Scott Keck-Warren

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Scott Keck-Warren is the founder of UnleashedPodcasts.com, the host of the Community Corner Podcast, and the creator of educational content for web application developers on the PHP Architect YouTube Channel. If he’s not writing code, he’s playing with his family, camping, or building Legos.

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Recent Posts

November 9, 2026

Weekly Digest - November 9, 2026

Happy Monday All! Three pieces this week: a PHP 8.6 feature that cuts down on closures, a legacy app's move from CakePHP 2 to 5, and how to take a podcast break and still come back. PHP 8.6 adds ? and ... placeholders that...

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November 6, 2026

Partial Function Application in PHP 8.6: Pre-Fill Arguments Without Closures

PHP 8.6 is coming this month, and we'll spend the month highlighting some of its more interesting features. To start, we'll discuss Partial Function Application (PFA) and how it, combined with the pipe operator, can clean up our code. We can write...

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November 2, 2026

Weekly Digest - November 2, 2026

Happy Monday All! Two pieces this week: one about turning a status column into a real state machine, and one about getting your podcast through December without losing your place. Every status column is a state machine...

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October 30, 2026

PHP json_validate(): Stop Decoding JSON Just to Check If It's Valid

I was reviewing some PHP code generated by an LLM the other day and ran into this check that validates JSON from a webhook before queuing it: What jumps out to me is that we're running json_decode(), which builds a metric ton of...

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