431 Episodes
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 t...
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...
PHPStan: Your Development Best Friend Who Actually Knows PHP Better Than You Do
It’s 2 AM, you’re three coffees deep, and you just pushed what you’re convinced is the cleanest code you’ve ever written. Your tests are green, your commit message is poetry, a...
Stop Repeating Yourself in Laravel: Custom Artisan Commands Explained
It all started with a simple annoyance. I was working on a Laravel project and kept having to run the same set of commands in a tinker session to setup a test subscriber in a specific state. Every t...
PHP Podcast: 2025.09.04
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Fixes to PHPTek.tv Login, New PHP Architect Merch Store, Wire-Live the Livewire InPerson Event, Perks to Caddy Web Server, PHP Stream Server, a...
PHP Security in 2025: Lessons from the Core Security Audit
Picture this: You’re responsible for a piece of software that powers nearly three-quarters of all websites on the internet. Every day, billions of people interact with applications built on you...
PHP Podcast: 2025.08.28
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss New PHP Architect Partners, Andy Hinkle presents at Laravel Worldwide, sadness over the loss of a great member of the PHP Community, Ryan Weaver,...
Laravel Queues: Handling Errors Gracefully
Introduction While certainly not a new concept, Queues have become a powerful and handy feature of modern frameworks. They enable our normally thread-locked apps to asynchronously dispatch tasks, al...
Laravel Wayfinder And Ranger: The Dynamic Duo That Transforms Full-Stack Development
Picture this: You’re three months into a new Laravel project, the kind where deadlines loom large and stakeholders change their minds faster than you can push commits. Your frontend developer –...
Mmmmmm, PIE
This month, our first feature article continues a series started in the March 2025 edition of PHP Architect. Florian Engelhardt is back to expand Observability Foundations further with ‘Observability...
PHP Podcast: 2025.08.21
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about the Pest 4 released, Prompt Injections, Try/Catch, 1Password for sudo, AOL dialup ends, and more… Links from the show: ! ! ! Discover Sa...
All the Fours: The PHP & Laravel Ecosystem’s Greatest Year Yet
Picture this: you’re at your desk, coffee growing cold, staring at a legacy codebase that feels like it was written during the Jurassic period. The tests are brittle, the UI updates require a d...
Are You Down With CSP?
CSP is the Content Security Policy for your website’s pages. Think of it as a foreman on a construction site, checking all the material loads coming to the gate, verifying that they meet the requireme...
PHP Podcast: 2025.08.14
Links from the show: Thalia Strings – YouTube PHP Fibers: The Game-Changer That Makes Async Programming Feel Like Magic | PHP Architect Everything We Announced at Laracon US 2025 –...
PHP Fibers: The Game-Changer That Makes Async Programming Feel Like Magic
Picture this: You’re sitting in front of your computer, watching your PHP application crawl through a list of RSS feeds one by one. Each request takes half a second, and with twenty feeds to pro...
PHP Podcast: 2025.08.07
The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch...
How PHP Really Reads Your Code (Abstract Syntax Tree (AST))
Do you ever wonder how PHP parses your code? Wonder no longer because in this video, Scott Keck-Warren from the PHP Architect Channel shows you how to inspect your code using the AST with the PHP-Pa...
The Psychology of a Developer
This month’s first feature article comes from Nelson Isioma, breaking down ‘Cool Things You Can Do With HTMX’. As Nelson discusses, HTMX brings additional functionality while using H...
The PHP Podcast: 2025.07.24
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest Ben Ramsey, the PHP Community Discord, PHP Community Mastodon, Open Source Licenses, AI in companies and code, HHVM, and moreR...
The PHP Podcast: 2025.07.17
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Spec-driven Development with Kiro, JetBrains on Huggingface, Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, Automating your life with n8n, PHP Tek 2026 Websit...
