Eric Van Johnson :phparch:

You have to know I’m not going to a new place and not catch a ballgame

I might have stolen a Lambo from @taylorotwell yesterday at the golf tournament 🚗 No regrets. My life of stealing exotic car has officially begun

Good morning Denver

This week on the podcast, @john and I are going to have a special guest on the show. Check it out in about 10 minutes on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3_KVuFloxA

Join @john and me for the @phparc@phparch Podcast in about 10 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrVGAVhZrk

The homerun derby to decide the winner of the Baseball All-Star game last night was a nice touch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykqhonhqios

Do you think PIE will usher in a resurgence in PHP Extensions? I'm excited to see the work going into this project and where it takes PHP. Check our @scottkeckwarren interview with @asgrim. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/59jujnlCFFs

Have you ever had one of those weeks where all you are doing is waiting for the weekend to get some project done, and then the weekend gets here and you're like "Nah, I'm good"

GitHub - voideditor/void Contribute to voideditor/void development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've never used Cursor, but I'm happy there's an open-source alternative being worked on. I would be interested in hearing from anyone trying out Void.

https://github.com/voideditor/void

Great post on the new PHP 8.5 pipe operator, but honestly, I wouldn't expect anything less from @brendt

https://stitcher.io/blog/pipe-operator-in-php-85

Interesting addition to the PHP landscape.

PHP 8.5 Introduces an INI Diff Option https://laravel-news.com/php-85-introduces-an-ini-diff-option

The @phparch@phparch PHP Podcast is going live in a couple of minutes! Join me and @john to talk PHP, share stories, and have a blast. Jump on our Discord and be part of making the show great! 🐘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTHW5aoYkg

🎙️ We're going live in just a few minutes with @phparch.com PHP Podcast. Kicking off at 3 PM Pacific—grab some popcorn.
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fp-L-BAxQM

To my PHPriends out there, we are always looking for new feature articles for @phparch monthly magazine release. You don't need to be a subject matter expert, just passionate about what it is you are writing about. Maybe a new coding pattern you've adopted, or a new package you've started using […]

The PHP Podcast goes live in just minutes! Join myself and @john at 3 PM Pacific, in about 5 minutes, for the latest dev banter, PHP insights, and mischief.
🎧 Live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MjcjThrOF0

I guess LA finally has a Metro to LAX. Well, kind of, it takes you to the LAX station, but that isn't actually the terminal. You then need to get on a "People Mover" to get to you terminal. At least that is how it was explained to me. I guess it's a step in the right direction.

”The Federation of JavaScript” had me laughing https://youtu.be/MFpgjrC7C5U?si=yj0c45Ph_HKjTYoN

I have so many questions.
1 How did they come up with this?
2 What made them think that this was OK on any level?
3 Where can I get one?

I have to admit, this is an image I never thought I would see: Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1lg9omq/bill_gates_and_linus_torvalds_meet_for_the_first/

@john and I are going live with this week's PHP Podcast on YouTube. Catch the stream and join the Discord to be part of the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xjexoidRaw

The PHP Podcast, the official podcast of PHP Architect, is now streaming. Tune in for the latest in PHP news and tech talk! 🎙️ Watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8nsBdIgtw

If you listened to last week's podcast you have an uneventful idea what's going on. If not, plumbing issue. Now my houses sounds like an airport runway.

PHP Podcst going live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z424RO12Vdo

Editing videos for PHP TEK 2025, and this slide still has me laughing. For content, this was the start of a father/son talk by @pmeth and Easton Meth

The PHP Podcast, the official podcast of PHP Architect is now streaming. Tune in for the latest in PHP news and tech talk! 🎙️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1bNPX4JQg0

It's 2:09 AM, the last day of @phptek, can't sleep, and more importantly, I can't stop thinking about #NativePHP.
Welp, I guess it's fine to fire up a new project and play with NativePHP for a little while.
#phptek

The PHP Podcast, the official podcast of PHP Architect is now streaming. Tune in for the latest in PHP news and tech talk! 🎙️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOrg0Q06csQ

php[tek] (@phptek@phparch.social) 262 Posts, 20 Following, 146 Followers · The 17th annual premier PHP & Web Development Conference, phptek 2025, will take place May 20th to 22nd in the Chicago area. Organized by your friends at php[architect] :phparch: (@phparch)

Can't believe that next week is already @phptek. So excited to of three days of PHP talks and friends. Hope to see everyone there. Some really exciting talks. We are actually working on one more talk I am excited about.

The PHP Podcast, the official podcast of PHP Architect is now streaming. Tune in for the latest in PHP news and tech talk! 🎙️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY1e8izoTBc

Just a reminder to my San Deigo based PHP Friends out there, we are having another @phpxsan User Group Meetup next week. We have a talk scheduled, "Having Weird AI fun with Ollama, Prism, and Laravel." https://www.meetup.com/sandiegophp/events/307222863/