Symfony Station Communiqué — August 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.

• Symfony Universe
• PHP
• More Programming
• Fighting for Democracy
• Cybersecurity
• Fediverse

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.

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Symfony

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

Highlight -> "This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version improved the hashing of assets in AssetMapper and added support for the RFC4122 format in the Ulid constraint. In addition, Symfony proposed some changes in config resources tracking."

A Week of Symfony #919 (5-11 August 2024)

They also have:

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Carry out the best audit for your client

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: A brand-new way to serialize data in Symfony

Blackfire has:

Scaling for success: load testing your app for Black Friday – part 2

SymfonyCasts has:

This week in Symfony Casts

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Featured Item

This week it's really two interesting items.

Dragan Rapić examines asymmetrical PHP:

Getting Started with ReactPHP

Getting started with AMPHP

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This Week

Denis Bélanger explores:

Using Symfony LoginFormAuthenticator to Solve Null Email

Tobi Brooks explains:

Why Symfony 4 Reached End of Life

Mark Badolato shows us how to:

Inject Value Objects Into An Autowired Symfony Service

Naâmèn Mohamed Amine shares:

What’s new in Symfony 2024: essential updates for developers

One version behind, but very extensive.

eCommerce

Roman Agabekov shows us:

How MySQL Tuning Can Improve PrestaShop Performance

CMSs

TYPO3 has:

A Recap of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024

The Countdown Is On: TYPO3 Awards 2024 — One Month Left to Submit Your Project!

Mike Street shares:

A summary of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024

In2Code shows us how to:

Hide backend modules in TYPO3

This is in German, so have your browser translator handy if you need it.

Drupal has:

Drupal CMS: the official name for Drupal Starshot

Very creative. ?

ImageX Media shares:

Easy Recipes with Placeholder Tokens for Your Drupal Website’s Optimization

The Drop Times examines:

Drupal GovCon 2024: The Heartbeat of the DC Drupal community

Specbee shows us:

How to set up Apache Solr Plugin on Ubuntu in a Lando environment and configure Search API Solr in Drupal

Tag1 Consulting continues a series:

Migrating Your Data from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10: Preparing for field migrations

Golems breaks down:

Scaling and Performance Optimization of Drupal

Dev Collaborative asks:

You Hate Your Website, Who’s To Blame?

ImageX Media reviews:

Bold, Sleek, and Endlessly Customizable: the Gin Theme for Next-Level Drupal Admin Experiences
Great theme. And a eye-saver before Claro came along.

Prometsource covers:

Drupal GovCon: Transforming Federal Digital Experiences

Joshi helps with:

Choosing Between Drupal Core and Drupal CMS: A Comprehensive Guide

Previous Weeks

MD Systems looks at:

Improved memory usage in token module

Laminas promotes:

Using Laminas Continuous Integration

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PHP

This Week

Laravel News explores:

Laravel Log Files Support in PhpStorm

The same goes for Symfony and WordPress.

JetBrains announces:

PhpStorm 2024.2 Is Now Available

Sarah Savage asks:

Is there a place for manual testing in software development?

Denys Kontorsky shows us:

How to Set up Email Verification in PHP via a Verification Token: Complete Guide

Stitcher has an update on Tempest:

PHP 8.4 at least

Amir Reza Mehrbakhsh shows us:

How to parse currency in PHP?

Violet Alexander looks at:

Deep understanding of the Workerman daemon principle in PHP high-performance framework

In this case, Laravel.

Winkel Wagen shows us:

How to: Own PHP image

We Are Developers has:

Processing 175 WeAreDeveloper World Congress talk videos in 5 hours - with PHP?

Wow.

Essaadani Younes says:

Program to interface NOT implementation

It's Imiro shares:

Why I Like the Strategy Pattern

Ismail has a history lesson:

The PHP and MySQL Friendship: A Timeline of Innovation, Collaboration, and Disruption

Florian Engelhardt asks:

To double quote or not, that's the question!

Valerio Barbera shows us:

How to monitor Guzzle Http Client

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More Programming

Fabio Mananiello is:

In search of a new search

IT Next explores:

Revolutionizing Browsing: The Rise of Ladybird as the Independent Browser Challenging the Ad-Dominated Giants!

I like the looks of this, but some of the missing functionality is nice to have. I run into some of the same issues with LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox).

The Spicy Web examines:

Action Web Components Which Span the Server-Client Divide

SymfonyUX has something similar to this with Turbo and Live Components.

CSS Tricks looks at:

“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries

Sviat Kuzhelev shares:

We Gave Up on Tailwind CSS: Our Decision Behind Switching Back To SASS Modules

Speaking of bullshit like Failwind, here is Part 3 of Infrequently Noted’s series on how Javascript fucked over US public benefits services:

Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock

DarkReading reports:

GitHub Attack Vector Cracks Open Google, Microsoft, AWS Projects

Analytics India asks:

Why Developers Are Ditching GitHub Copilot

One Pict opines on the:

Sustainability of FOSS: The NGI Ecosystem

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)

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

Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.

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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

Speaking of Battalion, here is its case study:

How I Built Battalion

Ars Technica reports:

Artists claim “big” win in copyright suit fighting AI image generators

Awesome.

Unprecedented has details on this clusterfuck of an "interview":

Mickey Musk and Donald Duck

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Register reports:

China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector

Evil on Evil action. ?

RIP Crowdtangle laments:

Losing CrowdTangle is a huge and exhausting setback in our hate speech research

Cybersecurity/Privacy

Jan Wildeboer shares:

The two tales of xz-utils and Crowdstrike

TechCrunch reports:

FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

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Fediverse

Daily Kos reports:

"Mastodon for Harris" Raises Over $500,000 and Growing - Purely on the Fediverse

Flipboard announces:

Now People on Flipboard Can Follow Anyone in the Fediverse

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Reuben Walker

Founder
Symfony Station

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