Community Corner: PHP 8.5 Release Manager Daniel Scherzer
In this episode, Scott talks with Daniel Scherzer about his work as a PHP contributor and PHP 8.5 release manager. Links: https://displace.tech/ Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Daniel’s Social Media: https://scherzer.dev/ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-scherzer-520539263/ Scott’s Social Media: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-keck-warren-91689810/ Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@scottkeckwarren […]
PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 4 – Ashley Hindle
From wannabe teen hacker to 20+ years in PHP, AI Lead at Laravel, and producing Laravel Boost – come and hear about Ashley Hindle and his journey. Laravel Boost Deep Dive Makes AI code better with context-aware docs, guidelines, and tools Auto-detects your packages/versions (Laravel, Pest, Filament, Tailwind, etc.) Born from Ashley’s earlier project […]
The PHP Podcast 2025.10.02
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Scott’s PHP 8.5 review, Alive and Kicking’s first live stream, PHP Foundation’s call for design, the new Laravel Forge, and more… Links from the show: What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features) | PHP Architect PHP Alive and Kicking […]
PHP Alive and Kicking 3: Special Guest Gina Banyard
Shownotes: https://thephp.foundation/ https://wiki.php.net/ https://wiki.php.net/rfc https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation https://gpb.moe/about.html Streams: Youtube Channel Twitch Partners This podcast is made a little better thanks to our partners Displace Infrastructure Management, Simplified Automate Kubernetes deployments across any cloud provider or bare metal with a single command. Deploy, manage, and scale your infrastructure with ease. https://displace.tech/ PHPScore […]
Community Corner: PHPScore with Ed Grosvenor
In this episode, Scott talks with Ed Grosvenor about technical debt and his company’s new website PHPScore.com that inspects your PHP projects for technical debt so you can bring issues back to your team for remediation. Links: PHPScore.com – https://phpscore.com/ Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Ed’s Social Media: Bluesky – […]
The PHP Podcast 2025.09.25 with Guest James Seconde
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest James Seconde, CTO who don’t like PHP, AI, and more… Links from the show: Reddit – The heart of the internet 2025 DORA State of AI Assisted Software Development | Google Cloud TechMids Conf – A community-driven tech conference The PHP […]
Real-Time Call Transcription with FreeSWITCH and AssemblyAI: A Debugging Journey
Recently, I dove headfirst into adding real-time audio transcription to a FreeSWITCH-based system. The idea was simple: capture the audio from a live phone call and feed it to AssemblyAI’s real-time transcription API. The reality? Not quite so simple. Getting Started I used Claude to help kickstart the effort. Within an hour, I had a […]
PHP Podcast: 2025.09.18
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss NativePHP bringing everything, including the Kitchen Sink, PHP Foundation announcement of the SDK for MCP, Nuno’s Explanation of Laravel MCP, PHP 8.5 Pipe Operator, the Supply Chain issue with NPM, and more. Links from the show: GitHub – NativePHP/kitchen-sink-mobile: NativePHP for mobile demo app […]
PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 2: Sara Golemon
In this episode of “PHP Alive and Kicking,” Mike and Chris engage in a discussion with Sara Golemon, a prominent PHP Internals developer and release manager. The conversation kicks off with Sara sharing her unique journey into PHP development, which began unexpectedly from a tech support role for the US government, ultimately leading her […]