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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
August 28, 2026
Your Memory Is Not a System
A few years back I pushed a release to production and broke the whole site for about twenty minutes. The code was fine, and the tests passed. The problem was that our deploy had a specific order to it, and some of that process only lived inside my head....
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August 24, 2026
Weekly Digest - August 24, 2026
Happy Monday All! On August 17th GitHub went down for almost eight hours and took a ton of services out with it. The root cause was that the load balancers saturated, and Copilot's retry loops made it worse, pushing requests from around 8,000 a second...
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August 21, 2026
Your Side Project Doesn't Need to Be Perfect to Ship
When I started building Unleashed Podcasts, I hardcoded a bunch of stuff that had no business being hardcoded. Values like XP for publishing an episode, streak rules, and the list of episode statuses lived in a file instead of a settings table anyone...
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August 19, 2026
GitHub Goes Down for 8 Hours, and Your Whole Team Stoped. Here's My Fix.
Like most of you, on August 17th I sat down to review the code that my team had pushed to GitHub. I opened GitHub in a browser to see the Unicorn letting me know there was a problem. Occasionally, we could get it to work for a page or two before we...
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August 17, 2026
Weekly Digest - August 17, 2026
Three posts this week: a way to make an AI agent fix its own duplicated code, a deep look at how PHP's loose comparisons can hand attackers a login, and the email templates I use to book podcast guests. I'm also going to be speaking at GPUG next...
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