🎙️ PHP Podcast – June 4, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🎪 PHP Tek 2027 — New Dates, Bold New Format Mark your calendars: PHP Tek 2027 is happening April 27–29 in Chicago, and Eric and John are shaking things up. […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.06.04 appeared first on PHP Architect.
As we wrap up May, we want to take a momen to review our conference PHP Tek. This conference has just wrapped it’s 18th annual edition. While we, the current owners, have only just put on our 4th event, PHP Tek has been a staple in the community for many years. The post PHP Tek 2026 Review appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – May 28, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Links from the show: PHP barely avoided disaster – YouTube CVE-2026-45793: Anatomy of a 14-Hour PHP Supply-Chain Near-Miss · graycoreio/github-actions-magento2 · Discussion #261 · GitHub An Update on Composer & Packagist Supply Chain Security PHP Tek: A Homecoming by Ben Ramsey […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.05.28 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version at: https://youtu.be/R_-NG_frTiw Last month, two developers on a team I was working with both merged their branches to main within minutes of each other. The first merge was fine but the the second introduced a conflict in a shared service class that nobody caught until the CI pipeline deployed a broken build to […] The post Branching Workflows: Choosing the Right Git Strategy for Your Team appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ 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.