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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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September 4, 2026

The Language Stopped Mattering. The Ecosystem Didn't.

I like to call myself a PHP developer, but I keep hearing the same claim over and over that with agentic development. It's that the underlying programming language doesn't "matter" anymore. I prompt the LLM and the LLM writes some code that should match...

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August 31, 2026

Weekly Digest - August 31, 2026

Happy Monday All! I once deployed in a hurry, skipped a migration step I "knew" by heart, and handed myself a 20-minute production outage. That's the whole problem with keeping a process in your head: it feels productive right up until you're tired or...

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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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