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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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July 6, 2026

Weekly Digest - July 6, 2026

Three things this week: a Laravel utility worth knowing, a workflow for parallel AI agents, and a surprisingly practical trick for fighting creative resistance. Email-based onboarding breaks down when users don't have email addresses: field workers,...

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July 3, 2026

Generating Secure Initial Passwords in Laravel with Str::password()

A client came to me with an interesting constraint. They were building an app where some users didn't have email addresses. That's not unusual in certain industries where you're onboarding workers who might share a company device or just don't have a...

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June 29, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 29, 2026

Three things from this week: creator systems, PHP development practices, and a coding style debate that refuses to die. If you create content consistently, a single bad week can quietly become a two-month gap. The post covers why "I'll record two next...

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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 22, 2026

Weekly Digest - June 22, 2026

Summer is finally here! I wrote a LinkedIn post about ORMs and got some pushback. The most common objection was that if you skip Eloquent and you're opening yourself up to SQL injection. That's not true. The safety comes from prepared statements, not...

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