Symfony Station Communiqué — 9 August 2024: 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. 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.

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.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

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. Especially tech bros.

Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> "This week, Symfony development activity was calmer than usual because of the summer holidays. In addition to some fixes and tweaks in existing features, the community proposed new features for upcoming Symfony versions such as a Week number constraint and improvements in AssetMapper code, and the HtmlDumper links.

A Week of Symfony #918 (29 July - 4 August 2024)

PHP

This Week

Ash Allen Design reviews:

Profanify: Prevent Profanity in Your PHP Codebase

Indeed. Save your profanity for your articles and newsletters. 😈

Saeedan Tech shows us how to:

Ensure High Availability in Your Microservices Architecture

Raziel Rodrigues explores:

PHP Creational Patterns: Factory

Doğan Uçar shares:

PHP 8.4: Release Date and Features, August 2024

Itsimiro examines:

Unlocking the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in PHP

Inspector looks at:

PHP Iterators for walking through data structures – FastTips

Stitcher says:

I don't write code the way I used to

N0nag0n explores the:

Best PHP Micro Frameworks for 2024

Spo0q examines:

PHP: Understanding Time Zones

What's up with these user names?

Dragan Rapić looks at:

Asynchronous Programming with PHP

HashBangCode explores:

Generating Colour Palettes From Images In PHP

Derick Rethans announces:

Xdebug Update: July 2024

ServBay shows us:

How to Use .user.ini in ServBay

Abdelrahman Emam examines:

Efficiently Handling Large Data Retrievals in PHP: Solving Memory Limit Issues

Fernando Castillo says:

Please don’t: over complicating array translation in PHP

Lucas Pereya shows us:

How To Serve Your Backends with Nginx: A Comprehensive Guide

More Programming

Plain Vanilla Web announces:

Plain Vanilla

The greatest website development resource of all time.

On a related note, Christian Heilmann shares:

Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web

Heydonworks looks at:

The abbr element

Smashing Magazine says:

It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”

The Register reports:

Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers

Heisee reports:

Visual Studio Code 1.92 offers the choice of a default browser

Fernando Castillo has:

Postgres: type casting for writing better queries

Tideways explores:

Dealing with MySQL Lock Timeouts: Bail faster

Oliver Davies examines:

Merging unrelated histories

Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)

Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Or get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net or via RSS.

Please visit Symfony Stations 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

RTE reports:

DPC takes court action against Twitter over AI data concerns

TechCrunch has:

DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Prospect reports:

The Corporate Wishcasting Attack on Lina Khan

Not surprising considering she has been kicking the shit out of oligarch's asses.

The Nerd Reich reports:

Kamala Harris vs. The Nerd Reich of Silicon Valley

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading reports:

Protect Data Differently for a Different World

The Kyiv Post reports:

UK Submarine Manufacturer’s Intranet Coding Outsourced to Belarus and Russia

Software supply chains people.

Fediverse

The Nexus Of Privacy has:

4 things white people can do to start making the Fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)

Patchwork looks at:

Organisations and content creators enter the Fediverse

I think Flipboard and WordPress will both pass Mastodon in terms of numbers.

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

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