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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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June 26, 2026

Tabs vs. Spaces: Who Cares

I once had a pull request sit open for three days. Not because the logic was wrong, not because the tests were failing, but because two developers could not stop arguing about whether I should be using tabs or spaces for indentation. My actual code...

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June 19, 2026

Stop Passing File Paths as Strings: A Quick Introduction to SplFileInfo

A while back, I was building a small file processing script. It took an upload directory, looped through the files, and did different things depending on the file type. It's most likely something you've done yourself. The function signature looked like...

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June 15, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 15, 2026

Three posts this week about PHP's SPL, git workflows, and podcasting. PHP has shipped SplQueue, SplStack, SplMinHeap, and friends since version 5.1, and most of us have been writing the same custom implementations anyway. This post is the one I wish...

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June 12, 2026

Stop Reinventing Data Structures: PHP's SPL Already Has What You Need

A few years ago, I needed a queue. Nothing fancy, just a list of tasks that my script would process one at a time in the order they came in. First in, first out. Classic queue behavior, so I knew I was going in the right direction. So I built one from...

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June 8, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 8, 2026

Two posts this week. One for the podcasters, one for the PHP developers (and if you're both, it's your lucky week). If your episodes keep falling apart, I'd bet it's not a motivation problem. It's that every guest booking starts from scratch with no...

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