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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting 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 Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or scroll down to your favorite section.
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 translation extract command with a new option, added a StringNode to the Config component, and fixed ClockMock and DnsMock support with PHPUnit 10+. In addition, we shared more details about some of the talks from the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.

A Week of Symfony #930 (21-27 October 2024)

They also have:
New in Symfony 7.2: Improved Translation Extractor

New in Symfony 7.2: Desktop Notifications

New in Symfony 7.2: Template DX Improvements

Good stuff.

New in Symfony 7.2: Non-Empty Container Parameters

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Crafting a Microservice That Fits Your Needs

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Break Things Fast: Accelerated QA and Testing with Upsun

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Crafting Hybrid PHP-Go CLIs with Symfony Console

Featured Item

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Don't make me bring down the vengeance on Thor on you.
Ok you U.S. readers, once again its time to exercise your limited but strongest influence on the world's premiere oligarchic republic.

Please do so by voting for candidates who support democracy and not for those on the side of autocracy. You know which fucking parties I am talking about.

It's your chance to choose between not having the next four years be a disaster or being a complete clusterfuck of a shitshow. Again, you know the candidates I am talking about.

It may be your last chance to vote so do so and don't waste your vote.

Thanks for being a good citizen in this flawed country. That's what can improve it in the future.

This week

Restack explores:
Symfony For Kotlin Application State Management

PiTangent asks:
What’s the Real Cost of Symfony Web Development Services?

Mayur Koshti shows us:
How to Set Up OAuth2 Authentication in Symfony

CMSs

TYPO3 has:
This Month in TYPO3 is Back — Your Contributions Matter!

Announcing the End-of-Life of the Professional Service Listing

Community Budget Idea Report: Implementing TYPO3 Rector and Fractor Rules (Q3/2024)



Drupal has:
Drupal 11.1 alpha phase begins October 28; 11.1.0 to be released December 12-13

Nominate someone for the 2025 Aaron Winborn Award

Drupal Easy has:
Navigation core module, Admin Toolbar contrib module, Gin contrib admin theme - I just want to rebuild caches!

Why Drupal module developers should be excited about object-oriented hooks

HashBangCode examines:
Drupal 11: Batch Operations Built Into Drupal

Adam Evertsson announces:
Antibot - the new Messiah of spam fighting

Specbee compares:
PHP Attributes VS Annotations: Redefining Drupal Plugin Development

Droptica has a:
Data Migration to Drupal Using Products from External Database - Guide

Dominique Cooman compares:
Drupal and the USS enterprise

Drupalize Me announces:
Drush Custom Command Tutorials Updated

Evolving Web asks:
Is Drupal the Right fit? T-Shirt Sizing for Your Next Website Project

Joshic looks at:
Drupal 7: Navigating the Maintenance Maze

Golems explores:
Using JavaScript Frameworks - React, Vue, Angular in Drupal

Vue is the best of this sorry lot.

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PHP

This week

Vaadata examines:
Sécurité PHP: failles, attaques et bonnes pratiques

Antonio Silva continues a series:
PHP Design Pattern: Adapter

Byte Blog looks at:
PHP Fibers: How PHP is Finally Warming Up to Asynchronous Programming

Dhruvil Joshi shares:
7 Benefits of Integrating LLM and PHP: Enhance, Automate, Secure

Navneet Verma explores:
The Hidden Benefits of Modular PHP: How to Build Scalable Applications Like a Pro.

Winkel Wagen covers a:
PHPUnit Code Sprint: Issue discussions

Four Kitchens examines:
The often-forgotten art of exception and error handling

Previous Weeks

JoliCode shows us:
Construire un chatbot spécialisé sur vos données grâce à l’IA générative et PHP

And Ismaile Abdallah shows us:
How PHP Generics Can Save You from Rewriting Doctrine Repositories

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More Programming

Joan Westenberg reports:
The Internet is Shrinking: and We’ll All Pay the Price

TechCrunch reports:
We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI

Cory Doctorow says:
AI’s “human in the loop” isn’t

Specbee looks at:
Getting started with Mintlify: The smart Documentation tool your team needs

Looks interesting.

TechCrunch reports:
GitHub’s Copilot goes multi-model and adds support for Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini

Mastering Laravel shows us how to:
Make it easier to debug GitHub Actions

And John Johnk shows us:
Git : How to smudge and clean

Expression Statement says:
HTML Form Validation is heavily underused

CSS Tricks shares:
State of CSS 2024 Results

That HTML Blog examines:
Minimal-JavaScript, Server-First Web Components with Declarative Shadow DOM

Brad Frost looks at:
Web Component continued progress

The New Stack asks:
WordPress Alternatives: Stick With PHP or Pivot to JavaScript?

Drupal or Ghost?

Speaking of, Ghost looks at truly:
Democratizing publishing

When they perfect their Activity Pub integration I will probably move our email site to Ghost.

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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.

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The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery


The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announces:
CFPB Takes Action to Curb Unchecked Worker Surveillance

The Mississippi Free Press reports:
As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

USA Today reports:
Feds looking at Russian interference in key battleground of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

TechDirt opines:
Dear Jeff Bezos: The ‘Hard Truth’ Is That Cowardice Like Yours Is Why People Don’t Trust The Media

NBC News reports:
Elon Musk's X is boosting election conspiracy theories with AI-powered trending topics

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading reports:
China's Elite Cyber Corps Hone Skills on Virtual Battlefields

Tech Policy reports it's:
Time to Act on Harmful Deepfakes & Algorithms

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The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 90

The Nexus of Privacy reports on:
Mastodon, two years later

Other Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct wk 5

TechDirt shares some:
Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media

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