Symfony Station Communiqué — 09 February 2024. A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, Cybersec, and Fediverse News!
Reuben Walker, Jr.
Posted on February 11, 2024
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).
This week is jam-packed, and there is good content in the 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. 😉
Or jump straight to your favorite section.
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.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, Symfony 5.4.35, 6.3.12, 6.4.3 and 7.0.3 maintenance versions were released. The 6.3.12 version is the last one in that branch, so you should consider upgrading to Symfony 6.4 or higher soon. Meanwhile, the development activity was very intense and focused on adding new features to the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version, including a new TypeInfo component. Finally, we published a blog post about our experience upgrading websites to AssetMapper."
A Week of Symfony #892 (29 January - 4 February 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
This academic paper is aimed at pointy-headed intellectuals like me, but the gist is:
This white paper outlines a long-term scientific vision for the development of digital-democracy
technology. We contend that if digital democracy is to meet the ambition of enabling a participatory renewal in our societies, then a comprehensive multi-methods research effort is required that could, over the years, support its development in a democratically principled, empirically and computationally informed way.
Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
This is about 10 years late, but maybe it will accomplish something. It's certainly in line with our mission.
This Week
Mounir Mouih explores:
Symfony in Finance: Unveiling Essential Tools
Filip Horvat shows us:
Symfony Scheduler — How it Really Works
Esens Consulting shows us how to:
Déployer une application Symfony et Vue.js sur Cloud Run
Visual Studio examines:
Useful if are a student and use VSCode for Symfony and PHP development.
Rahul Chavan looks at:
The Benefits of Avoiding Abstract Controller in Symfony
Roeland demonstrates:
Google authentication with Symfony 7
DBToolsBundle announces:
DbToolsBundle: a set of Symfony Console Commands to interact with your database
Radhwan Ben Youssef posts:
Maximizing Efficiency with Singleton Design Pattern in Symfony
Vasil Dakov shows us:
How to run Laminas Diagnostics in Symfony
DrupalizeMe has a new guide:
eCommerce
Shopware shares its:
Shopware Developer Digest January 24
Here are a couple of the highlights.
From Björn Meyer:
Generate custom API Client for Shopware 6
Via Enizen Tech:
How to Integrate Shopware 6 Admin API?
Dragan Rapić explores:
Shopware 6 Data Abstraction Layer (DAL) Indexing Explain
Sylius has:
Highlights include:
The best CMS for Sylius – internal and external solutions from BitBag.
We recommend Sulu.
Create Preview Environments from your GitHub pipeline from Sorin Dumitrescu.
Platforms
Doğan Uçar compares:
Laminas Framework Series: Mezzio vs. MVC
CMSs
Hyvor (which integrates well with Symfony) announces:
TYPO3 announces:
TYPO3 Association Co-Founds the Open Website Alliance
Open Source and Digital Sovereignty
As does Joomla:
Joomla! Joins Forces in the Open Website Alliance
And Drupal:
Drupal Association Co-Founds the Open Website Alliance
Good to see this from these three as it ties in with the ideals championed in the featured article. And our mission here at Symfony Station.
DrupalCI and all patch testing will be turned off on July 1, 2024
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Aaron Winborn Award
Drupal Contribution Feedback Survey
Contributors, thanks for your work and please take the survey. Also, we need more Drupal contributors.
Frontkom announces:
Drupal Gutenberg is making waves
This is fantastique. And I am definitely going to experiment with their starterkit theme.
Balint Pekker asks:
LN WebWorks examines:
Mastering PHP Debugging: A Guide to Xdebug in Lando & DDEV for Drupal
Must-Know Features Of Webform Module For Drupal 10
DrupalEasy has:
Why you should care about using settings.local.php
DrupalEasy Podcast S16E4 - Kevin Quillen - Drupal 10 Development Cookbook
Great book.
Specbee looks at:
Style Made Simple with Acquia Site Studio’s Style Guide Manager
Factorial explores:
A weekend dedicated to Drupal CMS
DewanCodes examines:
Entity field validators and constraints in Drupal
QED42 has a case study:
Drupal 10 Migration Success Story: ADA’s Transformation through Multisite Architecture
Dan Chadwick shows us:
How to Secure JSON:API Endpoints in Drupal with OAuth
DrupalCamp Cemaes explains:
Social Media and DrupalCamp Cemaes
This could have been in the Fediverse section as well.
Markie (not Mark) demonstrates how to:
Show the last author of a node in the Drupal content list
Brian Perry looks at:
Extending The Drupal API Client
ImageX shares:
Drupal Calendar Creation Unleashed: Useful Modules And A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
Golems demonstrates:
Improving Page Loading Speed in Drupal with Different Caching Solutions
Perry Aryee has:
Upgrading your site from Drupal 9 to 10
Oliver Davies is:
Experimenting with Architectural Testing
Previous Weeks
PHP
This Week
Nemanja Milenkovic compares:
PHP 8.2 vs PHP 8.3: The Evolution of a Server-Side Powerhouse
Alex shows us how to:
Code faster with the "Top-Bottom" technique
WebWash explores:
Full-text Search in Database using PhpStorm
The Grumpy Programmer has:
Please give back to the communities who supported your career.
Laravel News shows us how to:
Make your app faster with PHP 8.3
Ozan Akman explains:
Understanding Automated Testing
php[architect] examines:
Exakat looks at:
Common services with PHP applications
Harish Kumar explores:
Mastering Code Consistency: A Guide to PHP-CS-Fixer Integration with VSCode
Mkhalid examines:
Mastering Behat Testing: A Comprehensive Guide for Implementing BDD in PHP Projects
Abdulbasit Rubeiyya has:
Google’s IDX with PHP: First Look
Previous Weeks
More Programming
Zach Leatherman looks at:
The Good, The Bad, The Web Components
Noupe shares:
The Benefits of Progressive Web Apps and How to Build Them
John has:
PR-007 - Why you don't need React
Your weekly PSA of why React sucks.
Infoworld reports:
jQuery 4.0 trims browser support, removes APIs
That's nice, but just use vanilla JS and web components peeps.
Shalitha Suranga shares:
HTML Attributes That Every Web Developer Should Know
Go Make Things explores:
This x 1000.
Smashing Mag opines:
Web Development Is Getting Too Complex, And It May Be Our Fault
Of fucking course.
Free Code Camp explores:
Vim Key Bindings – Vim Keys List Reference
Moz reports on technical SEO:
3 Unexpected Examples of Technical SEO Issues (And How to Resolve Them)
Onfold examines:
Is it time to ditch MySQL and PostgreSQL for SQLite?
Venture Beat reports:
Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
AI is here to stay. So, we need to support the open-source versions.
Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
Cool.
Dries Buyaert says:
He should also say goodbye Chrome.
404 Media reports:
The Guy Building an Open-Source Google Search Competitor
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
Reuters reports:
Philippines wards off cyber attacks from China-based hackers
The Next Web reports:
EU member states approve world-first AI law
Ars Technica reports:
Data broker allegedly selling de-anonymized info to face FTC lawsuit after all
The Verge reports:
Meta says you better disclose your AI fakes or it might just pull them
Uh. Right. See the oversite board article below.
Microsoft has:
Iran accelerates cyber ops against Israel from chaotic start
Decipher reports:
U.S. Cracks Down on Spyware With Visa Restriction Policy
This should apply to about 20% of Israelis and plenty of other c^nts around the world.
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
404 Media has an example:
Phone Spy Tool Pitched for ‘Riot Detection’ in NYC
The Kyiv Post reports:
Ukraine Calls on Network Providers to Review Security Measures in Light of Increased Cyberattacks
The Register reports:
JetBrains urges swift patching of latest critical TeamCity flaw
Iran's cyber operations in Israel a potential prelude to US election interference
The MIVD and AIVD report:
Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands uncovers COATHANGER, a stealthy Chinese FortiGate RAT
The Guardian opines:
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg must not be allowed to shape the next era of humanity
That's for goddamn sure.
Deutsch Welle has the evidence:
Facebook at 20: From hope to disillusionment
Bleeping Computer piles on:
Facebook ads push new Ov3r_Stealer password-stealing malware
And TechCrunch provides reason number 25,212:
Oversight Board calls on Meta to rewrite ‘incoherent’ rules against faked videos
And 25,213:
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray
After similar c^ntitry from Shitter and Rekkit, anyone who still bases their business on APIs from these mofos deserves what they get. Build your company on open-source software not shitty proprietary monopolies.
Politico reports:
The far right is scaring away Washington’s private hacker army
Proton opines:
Apple’s DMA compliance plan is a trap and a slap in the face for the European Commission
Apple is the least c^ntish of the big tech companies, but they are still c^nts.
Cory Doctorow elaborates:
Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself”
Fast Company reports:
E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
Sigh.
404 Media reports that not happy with creating fake porn:
4chan Is Editing Pictures to Clothe Women
It must be a legal requirement that if you are on 4chan, you have to be a USDA certified organic shithead.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
And:
Bleeping Computer reports:
Hackers steal data of 2 million in SQL injection, XSS attacks
The Register reports:
IT suppliers hacked off with Uncle Sam's demands in aftermath of cyberattacks
Oh no, we have to be secure because we get rich off the military via U.S. taxpayers.
Fortune reports:
9 to 5 Mac reports:
Proton launches open-source, end-to-end encrypted password manager for business
Cool.
TechCrunch reports:
A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store
Oh no, we have to have a monopoly so we can protect people's privacy.
PBS reports:
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 54
Lemmy ask you anything (again)
Bluesky opens the network
It's awesome that it's been taken over by the Japanese community.
TechCrunch has more:
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join
Hopefully millions of U.S. dummies will leave shitter and move here. And stay off the Fediverse.
How Twitter’s descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web
The Verge publishes:
Julian Fietkau shares an interesting ActivityPub project:
Terence Eden has another:
A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
NodeBB gives an:
January Update on ActivityPub Development
Cool.
The Verge reports:
The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web
Yeah.
Bookmarking app Betula announces:
Social Media Today reports:
Meta Continues To Develop Its Fediverse Connection Options for Threads
Axios reports:
First look: Meta won't recommend political content on Threads
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Posted on February 11, 2024
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