The Programmer's Fulcrum: 08 November, 2025
Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post along with their featured articles.
Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 07 November 2025 ✦
Get the latest from the Symfony Universe and PHP development communities.
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Pivale writes about Drupal Canvas:
For Drupal site builders and marketing teams, this means less waiting and more doing. You don’t have to ask a developer to sculpt a layout or preview it two days later. You drop a component, tweak inline, adjust spacing, swap content, and you’re live. It’s simple, visual, and empowering.
For frontend and JavaScript developers, Canvas opens a whole new door. It’s powered by code components, meaning developers can build reusable elements using JSX and CSS directly in the browser, with full access to page data, APIs, and dynamic behaviour. Under the hood, it runs on Preact, so anyone familiar with React will feel right at home. It’s a smooth bridge between Drupal and the modern frontend world.
Canvas also works beautifully with Single Directory Components (SDC), so your existing components in Drupal Core or your theme can appear right in the Canvas interface. This lets teams build pages visually using existing components, combining the ease of a no-code editing experience with the structure and consistency of Drupal’s component system.
Drupal Canvas: Drupal's visual leap
Can they pull it off?
Destroying Autocracy – November 06, 2025
Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.
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The Authoritarian Stack writes:
Under the banner of "patriotic tech", this new bloc is building the infrastructure of control—clouds, AI, finance, drones, satellites—an integrated system we call the Authoritarian Stack. It is faster, ideological, and fully privatized: a regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules.
Our investigation shows how these firms now operate as state-like powers—writing the rules, winning the tenders, and exporting their model to Europe, where it poses a direct challenge to democratic governance.
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
