

Lullabot has:

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Drupal Hosting Platform

R.S. Ahmad shares a:

Guide for Drupal Custom Theme Development

I may combine this with a Drupalize .me course I bought to start on the Symfony Station redesign.

Mike Herchel says:

Disabling Twig Caching Just Got A Helluva Lotta Easier (in Drupal 10.1)!

Five Jars shares a:

Security Checklist for Drupal Website

Four Kitchens explores:

Getting started with Drupal 10

PHP

This Week

Kévin Dunglas shows us how to:

Mitigate Attacks on your PHP Supply Chain

Khalid Zeiter looks at:

Basic Debugging Techniques in PHP

Miladev95 shares:

Php dependency injection

Khalid Zeiter explores:

Getting Started with Event-Driven Architecture in PHP

Olle Harstedt examines:

Strategies to make functions pure

Rodrigo Javornik looks at:

Handling input data in PHP

PeakD looks at:

Running Lando on GitHub Actions

Other

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

Cybersecurity/Privacy

Axios reports:

Biden administration's push for a software ingredient list, explained

Dark Reading reports:

CISA Addresses 'Cyber Poor' Small Biz, Local Government

Protect Privacy reports:

The Four Horsemen of the Cybersecurity Apocalypse: A Digital Pandemic Unleashed

Tech Target reports:

Addressing the confusion around shift-left cloud security

Harvard Business Review reports:

Cybersecurity Needs to Be Part of Your Product’s Design from the Start

Obvious, but still yes, yes, and yes.

Tech Republic reports:

Google offers certificate in cybersecurity, no dorm room required

The Register reports:

EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers

More Programming

VentureBeat reports:

How headless and composable are different and why it matters

Smashing Magazine shows us:

How To Use AI Tools To Skyrocket Your Programming Productivity

GitHub announces:

Push protection is generally available and free for all public repositories

Web .dev announces:

A better responsiveness metric

Google is about to @$$ream SPAs in Core Web Vitals.

Stephanie Eckles has:

An Introduction to Container Queries in CSS

I need to master this.

Workadventu has an excellent case study:

Bridging Vue 2 and Svelte

The Guardian published:
Greed, eugenics, and giant gambles: author Malcolm Harris on the deadly toll of Silicon Valley capitalism

Fediverse

Stefan Bohacek says:

Yes, the Fediverse will “win”

I agree 2,358%.

Filipe Espósito reports:

Ivory for Mastodon gets updated with Safari Extension and other enhancements

The headline should say Fediverse rather than Mastodon. And Ivory is worth every penny.

Jonathan Wylie asks:

What is Mastodon and Is It the Future of Social Media?

Michał Woźniak looks at the:

Mastodon monoculture problem

Jowi Morales shows us how to:

How to Sign Up for a Mastodon Account

Again, choose phpc.social or drupal.community rather than mastodon.social.

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This highlights post is a condensed version of a communique that originally appeared on Symfony Station.

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.

There is plenty of good content in each category this week, so please take your time and enjoy the ones most relevant and valuable to you.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

• Symfony
• PHP
• Other
• Cybersecurity
• More programming
• Fediverse

Once again, 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.

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, we continued polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 6.3, which will be released in just five weeks. We also published the first blog posts of the New in Symfony 6.3 series. Finally, we announced new talks for the SymfonyOnline June 2023 conference.“

A Week of Symfony #851 (17-23 April 2023)

Symfony announced:

Updated documentation on deploying Symfony on Platform.sh

New in Symfony 6.3: Password Strength Constraint

New in Symfony 6.3: OpenID Connect Token Handler

New in Symfony 6.3: Request Payload

New in Symfony 6.3: Serializer Debug Command

New in Symfony 6.3: Form Improvements

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Firefighting a Symfony & Elasticsearch app with Blackfire

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Taming the Forking Beast: Refactoring Monolithic Projects

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - ImportMap: Manage Your JS Deps Without Node

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Let your end users be creative with the ExpressionLanguage component

Blackfire shows us how to:

Take full control of Blackfire Monitoring with flexible filtering

SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course.

This week on SymfonyCasts

Featured Item

The civilized parts of Europe are about to tear Zuck and SpaceKaren a new orifice.

The Next Web reports:

“The EU’s latest crackdown on big tech is taking shape. The bloc yesterday released a list of companies that must adhere to the strictest rules of the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA).

The 17 platforms and two search engines reach at least 45 million monthly active users. All of them have four months to comply with the full obligations of the DSA.”

These 19 tech giants are on the EU’s new naughty list

This Week

Ulrich shows us how to:

Protect your application with Symfony rate limiter

And Ramy Hakam shows us how to:

Simplify Multi-Tenancy in Symfony with the Multi-Tenancy Bundle

Nico Anatasio shares:

Managing User Sessions in Symfony 6: A Beginner’s Guide

LinkedIn has this resource where you can collaborate with AI to share your Symfony knowledge. You very technical Symfonistas should check this out and let us know if it’s horseshit or helpful.

Sergiu Pogor says:

RabbitMQ is a message queue system that allows you to send and receive messages between different parts of your app

Houssem Guemer looks at:

Impersonating Users in Symfony: Methods and Best Practices

And shows us:

How to Integrate AWS Cognito Authentication with Symfony

David Garcia shows us how to:

Harness the power of Feature Toggle Flags with Flagception in Symfony projects

And André Laugks shows us how to:

Create a custom JMS Serializer handler for mapping values

And Aymeric Ratinaud shows us how to:

Create a new Discussion with a Message and a Message to an existing Discussion [Api-platform]

Lots of tutorials this week.

eCommerce

Vyacheslav Konyshev explores:

Shopware Store Development from Scratch: Steps and Costs

Mitul Patel shares:

Maximizing Magento 2 Security: Advanced Techniques for Experienced Developers

CMSs

Prometsource shows us:

How to Get Started with Drush

Matt Glaman asks:

Are you ready for Drupal 11 in 2024?

Kevin Quillen announces:

Three New Drupal Modules for Ambitious Site Builders

As a quick aside, Kevin and Matt wrote the excellent Drupal 10 Cookbook, which I am really enjoying right now.

Jacob Rockowitz shares:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Schema.org Blueprints module for Drupal

Fabian Fiorotto looks at:

Migrating any type of block to Layout Builder in Drupal

Quite useful.

Ankitha Shetty explores:

Understanding Update and Post Update Hooks for Successful Site Updates

Daniel Sipos announces a new edition of:

Drupal 10 module development - it’s out!

Looking forward to this. I enjoyed version 9.

Golems examines:

Drupal Security Best Practices & Hardening Modules

PHP

This Week

php[architect] published:

Database Normalization for Developers

Doğan Uçar examines:

PHP Fibers: What They Are and Where To Use

Jmau111 asks:

Why use PHP 8.1 enums?

Atakan Demircioğlu says:

Say Goodbye to Boring Command Lines: Create Powerful and Fun Tools with PHP

LaravelTuts looks at:

Building a Subscription-Based Payment System with PHP 8.x

dvnc0 on the Dev Community shares:

Behavior-Driven Testing with PHP and PHPUnit

Other

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Harvard Business Review opines:

There’s No Silver Bullet for Cybersecurity

Unfortunately, true.

Acquia shares:

What to Consider When Developing a Cybersecurity Strategy

Hence we need a strategy.

Dark Reading reports on:

Cybersecurity Survival: Hide From Adversarial AI

TechRepublic reports:

Google moves to keep public sector cybersecurity vulnerabilities leashed

TechCrunch reports:

GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers

And on a related note, Bleeping Computer reports:

GitHub now allows enabling private vulnerability reporting at scale

More

My man, Jason Knight shares:

Accessible HTML Video “Facades”

Better Explaining The Reason For Video Facades

Imkev looks at:

Priority Hints and optimizing LCP

Keith Grant says:

Scoped CSS is back

Smashing Magazine shows us how to:

Write Better CSS By Borrowing Ideas From JavaScript Functions

Good stuff here.

Fediverse

Norden reports:

A Nordic approach to democratic debate in the age of Big Tech –
Recommendations from the Nordic Think Tank for Tech and Democracy

The Fediverse Report shares:

A new generation of follow-finders

And Gopiandcode shares:

How I wrote an Activity Pub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost

Here is a new Fediverse platform similar to Reddit that is built with Symfony!

kbin.pub - Fediverse of content

Flipboard looks at:

How the Fediverse Can Benefit Creators

Open Indie explores:

Fragmentations in the Fediverse

Chris O’Donnell responds to an idiotic journalism piece:

Mastodon is not Doomed

Here’s an easy way to join Mastodon:

Spread Mastodon

Although again, we recommend joining phpc.social or drupal.community.

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

• That’s it for this week. Please share this communiqué.
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Visit our Communiqué Library

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Author

Reuben Walker

Founder

Symfony Station

This highlight post is a condensed version of a communique originally appeared on Symfony Station.

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.

There is plenty of good content in each category this week, so please take your time and enjoy the ones most relevant and valuable to you.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website:

• Symfony
• PHP
• Other
• Cybersecurity
• More programming
• Fediverse

Once again, 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.

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 6.2.9 maintenance release was published. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding features such as: adding the locale to the app global Twig variable, a new token handler and user for OpenID Connect, two new attributes called MapRequestPayload and MapQueryString to map Request input to typed objects and a new debug command for Serializer. Lastly, we published all the information about the workshops of the SymfonyOnline conference in June 2023.“

A Week of Symfony #850 (10-16 April 2023)

Symfony announced:

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Working with Pull Requests

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Teaching Doctrine to be Lazy

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Here comes Symfony 6.3!

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Decouple Your Apps with Symfony Messenger

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Design your API for the future

SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Keynote: The Scheduler Component

SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course.

This week on SymfonyCasts

Featured Item

There was not a single item that stood out to me this week. So I will feature Javier Eguiluz’s posts about what’s new in Symfony 6.3.

• New in Symfony 6.3: Early Hints
• New in Symfony 6.3: NoSuspiciousCharacters Constraint
• New in Symfony 6.3: HTTP Exception Attributes
• New in Symfony 6.3: Mapping Request Data to Typed Objects
• New in Symfony 6.3: Targeted Value Resolvers

This Week

Strangebuzz is back with:

Using PHP enumerations with your Symfony workflows

David Garcia shows us how to:

Configure Symfony Secrets with HashiCorp Vault

Seyit Erdemir explores:

Unit Test Kavramı ve Php Symfony Uygulaması

Evolving Web gets:

Hands-On With Drupal 10: Symfony 6.2, the New Tech Stack

eCommerce

Inwebworks shares:

6 Ways to Create a Winning Drupal Digital Commerce Strategy

7 ways to enhance your e-commerce Website and online sales with Drupal

CMSs

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert examines:

Preserving the open web through Drupal

Previous Next shares:

Why a culture of open-source contribution is good for your business

We need more businesses like this, supporting Drupal’s core development.

Specbee has:

Data Security Matters: Marketers' Guide to Securing Your Drupal CMS

Freelock explores:

Deploying blocks and content to other site environments

Chris Hill has:

Drupal: The Case of the Ugly URLs

Lakedrops says:

Now is the right time to update Drupal 7 to 10 thanks to ECA

In fact, it’s several years past time.

Opensource explains:

What you need to know about the Drupal 9 to 10 migration

Five Jars shares:

Quicklink: A Tool That Boosts Website Conversions by 50%

I am going to test this out.

PHP

This Week

The strangely named, Curiosities from the World has some good stuff:

Introduction in PHP Anthology. Where do I get help?

This is a good resource to bookmark.

Introduction in PHP Anthology. How do I write portable PHP code?

Nico Anatasio explores:

The Role of a Model in an MVC Framework

Jonathan Daggerhart shows us how to:

Use autoloading and namespaces in PHP

Edouard Courty examines:

High-precision numbers computation with PHP

Nemanja Milenkovic explores:

Embracing Union Types in PHP 8: An In-Depth Look at Their Benefits for Developers

Other

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

Cybersecurity/Privacy

Forbes reports:

Security Failures At TikTok’s Virginia Data Centers: Unescorted Visitors, Mystery Flash Drives And Illicit Crypto Mining

Bleeping Computer reports:

GhostToken GCP flaw let attackers backdoor Google accounts

Drew Harrell of the Washington Post reports:

The military loved Discord for Gen Z recruiting. Then the leaks began.

Enemies of democracy have an easy time when we do half their work for them. Sad.

Then again we could be Russia.

Russian plane accidentally strikes Russian city near Ukraine border

The Record reports:

Cybersecurity firms to launch legal support fund, advocacy group for ethical hackers

VentureBeat reports:

EU Cyber Solidarity Act aims to establish a ‘European cybersecurity shield’

More

Sam Who looks at:

Load Balancing

The irrepressible Jason Knight shares:

My Response To A Medium Page Rewrite Challenge : Part 1

A Medium Page Rewrite Challenge : Part 2, The Markup

Free Code Camp has this excellent article:

The Difference Between Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements in CSS

Molily asks:

Client-side JavaScript and React criticism: What comes next?

This looks at why it’s hard to get rid of shit like React.

Sitepoint examines:

Signals: Fine-grained Reactivity for JavaScript Frameworks

After Svelte, this is the most promising frontend JS framework.

Salma Alam-Naylor shares:

The Acronyms of Rendering on the Web

Another one to bookmark.

Fediverse

The Verge asks:

Can ActivityPub save the internet?

The Fediverse Report looks at:

News outlets, Twitter, and the Fediverse

Add CBC to the list of the few news organizations with the integrity to leave Twitter.

FediTips shows us:

How to use groups on Mastodon and the Fediverse

PCMag opines:

What's Happening to Twitter Could Never Happen to Mastodon

Thomas Ricouard explains:

Ice Cubes Meets AI

If you are going to use AI, this is the way. With restraint.

Medium announces:

Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories

Nifty.

Flipboard announces:

Flipboard’s Editorial Curation Comes to Mastodon

Boell shows us:

Mastodon - Migration: How to change your instance / server (and why)

A little research up front will prevent the need for this.

Onyx Bits has some Mastodon:

Hashtags research

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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. There are lots of interesting PHP items this week.

Please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.

Once again, 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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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 5.4.22
and 6.2.8 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, we published a recap of the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference and announced the last days of the Early Bird of SymfonyCon 2023. Lastly, we published an article detailing the migration of symfony.com search engine to Meilisearch.“

A Week of Symfony #848 (27 March - 2 April 2023)

Symfony announced:

SymfonyCon Brussels 2023: Book your hotel and transportation now!

SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course.

This week on SymfonyCasts

Featured Item

Dark Reading says:

Companies face an ongoing struggle to quickly develop high-performing software and applications that are also highly secure. This is a delicate balance in today's environment, where trading security for speed could lead to disastrous consequences.

One method that companies are embracing to strike this balance is implementing the "shift left." The shift left in this context refers to moving practices related to testing software as early in the development process as possible.

If companies prioritize communications and make the DevOps process more transparent, team members will better know what vulnerabilities to look for.

4 Steps for Shifting Left & Winning the Cybersecurity Battle

This Week

Dev opines on:

A Strong Team: SPAs With Vue.js and Symfony

It’s certainly better than React or Angular.

André Laugks shows us how to:

Create a custom Symfony Normalizer for mapping values

JoliCode shows us:

How to use mock with Symfony's WebTestCase and PHPUnit

Kinsta shares:

Symfony vs Laravel: Battle of the PHP Frameworks

As I said on Mastodon this week, this is about the 2,425th Laravel / Symfony comparison article but it's from a reputable source and explains the strengths of each platform well. (FYI, they don't really compete against each other very often.)

Nacho Colomina Torregrosa says:

Take this into account when using Doctrine

eCommerce

ComputerMinds shows us:

How to: Implement an automated Drupal Commerce Order state transition

Harish Rajora shares:

The Definitive Guide to Magento Testing

Sylius announces their solution to:

The EU “Omnibus” directive in (e)Commerce

CMSs

AgileDrop interviews:

Dominique De Cooman of Dropsolid: Bringing together Drupal and Mautic

Very interesting interview.

I plan on exploring the following three items in-depth.

Russell Jones asks:

Drupal, Why Use Custom Content Types?

Webwash looks at:

Create a Search Page using Views in Drupal

Specbee has:

Customizing Content Display in Drupal: A Guide to Display Modes

Prometsource explores:

AI for Drupal Sites: To the Next Level and Beyond

Evolving Web gets:

Hands-On with Drupal 10: Easier Content Creation with the Claro Theme

Drupal founder Dries Buytaert examines:

The evolution of Drupal's composability: from the command line to the browser

They are getting it right after ten years.

On a related note, Opensense Labs looks at:

Plug & Play with New Drupal Recipes

PHP

This Week

The PHP Foundation has:

PHP Foundation Update, March 2023

PhpStorm shares:

What’s New In PhpStorm 2023.1: New UI Features, Better Performance, 3v4l Support, and More

And Sticher shares:

What's new in PHP 8.3

Dimitrios Lytras explores:

Modern PHP

Moslem Deris examines:

Writing Simple Code in PHP: Techniques and Best Practices

Daniil Bazhenov continues a series:

How To Optimize the Code Structure of a Simple PHP Application as Your Project Grows

Marcin Czarnecki recommends:

Must have PHP Tools

Moumen Alisawe asks:

What is Pest and Why You Should Use It

Freek Van der Herten has:

Skipping tests conditionally in Pest

One of my favorite Mastodon follows, the Grumpy Programmer is:

Thinking About Testing Too Much

Tighten examines:

Automated Refactoring With Rector

Nemanja Milenkovic tells us:

Why PHP 8 and its Supercharged JIT Compiler Will Make Your Code Fly (Like a Bird on Red Bull)

Previous Weeks

Andreas Möller recommends:

Avoiding One-Liners in PHP

Anton Lohvynenko explores:

Modernize PHP Legacy Apps: Challenges, Approaches, Cases Studies

Laravel News examines the:

Pest Architecture Plugin

Other

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Hacker News reports:

Hackers Exploiting WordPress Elementor Pro Vulnerability: Millions of Sites at Risk!

Don’t use WordPress page builders, peeps!

Ars Technica reports:

Trojanized Windows and Mac apps rain down on 3CX users in massive supply chain attack

Data Center Dynamics asks:

ChatGPT: What’s a security department supposed to do?

Reuters reports:

Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

This sounds similar to douchebaggery from another company we’ve heard a lot about lately. I wonder if they have the same owner. ;)

More

Infoworld reports:

Visual Studio Code 1.77 previews GitHub Copilot chat

David Gewirtz shares:

Okay, so ChatGPT just debugged my code. For real.

Pay attention to the details in this interesting article.

My favorite Medium writer, Jason Knight has:

Improper HTML: Bad Examples Makes For Bad Developers

Chrome looks at:

Smooth and simple transitions with the View Transitions API

I am thrilled to see this, as it will eliminate lots of horseshit JavaScript.

Percona shares:

MySQL 5.7 Upgrade Issue: Reserved Words

DevCollaborative looks at:

Choosing the Right Analytics Tool For Your Nonprofit Website

Important stuff, and fuck Google.

Fediverse

Since Twitter is single-handedly exploding growth in the Fediverse, we’ll start with it (again).

The Verge states the obvious:

Elon Musk’s obsession with blue checks is a verified problem

Mashable reports on the predictable result:

Twitter failed to scare legacy verified accounts into paying for Twitter Blue

NPR reports:

Twitter labels NPR's account as 'state-affiliated media,' which is untrue

It’s a lie, and CuntEO Space Karen knows it’s a lie.

The Fediverse Report is:

Talking Fediverse at FediForum

Mike Stone shares:

RSS and Mastodon

If you want to see someone’s (like us [https://phpc.social/@symfonystation.rss](https://phpc.social/@symfonystation.rss)) Mastodon posts without joining Mastodon, this is for you. You can also follow hashtags in your RSS reader.

This is an academic paper from Robert Gehl on:

The digital covenant: non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network

Kevin Quirk shares how he switched from Miro.blog to WordPress to make:

a self-hosted micro blog that also works with the Fediverse

The Verge reports on:

The sudden death and rebirth of Tweetbot as a Mastodon App

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This highlights post is a condensed version of a communiqué that originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.

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.

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, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding new features: the Messenger component added Clock support in workers and introduced a way to redispatch a message, the translation component improved performance of message extraction and the new Scheduler component added support for date intervals and period and introduced a debug:scheduler command.“

A Week of Symfony #847 (20-26 March 2023)

Symfony announced:

SymfonyLive Paris 2023: the French Symfony conference was a blast last week!

Migrating symfony.com Search Engine to Meilisearch

SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 : Very last days to enjoy early bird tickets!

And they sent a newsletter!

Find out the Symfony news of March! 📣

Which included a tip of the month.

Blackfire has:

Distributed Profiling: How to identify and fix Performance Bottlenecks in a Microservices Architecture

SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course, and it covers security.

This week on SymfonyCasts

Featured Item

The MIT Technology Review asks:

Will ChatGPT make the already troubling income and wealth inequality in the US and many other countries even worse? Or could it help? Could it in fact provide a much-needed boost to productivity?

… as businesses scramble for ways to use the technology, economists say a rare window has opened for rethinking how to get the most benefits from the new generation of AI.

ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.

This Week

There’s a new Symfony course on Udemy.

Building web APIs with Symfony

Thomas Berends shares a:

Symfony Certification Preparation List

In a similar mode, here is a slide deck used in a SymfonyCon presentation:

A self-training journey to the Symfony certification

Kévin Dunglas shares:

Symfony ImportMaps: Manage Your JavaScript Dependencies Without Node

Binary Box Tuts shows us:

How To Send Email Using Mailtrap In Symfony 6

eCommerce

Atul Rungta shares:

Magento vs. nopCommerce: An In-Depth Comparison of Open-Source eCommerce Platforms

Platforms

Rathod Akash explores:

Laravel with Turbo JS

It’s similar to how it works with Symfony UX.

CMSs

Specbee shows us:

How to Create Dynamic Layouts with Layout Builder, CTools, and View Modes

Very useful.

Matt Glaman examines:

Adding backward compatibility to Rector rules

Mandclu looks at:

Patching .htaccess for SEO

Jacob Rockowitz is:

Exploring Decoupled/Headless Drupal distributions while building the Schema.org Blueprints demo

I will say it again, if you are starting a new site or doing a complete rebuild, start with this module.

PHP

This Week

Drupal Association March Newsletter 2023

****One highlight is that contributions to Drupal often have a big impact on the whole PHP ecosystem.****

Giorgi Jibladze wants you to:

Meet Lando — the Perfect Tool for Your Local Development Environment

Kevin explores:

Assessing Compatibility with PHP 8

Kinsta examines:

PHP Market Share in 2023

Iman Borumand Zadeh looks at:

Some interesting changes in PHP 8.3

Onur Yüksel explores:

Building a Basic Router with PHP: A Step-by-Step Guide for Web Developers

There is something in the water to do with enums this week. ;)

Laravel News has:

Extending PHP 8.1 enums with attributes

Doğan Uçar looks at:

Unlocking the Power of PHP Enums: Best Practices for Effective Use

Previous Weeks

And PeakD opines:

On the use of enums

Other

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Hill reports:

Cyberspace: The new dominant realm of national security

PBS reports:

France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones amid security concerns

The Hacker News reports:

U.K. National Crime Agency Sets Up Fake DDoS-For-Hire Sites to Catch Cybercriminals

Trojanized TOR Browser Installers Spreading Crypto-Stealing Clipper Malware

GovTech reports:

What Local Governments Want from Federal Cyber Grants

Wired reports:

Microsoft’s ‘Security Copilot’ Unleashes ChatGPT on Breaches

VentureBeat reports:

GPT-4 kicks AI security risks into higher gear

More

Insider Business looks at:

Big Tech's big downgrade

Think Cory Doctorow’s Enshitification theory.

The Verge reports:

Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

Andy Baio reports on:

AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability

The Guardian reports.

Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

However, it’s not all bad news this week. ;)

Clive Thompson tells us:

Why ChatGPT Won’t Replace Coders Just Yet

Plus in programming, 5% of the effort is writing code and 95% is figuring out why it doesn’t work. ;)

Opensource shares:

6 steps to reduce the carbon footprint of your website

Edson Moisinho wants you to:

Say goodbye to your local development environment

Yes, please.

Zach Leatherman explains why SPAs suck:

Defaulting on Single Page Applications (SPA)

Philip John Basile has:

The Great Vue Vs Svelte Debate Finally Settled

I don’t know if there is a debate, and it’s not settled if there is, but this is a good comparison of the only two front-end frameworks you should ever consider.

Sitepoint has:

Fastly vs. Cloudflare Performance: A Detailed Guide

Many Fediverse servers use Fastly.

There’s an explosion of HTML content this week, which is fantastic.

Scott Ohara looks at:

The search element

Nicolás Vazquez explores:

Semantic HTML

Jens Oliver Meiert examines.

HTML Concepts: Customized Built-In Elements

Fediverse

Since Twitter is single-handedly exploding growth in the Fediverse, we’ll start with it.

Techcrunch reports:

Twitter is dying

I think it is more of a spectacular and slow decline into irrelevance.

ZDNet reports:

Twitter moves free users to the spam folder and makes a risky bet on its future

Ed Zitron explains why Space Karen can’t help himself.

Free bird.

And Elon’s also a c^nt, so there’s that.

The Verge asks:

Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

This is a fantastic interview with Mastodon’s founder.

If you are thinking of opening a Mastodon account (and you should) Jennifer has:

Choosing an instance for your Fediverse/Mastodon account

Consider phpc.social.

Jeff Craig says:

The Fediverse Isn't Inevitable - Mad, Beautiful Ideas

Here’s a quote, “The Fediverse's current desire to grow without VCs is probably it's greatest strength. Without the need for the hypergrowth investors need to get the cash exits they demand, the Fediverse has a chance, though potentially a slim one, to grow the way that we, the users desire, instead of chasing profitability.”

While Mastodon makes up 95% of Fediverse users, it’s not all of them. Learn more about the other platforms here:

fediverse.party

The Guardian reports on how Mastodon helped save a newspaper from closure:

Texas Observer journalists raise $270,000 in bid to save publication

The Fediverse Reports has this related item:

Local news on a global network

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This highlight post is a condensed version of a communiqué that originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony, PHP, and Cybersecurity news.

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.

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. And thanks to our friends at PHP Weekly for featuring our article on Drupal’s path to growth. Along with our newsletter, it’s one you should subscribe to. 😉

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 support for 103 status code (Early Hints), updated the service container builder to use PHP weak references, and added three new components: Webhook and RemoteEvent and a Scheduler component. Lastly, Symfony announced a new Symfony conference in Berlin (October 5-6, 2023).“

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.

This week on SymfonyCasts

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:

High concurrency Composer

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:

Box of PHP

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

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

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:

WordPress and the Fediverse

Jeff Sikes explores:

Mastodon API - Media Only Parameters

ActivityPub rocks examines:

Ideating organization structure for the Grassroots Fediverse (wiki)

The Fediverse Report has:

The roundup – episode 10

And this article:

Mozfest and the Fediverse

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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.

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, 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.

This week on SymfonyCasts

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:

Building a Time Off System

CMSs

And speaking of Storybook, Diffy explores:

Drupal And Design Systems

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:

Mastering Drupal 9 Layout Builder: A Comprehensive Guide to Effortlessly Customize Your Website's Design

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:

PHP DateTime Cookbook

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

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

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

Meta and ActivityPub

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:

ActivityPub

Joe Lotter writes:

On POSSE and IndieWeb

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

FediForum | Who's coming?

Here’s an example project from Veronica Berglyd Olsen:

Threaded Mastodon Comments

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As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, Symfony continued introducing changes needed to make tests compatible with PhpUnit 10. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding PHP types to private methods and functions.“

A Week of Symfony #842 (13-19 February 2023)

Symfony announced:

Help Turkey and Syria

SymfonyLive Paris 2023: Only 4 weeks to go!

Platform.sh announced:

It’s time for version 19: All new upgrades for our API server

Blackfire has:

Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 2 of a series

SymfonyCasts continued its API Platform course.

This week on SymfonyCasts

This Week

Victor Todoran explores:

Validating Dates With Symfony

Al Abdou Nadim examines:

Symfony HttpFoundation what is it and how to use it

Zoltán Szőgyényi shows us:

How to install Symfony with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS

Bhavin Nakrani shows us:

How to create a Custom DQL Function — Symfony

DevNest looks at:

Securing Your Web Application: How to Fix a Vulnerability in Symfony HTTP Cache Component

William Arin introduces:

Cook: an alternative to Symfony Flex to execute package-embedded recipes for any PHP project

CMSs

The Agency Bounteous examines:

Upgrading to Drupal 10 (And Beyond) With Composer

You can help the community by filling out the:

2023 Drupal Local Development Survey

Julian Andres Cañaveral Valencia looks at:

Aliases for autowiring in the Drupal services

This is now possible thanks to advances in PHP and the Symfony integration.

Previous Weeks

I enjoyed spending time and playing trashcan pong with DrupalEasy’s owners during Florida DrupalCamp.

Paak's DrupalEasy Fellowship Experience: An opportunity to learn, work within, and contribute to Drupal

I also have an upcoming article on why efforts like fellowships are important to Drupal’s future.

PHP

This Week

Dominik Schilling says for:

PHP 8: Stop switch'ing, start match'ing

Jesus Valera Reales looks at:

Declaring array structures in PHP

Filip Horvat provides a:

Quick overview on ”Type hinting” in PHP

Patric has:

A Beginner’s Guide to PHPUnit: Writing and Running Unit Tests in PHP

Sebastian Dedeyne shares:

PHP wishlist: The pipe operator

I thought this was very interesting.

Previous Weeks

Pavel Buchnev examines:

RoadRunner — an underrated Powerhouse for PHP applications

Other

Webkit announces:

Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

This is great news for progressive web apps.

Anant Vijay has this handy guide:

Git and GitHub: Must-know guide

Igalia explains:

How Shadow DOM and accessibility are in conflict

This is an excellent article.

Zell says:

The Spirit of CSS Tricks is now gone

Unfortunately, this is probably true due to the douchebags at Digital Ocean.

As you probably know, we pimp Svelte in cases where you have to use a JS frontend framework.

Why Web Developers need to try Svelte.

But, rather than use Svelte we always recommend rolling your own web components.

Web Components in 10 Minutes

This article by Akilesh Rao is the best I’ve ever read on them.

Fediverse

Infoworld asks:

Should you leave Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the Fediverse?

Yes. And the disgracebook equivalent is Friendica.

Casey Watts explains why Mastodon gets so much more engagement than Twitter.

Why I love Mastodon

I see this as well. Big time.

Solarbird looks at:

Federating a WordPress Blog

What I like about Ice Cubes is that you can follow instances with it.

The making of Ice Cubes, an open-source, SwiftUI Mastodon client.

Fastly helps instances on the Fediverse scale their servers.

Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1

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Welcome to our January 27, 2023, Symfony Station news highlights. It's your Friendica exclusive, quick review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities. It’s also a condensed version of our extensive weekly communiqué.

Thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

And thanks to OpenLAMPTech for sharing our article, 2023’s Challenging yet Achievable(?) New Tech Goals for my Symfony-based Sites.

My opinions will be in bold.

Symfony

We will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> “This week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version added some improvements
to the Clock component, marked some parameters as sensitive, and updated the Profiler to display date/times in the local timezone of the developer. Meanwhile, SymfonyCasts announced a new course about API Platform 3. Finally, we welcomed bitExpert, SensioLabs, SymfonyCasts, and Shopware as new backers of the Symfony backers program.“

A Week of Symfony #838 (16-22 January 2023)

Symfony announced:

SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - SQLite in production? How about re-evaluating your options?

SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Juggling asynchronously with Symfony HttpClient

SymfonyCasts a new API Platform 3 course.

This week on SymfonyCasts

And their Netgen Layouts course is complete. It’s also a rare free one, so check it out.

Netgen Layouts: Building Pages with Symfony Video Tutorial Screencast

This Week

Jolicode shows us:

How TaggedLocator Can Help You Design Better Symfony Application

Antoine Bluchet explores the new:

API Platform 3.1

Nico Anastasio shows us:

10 Commands to Add a Database to Symfony

bitExpert is:

Sponsoring Symfony 6.2 development

CMSs

Golems examines the:

Layout builder toolset. Must have contrib modules for better layout control

I love Layout Builder, so I will be checking this out.

Ixis shares:

5 Top Tips for Securing Your Drupal Website

Greg Boggs wants you to:

Unleash the Power of Drupal 9 Routing: Create Custom Routes with Page Callbacks & Debug Like a Pro

Previous Weeks

Christian Córdoba shows us:

Cómo ejecutar tu aplicación Symfony con FrankenPHP 🐘 +🧟

Love the emojis.

PHP

This Week

Kinsta has:

Node.js vs PHP: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Node.js brings back bad memories of coding bootcamp, but this is a fair comparison.

Ismail Tasdelen demonstrates:

Secure PHP Application Development

Rafael Bernard Araújo has:

A bref AWS PHP history – Part 1

Previous Weeks

Camilo Herrera shows us how to:

Create a Basic PHP API with Token Authentication

Other

Tomasz Dobrowolski shares:

5 Steps to Resolving Any Bug as a Software Engineer

Jacob Stopak shows us:

How to Visualize Confusing Git Commands with Git-Sim

This is helpful for Git-challenged peeps like me.

Tanner Barcelos explores:

Learning Svelte - Part 1: Why Svelte?

As you know, it’s our opinion that if you have to use a frontend JavaScript framework you should use Svelte.

One of the greatest minds in digital communication, Seth Godin, looks at:

The platform and the curator

Tweetbot was one of the 3rd party clients fucked over by Space Karen. They pivoted to Mastodon.

Ivory for Mastodon Review: Tapbots Reborn

Jim Nielson says:

The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best-Time Is Today

I 1000% agree. Stay off proprietary platforms.

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