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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.
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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, Symfony continued tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version, such as the new WordCount constraint. In addition, we announced the date and the first details of the SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 conference."
A Week of Symfony #915 (8-14 July 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Greener code with Symfony
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 - Exciting news: first talks and workshops revealed!
Blackfire has:
Boosting PHP performance: mastering OPcache optimization with Blackfire
SymfonyCasts has a new course:
And:
Featured Item
The Drop Times has an interview with Dries:
The Chief Who Drives and Is Driven by Drupal: A Talk with Dries Buytaert
This Week
Louis Soltys explores:
How to Use Symfony Flex to Simplify Your Development Workflow
Building Scalable Web Applications with Symfony and Docker
O'Neil asks:
Actix-web vs Symfony - Easier to write unsafe code in Rust?
This is a discussion you don’t run across every day.
TempMail has an:
Introduction to Troubleshooting JWT Signing Issues in Symfony
Jan Böhmer continues a series:
Kristijan Kanalaš examines:
Modernizing Emails: Innovations for Efficient Handling in Distributed Systems
Platforms
Bayram Eker shows us how to:
Master PHP Development with Bolt: The Ultimate Framework for Modern Web Applications
eCommerce
Specbee looks at:
Personalizing Experiences in Drupal: CRMs, E-commerce Integration, and UTMs
Sylius has:
Security blog post – 1.12.19 and 1.13.4
Hamza Hannad explains the:
Magento 2 Slack Notifier Module
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
Supporting Higher Education Institutions in Growth
CMS Localization: What to Consider and Why it Matters
Fractor — The New Kid on the Block
Joomla has a new edition of the Community Magazine:
Highlights include:
Joomla 6, what's in it for you?
Create a banner from Joomla's category description
Drupal has:
Please take it. They need this input.
Drupal.org login flow is changing
Dries Buyaert wants you to:
Join the Drupal Starshot team as a track lead
Salsa Digital announces:
CivicTheme establishes a formal steering committee to guide its rapid growth
The Drop Times has:
Using Drupal Migrations to Deploy New Content
Markie explores:
Keyboard Navigation for a LocalGov Drupal website
Tag1 Consulting continues its series:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: The migration process pipeline
Kanopi examines Electronic Health Records:
This is a solid use case for Drupal.
Robert Roose says:
Debug Academy is:
Evaluating Acquia storage limits - "Emergency upsize" notification
Previous Weeks
Acceseo explores:
Nuevos componentes en Symfony 7.1
Prometsource examines:
Scaling Government: Open Source vs Proprietary CMS
PHP
This Week
Gabriel Anhaia says:
PHP MDCLogger: Enhance Your PHP Logging with Mapped Diagnostic Context
Yonel Ceruto asks:
Why OOP is Your Old New Best Friend: The Date Distance Problem
Tomas Votruba advises:
Scope and Downgrade your PHP Tools for Everyone to Use
Good stuff as always from Tomas.
Jochelle Mendonca shares:
“Say Goodbye to Friday Bugs: Making isset() Work for You!"
Backend Tea asks:
Why you should be typing your arrays in PHP
PlatformSH looks at:
Working with Upsun and DDEV - Tokens and Environment variables
Lullabot shares:
The Easy Guide to Resolving composer.lock Conflicts
Nikolay Nikolov explores:
Refactoring in Action: The Tennis Kata
Sticher demonstrates:
Denzyl Dick explains:
Why is unserializing an object in PHP a bad idea?
Steve Grunwell says:
For a Great Time, Make it a DateTime
Previous Weeks
Morteza Poussane asks:
Comparing phpkg and Composer: What’s New?
More Programming
The Future is Now says:
"GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software
Uh hmm.
Ars Technica reports:
Real, actual Markdown support is arriving in Google Docs, not a moment too soon
Miriam Suzanne examines:
CSS Mixins & Functions Explainer
Evil Martians share:
OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL
And Alvaro Montoro shares:
CSS One-Liners to Improve (Almost) Every Project
Simple but useful.
Adële looks at:
The importance of following Smolweb guidelines
Emphasis on simple.
The Markup reports:
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless
Backblaze continues an informative series:
AI 101: Why RAG Is All the RAGe
It seems like all these half-ass LLMs should be using this.
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 Kyiv Independent has:
Ukrainian intelligence 'hacks Russian websites, replaces homepages with pig head pictures'
Opinion: Ukraine's volunteer hacker army is pioneering a new era of cyber warfare
PBS reports:
Ukrainian startups develop robots to fight war against Russia
The Register reports:
CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months
Privacy warriors gripe to UK watchdog about Meta harvesting user data to train AI
404 Media reports:
DDoSecrets Mirrors Wikileaks Data After Assange Plea Deal
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Wow. The Supreme C^nts got a decision semi correct.
Radio Free Europe reports:
U.S. Imposes Sanctions On Russian Hacker Group
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Kyiv Post reports:
Finland Reports GPS Malfunctions Due to Russian Jamming
Citation Needed reports:
Project Syndicate comments on:
How Techno-Libertarians Fell in Love with Big Government
Example: SpaceKaren donating millions to help elect the orange fascist this week.
And this from TechCrunch:
Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they’re supporting Trump
And 404 Media reports:
AI Maxers Thrilled with Trump’s Vice President Pick JD Vance
Joan Westenberg writes:
Macro-Morons with Micro-Visions: The VC Disaster Tour
Lesson -> VC, AI, and Crypto bros are c^nts and out to destroy democracy.
Speaking of, Sherwood News reports:
Elon Musk didn’t rid Twitter of bots. X is paying armies of them for slop.
CEPA writes:
Supreme Court Buries US Tech Regulation
The motherfuckers sure did.
Ars Technica reports:
Meta tells court it won’t sue over Facebook feed-killing tool—yet
Pam Crossland shares:
Facebook is now banning any links to the Fediverse
If this is true it wouldn't be surprising. If.
DarkReading reports:
Iranian Cyber Threat Group Drops New Backdoor, 'BugSleep'
The Register has more:
Iran's MuddyWater phishes Israeli orgs with custom BugSleep backdoor
Cybersecurity/Privacy
And:
Infoseccers claim Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijackings at Web3 firms
ZDI shames Microsoft for – yet another – coordinated vulnerability disclosure snafu
Russia’s FIN7 is peddling its EDR-nerfing malware to ransomware gangs
Ars Technica reports:
Here’s how carefully concealed backdoor in fake AWS files escaped mainstream notice
DarkReading reports:
Void Banshee APT Exploits Microsoft Zero-Day in Spear-Phishing Attacks
Orgs Are Finally Making Moves to Mitigate GenAI Risks
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
404 Media reports:
Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock
BleepingComputer reports:
SolarWinds fixes 8 critical bugs in access rights audit software
Pivot to AI reports:
Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse and Bluesky – ep 77
We Distribute reports:
ActivityPods Releases Example App to Help Developers
Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide
Alex Kirk demonstrates:
Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance
Open Science Network announces:
We will share developments from our own federated Bonfire instance
Augment looks at:
PeerTube announces:
Patchwork shares:
The Future is Federated says:
Your data, your power: the Fediverse's big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech
The New Stack asks:
The Fediverse: What It Is, Why It’s Promising, What’s Next
Other Federated Social Media
White Wind has:
Notes on Running a Full-Network atproto Relay (July 2024)
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Reuben Walker
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