Symfony Station Communiqué — 15 December 2023.
A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, Cybersec, and Fediverse news!
This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.
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. We also cover the cybersecurity world and the Fediverse (more open-source).
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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 often involve cursing.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyCon Brussels 2023 conference with great success. During the hackday, the community contributed many bug fixes and new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Lastly, we announced the next SymfonyCon edition: SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 (December 5 – 6, 2024)."
A Week of Symfony #884 (4-10 December 2023)
They also have this announcement:
SymfonyCasts continues its LAST stack course:
This Week
Studio 24 has:
Skoop Dev shares:
SymfonyCon follow-up: Doctrine entities vs Domain entities
Linku has:
CMSs
TYPO3 shows us:
How Motivation and Commitment Drive the TYPO3 Community
The Drop Times has:
Deep Dive into Drupal's API Client Initiative with Brian Perry
More good work on the frontend front for Drupal.
Component-Based Design Using Single Directory Components (SDC) in Drupal
Same here.
Effective Site Search: Integrating SearchStax Studio, Drupal, and React
Five Jars looks at:
Security Checklist for Drupal Website
InWebWorks explores:
Drupal Decoupled and Headless: All you need to Know
Again, frontless peeps not headless. And go decoupled.
ADCI Solutions shows us:
How to Write a Functional Specification in Development
(Not Santa) Klausi is:
[Proposing a Drupal 7 security team](https://klau.si/blog/proposing-drupal-7-security-team/(https://klau.si/blog/proposing-drupal-7-security-team/)
Or just fucking upgrade.
Lost Car Park continue their advent calendar:
Drupal Advent Calendar day 9 - Backdrop
If you are on Drupal 7 and refuse to upgrade, check this out.
Drupal Advent Calendar day 10 - Smart Date
Drupal Advent Calendar day 11 - Volunteer Coordination
Drupal Advent Calendar day 12 ECA (Event - Condition - Action)
Previous Weeks
PrestaConcept has:
Des filtres enregistrés dans vos admins Sonata
PHP
This Week
I just found this online book resource:
Heiss Online looks at:
PHP-Anwendungsserver in Go: FrankenPHP erreicht 1.0
OpenLampTech has an interview:
Developer Interview With Christian Olear
More Programming
Joan Westenberg opines on:
The responsibility of AI titans in a post-work society
TechCrunch reports:
Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
Smashing Mag explores:
Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)
Free Code Camp has:
How to manipulate the DOM in JavaScript – Most Commonly Used Techniques
HTMHell continues their advent calendar:
Great stuff.
Template for accessibility guidelines
Also excellent.
Test-driven HTML and accessibility
Fighting for Democracy
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
Wired reports:
The Government Is Now the Hottest Tech Employer in Town
The Register reports:
Interpol moves against human traffickers who enslave people to scam you online
Now these are some mofos who deserve the death penalty.
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Register reports:
Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor
Radio Free Europe reports:
Ukraine's Largest Phone Operator Says Huge Cyberattack Disrupted Services
Vice reports:
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Pushing Misinformation and Legitimizing Conspiracies
Wow, big surprise.
BTW, SpaceC^nt was thrown out of OpenAI (like PayPal) and is ass hurt about. That's why he started this horseshit.
The Hacker News reports:
Researchers Unmask Sandman APT's Hidden Link to China-Based KEYPLUG Backdoor
The Washington Post reports:
China’s cyber army is invading critical U.S. services
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Responsibly Implementing AI, the Unstoppable Force
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 47
Bridging Nostr and the fediverse
Again, anything that gets the non-c^nts off Shitter is a good thing. Although like Bluesky, Nostr is basically Twitter without ElonMuskie.
Brno Hat shares:
Increase Reader Engagement with ActivityPub Plugin
Springer Nature has:
Get Out of the Nest! Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon
TechCrunch reports:
reb00ted reports:
Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Reuben Walker
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