🎙️ 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.
In this episode, Scott talks with Dr Jen Fry about Sports Geography, Saying NO, and her keynote at https://phptek.io/ (tickets still available). Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Jen’s Links: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenfry13/ Website – https://jenfrytalks.com/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social…
🎙️ The PHP Podcast – Special Episode April 2, 2026 | Guest Hosts: Joe Ferguson & Sara Golemon In this special episode, Joe Ferguson and Sara Golemon step in as guest hosts while Eric recovers from illness and John is busy in Discord. They cover AI tool challenges, PHP Foundation updates, Unicode adventures, infrastructure work, […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.02 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks with Chris Lemon about why us “normal” non-devops developers need to know about Nginx. We also discuss his talk at https://phptek.io/ (tickets still available). Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Chris’s Links: LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/clemon89 GPUG – https://www.meetup.com/_gpug_/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – […] The post…
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: 🏟️ php[tek] 2026 – 54 Days Away! The countdown is on! May 19th in Chicago. Ticket sales are progressing well, better than in […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.26 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: 🎙️ Elizabeth Barron’s New Role – We discussed Elizabeth Barron’s appointment as Executive Director of the PHP Foundation and recommended checking out the […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.19 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode of PHP Alive and Kicking, hosted by Mike and Chris (from PHP Architect), featuring their guest Elizabeth Barron, the newly appointed Executive Director of the PHP Foundation. The conversation covers Elizabeth’s origin story in PHP (self-teaching in the late 1990s), her vision for the Foundation beyond just funding core developers […] The post PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 26 Elizabeth Barron 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: 🌐 Internet Woes & Technical Difficulties Eric continued his saga with connectivity issues, dropping multiple times on Zoom calls and even during the […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.12 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: 🤖 OpenClaw & Archie Development Eric and John dove deep into the ongoing development of OpenClaw and the Archie Discord bot. They discussed […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.05 appeared first on PHP Architect.