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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. Because open-source equals open societies, peeps. That necessitates a mission of destroying big tech. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse (more open-source and democracy).
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. 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.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version added features such as a method to return all tokens after the command name, support for new DOM extension classes in VarDumper, some design updates in the workflow profiler panel and a way to apply attribute configurator to child classes in dependency injection."
A Week of Symfony #899 (18-24 March 2024)
They also have:
SensioLabs wants you to:
Discover our Symfony events in February 2024
SymfonyCasts continues its free Symfony 7 course:
Featured Item
Andrew Cairns says:
A lot can be learned about software development by playing retro games.
Composition over Inheritance
A legitimately awesome article in more ways than one.
This Week
Benjamin Eberlei shares:
A Stimulus Controller for the Bulma Navbar Component
tempest/highlight with Twig and Symfony
Terence Schneider says:
Boost Your Symfony Skills with PHPUnit Bridge
Ludovic Frank asks:
Changer les couleurs du thème de manière dynamique avec du CSS et Symfony ? C'est possible
Francis Lavoie created:
A Symfony OutputInterface decorator that inserts timestamps on every line
Tom examines:
Serverless Symfony Starter - Deploy Symfony to AWS
eCommerce
Stephen Hochdörfer shares a:
Winkel Wagen has:
Migration: Find customer which can’t login, because they have multiple accounts
Shopware: Don’t reuse variables – webpack(!?)
Ingo Steinke looks at:
Shopware dev productivity and plugin validation
CMSs
Sulu has:
Sulu CMS: A Developer’s Perspective
TYPO3 has:
Members Have Selected Four Ideas to be Funded in Quarter 2/2024
Community Budget Idea Report: ACL Improvements
Report From the Localization Team (2023)
Drupal has:
Fantastic. Especially the frontend efforts.
Drupal 11.0 will require PHP 8.3 and MySQL 8.0
Allow themes to use a starterkit.yml file so it is easier to use the theme generator
Great news.
The Drupal Association has a new:
Golems shares:
Efficient Token Usage in Drupal: Practical Tips and Examples
Delicious Creative announces:
DrupalCamp Cemaes Brings Drupal Camps Back to the UK
Tag1 Consulting says:
Start Your Drupal Automated Performance Testing Today
Specbee explores the:
7 Most Popular Marketing Automation Drupal Modules - A Marketer's Guide
Oliver Davies reports:
Newport City Council running LocalGov Drupal
Markie(not Mark) examines:
Using the LocalGov Drupal Subsites Extras module
SKPR shares:
A practical guide to Docker contexts
Balink Pekkar looks at:
Good stuff, even if it is years overdue.
Lullabot has:
It Depends: A Website Context Primer
This is really more of a content than programming article.
Evolving Web shares:
What You Missed at DrupalCamp Florida 2024
Théodore Biadala explores:
Replacing jQuery parents() with CSS :has()
Chromatic explains:
Why You Should Consider Drupal – Painless Migrations Drupal 10 Edition
ChapterThree has:
Tackling Complicated Drupal 7 Migrations
Previous Weeks
I ran across this free Symfony 6 course from BacaSoftware:
Free Symfony 6 Course | Symfony Tutorial
Amazee examines:
Summiting Success: A Recap of Drupal Mountain Camp 2024
PHP
This Week
Jason Knight looks at:
Failwind UI And The SPA Clown Shoes (HTML Illiteracy Part 4)
Accesto explores:
PHP Application Modernization — 10 Key Lessons Learned
Stitcher examines:
Jochelle Mendonca goes:
Beyond Basic Data Types: Exploring Entities and Value Objects
Tim Starling looks at:
A discrete event simulator in PHP
Rahul Chavan explores:
Final Classes and the Power of Composition in PHP
Max Zhang shows us:
Tideways examines:
Measuring the DOM Namespace Reconciliation Performance Fix
d1823 looks at:
Avoiding Pitfalls with Doctrine ORM: The Impact of Type Hints
Nikolay Nikolov shares:
Nose for Trouble: Unveiling the Tell, Don’t Ask Anti-Pattern
Breaking the Chains of Conditionals: A Journey into Polymorphic Refactoring
Mastering the Observer Design Pattern with Practical Examples
Alex has:
Gabriele Bellini advocates a:
Modern approach to WordPress plugin development
Good stuff.
Laradir (tongue in cheek) says:
Veliko Ristic show us:
How to Set up PHP Form Validation – Detailed Tutorial
More Programming
MIT Technology Review reports:
The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means. That’s a problem.
How Adobe’s bet on non-exploitative AI is paying off
GitHub examines:
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks and best practices
Socket reports:
Redis License Shift Splits Community: Open Source Contributors Move to Fork
Mate Marschalko shares:
20 CSS One-Liners Every CSS Expert Needs to Know
Very helpful.
The Cascade says:
018: I love invokers and you should too
Smashing Mag looks at:
Setting And Persisting Color Scheme Preferences With CSS And A “Touch” Of JavaScript
Or none at all.
CSS Tricks explores:
Another way to get rid of some JS.
Jason Knight vents some more:
Overusing Preload And SrcSet ? Pathetic Desperation By Inept Developers?
Feel like you need to learn some HTML now 🌝, Adeyemo Adedoyin has:
Semantic HTML: Beginner’s Guide to Semantic Tags and Their Importance to Accessibility and SEO
Fighting for Democracy
Please visit our Support Ukraine page to 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
MSN reports:
How Ukraine is using mobile phones on 6ft poles to stop drones
Bleeping Computer reports:
Microsoft to shut down 50 cloud services for Russian businesses
Better late than never.
Radio Free Europe reports:
Samsung Pay System To Stop Using Russia's Mir Payment Cards
Ditto.
The Moscow Times reports:
Czechs Bust Major Russian Propaganda Network
Decipher reports:
U.S. Government Doubles Down on Chinese APT Warnings
DarkReading reports:
Chinese State-Sponsored Hackers Charged, Sanctions Levied by US
Open Web Advocacy reports:
EU opens DMA investigations of Apple, Meta, Google
EuroNews reports:
Brussels asks Big Tech to counter threats to integrity of European elections
TechCrunch reports:
Worldcoin hit with another ban order in Europe citing risks to kids
Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The New York Times reports:
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections
CNN reports:
The Hacker News reports:
N. Korea-linked Kimsuky Shifts to Compiled HTML Help Files in Ongoing Cyberattacks
The Next Web reports:
UK says Chinese cyberattacks ‘part of large-scale espionage campaign’
No shit.
The Verge reports:
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip
Dark Reading reports:
Iran's Evolving Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations to Support Hamas
UN Peace Operations Under Fire From State-Sponsored Hackers
404 Media reports:
Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn
The Markup reports:
NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law
TechCrunch reports:
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
What do you Fediverse peeps who want to get in bed with Threads think about this?
Ars Technica reports:
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
And this?
Whatever you think, as I have said before, I wish Threads and Bluesky good luck in destroying Shitter. But I am not interested in interacting with the Klanmas, Karens, narscssists, dipshits, and other assorted dumbasses on their platforms. Plus Facebook is a digital Pandora's box of evil. So, on a personal level Threads is blocked.
In any event let's be civil with each other when discussing it on the Fediverese. There's no need to help Zuck destroy it any faster than he will.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Red Hat has an:
Urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Fedora Rawhide users
DarkReading reports:
GitHub Developers Hit in Complex Supply Chain Cyberattack
The Hacker News reports:
Darcula Phishing Network Leveraging RCS and iMessage to Evade Detection
BitDefender reports:
Sellafield nuclear waste dump faces prosecution over cybersecurity failures
GovTech reports:
U.S. ED, CISA Form Council to Tackle School Cybersecurity
The Register reports:
JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 61
IFTAS announces:
Leonora Tindall declares:
Very interesting read. It's not what you think.
Flipboard opines:
3 Reasons Creators Should Pay Attention to What’s Happening in the Fediverse
The Commune Blog looks:
Darnell Day shares:
Meta Mind Trick: Zuck & Mosseri Did Not Conquer The Fediverse Rankings
Three Ways Threads Will Bless & Burden The Fediverse
It's mostly going to enshitify it though. Especially Mastodon.
We Distribute reports:
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”
Good.
ShellSharks has:
Owning My Own Social, Why I've moved to a personal Mastodon instance
Daily Kos reports:
Other problems at Truth Social, and the Mastodon in the room
Other federated social media
Squeaki shares:
The dumb guide to join the IndieWeb
Freedom to Tinker reports:
Five Themes Discussed at Princeton’s Workshop on Decentralized Social Media
The Verge has an interview:
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber
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Reuben Walker
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