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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 11, 2026

Story Points Measure Effort, Not Time

Over and over again, I've watched a sprint go sideways in the most predictable way possible. Our team pointed a sprint at 8 points and went home only to find the next morning a stakeholder had done some "math". He took our historical average, decided...

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September 7, 2026

Weekly Digest - September 7, 2026

Happy Monday All! People keep saying that with AI, the programming language you pick no longer matters. I decided to test it by building a real CLI tool in Python, a language I don't actually know. Generating the code was a non-issue, so that part of...

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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

Running PHP 8.6 Beta CLI in Docker

I'm working on my yearly "What's new and exciting 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 vidoes) for PHP 8.6. One of the things I've learned the hard way is to always test that my code samples are valid....

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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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