Here's your weekly Symfony Station highlights post. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, Fediverse, and Cybersecurity news.
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.
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 -> âThis 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.â
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 Drupalâs 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
JarosĆaw Szutkowski explores:
Applying Content Security Policy in Symfony to Reduce XSS Risks
Nico Anastasio examines:
Managing User Sessions in Symfony 6: A Beginnerâs Guide PT2
David Garcia looks at:
Unlocking real-time capabilities in web applications with Symfony and Mercure
Frederic Leaux has:
ProgWorld demonstrates:
Automatic scaling of Symfony consumers in Kubernetes
Markus Staab puts the the Symfony docs repo through a:
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 itâs 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:
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:
Miladev explores:
Abstract Factory design pattern in PHP
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:
A rebuttal article!
Other
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
Fast Company reports:
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 intelligenceâs 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 Googleâs .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 Isnât âCleverâ, Maybe You Arenât!
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:
Open Indie looks at:
CSS Demi-god Chri Coyier examines cross-posting social media:
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?
Letâs hope so.
AnĆŸe PeÄar examines:
Mastodon Instances with Software Developers
Find your home in the Fediverse, as long as itâs not mastodon.social.
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Our weekly news highlights covering Symfony, Drupal, PHP, Cybersecurity, the Fediverse and more is out.
This weekâs 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.
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 -> âThis 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.â
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:
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-Profitâs 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
KĂ©vin Dunglas shows us how to:
Mitigate Attacks on your PHP Supply Chain
Khalid Zeiter looks at:
Basic Debugging Techniques in PHP
Miladev95 shares:
Khalid Zeiter explores:
Getting Started with Event-Driven Architecture in PHP
Olle Harstedt examines:
Strategies to make functions pure
Rodrigo Javornik looks at:
PeakD looks at:
Running Lando on GitHub Actions
Other
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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 Productâs 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:
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 âwinâ
I agree 2,358%.
Filipe EspĂłsito 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?
MichaĆ WoĆșniak looks at the:
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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Symfony Station
Here's your weekly Symfony Station highlights post. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, Fediverse, and Cybersecurity news.
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.
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 -> âThis 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.â
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.
Featured Item
The civilized parts of Europe are about to tear Zuck and SpaceKaren a new orifice.
The Next Web reports:
âThe EUâs 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.â
These 19 tech giants are on the EUâs 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 Beginnerâs 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 itâs horseshit or helpful.
Sergiu Pogor says:
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:
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 - itâs 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
DoÄan Uçar examines:
PHP Fibers: What They Are and Where To Use
Jmau111 asks:
Atakan DemircioÄlu 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
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Harvard Business Review opines:
Thereâs 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:
GitLabâs 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 âFacadesâ
Better Explaining The Reason For Video Facades
Imkev looks at:
Priority Hints and optimizing LCP
Keith Grant says:
Smashing Magazine shows us how to:
Write Better CSS By Borrowing Ideas From JavaScript Functions
Good stuff here.
Fediverse
Norden reports:
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 OâDonnell responds to an idiotic journalism piece:
Hereâs an easy way to join Mastodon:
Although again, we recommend joining phpc.social or drupal.community.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- Thatâs it for this week. Please share this communiquĂ©.
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Do you own or work for an organization that would be interested in our promotion opportunities? Or supporting our journalistic efforts? If so, please get in touch with us. Weâre in our infancy, so itâs extra economical. đ
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Keep coding Symfonistas!
You can find a vast array of curated evergreen content.
Author
Reuben Walker
Founder
Symfony Station
Here's your weekly Symfony Station highlights post. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, Fediverse, and Cybersecurity news.
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:
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 -> âThis 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.â
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.
Featured Item
There was not a single item that stood out to me this week. So I will feature Javier Eguiluzâs posts about whatâs 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 Drupalâs 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, itâs 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
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Cybersecurity/Privacy
Forbes reports:
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 âEuropean cybersecurity shieldâ
More
Sam Who looks at:
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 itâs 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:
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:
Flipboardâs 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:
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Here's your weekly Symfony Station highlights post. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, Fediverse, 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. 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.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> âThis 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.â
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.
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
Itâs 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 âOmnibusâ 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:
Whatâs New In PhpStorm 2023.1: New UI Features, Better Performance, 3v4l Support, and More
And Sticher shares:
Dimitrios Lytras explores:
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:
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:
Anton Lohvynenko explores:
Modernize PHP Legacy Apps: Challenges, Approaches, Cases Studies
Laravel News examines the:
Other
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Hacker News reports:
Hackers Exploiting WordPress Elementor Pro Vulnerability: Millions of Sites at Risk!
Donât 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: Whatâs 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 weâve 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, weâll start with it (again).
The Verge states the obvious:
Elon Muskâs 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
Itâs a lie, and CuntEO Space Karen knows itâs a lie.
The Fediverse Report is:
Talking Fediverse at FediForum
Mike Stone shares:
If you want to see someoneâs (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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Here's your weekly Symfony Station Communiqué. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, Fediverse, and Cybersecurity news.
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 -> âThis 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.â
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! đŁ
Which included a tip of the month.
Blackfire has:
SymfonyCasts continues its second API Platform course, and it covers security.
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
Thereâs 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
KĂ©vin 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:
Itâs 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:
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 â the Perfect Tool for Your Local Development Environment
Kevin explores:
Assessing Compatibility with PHP 8
Kinsta examines:
Iman Borumand Zadeh looks at:
Some interesting changes in PHP 8.3
Onur YĂŒksel 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
DoÄan Uçar looks at:
Unlocking the Power of PHP Enums: Best Practices for Effective Use
Previous Weeks
And PeakD opines:
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:
Microsoftâs âSecurity Copilotâ Unleashes ChatGPT on Breaches
VentureBeat reports:
GPT-4 kicks AI security risks into higher gear
More
Insider Business looks at:
Think Cory Doctorowâs Enshitification theory.
The Verge reports:
Google and Microsoftâs 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, itâs not all bad news this week. ;)
Clive Thompson tells us:
Why ChatGPT Wonât Replace Coders Just Yet
Plus in programming, 5% of the effort is writing code and 95% is figuring out why it doesnât 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 donât know if there is a debate, and itâs 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.
Thereâs an explosion of HTML content this week, which is fantastic.
Scott Ohara looks at:
NicolĂĄs Vazquez explores:
Jens Oliver Meiert examines.
HTML Concepts: Customized Built-In Elements
Fediverse
Since Twitter is single-handedly exploding growth in the Fediverse, weâll start with it.
Techcrunch reports:
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 canât help himself.
And Elonâs also a c^nt, so thereâs that.
The Verge asks:
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
This is a fantastic interview with Mastodonâs 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
Hereâs a quote, âThe 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.â
While Mastodon makes up 95% of Fediverse users, itâs not all of them. Learn more about the other platforms here:
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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March 24, 2023 Symfony Station Drupal, Symfony, and PHP highlights
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 trĂšs 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 communiquĂ© in their Week of Symfony. And thanks to our friends at PHP Weekly for featuring our article on Drupalâs path to growth. Along with our newsletter, itâs one you should subscribe to. đ
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 -> âThis 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).â
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 Fabienâs announcement.
Webhook and Remote Event Components Merged to Symfony
In exciting news, Ivo LukaÄ 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 lâAPI 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 Ă 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 Drupalâs founder, Dries Buytaert,, explains why static site generators arenât needed:
Why content management systems can outperform static site generators
I agree with this 2,058 percent.
Currently working on Drupalâs 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 â 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 worldâs greatest CSS teacher, Josh Comeau opines on the foolishness of predicting:
The End of Front-End Development
The Worldâs 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:
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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Our weekly newsletter covering Symfony, Drupal, PHP, Cybersecurity, the Fediverse and more is out.
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.
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 -> âThis 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.â
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?
JarosĆaw Szutkowski explores:
Behat: The Easy and Effective Way to Write Acceptance Tests
JĂ©rĂŽme 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 Drupalâs 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 Clientâs Website Had Some Interesting âProblemsâ
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 itâs 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 Canât Stop Helping Hackers Make Cybercriminal Tools
Donât use autofill on your password managerâespecially if itâs 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 Doesnât Have (And How You Can Learn ThemâŠ
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:
Twitterâs $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.
Hereâs 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
Hereâs an example project from Veronica Berglyd Olsen:
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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 3/10/23
This highlights post is a shortened 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 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 -> âThis 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.â
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.
Featured Item
I am tooting my own horn this week as I have published my first âopinionâ piece. It examines if Drupal has a path to growth.
âIdiots have been claiming PHP is dead for years. Guess what? Itâs not dying. Itâs growing and mainly via WordPress and outside the United States. With Drupal, not so much.
This piece will cover Drupalâs 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.â
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:
eCommerce
Quick Sprout has a:
PrestaShop Review â 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:
Mateu AguilĂł 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 â March 2023
Geek Job shows us how to:
Aminul Islam Sarker examines:
Unlocking the Power of PHP with the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
Great stuff here.
Previous Weeks
Ä°lyas Ăzkurt shows us how to:
Boost Your PHP Testing Speed with Paratest
Other
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Zack Whittaker opines:
Todayâs 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:
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. Donât be lazy. Learn HTML and CSS.
Cory Doctorow says:
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Yes.
Fediverse
Letâs 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:
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
Hereâs an analytical breakdown of the exodus from Twitter to the Fediverse:
A Snapshot of the Twitter Migration
Daring Fireball reports:
Mediumâs me.dm Mastodon Server Opens Up
I mentioned this was coming last week.
TechCrunch provides more detail:
Medium launches a âpremiumâ Mastodon instance as a membership perk
Here the official details:
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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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 3/03/23
This highlights post originally appeared as a communiqué 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.
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 -> âThis week, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version experienced an intense development activity to finish many new features such as: adding a remember me option for JSON logins, allowing to trim parameters in XML config files, introducing a new Exclude attribute, allowing to define the batch size in Messenger component and allowing to extend the Autowire attribute.â
A Week of Symfony #843 (20-26 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyOnline June 2023 - Submit you paper until March 6th!
Blackfire has:
Blackfire, a complete observability solution
This Week
Anton Lytvynov has three good items:
Symfony 6 and PHP 8: A Promising Future for Web Application Development
Creating Custom Web Applications with Symfony 6 and Php 8: A Step-by-Step Guide
Symfony vs. Other Web Frameworks: A Comprehensive Comparison
Thereâs not much new here information-wise, but some exciting graphics make viewing worthwhile.
Filip Horvat shows us how to:
Set up framework for testing security in API Platform (Symfony)
eCommerce
Lemberg Solutions looks at:
Drupal Commerce + SAP Integration: Solutions and Benefits
CMSs
André Laugks shows us how to:
Use XInclude to organize Content elements in Page templates in Sulu
Hurray, a Sulu CMS piece.
Opensource examines:
3 myths about open source CMS platforms
Matt Glaman wants us to:
Check out the "Drupal at your fingertips" developer reference guide
Very helpful.
Evolving Web shares:
Hands-On With Drupal 10: Discover the Best Modules Through Project Browser
Axelerant looks at:
How Acquia DXP Is Empowering Businesses To Design Digital Experiences
Speaking of Acquia, it and Drupalâs founder, Dries Buytaert opines on:
Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web
Heâs much more optimistic than I am.
Previous Weeks
Specbee explores:
Taming JavaScript in Drupal (Includes FAQs)
PHP
This Week
Tomasz Dobrowolski has two articles for us:
9 Essential PHPStorm Shortcuts That Will Skyrocket Your Productivity as a PHP Developer
7 Concepts Every PHP Developer Must Understand To Succeed
Outstanding stuff here.
Florian Bauer shares the cogent point that PHP needs better marketing.
Why PHP should be renamed to HypeScript
php[architect] examines:
And on a related note, Veshraj Ghimire explores a:
Deserialization Disaster in PHP
Lukasz explores:
This is an interesting article, as he is not discussing threads.
Other
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Bleeping Computer reports on:
White House releases new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy
Hackernoon reports:
Network Detection and Response: the Future of Cybersecurity
Portswigger reports:
NIST plots biggest ever reform of Cybersecurity Framework
GovTech reports:
Feds Push Local Election Officials to Boost Security Ahead of 2024
More
Jens Oliver Meiert maintains this handy tool.
Spicyweb points out the obvious:
The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era
JS frontend frameworks are bullshit.
KD Nuggets shares:
SQL Query Optimization Techniques
Fediverse
Andy Piper has:
Thoughts on Dev Rel in the post-Twitter era
There is big news this week from Flipboard.
Via TechCrunch:
Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub
Hereâs the official announcement.
The Future of Flipboard Is Federated
So, if you are on Flipboard but not Mastodon, now is the time to join.
And follow us on Flipboard to get an idea of what will be in next weekâs communiquĂ©.
The Verge reports:
Mozilla thinks Mastodon could be the next HTTP
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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 2/24/23
Our full 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.
As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
Many of the items we curate are on Medium. I recommend investing in a membership, as you can access everything you want to read. It's a small investment in boosting 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 -> âThis 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.â
A Week of Symfony #842 (13-19 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023: Only 4 weeks to go!
Platform.sh announced:
Itâs 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
Victor Todoran explores:
Al Abdou Nadim examines:
Symfony HttpFoundation what is it and how to use it
ZoltĂĄn SzĆgyĂ©nyi shows us:
How to install Symfony with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS
Bhavin Nakrani shows us:
How to create a Custom DQL Function â 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 DrupalEasyâs owners during Florida DrupalCamp.
I also have an upcoming article on why efforts like fellowships are important to Drupalâs 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 âType hintingâ in PHP
Patric has:
A Beginnerâs 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 â 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.
This article by Akilesh Rao is the best Iâve 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.
I see this as well. Big time.
Solarbird looks at:
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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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 2/17/23
This highlight post is a distilled 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. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities with a focus on protecting democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse. Thereâs a good many Symfony pieces this week. Keep up the good work peeps.
Please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
Many of the items we curate are on Medium. I recommend investing in a membership, as you can access everything you want to read. Itâs a small investment in boosting 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 -> âThis week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs on stable branches. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version improved the Bootstrap 5 form theme and switched to a faster hashing algorithm. Lastly, the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference published its entire schedule.â
A Week of Symfony #841 (6-12 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Approaching TDD with Symfony Workshop (Symfony Blog)
Blackfire shares:
Meeting Jonny Harris: WordPress Performance with Blackfire
SymfonyCasts continued its API Platform course.
This Week
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explains:
A practical example of using Symfony PropertyInfo component
Nico Anastasio shows us:
Guillaume explores:
Stephane Decock examines:
Migrating messenger queue from Doctrine to a different transport
Prestaconcept looks at:
Le pattern Stratégie avec Symfony
Maria has a rare YAML piece for us:
CMSs
The Droptimes has an interview with Mike Herchel:
Community Needs to Do a Better Job at Quickly Reviewing Code: Mike Herchel
Evolving Web has:
Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software: 3 Common Myths, Busted
Jakob Rockowitz asks:
Is there no future for the Schema.org Blueprints module?
I sure as fuck hope there is because if you are building an enterprise Drupal site, you should be starting with this.
Matt Glaman explores:
Debugging your render cacheable metadata in Drupal
Matt, Iâm looking for you to sign your book this weekend.
The Drop Times has this interview:
Drupal Best Suited for DXPs, Not for Brochure Websites: Jurriaan Roelofs
Iâm in the process of moving a WordPress site to a Drupal installation built with Jurriaanâs DXPR.
PHP
This Week
The latest edition of php[architect] is out:
Knowledge Crunching | php[architect]
Umesh S has an informative articles:
A Comprehensive Guide to Object-Oriented Programming in PHP: Understanding Classes, ObjectsâŠ
Timofey Bugaevsky shows us:
How to make PHP 2000 times faster
Iâm not sure about 2000, but these are good techniques.
Vahid Mahdiun looks at:
Building High-Performance Web Applications with PHP Swoole
Frontend and accessibility legend Jason Knight continues a great series:
âPoor Manâsâ CMS From the Ground Up â Part 3, Spit and Polish
This series is an excellent lesson in architecture.
Alin Pintilie explores:
Lazy loading using the iterator in PHP for saving 90% of memory
Denis Mwangi helps us in:
Understanding Functions In PHP
Other
Karim Rohayem shares:
A Comprehensive Guide to Learning JSON: From the Basics to Advanced Techniques
Iâm moving several WordPress sites to FSE themes, and this article is very helpful.
Kinsta has:
Largest Contentful Paint Explained: How To Improve Your Time
Arafat has a:
Complete CSS Selector Cheat Sheet: A Hands-On Guide with images
Fantastic stuff here for CSS-challenged developers.
Fediverse
Itâs a slow week in fediverse news. Because â professional, functional, and stable. So letâs take a look at SpaceKarenâs shitshow instead.
Platformer News reports:
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Marlon Weems examines:
Why is Elon Musk Wrecking Twitter?
Wired opines:
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Sheâd do us a better favor by destroying billionaires who own tech companies.
The Cory Doctorow says:
Of Course, Mastodon Lost Users
He points out that Mastodon is like the stock market, up and down daily but constantly climbing in the long term.
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Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 2/10/23
Welcome to the February 3, 2023, Symfony Station news highlights. It's your quick review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities. Itâs also a condensed version of our extensive weekly communiquĂ©.
Please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing last week's communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
Many of the items we curate are on Medium. I recommend investing in a membership, as you can access everything you want to read. Itâs a small investment in boosting 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 -> âThis week, Symfony 4.4.50, 5.4.20, 6.0.20, 6.1.12, and 6.2.6 were released to address some security issues related to CSRF tokens and cookie headers in HTTP Cache. Moreover, we celebrated the companies that back Symfony 6.2 development and announced the SymfonyLive Paris 2023 conference workshops.â
A Week of Symfony #840 (30 January - 5 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - The schedule is complete and online!
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Symfony and Hotwire: make an interactive front-end without too much effort
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Tests in a Symfony application
SymfonyCasts continued its API Platform course.
This Week
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explains:
Making a Symfony third-party bundle extensible
Serializing API outputs with Symfony serializer
Manuel Canga shows us how to:
Fix Symfony 6.x tests with PHPUnit 10
The Register reports:
HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins
Yan Ivanov explores:
Optimizing One-To-Many Doctrine collections
Jolicode shows us:
How to Fix Memory Leak in Doctrine Migrations
CMSs
Andrey Rudenko reviews Drupalâs new:
WebWash examines:
Customize View Fields using Twig in Drupal
If you arenât familiar with the Twig templating engine, see our article, Twig: The Ultimate Guide to the Premier PHP Templating Language.
Drupal and PHPStan developer extraordinaire Matt Glaman explores:
Using the new add_suggestion Twig filter in Drupal 10
Yay Twig!
He also has:
Auto discovery of global commands in Drush
And he had a book come out last week:
Drupal 10 Development Cookbook Releasing Tomorrow
I have ordered the print version, Matt. So slow down now, bro. I'll buy you a beer at Florida DrupalCamp. ;)
PHP
This Week
Morteza Poussaneh shares:
Nikola Stojiljkovic shares:
The most efficient way to debug problems with PHPUnit mocks
Rector PHP shows us:
How to Upgrade to PHPUnit 10 in Diffs
LordNeic provides an:
Introduction to Pest Testing in PHP
Frontend and accessibility legend Jason Knight starts a great series:
âPoor Manâsâ CMS From The Ground Up â Part 1, Planning And Defines
âPoor Manâsâ CMS From The Ground Up â Part 2, Outer Markup And Templates
This is an excellent lesson in architecture.
Derick Rethans has an:
Other
ZDNetsâ Jack Wallen shares:
My idea for a great new beginner-friendly Linux distribution
Business Insider reports:
Letâs hope this is true.
TechCrunch reports:
GitHub CEO on why open source developers should be exempt from the EUâs AI Act
Alex Russell looks at:
The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted
Another piece on why JavaScript SPA platforms suck.
Fediverse
Ross Schulman shares:
Cloudfare says:
Welcome to Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare
This is big news.
Fastly offers a similar service:
Fastly and the Fediverse, pt.1
Wired reports:
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
While it has a clickbait title that is inaccurate, this article covers a good development. The lazy and stupid people have left Mastodon.
And TechDirt counters with:
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is âSlumping,â Despite Massive Increase In Usage
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Symfony Station Communique for February 10, 2023
Here's your weekly Symfony Station News Hightlights. It's a roundup of Symfony, PHP, Drupal, and Cybersecurity news.
Welcome to the February 3, 2023, Symfony Station news highlights. It's your quick review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities. Itâs also a condensed version of our extensive weekly communiquĂ©.
As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> âThis week, Symfony 5.4.19, 6.0.19, 6.1.11, and 6.2.5 maintenance versions were released. The 6.0 and 6.1 branches will no longer receive any updates, so consider updating your projects to Symfony 6.2. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version marked DSNs as sensitive parameters and removed them from exception messages, added support for Redis Relay in cache, and updated the VarDumper component to display all invisible characters.â
A Week of Symfony #839 (23-29 January 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Getting ready for Symfony certification - and beyond
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Announcement of all pre-conference workshops
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - From social to tech - a plea for atypical profiles
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Welcome to the wonderful world of distributed systems!
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Announcement of all pre-conference workshops
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Generics (in PHP)
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Reinventing the Symfony Console component
Sponsoring Program - Symfony 6.2 backers
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Designing your API for the future
SymfonyLive Paris 2023 - Once upon a time, the Workflow component
SymfonyCasts continued its course on the utterly excellent API Platform:
This Week
Mislav Jantoljak shares:
Netgen Talk: Why We Love PHP for Building Next-Generation Websites
I am starting the SymfonyCast NetGen Layouts course, so I was happy to run across this.
Although itâs an obvious point, Ozan says that a framework isnât perfect for every project:
Symfony is not the best framework.
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:
Accessing Symfony security user on the background
eCommerce
Prestashop announces:
PrestaShop 8.1 is now in feature freeze
Henguelbert Loyo shows us:
How to Create a Magento 2 Admin Config & Access to it
CMSs
Drupal Partners asks:
What is the future scope of Drupal as a CMS technology in 2023 and beyond?
In addition to a look at the future, this is mostly a history of Drupal with some interesting graphs.
Martin Ricken shows us:
How to create a Views bulk operation
Platforms
WP Tavern takes:
A Look Under the Hood at Engine Awesome, a Laravel-based SaaS App Using Gutenberg
Previous Weeks
CivicUK shows us how to:
Build a grid section creating a new Drupal Media type
Colorfield examines:
The state of GraphQL with Drupal 10 (part 1)
PHP
This Week
Ollie recommends:
Start Programming in PHP OOP Now to Harness its Power
JetBrains announces:
PhpStorm 2022.3.2 is now available
The PHP Foundation has:
Tomas Votruba says:
I will agree with him but only for 5-10% of the websites on the internet. It's overkill for the other 90%.
Ayesh Karunaratne shares:
How to extend lifetime of legacy PHP applications
Previous Weeks
Mitul Patel lists:
11 Horrible Mistakes Youâre Making With PHP Website Development
Other
MIT announces:
World Wide Web Consortium is now a public-interest nonprofit organization
The Harvard business review looks at:
Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity
I am definitely in the figure-ground reversal camp.
The Los Angeles Times opines:
The real aim of big techâs layoffs: bringing workers to heel
Unfortunately, itâs the goddamned truth and not an opinion.
Mozilla looks at the efforts for browser interoperability:
Ahmad Shadeed provides an excellent:
Guide To Responsive Design In 2023 and Beyond -
The Fediverse
Glenn Fleishman asks:
Is Your Future Distributed? Welcome to the Fediverse!
Buffer announces:
Make Your Mark in the Fediverse with Bufferâs Mastodon Scheduler
I am thrilled with this announcement.
Lifewire opines:
Twitter May Soon Be Irrelevant, Thanks to a Mastodon Version of Tweetbot
If only.
Unfortunately, only Space Karen driving Twitter into bankruptcy has a chance at this.
Speaking of which, TechCrunch reports:
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Muskâs latest monetization push
So Shitterâs CuntEO makes this move several weeks after fucking over the businesses most likely to pay for this. A very stable genius.
And hereâs what really boils my piss about it. Movetodon is/was a service that lets you find your Twitter followers who are also on Mastodon so you can follow them there.
Take login by Twitter off your apps peeps unless you want to pay through the nose. And if you make Twitter apps or bots, I hope you have diversified. Even if you stick to the backtracked âfree api for good contentâ, Space Karen is going to fuck you over eventually.
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An interview with the creators of NetGen Layouts for Symfony
https://netgen.io/blog/netgen-talk-why-we-love-php-for-building-next-gen-websites #Ibexa #Symfony #PHP
Symfony backers
Sponsoring Program - Symfony 6.2 backers
We want to thank all our Symfony 6.2 backers for their commitment to making the Symfony project sustainable!EloĂŻse Charrier (Symfony)
Weekly review of Symfony and PHP development news. 1/27/23
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. Itâs also a condensed version of our extensive weekly communiquĂ©.
Thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our latest communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
And thanks to OpenLAMPTech for sharing our article, 2023âs 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 -> âThis 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.â
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.
And their Netgen Layouts course is complete. Itâs 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:
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 CĂłrdoba shows us:
CĂłmo ejecutar tu aplicaciĂłn Symfony con FrankenPHP đ +đ§
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 AraĂșjo has:
A bref AWS PHP history â 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, itâs 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:
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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