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The Programmer's Fulcrum is an independent publication launched in August 2025 by me, Reuben Walker.

Sometime next year it will become the home of Battalion and Symfony Station as they are merged into my retirement project. It will be covering items and ideas in Battalion's Techno Anarchist Manifesto that relate to development. So if you're intrigued, read that over a cup of coffee or happy hour drink.

For Symfony Station that means coverage of the development aspects of CMS options for the Open Media Network. Think Grav CMS, Ghost, WordPress, Micro.Blog, Write.as, and Write Freely. And maybe Drupal CMS, we'll see how easy 2.0 is to use for the average Joe, Mustang Sally, the proletariat, and the bourgeoise. It will mean less Symfony, Drupal, TYPO3, and PHP coverage.

For Battalion that means coverage of the Fediverse, Open Media Network, and community-focused open-source software like Bonfire. It will mean less Evil Empire, Big Tech, Pariah States, and cybersecurity coverage.

And probably less cursing all the way around.

If you join today, you'll get full access to this website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. For 2025 they will consist of links for each week's Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" post along with the featured item of each.

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