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PHPUgly

by Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon

The podcast your mother warned you about. The ramblings of a few overworked PHP Developers. Here, we talk about the highs and lows of running a small business and development shop, from the mundane day-to-day coding projects to the thrilling discoveries of new solutions. Not only that, but we also discuss the latest trends in the tech world and geek culture so you can stay up to date with the ever-evolving tech landscape. It's the perfect place to find out what's going on in the world of web development and other tech-related topics. Join us for an insightful and entertaining look into the world of coding and business.Hosted By Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, and Tom RideoutBecome a Patron!

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Episodes

  1. 400: Tom's Second Rodeo

    This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we always wanted: a tool that's there when you need it, and gets out of your. Everything you need to keep production happy so that…

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  2. 399: WarPress

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2025 - May 20th to 22nd, 2025 GitHub - Thavarshan/fetch-php: 🚀 A lightweight HTTP library inspired by JavaScript's fetch, bringing simplicity and flexibility to PHP HTTP requests. How to Kill your SDKs in 1 Easy Step - Caseysoftware Flux · Livewire UI kit…

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  3. 398: Cats, Coffee, and PHP

    Links from the show: PHPRoundtable wip: terminal (initial commit) API Platform | API Platform for Laravel Projects x.com The PHP Foundation application form for 2025 is now open — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language PHP Foundation - Open Collective This...

  4. 397: Little Legs

    Links from the show: PHP Annotated – September 2024 | The PhpStorm Blog Fluid for Tailwind CSS - Build better responsive designs in less code. x.com Right Wing Influencers Secretly Paid By Russia - YouTube END GAME KEYBOARD - YouTube Forge Keyboard This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by:...

  5. 396: PHP Heads and Shoulders

    Links from the show: Exclusive: Laravel, an open source startup in Arkansas founded by Taylor Otwell, raises $57 million Series A from Accel | Fortune What's the big Idea? PHPStorm for Vim Users | php[architect] PHP[TEK] 2025 - May 20th to 22nd, 2025 PHP[TEK] 2025 PHP Projects: Pinkary |...

  6. 395:Cloudy with a chance of Laravel

    Links from the show: Flux Laravel Cloud - The Future of Shipping PHP[TEK] 2025 - May 20th to 22nd, 2025 This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we always wanted: a tool...

  7. 394: ELIE, Explain It Like I'm Eric

    Links from the show: State of Generics and Collections — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language Generics in PHP??? - YouTube Cherry pick a commit to a different branch in any JetBrains IDE - YouTube To double quote or not, that's the question! - DEV Community…

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  8. 393: Query All The Things

    Links from the show: https://phptek.io/feed/blog Fediverse-follows/php.md at main · phparch/Fediverse-follows · GitHub Anyquery - Use SQL for everything https://elk.zone/home A case for mastodon - Chris Morrell PHP: News Archive - 2024 PHP 8.4 at least - stitcher.io PHP[TEK] 2025 - May 20th to...

  9. 392: PHPlight Delay

    Links from the show: Did Apple just Sherlock our favorite password managers? - The Verge PHPRoundtable X To Remove the Option To Hide Blue Tick | Social Media Today Penpot: The Design Tool for Design & Code Collaboration https://kamushken.medium.com/figma-fiasco-fa865c86d2c7 Gaze by Discovery...

  10. 391: PHPUgly Certified

    Links from the show: GitHub - darrenburns/posting: The modern API client that lives in your terminal. Home 2024 - OpenAPI Initiative x.com CrowdStrike global Windows crash latest updates — aftermath of the biggest IT outage in history | Tom's Guide Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation...

  11. 390: Bad APIs

    Links from the show: What’s new in MySQL 9.0 | InfoWorld Laravel Pennant - Laravel 11.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans https://laravel-news.com/api-versioning-in-laravel-11 Machine Learning Service - Free Amazon SageMaker - AWS...

  12. 389: Yo PHP Raps!

    Links from the show: Home | Lando I’m switching from Laravel to Rails - DEV Community x.com HTML Over The Wire | Hotwire Livewire | Laravel Livewire Just a moment... This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's...

  13. 388: PHPowered by the Sun

    Links from the show: John Congdon: "The universe has spoken... I should not write jav…" - php[architect][mastodon] Make for Web Developers - YouTube php[tek]TV - Streaming x.com Grazie: AI writing companion for people in tech This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for...

  14. 387: Good PHP VIBES

    Links from the show: Verbs x.com Discord This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Mailtrap.io This episode is sponsored by Mailtrap, an Email Delivery Platform that developers love. An email-sending solution with industry-best analytics, SMTP, and email API, SDKs for major programming languages,...

  15. 386: PHPever Dream

    Links from the show: https://medium.com/better-programming/how-i-used-rust-to-enhance-my-php-8c84218e69ed Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing - Redis Reddit - Dive into anything X (Formerly Twitter) Officially Allows Porn Under Updated Policy Updates for security issue affecting...

  16. 385: Early Worm

    Links from the show: The Future of Space | The Space Blog Linux as the new developer default at 37signals DHH discusses SQLite (and Stoicism) - YouTube This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Mailtrap.io This episode is sponsored by Mailtrap, an Email Delivery Platform that developers love. An...

  17. 384: Multi Level PHP

    Links from the show: Mailtrap: Email Delivery Platform Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models About Winamp - Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows. Laravel vs React…

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  18. 383: Theoretically Absolutely

    Links from the show: Mailtrap: Email Delivery Platform - https://l.rw.rw/phppodcast MySQL :: MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual :: 15.2.20 WITH (Common Table Expressions) - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/with.html https://builder.io - https://builder.io...

  19. 382: Hearing != Listening

    Links from the show: PHP Code Beautifier and Fixer | PHP Quality Assurance GitButler | Git Branching, Refined PHP[TEK] 2024 - PHP: rfc:raising_zero_to_power_of_negative_number PHP: rfc:support_object_type_in_bcmath PHP: rfc:new_without_parentheses Why PHP Usage Has Declined by 40% in Just Over 2...

  20. 381: Tek and Friends

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024: Pioneering the Future of Web Development in Chicago PHP: rfc:property-hooks PHP: rfc:deprecate-get-post-sessions PHP: rfc:release_cycle_update Let's talk about property hooks! - YouTube PHP: News Archive - 2024 this is a warning to anyone using php - YouTube...

  21. 380:PHPBeauties and the Beast

    Links from the show: Arctic region of Norway asks EU Commission for 26-hour day – POLITICO https://twitter.com/heytjmiller/status/1778106980395061340 https://anshildev.medium.com/php-obfuscation-7e85d8a05225 PHP sinks in Tiobe language popularity index | InfoWorld...

  22. 379: Compromising Pull Requests

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024 - Home Page So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024 - YouTube White House wants Moon to have its own time zone The XZ Backdoor: Everything You Need to Know | WIRED The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind | WIRED The level of sophistication of the XZ...

  23. 378: PHP At-Bat

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024 - Home Page Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Bring a Sparkle of AI To Your Laravel Apps - YouTube Tim Lytle - YouTube How to handle granular permissions | Authorization | Google for Developers https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1770173581772632517...

  24. 377: Solar Powered PHP

    Links from the show: Laravel Worldwide Meetup Figure Status Update - OpenAI Speech-to-Speech Reasoning - YouTube Getting Started with Laravel Reverb - YouTube This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we...

  25. 376:Cold Fries and a Warm Shake

    Links from the show: Xero Central Laravel Reverb Laravel 11 Now Available - The Laravel Blog PlanetScale forever Blog AI just officially took our jobs… I hate you Devin - YouTube [Syntax Error - Shirts ](https://syntaxerror.ai/) https://twitter.com/tjlytle/status/1768339010802286949 Codewars -...

  26. 375:Snowflake Developers

    Links from the show: 2024 php[tek] Call For Snakes PHP[TEK] 2024 - Home Page EasyPolls voting Ollama TJ Miller (@tjmiller) / Pinkary Release Managers for PHP 8.4 - Externals [ Verbs ](https://verbs.thunk.dev/) GitHub - glhd/bits This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for...

  27. 374: Sevi Land the Ticket

    Links from the show: [Feature]: Is devilbox inactive/dead? · Issue #1017 · cytopia/devilbox · GitHub Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn | TechRadar Ollama Ben Ramsey: "This whole job-search experience has left me quit…"…

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  28. 373: Lunch and Learn

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024 SensioLabs - Creator of Symfony - Here Are All the iPhone Changes Coming to EU Users by March 6 - MacRumors Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days - Open Web Advocacy iOS 17.4 Beta 1 Tidbits: EU App Store Updates, Cloud Gaming Apps, Podcast...

  29. 372: Raiders of the Arc

    Links from the show: Understanding Value Objects in PHP - Wendell Adriel GitHub - rectorphp/rector: Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code Arc from The Browser Company It's Really an Upgrade | php[architect] PHP[TEK] 2024 Why Laravel Could See a Huge Rise in Adoption in...

  30. 371:Herding Lando

    Links from the show: Unlocking the Power of Co-CEOs: Embracing Shared Leadership for Collective Success 2018 Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross: Freestyle Test Drive - YouTube Co-CEOs: Are Two Better than One? PHP[TEK] 2024 PHP: PHP Conferences around the world Arc from The Browser Company DMARC…

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  31. 370: Speaking Gifts

    Links from the show: Indify – Notion Widgets Vimium - Chrome Web Store How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC - YouTube This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we…

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  32. 369:The PHPrice Is Right

    Links from the show: FrankenPHP : The Modern PHP App Server, written in Go php[tek]TV Matthew Weier O'Phinney (@[email protected]) - PHP Community on Mastodon Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. PHP[TEK] 2024 PHPUgly...

  33. 368: Doing lines of PHP

    Links from the show: Amazon Business Prime Tech Employee Records Herself Getting Fired, Sparks Fierce Debate - YouTube Tech worker goes viral after posting her layoff on TikTok PHP[TEK] 2024 Reddit - Dive into anything Laracon 2024 Bitcoin ETF widely expected to get approval this week - YouTube...

  34. 367: Premature Engineering

    Links from the show: PHPUgly Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering | Articles | Davor Minchorov https://twitter.com/laravelbackpack/status/1743960676077301828 [2211.03622] Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? This episode of PHPUgly was...

  35. 366: Pinky Out Development

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024 This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we always wanted: a tool that's there when you need it, and gets out of your. Everything you need...

  36. 365: HaPHPy New Year

    Links from the show: TIOBE Index - TIOBE PHP[TEK] 2024 This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we built the monitoring tool we always wanted: a tool that's there when you need it, and gets out of your....

  37. 364: HaPHPy Holiday

    Links from the show: Octane + FrankenPHP - The Laravel Blog Laravel Octane - Laravel 10.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans https://twitter.com/i/grok This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built for Developers. Monitoring doesn't have to be so complicated. That's why we…

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  38. 363: Day Walkers

    Links from the show: https://twitter.com/johncongdon/status/1734757487260422236 I don't know - stitcher.io https://twitter.com/michaeldyrynda/status/1734756976884957398 GitHub Language Stats Vim for Normal People, by Jesse Leite Apple shutting down app makes iPhone customers' chat experience less...

  39. 362: Glue Guns and Ladders

    Links from the show: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102338 New "PECL" - Externals People Who Say PHP Is Insecure Are Uninformed | Prime Reacts - YouTube GitHub - php-youtubers/directory: Curated a list of PHP YouTubers. 📋 You don't need NoSQL (use MySQL) - YouTube JetBrains AI Launch Event -...

  40. 361: The Shutdown

    Links from the show: Symfony 7.0.0 released (Symfony Blog) https://twitter.com/danjharrin/status/1729895786064888188 Command Line Picasso | php[architect] PHP[TEK] 2024 PHP | endoflife.date PHP: Never - Manual…

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  41. 360: WeWork with PHP

    Links from the show: CanaryRelease https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict-11-2-23/index.html Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted - YouTube SafeMoon executives charged in US with fraud related to crypto token | Reuters WeWork files for bankruptcy in federal court | CNN...

  42. 359: Fullstack Failures

    Links from the show: SCALE 21x | SCALE 21x Community Corner: Interview With Eric Van Johnson | php[architect] https://laravel-news.com/tinkerwell-v4 Flamboyant Flamegraphs — Derick Rethans Ruby on Rails: The Documentary - YouTube Omegle MongoDB Laravel Integration Now Officially Supported |…

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  43. 358: A Better PHP API Platform

    Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2024 php[tek]TV Getting started with htmx - YouTube Getting Started With the Pest Testing Framework | php[architect] GitHub - seanmorris/php-wasm: PHP in Browser, powered by WebAssembly. Original Project by Oraoto, ES6 & Clang Upgrades by Sean Morris. Boo Ramsey...

  44. 357: Tom Offers Up His piHole

    Links from the show: PHP: rfc:bcrypt_cost_2023 - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bcrypt_cost_2023 Writerside - a new technical writing environment from JetBrains. - https://www.jetbrains.com/writerside/ Home | SCALE 21x - https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x Error Tracking & Application Monitoring…

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  45. 356: Laravel Spice

    Links from the show: https://twitter.com/AethridODauth/status/1711370052086214698 https://twitter.com/Beirutspring/status/1712394732674982037 https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/1712215149308739688?s=46&t=gHhVsX9mAy_ddxSgwAXGKw This episode of PHPUgly was sponsored by: Honeybadger.io Built…

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  46. 355: Exposing Ourselves

    Links from the show: Desktop & Web app – HTTPie https://twitter.com/LaraconAU/status/1710144563590074504 Dynamic Properties are deprecated - PHP 8.2 • PHP.Watch GitHub - rectorphp/rector: Instant Upgrades and Automated Refactoring of any PHP 5.3+ code Hacktoberfest 2023 This episode of PHPUgly…

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  47. 354: £ Cake

    Links from the show: php[architect] | The site for PHP professionals, Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences v0.dev by Vercel Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks Meet the Raspberry Pi 5! - News - SparkFun Electronics Let's Get Our OSS Ready For Hacktoberfest 2023 | php[architect]...

  48. 353:tron{tek]

    Links from the show: The Power of PHP - playlist by JetBrains | Spotify Laracon EU 2024 Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 💻🔪 Your browser is deprecated. Please upgrade. A new JIT engine for PHP-8.4/9 - Externals GitHub - dstogov/ir: Lightweight JIT Compilation Framework 38TB of…

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  49. 352: Buttery Buns

    Links from the show: Developers respond to Unity’s new pricing scheme - The Verge MGM ransomware attack shuts down Resorts systems in Vegas, across US Reddit - Dive into anything Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime PHP: rfc:bcrypt_cost_2023 Bun: The Next Big Thing in Javascript - DEV...

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The podcast your mother warned you about. The ramblings of a few overworked PHP Developers. Here, we talk about the highs and lows of running a small business and development shop, from the mundane day-to-day coding projects to the thrilling discoveries of new solutions. Not only that, but we also discuss the latest trends in the tech world and geek culture so you can stay up to date with the ever-evolving tech landscape. It's the perfect place to find out what's going on in the world of web development and other tech-related topics. Join us for an insightful and entertaining look into the world of coding and business.Hosted By Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, and Tom RideoutBecome a Patron!

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