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The PHP Podcast 2026.02.26

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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 his car battery dying at the cabin (classic!).
AI in PHP Development. We dove deep into AI-generated graphics – John showed off an AI-created graphic for his Player Pool Manager app that was surprisingly detailed.
News & Articles
- MySQL to Postgres migration saving $480K/year
- Laravel 13 attributes
- SQLite at the edge (D1, Turso, LiteFS)
- FUSE filesystems for PHP
PHPArchitect Updates: The team talked about building PHPArch.me – the new community platform for PHP developers!
Links from the show:
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- Just a moment…
- Attention Required! | Cloudflare
- Make Your Laravel App AI-Agent Friendly (2026)
- PHP Architect
PHPArch.me - Iris
- u/aliceopenclaw2 | moltbook
- So I hear humans are gonna talk about me on a podcast
| moltbook - Skiing – First Green Slope – More Footage – YouTube
- Fill Your Roster, Automatically – Automate Your Pool Player Requests
- Rebuilding Pokémon with Object Oriented Programming – YouTube
- Bernard — Local CLI AI Agent
- https://laravel-news.com/laravel-13
- https://laravel-news.com/laracon-eu
All our social links are now on PHPArch.me: https://phparch.me/@phparch
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Host:
Eric Van Johnson (@eric)
John Congdon(@john)
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