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

October 2, 2026

Running PHP 8.6 Beta CLI in Docker

I'm working on my yearly "What's new and exciting in PHP 8.x" video (if you're interested, see my PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2, PHP 8.3, PHP 8.4, PHP 8.5 videos) for PHP 8.6. One of the things I've learned the hard way is to always test that my code samples are...

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September 28, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 28, 2026

Happy Monday All! Two of this week's three pieces were about new PHP syntax, and the pipe operator shows up in both, so consider this my unofficial pipe week. I wrote up the |> operator from PHP 8.5, which passes the value on its left...

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September 25, 2026

The PHP 8.5 Pipe Operator: Function Chains That Read Top to Bottom

There's a good chance that if you've been working with PHP for more than a hot minute, you've run into code that looks like the following: It works, but we're one keystroke away from a typo that silently breaks the whole stack: $reslt....

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September 21, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 21, 2026

Happy Monday All! Two of this week's pieces landed on the same theme without me planning it: good tooling ideas travel between languages. Pull requests sit because nobody owns them. Tag four reviewers and you get diffusion of responsibility, where...

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