Announcing The Programmer’s Fulcrum, our retirement project

I want to take this opportunity to let followers of Symfony Station and Battalion know about what is going to happen in early 2026.

The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future home of Battalion and Symfony Station as they merge into my retirement project. 🙂 Its more focused coverage will be on the items and ideas in Battalion’s Techno Anarchist Manifesto that relate to development.

So, visit our Fediverse page to get an idea what our Fediverse posting and curation is like. Paste @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev into your client’s search field to follow us.

Visit our Tools and Resources page to see many of the items we will cover.

In general 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 and Mustang Sally. 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. It will mean less Evil Empire, Big Tech, Pariah States, and cybersecurity coverage.

And probably less cursing all the way around.

In 2025 after joining our list, you will have full access to the website as well as our newsletter featuring new weekly content. It will consist of links for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with the featured item of each. 2026 will see the birth of TPF’s original content.

Of course, you can follow via RSS as well. Or even Bluesky although I’m not a fan and probably won’t monitor this bridged account. If you like what you see today you are set for the future.

That’s it. We aim to be the Fulcrum. You’re the pivot. Developers helped build Techno Feudalism (aka the shit we’re in). We can help kill it.

If the slightly different approach The Fulcrum takes is not for you, good luck. Stay safe and sane!

Reuben Walker
Publisher, The Programmer’s Fulcrum
Developers defending democracy and developing the Open Media Network.