🎙️ 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 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 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 […]

   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 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 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 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: 🎿 John’s Ski Trip Adventures John shared stories from his Utah ski trip – including skiing his first green slope ever, and […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about the new PHPC.tv, PHPTek talk, AIs talking to AIs, PHPUnit Office hours, AI Upset its PR wasn’t accepted, and more…

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Iris, OpenClaw, AI Agents are starting to socialize, NativePHP Mobile is now FREE, Ramsey updates the PHP Architect Wikipedia Page, Notebook++ Hacked, and more… Links from the show: https://laracasts.com/series/build-native-apps-with-php/episodes/1 🎉🎉🎉 NativePHP for Mobile is Now Free 🎉🎉🎉 – Blog – NativePHP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_Architect Fill […]

   This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Git Worktrees, The future of MySQL, PHP RFC’s, and more… Links from the show: GitHub – michaeldyrynda/arbor GitHub – harris21/laravel-herd-worktree: A Claude Code skill that automates setting up git worktrees for Laravel projects served by Laravel Herd. What is the future for […]