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Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can't be free without safety and privacy.
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. It includes a ton of MySQL items. 🤷🏽♀️ This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
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Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, development activity was slower than usual and focused on tweaks and fixes on all supported branches. Meanwhile, we announced the first talks and workshops for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference."
A Week of Symfony #916 (15-21 July 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 : PHPUnit 11 for Symfony Developers
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
MIT Technology reviews three books:
Three books reckon with technological complexity and the wicked problems it creates.
The second is especially relevant to programming.
This Week
Woody Gilk explains:
Interactive debugging with Symfony Console
Kerrial Newham shows us:
How And Why I Use Symfony Asset Mapper (Importmap) Over Encore
Pitangent shares their:
5 Reasons to Choose Symfony Development Services for Your Next Web App
eCommerce
TYPO3 has:
CMSs
And:
Transition to PHP-Based reStructuredText Rendering for TYPO3 Documentation
Build-Your-Own Starship Enterprise — Reflections on DrupalCon Portland 2024
How to Survive Your First TYPO3 Developer Days
Toben Hansen announces:
tObserver TYPO3 monitoring service shutdown
Stitchwort explores:
CKEditor-Presets in TYPO3 setzen bzw. überschreiben
Sulu has:
Sulu Release 2.5.20 & 2.6.4 Updates
Concrete CMS has:
The Ultimate Guide to Navigation Bars and Web Menus
How to Use Mega Menus on Your Website
Joomla has:
Joomla! 5.2.0 Alpha 3 needs your help!
Wim Leers has an Experience Builder update:
XB week 8: design locomotive gathering steam
DrupalEasy examines:
Getting ready to run your first migration
Great stuff as always from Mike.
SpecBee lists the:
Top 8 Drupal modules that can improve user engagement
Golems looks at:
Best SEO Practices for Drupal Websites in 2024
Bounteous explores:
The Future of Experimentation: Acquia Convert
Four Kitchens shares:
Why time is of the essence for a Drupal 11 migration
Tag1 Consulting has:
Drupal Workspaces: A Game-changer for Site Wide Content Staging
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating content types
The Drop Times has:
Brad Jones on Modernizing Drupal's Data Management with JSON Integration
5 Basic Rules to Keep your Website Dependencies Secure
Joost shares a report:
Eirik Moreland is:
Drupalize Me announces:
New courses, guides, and tutorial navigation
Previous Weeks
Acquia has:
Drupal 11 Preparation Checklist
PHP
This Week
Allen Ash examines:
HashBangCode looks at:
Validating XML Files With XML Schema Definitions In PHP
Dragan Rapić explores:
Understanding WebSockets in PHP
Auriga Aristo says:
Nikolay Nikolov show us:
How I Wrote My First E-Book About the Strategy Pattern
DDEV examines:
DDEV and Docker Healthchecks (Tech Note)
Les Tillleuls Coop looks at:
php-redis-om : un object mapper pour Redis
Grant Horwood has:
PHP: concurrency with processes. pt. 1: using pcntl_fork for fun and performance
DataDog asks:
Why care about exception profiling in PHP?
ServBay is:
Announcing ServBay 1.3.9: More Features, Smoother Experience!
Winkel Wagen shows us:
TIL: PHPStorm Customize toolbar
Previous Weeks
And Ghulam Mujtaba shows us:
How to Install and Use Composer Packages in PHP Project?
More Programming
TechCruch reports:
‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
Let’s hope it happens.
Gabor Javorszky opines:
Anything language agnostic is just a new language
CSS-Tricks explores:
CSS Stuff I’m Excited After the Last CSSWG Meeting
Cross view document transitions will be awesome.
Ahmad Shadeed explains:
Fantastiqué!
Oliver Foster says:
Roman Agabekov examines:
Managing Long-Running Queries in MySQL
Kristian Köhntopp looks at:
MySQL: Upgrading old MySQL instances
Yunus Emre Adas shares:
Improve Your DB Skills: 10 MySQLi DB Functions in PHP Development
Percona announces:
No MySQL 9.x Innovation Releases from Percona
JetBrains explores:
Using Dev Containers in JetBrains IDEs – Part 1
Truffle Security reports:
Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
Fighting for Democracy
Please visit our Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help
kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Register reports:
Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets
Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge
North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even China
Uncle Sam accuses telco IT pro of decade-long spying campaign for China
Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure
The Kyiv Post reports:
Fighting on the Battlefield of Ideas: Time for the Democratic World to Mobilize
BleepingComputer reports:
Spain arrests three for using DDoSia hacktivist platform
The Verge reports:
Meta cracks down on ‘Yahoo Boys’ and thousands of sextortion accounts
Meta checks off its quarterly quota of one good deed.
W3 has a finding:
Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed
Of course, Chrome just decided not to do this.
TechCrunch reports:
CIA AI director Lakshmi Raman claims the agency is taking a ‘thoughtful approach’ to AI
FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior
Cory Doctorow has more details:
FTC vs surveillance pricing: a prelude to an ass-kicking
404 Media reports:
How the FBI Is Hunting North Korean Hackers Who Attacked U.S. Healthcare System
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
Mashable reports:
Apple adopts Biden administration's AI safeguards
Wired reports:
This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations
A cool tool.
The Markup reports:
Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own
Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Counter Offensive asks:
No, we are in a world war of democracy vs autocracy. And the hybrid regimes in the middle are playing both ends against each other.
DarkReading reports:
Russia Adjusts Cyber Strategy for the Long Haul in War With Ukraine
Radio Free Europe reports:
'Creating Havoc And Panic': Kremlin-Friendly Fake News Takes Aim At Paris Olympics
Knowbe4 shares:
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
Cory Doctorow reports:
Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare
Speaking of shit legislation, Tech Dirt reports:
Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law
404 Media reports:
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DHS Has a DDoS Robot to Raid Smart Homes
Yet another reason to avoid anything "Smart".
The Guardian reports:
Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests
North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military
Rewire News Group reports:
Abortion Misinformation Is All Over the Internet. You Can Blame Big Tech Censorship
Blood in the Machine reports:
Every startup in JD Vance's VC fund, ranked from least to most hillbilly elegiac
As a real hillbilly, I can tell you this motherfucker is no hillbilly. He's a “broligarch-funded shillbilly”. (BTW not an original description from me, though I would love to claim it.)
The Verge reports:
The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
As I've said before, VC stands for verified c^nt.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
TechCrunch reports:
Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware
BleepingComputer reports:
Fake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers
Fake CrowdStrike repair manual pushes new infostealer malware
French police push PlugX malware self-destruct payload to clean PCs
DarkReading reports:
Chinese Forced-Labor Ring Sponsors Football Clubs, Hides Behind Stealth Tech
Computer Weekly reports:
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears
The Record reports:
Ransomware ecosystem fragmenting under law enforcement pressure and distrust
Fediverse
For Better has:
Elena Rossini says:
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: Mastodon ↔️ Pixelfed)
Flipboard announces:
Flipboard Brings Local News to the Fediverse
DailyKos reports:
Mastodon users donate a quarter million dollars in 2 days for VP Harris #MastodonForHarris
Mauve Signweaver has a FEP:
FEP-1024: Peer to Peer Fediverse Identities
Stefan Bohacek examines:
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Reuben Walker
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