The Programmer's Fulcrum: 19 December, 2025
The format of this week's post will be different. 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.
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:
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:
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam