The PHP Podcast

April 9, 2026 | Guest Hosts: Joe Ferguson & Sara Golemon



Guest Hosts

Joe Ferguson

Senior Developer at PHP Architect

Running for PHP 8.6 Release Manager (hands-on position, third attempt). Working on PHP infrastructure with Derek using Ansible and Proxmox. Fixed emoji Unicode support on people.php.net.

@joepferguson

Sara Golemon

PHP Core Developer

PHP Foundation board member. Former 7.x release manager. PHP Appalachia organizer. Moving out of the country soon. Deep expertise in Unicode, internals, and language design. Vocal advocate for balanced AI approaches.

@pollita@phpc.social

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Looking to hire PHP developers? Email support@phparch.com – Joe and the team are available for consulting, infrastructure work, Ansible playbooks, and code review.

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