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The Programmer’s Fulcrum: 19 December, 2025

This was originally posted at The Fulcrum.

The format of this week’s post will be different. We had friends in town so there were no Symfony Station and Battalion posts this week. But, I did curate some interesting bits on the Fediverse. I will share some here as well as moving the publish day to the one for 2026, Friday.

Symfony Station

Open Media Network Website CMSs

Drupal has:

Native HTMX in Drupal 11.3.0: Rich UX with up to 71% less JavaScript

😎

David Duymelinck has:

Drupal: exploring Canvas (part 1)

Drupal: Exploring Canvas (part 2)

Great stuff.

Lost Car Park continues its Advent calendar:

Advent Calendar day 16 – Drupal CMS now and beyond

Advent Calendar day 18 – That’s Not a Theme, It’s a Template

Open Media Network Tools

MIT Technology Review reports:

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Servo shares:

November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more!

That HTML Blog says:

The Web Platform is a Triumph of Object-Oriented Programming

Battalion

TechPolicy shares:

Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly

The Guardian reports:

This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble

Hamish Campbell asks:

What Did We Learn from Web3, Crypto?

Waterfox announces:

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla’s Next Chapter

Cory Doctorow says:

America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity

Open Media Network Tools

Ben Werdmuller asks:

Is the article dead?

Just for brain-dead people.

The Register reports:

New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks

Fediverse / Open Social Media

PeerTube announces:

Publish your videos with PeerTube for mobile!

Holos shares:

How It Works

ActivityPub for WordPress has:

7.8.0 – Happy Holidays

TechCrunch reports:

Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam

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