🎙️ The PHP Podcast – July 30, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Time travel is real, birds aren’t. The gang argues about Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, boiling rocks, and stones (the weight kind), then gets into PSR-3 logging, the PHP ecosystem, AI slop bug reports, Codeberg’s anti-AI stance, and Laravel Cloud’s scale-to-zero […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.30 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Summertime and the living is easy…or so they say. July has us fully immersed in the summer season, which is proving to be a hot one for most. Making it the perfect time to find a cool spot in the shade (or air conditioning) and read the July issue. Let’s get started with a preview […] The post A Card Counter Mindset appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 23, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Eric got ousted from his own show (no pants required), Holly’s elephants are lost somewhere in the U.S., and the crew talks SIMD, PHP 8.6 feature freeze, and whether AI can actually create. Also, socks. 🩳 A Show Without Pants: […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.23 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks with James Cole, creator of Firefly III, an open source personal finance manager. James explains why he built Firefly III after graduating college with student debt, how the rule engine automates transaction categorization, importing bank data with CSV files and third-party connectors like enable banking and GoCardless, and how […] The post Community Corner Podcast: Firefly III with James Cole appeared first on PHP Architect.
Deploying new features used to mean holding your breath. You merged the branch, pushed to production, and hoped the QA process caught everything. If it didn’t, rollback meant either reverting a deployment or shipping a hotfix under pressure. Feature flags change that story entirely, and Laravel Pennant gives you a first-party, well-designed way to build […] The post Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags appeared first on PHP Architect.
If you spend most of your PHP time in Laravel or Symfony, you may have noticed a framework quietly picking up momentum over the past couple of years. Tempest describes itself as “the PHP framework that gets out of your way,” and after spending time with version 3.0 — released February 12, 2026 — that […] The post Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version https://youtu.be/pxnY6T98G14 You may not realize it, but most developers today sit at their keyboards running a manual while loop without realizing it. You write a prompt, read the response, decide what to ask next, and repeat, over and over again. All day long, you are the thing that keeps the process moving toward […] The post Introduction to Loop Engineering: Building AI Agents That Run Themselves appeared first on PHP Architect.
If you’ve been using Claude Code as a single monolithic assistant, you’ve only been using half the tool. Subagents — specialized AI assistants that Claude Code can spin up and delegate tasks to — fundamentally change how you work. Instead of context-switching between “write this Pest test,” “optimize that MySQL query,” and “review this Rector […] The post Claude Code Subagents: Delegate Like a Senior PHP Developer appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 16, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Joe hosts with Sarah and Holly while running on no sleep. The PHP Tech 2027 CFP opens, a fake PHP 9 pitch appears, we crown Holly the accidental main character of internals, and everyone agrees dark mode flashing white […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.16 appeared first on PHP Architect.
When the Symfony team shipped UX 3.0 on April 13, 2026, they did something that major version bumps rarely do cleanly: they used the opportunity to remove things. Not just deprecated APIs, but entire packages that had quietly become dead weight over the 2.x cycle. The result is a leaner, more opinionated frontend toolkit that […] The post Symfony UX 3.0: A Component-First Frontend for PHP Developers appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic methods to describe what our request is doing. Generally, we’re working with GET or POST requests, but these have limitations on them that you won’t be aware of until you’ve run headlong into one of them. The best example is […] The post HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 9, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon | Guest: Holly Schilling A PHP RFC for extension methods that PHP definitely should have had by now. 👋 Holly Schilling, Uninvited but Welcome Holly was originally just planning to heckle from the Discord chat room. She had about 45 minutes’ […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.
For twenty-plus years, “deploying PHP” meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a configuration file glued between them that nobody on the team really understood. FrankenPHP is the first genuinely different answer that stack has had in a long time, and after a couple of years of steady releases […] The post FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance appeared first on PHP Architect.
Caleb Porzio shipped Livewire v4 in January 2026, and it’s not a minor bump. The release introduces islands architecture, single-file components as the default format, scoped styles, built-in drag-and-drop sorting, and a suite of optimistic UI directives that make your interfaces feel instant. If you’ve been building with Livewire v3, the upgrade path is smooth […] The post Livewire 4’s Islands Architecture: Build Faster UIs Without the JavaScript Overhead appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 2, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Eric’s new laptop won’t share its screen. John lost a fight with a leaf blower. PHP 8.6 alpha dropped. 100+ people showed up to make PHP seem cool again. Normal show. 🖥️ Eric’s Fresh Install and the Screen That Wouldn’t Share […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.02 appeared first on PHP Architect.