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 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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October 26, 2026

Weekly Digest - October 26, 2026

Happy Monday All! Three pieces this week: one about Laravel quietly running hundreds of queries, one about plush elephants, and one about the workflow I use to keep publishing. A loop that reads $episode->podcast looks fine with 20...

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October 23, 2026

Your CLAUDE.md Is Too Long: What to Cut and Where It Goes

We're deep into the "AI-assisted" fad/lifestyle now, and one pattern I heard early on hasn't paid off as much as I'd like: every time Claude does something "wrong," tell Claude to add a correction to CLAUDE.md. CLAUDE.md is the instruction file Claude...

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October 19, 2026

Weekly Digest - October 19, 2026

Happy Monday All! Four pieces this week, and two of them involve AI agents: one about getting more out of Claude Code's limits and one about agents spending money for you. Claude Code's five-hour window starts with your first message, so if I start...

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