🎙️ PHP Podcast – May 14, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎙️ PHP Tek Is Four Days Away The countdown clock is basically ticking in real time — PHP Tek 2026 in Chicago is just four days and ten hours out […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.05.14 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks Global Accessibility Awareness Day with Joe Devon the creator of the day. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Joe’s Links: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedevon/ Global Accessibility Awareness Day – https://accessibility.day/ Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accessibility-and-gen-ai-podcast/id1759047581 Scott’s Links:…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – May 7, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎪 PHP Tek Is 11 Days Away — And Everyone Is Stressed The conference countdown is real: 11 days, 10 hours, and a handful of seconds on the clock. John’s […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.05.07 appeared first on PHP Architect.
See the video version at https://youtu.be/Nk9ayWxkJ1M It’s an unfortunate piece of our current developer reality that a lot of our day is spent worrying about how many tokens we’re spending. Every time you send structured data to an LLM API, you’re paying for tokens. And if you’re sending arrays of similar objects as JSON, you’re […] The post Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) For PHP Developers appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – April 30, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🚁 The Drone Slayer Strikes Eric and John wrapped up a Padres game at beautiful Petco Park in downtown San Diego — and things got weird on the way out. […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.30 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Elizabeth Barron returns to the show just four weeks after her debut appearance for a wide-ranging follow-up on her first months as Executive Director of the PHP Foundation. Elizabeth shares the key findings from her community listening tour, covers the upcoming PHP community survey in partnership with JetBrains, talks about the Foundation’s plans for […] The post PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 29 Elizabeth Barron appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks Storyblok with Daniel Mendoza and his talk on using AI to help developers learn new technology that he will be presenting at JStek 2026. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Daniel’s Links: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-mendoza-503396152/ Personal Site – https://danieljmendoza.com/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky […] The…
There’s a certain kind of energy that comes from being in a room full of people who care deeply about what they do. Next month at PHP Tek, developers from across the community will gather to share ideas, learn from one another, and push the craft forward. It’s hard to describe unless you’ve experienced it, […] The post Meet the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – April 23, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Duration: ~1 hour 10 minutes 📋 Episode Summary Eric and John return to the podcast after a few weeks away, discussing everything from Disneyland trips and bowling tournaments to EAV database nightmares, editor wars (Vim vs. PHPStorm), AI coding tools, and the […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.23 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks Kumuda Sreenivasa about her talk on using AI to help with refactoring/replacing legacy system that she’s be presenting at JStek 2026. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Kumuda’s Links: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumudas/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn –…
Setting up a Virtual Private Server (VPS) without a firewall is asking for trouble. Ideally, you’d have a dedicated security person to handle all of this, but that’s rarely the case. One thing I always do on a fresh Linux server is configure a firewall. It used to be a real headache, but […] The post Ubuntu Firewall Setup in Less Than 5 Minutes (Plus One Step That Will Lock You Out) appeared first on PHP Architect.
Sara Golemon returns to the show — her first appearance was way back in Episode 2 — for a deep dive into Git Worktrees, a powerful but underused Git feature that lets you work on multiple branches simultaneously without the overhead of stashing, context-switching, or rebuilding from scratch. The episode covers practical real-world use cases, […] The post PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 22 Sara Golemon appeared first on PHP Architect.
The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎙️ Sammy Powers Returns! – After 4 years away from the PHP community, Sammy joins us from Germany where he’s working on immigration […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.16 with Sara, Joe, and Sami appeared first on PHP Architect.
Welcome to the March edition of PHP Architect. We are excited to share ideas that will make you think and may even change some of your current practices. While we publish a magazine, we are developers first. We are experiencing the AI wave that many of you are also dealing with. There are new questions, […] The post Putting APIs to the Test appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ The PHP Podcast April 9, 2026 | Guest Hosts: Joe Ferguson & Sara Golemon 🎙️ Guest Hosts Joe Ferguson Senior Developer at PHP Architect Running for PHP 8.6 Release Manager (hands-on position, third attempt). Working on PHP infrastructure with Derek using Ansible and Proxmox. Fixed emoji Unicode support on people.php.net. @joepferguson Sara Golemon […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.