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Welcome to this week's Payload. 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).

There is good content in the 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. 😉

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.

Featured Item

Dries Buytaert opines on:

How Jamstack, MACH, and traditional CMSes like Drupal are evolving by learning from one another. Also, debunking some myths in Jamstack and MACH marketing.

The new old: Jamstack and MACH's journey towards traditional CMS concepts


There is some solid thinking here.
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Symfony

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

Highlight -> "This week, Symfony continued fixing bugs in maintained versions and adding new features to the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version, such as a rate_limiter tag and new types in the Type constraint. In addition, we published the last Twig 2 release."

A Week of Symfony #886 (18-24 December 2023)

They also have:
Looking back on the Amazing SymfonyCon Brussels 2023!

Symfony 2023 Year in Review

SensioLabs has a SymfonyCon review:
Back to Brussels for our recap of SymfonyCon 2023

SymfonyCasts continues its LAST stack course:
This week on SymfonyCasts

This week

Alberto Robles shares:
Part 2 - Creating a Realistic Soccer Match Simulator in Symfony — Plays Generator Tool (HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT PHP)

eCommerce

bitExpert asks:
What are Sylius Template Events?

CMSs

TYPO3 has:
Streamlining TYPO3 Extension Visibility: TER's Packagist Integration

The DropTimes explores:
Recipes for a Better and Easier Drupal

For more see our article, Cooking Up Convenience - Symfony Flex's Recipes and the Drupal Recipes Initiative

Drupal Geysir Module: Enhancing Content Author Workflow

Eiriksm.dev digs up:
Social historical code archeology: cronner.module

Drupixels recommends:
Top 5 Drupal Podcasts to stay in the loop

Golems examines:
Enhancing Site Performance with Drupal's BigPipe Module
This may be the most important core module.

HashBangCode looks at:
Drupal 10: Creating Custom Paths With Path Processors

OpenLampTech has a:
Developer Interview With Ryan Szrama

Specbee takes:
A Deep Dive into the Webform Module for Drupal 10

RedFin explores:
Event Organizers Working Group (EOWG)


Lost Car Park concludes its advent series:
Drupal Advent Calendar day 23 - Single Directory Components
Great stuff.

Drupal Advent Calendar day 24 - Web Summit

Previous Weeks

Alixmy has this in English and French:
Revisiting the good old reset password feature

Réinitialisation de mot de passe au goût du jour

Liip takes:
A Journey Through the 11th SymfonyCon in Brussels

Carlos Compains examines:
Multi database Doctrine/Symfony-based project

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PHP

This week

Geoligard shows us how to:
Interact with Docker containers without leaving PhpStorm

Kevin Dunglas shares:
RFC proposal: worker mode primitives for SAPIs

And Mateusz Jasiński shares a:
Quick guide for PHP exceptions

Previous Weeks

SerpApi shows us:
How to use cURL in PHP

And Dragan Rapić show us:
How to create and manage MySQL databases with PHP

Previous Weeks

SerpApi shows us:
How to use cURL in PHP

And Dragan Rapić show us:
How to create and manage MySQL databases with PHP)

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More Programming

Balogh Botond shares:
Table of Contents Introduction Understanding git filter-branch Step-by-Step Guide

Kinsta has:
A Hands-On Guide to Listing Databases and Tables in Postgres

HTMHell finishes its advent calendar:
The devil is in the details: a look into a disclosure widget markup

Never underestimate HTML

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

The Verge reports:
AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

Deutsch Welle reports:
India: Journalists targeted with Pegasus spyware — reports

We Distribute reports:
Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers

TechDirt reports:
Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign
Don't be a c^nt peeps, move to write.as, Ghost, or WordPress. Hell, I just left Mailchimp for a lot less than this.

Cybersecurity

The Hacker News reports:
Cloud Atlas' Spear-Phishing Attacks Target Russian Agro and Research Companies

DarkReading reports:
Europe Sees More Hacktivism, GDPR Echoes, and New Security Laws Ahead for 2024

The Guardian reports:
Hackers steal customer data from Europe’s largest parking app operator

Ars Techinca reports:
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever
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The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 49

Peer into the future: PeerTube’s plans for 2024

An author of ActivicyPub, Evan Prodromou has thoughts on:
Big Fedi, Small Fedi

The Nexus of Privacy shares:
The (annotated) case for a "big fedi"

Compare and contrast: Fediseer, FIRES, and The Bad Space

Bloomberg opines:
Meta Lends a Crowbar to Open the Gates of Social Media

PeakD explores:
Tangled Threads

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

Do you own or work for an organization that would be interested in our promotion opportunities? If so, please get in touch with us. We’re in our infancy, so it’s extra economical. 😉

More importantly, if you are a Ukrainian company with coding-related products, we can offer free promotion on our Support Ukraine page. Or, if you know of one, get in touch.

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