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Laravel + PHP gains a batteries included package for ActivityPub support, with both draft-cavage and RFC 9421 HTTP Sig support and the ability to extend every aspect, with before() and after() hooks for easy custom processing.
It's quite amazing.
I'll be tagging a new release this week.
#laravel #php #activitypub #pixelfed #loops
There are at least 3 #PHP-related talks at #FOSSY this year!
⁃ “From First PR to Release Manager: A Path into Open Source,” Daniel Scherzer
⁃ “The PHP Foundation and The Challenge of Sustaining Critical Digital Infrastructure,” @elizabeth
⁃ “It Was BSD All Along: Relicensing PHP After 30 Years,” me
Hope to see you there! @conservancy social.sfconservancy.org/objec…
Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)
We're so excited about the awesome program for #FOSSY this year! https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/ And there are still a few days left on our room block for the university rooms (both cheaper and f...social.sfconservancy.org
🧩 Composer plugins are powerful, but execute code during install & update. Composer prompts to allow a plugin, but a distracted "yes" or an AI agent on autopilot is all it takes. Private Packagist now has org-level allowlists for plugins.
blog.packagist.com/restricting…
#php #phpc #composerphp
Restricting Composer plugins across your organization
This is the next post in our supply chain security series, following the supply chain security update, the Composer 2.Steven Rombauts (Private Packagist)
Happy Brooke Vibber day!
Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.
blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/in…
Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!
A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.
Interview with Brooke Vibber (2021) - The Lego Mirror
I had the pleasure of interviewing Brooke Vibber back in January 2021 for my story in the Wikipedia Signpost, The people who built Wikipedia, technically, which looked back at the technical history of Wikipedia to celebrate the 20th birthday.blog.legoktm.com
Just noticed that a lot of content is now FREE on laracasts.com 
Really can recommend for everyone who wants to learn the basics of coding for the web
#Laravel has something handy, it's called "Herd"
"One click PHP development environment. Zero dependencies. Zero headaches."
Composer 2.9.6: Perforce Driver Command Injection Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-40261, CVE-2026-40176)
Please immediately update Composer to version 2.9.6 or 2.2.27 (LTS) by running composer.phar self-update. The new releases include fixes for two command injection security vulnerabilities in the Perforce VCS driver.Nils Adermann (Private Packagist)