This episode hearkens back to the early days of Over Engineered. We had a real technical problem and tried to come up with a real (over engineered) solution.

Pretty happy with where @bogdankharchenko.com, @skylerkatz.com, and I landed!

Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz Sometimes you have files or other large chunks of data that you need to...

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🎙️ Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz

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Got to recap the Kilopixel experience with my buds @cmorrell.com and @joe.codes!

Kilopixel Retro w/ Ben Holmen + Joe Tannenbaum At the beginning of August, after six years of working on it on-and-off,...

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🎙️ Kilopixel Retro w/ Ben Holmen + Joe Tannenbaum

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If you watched @nunomaduro.com’s Pest 4 reveal and were like, “what is this magic?!” this episode is for you. We spent nearly 2 hours digging into browser testing in pest + some Laracon catch up!

(Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro Up until now, browser testing in Laravel has felt… bad. Dusk was a huge...

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🎙️ (Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro

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If you are considering starting a meetup somewhere, do it. Even if it doesn't work out, it'll be worth it.

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I'm so grateful for the community that's grown around PHP× in general and PHP×Philly specifically.

So I was really excited to find some time to chat with @alexhillman.com about the 20 years he's spent tending the Indy Hall community, and see if there are any lessons he's learned that can translate…

Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman Alex Hillman has been thinking about and actively supporting communities...

Episode 30 of Over Engineered is out!

🎙️ Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman

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OK, admittedly this is a long one… anyone headed on a 2½-hour road trip this week? 😅

Anyway, it was a blast to talk with @simonhamp.me about NativePHP. I've been following along, but not very closely. Got a chance to get way into the weeds.

Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp Simon Hamp and Marcel Pociot have been working on NativePHP for a number...

Episode 29 of Over Engineered is out!

🎙️ Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp

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The next era of Larabelles w/ Zuzana Kunckova Zuzana Kunckova started Larabelles five years ago, and over that time it...

Episode 28 of Over Engineered is out!

🎙️ The next era of Larabelles w/ Zuzana Kunckova

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PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™ What happens when you get a bunch of Laravel podcasters + a bunch of...

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🎙️ PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™

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Running Small Teams w/ Dan Matthews & John Rudolph Drexler | Over Engineered | Episode 27 There's lots of advice out there for running software teams, but much of it comes from large organizations with dozens or hundreds of developers. Smaller teams have different needs. On today's episode...

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🎙️ Running Small Teams w/ Dan Matthews & John Rudolph Drexler

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It was really great to get to chat with @shawnmc.cool about event sourcing. We went almost two hours and I could have happily gone two more :)

Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool | Over Engineered | Episode 26

Episode 26 of Over Engineered is out!

➡️ Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool

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