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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> “This week, Symfony continued introducing changes needed to make tests compatible with PhpUnit 10. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 6.3 version continued adding PHP types to private methods and functions.“
A Week of Symfony #842 (13-19 February 2023)
Symfony announced:
SymfonyLive Paris 2023: Only 4 weeks to go!
Platform. sh announced:
It’s time for version 19: All new upgrades for our API server
Blackfire has:
Getting started with the Blackfire test suite: part 2 of a series
SymfonyCasts continued its API Platform course.
Featured Item
ChatGPT from OpenAI has mostly been hype and horseshit. But when used with restraint and within specific limits, it can be helpful to developers.
Velir writes:
I’ve seen lots of doom and gloom posts about how specific jobs are over or how you don’t need marketing teams now. I’ve also heard absurd claims that you must fire all your developers or analysts. LinkedIn, for example, is awash in these kinds of posts. But instead of putting more fear out there, I spent some time investigating ways that OpenAI services can help, augment, or assist users in their day-to-day content management tasks in Drupal 10.
The Rise of OpenAI and ChatGPT
This Week
Victor Todoran explores:
Al Abdou Nadim examines:
Symfony HttpFoundation what is it and how to use it
Zoltán Szőgyényi shows us:
How to install Symfony with Flowbite and Tailwind CSS
Bhavin Nakrani shows us:
How to create a Custom DQL Function — Symfony
DevNest looks at the following:
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
Les-Tilleuls. coop announces:
API Platform Conference 2023: we're back!
eCommerce
Valentine has:
textbanner - a module for Prestashop
Social links for customers in Prestashop
CMSs
The Drupal Association February newsletter is out:
The hotel blocks for DrupalCon Pittsburg are open.
Specbee shows us how to:
Get the Most Out of Apache Solr: A Technical Exploration of Search Indexing
Kevin Reynen examines:
Features Salesforce and Drupal have in Common - Project Browsing (Part 1)
The Agency Bounteous examines:
Upgrading to Drupal 10 (And Beyond) With Composer
!#Code explores:
Drupal 10: Creating Context Aware Plugins
I always enjoy items about individual developers in our community. Here are a few.
Picozzi has:
I always enjoy speaking with Jonathan, and this is a good interview with him.
We Will Tell You Anything That We Are Legally Able to; Jonathan Daggerhart
The Drop Times has an interview with two of the presenters at Florida DrupalCamp.
Drupal Doesn't Always Have to Do Everything: Melissa Bent and April Sides
New author, Matt Glaman looks at:
The legacy of DrupalVM's impact on my career
You can help the community by filling out the:
2023 Drupal Local Development Survey
Backdrop CMS (a fork of Drupal 7) announces:
Debug Academy announces:
The Popular "Become a Drupal Architect Series" Course Starts Soon
If you are an experienced developer working on complex projects, this looks helpful.
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
Sebin A Jacob shares trepidation on:
The Rising Age of the Developers
I enjoyed spending time and playing trashcan pong with DrupalEasy’s owners during Florida DrupalCamp.
I also have an upcoming article on why efforts like fellowships are important to Drupal’s future.
PHP
This Week
Dominik Schilling says for:
PHP 8: Stop switch'ing, start match'ing
Jesus Valera Reales looks at:
Declaring array structures in PHP
Filip Horvat provides a:
Quick overview on ”Type hinting” in PHP
Active Hosted shares:
4 PHP Performance Tips (That Make Sense)
Patric has:
A Beginner’s Guide to PHPUnit: Writing and Running Unit Tests in PHP
PHPStan shares:
PHPStan 1.10 Comes with a Lie Detector
Atakan Demircioğlu shows us:
How to publish your first PHP package? 🐘
Laravel News reports on an alternate package manager.
And:
Getting started with PHPInsights
Sebastian Dedeyne shares:
PHP wish list: The pipe operator
I thought this was very interesting.
Previous Weeks
Gen Jaho explores:
LocalHeinz looks at:
Extending PHPUnit with its new event system
Pavel Buchnev examines:
RoadRunner — an underrated Powerhouse for PHP applications
Other
Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
Fast Company reports:
Inside Ukraine’s colossal task of ‘rebranding’ itself during a war
ZDNet reports:
The war in Ukraine has shaken up the cybercriminal ecosystem, Google says
OpenTech supports:
Building Bridges in Times of War
Business Insider reports:
The Register reports:
Russian authorities claim Ukraine hackers are behind fake missile strike alerts
PCMag reports:
European Commission Bans TikTok From Government-Issued Devices
The Hacker News reports:
Norway Seizes $5.84 Million in Cryptocurrency Stolen by Lazarus Hackers
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
And:
Google Reveals Alarming Surge in Russian Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine
The Register reports:
'Russian hacktivists' claim responsibility for DDoSing German airport websites
The BBC reports:
Industrial espionage: How China sneaks out America's technology secrets
The Washington Post reports:
Russian propagandists are buying Twitter blue-check verifications
The CuntEO of Twitter is supporting Vlad Cuntin (at least through ignorance and incompetence). The Taliban and ISIS are getting in on the action as well.
For more Twitter douchebaggery see below.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Who needs cyber enemies when you have this kind of military IT.
US Military Emails Exposed Due to Simple Error in DoD Server; Here's What's Been Leaked
BleepingComputer reports:
GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach
Friends don’t let friends use Go Daddy for hosting.
More
Fast Company reports:
The internet’s Supreme Court showdown is here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher
The Supreme C*nts may be about to fuck up the internet.
CBS reports:
Supreme Court skeptical of limiting powerful legal shield for internet companies
Luckily, they seem to be admitting their ignorance (for once).
Webkit announces:
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
This is great news for progressive web apps.
Thiago Pacheco asks:
Omer Rosenbaum has:
Git Diff and Patch – Full Tutorial for Developers
Anant Vijay has this handy guide:
Git and GitHub: Must-know guide
Infoq reports:
MariaDB 11.0 Brings a New Optimizer Cost Model and More
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.
The legendary Brad Frost examines:
Design systems in the time of AI
Smashing Mag shares:
Keys To An Accessibility Mindset
DevCollaborative explores:
Making Images Meaningful and Accessible with Alternative Text and Captions
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 I’ve ever read on them.
Fediverse
Infoworld asks:
Should you leave Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the Fediverse?
Yes. And the disgracebook equivalent is Friendica.
The Verge reports:
Social networks’ latest business model is charging for security
Aside from the douchebaggery, this is why you should leave commercial social media and join the Fediverse.
Science reports:
As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight
As should everyone.
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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