🎙️ PHP Podcast – October 22, 2026 Hosts: Holly, Sara, Joe – Special Guest Daniel Scherzer PHP ships an emergency security release a day early, Daniel Scherzer pushes the commits at 6:30am on four hours of sleep, and governments across Europe start pulling servers offline. Oh, and a 12-pound dog nearly killed Holly. 🐘 The […]

   In this episode, Scott talks with Damien Seguy about the history of the elePHPant, from Vincent Pontier’s logo doodle to 6,054 plush toys in Damien’s home, how the community trades them through the Community Postal Service, and what it takes to create your own. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:52 How the PHP logo became […]

🎙️ PHP Podcast – October 15, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson & Holly Schilling Longhorn PHP kicks off, agentic commerce gets scary, bots keep scanning, and a Cold War satellite schematic proves software is harder than hardware. 🧦 Swag, Longhorn PHP, and “Am I Even a PHP Developer?” Joe opened by confessing he found a JavaScript […]

   In this episode, Scott talks with Paul Conroy about agentic commerce: how AI agents buy things on our behalf, how Stripe’s shared payment tokens keep them on a budget, and how the Machine Payments Protocol finally puts HTTP 402 Payment Required to work in your API middleware. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy […]

🎙️ PHP Foundation Community Hour – October 8, 2026 Hosts: Elizabeth Barron & James Titcumb James tells the story of how he fell into open source, breaks down what Pie actually does, celebrates the 1.5 release, and shares real advice for anyone nervous about making their first contribution. 🌱 How James Got Into Open Source […]

🎙️ PHP Podcast – October 1, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling It’s John’s birthday, so naturally he skipped. The PHP Foundation is hiring, 8.6 picks up a surprise RC, and the crew goes deep on ABI promises, deprecation pile-ups, generics, and a childhood firefighter who’s still “a hit.” 🎂 John’s Birthday […]

🎙️ PHP Podcast – September 24, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Ian Littman joins the crew to talk PHP community and conferences. Longhorn PHP is three weeks out with a brand new format, the industry keeps shifting under everyone’s feet, and RAM prices remain a personal insult. The hallway track survives […]

🎙️ PHP Podcast – September 17, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & John Congdon The September issue shipped 13 days early, a blue elephant named Eric raised eyebrows, PHP 8.6 is racing GTA 6 to a November launch, and a CDN bug taught us all a lesson about cache keys. Also: a lot of […]

     In this episode, Scott talks with Stanislav Khromov about his project bun-php, which allows PHP to be run through the Bun JavaScript runtime. Links: https://github.com/khromov/bun-php/ https://github.com/khromov/bun-wordpress/ https://mochi.fast/ Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Stanislav’s Links: Website – https://stanislav.garden/ TED Talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11VunN876Q Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – […]

🎙️ PHP Foundation Community Hour – September 10, 2026 Hosts: Elizabeth Barron & Matt Stauffer The very first PHP Foundation Community Hour kicks off with autumn vibes, a blog post that started it all, and one big message: contributing to PHP is easier — and broader — than you think. 🍂 Welcome to the First […]