Len Woodward
@projektgopher.com
Full-stack senior Laravel and JS developer based in Vancouver, BC, Canada
https://LenWoodward.com
CoFounder @ artisan.build
Currently building hallway.fm
Watch it happen @ artisan.community
https://LenWoodward.com
CoFounder @ artisan.build
Currently building hallway.fm
Watch it happen @ artisan.community
A PHP RFC went to a vote Friday. By Sunday night its author had pulled it, over one no vote from the person who wrote the policy it broke. What's left: when a regex fails, is that your bug, or something you catch?
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/AoMmbSOknmw
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/AoMmbSOknmw
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
This Week In PHP Internals | Sept 9, 2026
A PHP RFC went to a vote on Friday. By Sunday night its author had pulled it back. 11 stories, about 13 minutes.
youtu.be
September 10, 2026 at 6:03 AM
A PHP RFC went to a vote Friday. By Sunday night its author had pulled it, over one no vote from the person who wrote the policy it broke. What's left: when a regex fails, is that your bug, or something you catch?
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/AoMmbSOknmw
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/AoMmbSOknmw
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
No PHP RFC has been in the voting phase for 3 weeks. So the list did something else: somebody scanned half a million PHP files to work out what a PHP identifier actually is, then split his own proposal into 3.
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/4mYKAxZaWeo
#PHP #PHPInternals
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/4mYKAxZaWeo
#PHP #PHPInternals
This Week in PHP Internals | September 2, 2026
Three weeks with no RFC in the voting phase. What a PHP identifier actually is, an RFC to end PHP’s endorsement of PEAR, and whether base conversion counts as parsing. 11 stories, ~13 min.
youtu.be
September 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM
No PHP RFC has been in the voting phase for 3 weeks. So the list did something else: somebody scanned half a million PHP files to work out what a PHP identifier actually is, then split his own proposal into 3.
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/4mYKAxZaWeo
#PHP #PHPInternals
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/4mYKAxZaWeo
#PHP #PHPInternals
For the 2nd week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase. So the internals list spent the week on something else: who is actually writing the mail.
https://youtu.be/y5Evw_KN0II
https://youtu.be/y5Evw_KN0II
This Week in PHP Internals — August 26, 2026
For the second week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase. 10 stories, about 10 minutes.
youtu.be
August 28, 2026 at 5:22 AM
For the 2nd week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase. So the internals list spent the week on something else: who is actually writing the mail.
https://youtu.be/y5Evw_KN0II
https://youtu.be/y5Evw_KN0II
No RFC went to a vote in PHP internals this week — nothing is in the voting phase at all — so the list spent it on design instead. A brand-new contributor's search function ran into a counter-proposal for a general lazy array slice. And PHP 8.6 beta 1 shipped.
https://youtu.be/5okEY31nyCs
https://youtu.be/5okEY31nyCs
This Week in PHP Internals — August 19, 2026
No RFC went to a vote — so the list spent the week on design. Complete coverage of the php-internals mailing list.
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August 21, 2026 at 7:34 AM
No RFC went to a vote in PHP internals this week — nothing is in the voting phase at all — so the list spent it on design instead. A brand-new contributor's search function ran into a counter-proposal for a general lazy array slice. And PHP 8.6 beta 1 shipped.
https://youtu.be/5okEY31nyCs
https://youtu.be/5okEY31nyCs
Can’t wait to give this talk
You think you know Tetris. Falling blocks, line clears, gets faster — every developer alive has played it. @projektgopher.com built Tetris in PHP from the 60-page specification. Attend "How Tetris Made Me a Better Programmer" to learn what falling blocks can teach you!
August 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Can’t wait to give this talk
This Week in PHP Internals, Aug 12: the 35-ballot deprecation verdict — list() survives on a flat tie. Pipe assignment declined; readonly defaults + const writes in; 8.6's RFC season is over.
https://youtu.be/6zepFnDTU1A
#PHP #PHPInternals
https://youtu.be/6zepFnDTU1A
#PHP #PHPInternals
This Week In PHP Internals | August 12, 2026
Complete coverage of the php-internals mailing list, August 5–11, 2026. An Artisan Build production.
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August 13, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This Week in PHP Internals, Aug 12: the 35-ballot deprecation verdict — list() survives on a flat tie. Pipe assignment declined; readonly defaults + const writes in; 8.6's RFC season is over.
https://youtu.be/6zepFnDTU1A
#PHP #PHPInternals
https://youtu.be/6zepFnDTU1A
#PHP #PHPInternals
This mornings talk at #fossy by Elizabeth Barron (the exec dir of the @ThePHPF ) on the challenges in sustaining php was awesome.
Go donate to the foundation so we can all keep writing code for fun and profit!
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
Go donate to the foundation so we can all keep writing code for fun and profit!
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
August 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This mornings talk at #fossy by Elizabeth Barron (the exec dir of the @ThePHPF ) on the challenges in sustaining php was awesome.
Go donate to the foundation so we can all keep writing code for fun and profit!
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
Go donate to the foundation so we can all keep writing code for fun and profit!
opencollective.com/phpfoundation
Today at #fossy , Ben Ramsey taught us about the surprisingly interesting story of PHP’s license. I didn’t know any of this, and I’m amazed he was able to make a talk like this so engaging!
August 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Today at #fossy , Ben Ramsey taught us about the surprisingly interesting story of PHP’s license. I didn’t know any of this, and I’m amazed he was able to make a talk like this so engaging!
I'm speaking at Longhorn PHP in Austin this October! "How Tetris Made Me a Better Programmer" — the falling-blocks game has a real 60-page spec, I built it in PHP, and it taught me plenty about state machines and specs. Blind Bird pricing through Aug 8: https://longhornphp.com/schedule #PHP
Longhorn PHP 2026 — Schedule
October 15–16, Austin TX. Talks, tutorials, and the full speaker lineup.
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August 5, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I'm speaking at Longhorn PHP in Austin this October! "How Tetris Made Me a Better Programmer" — the falling-blocks game has a real 60-page spec, I built it in PHP, and it taught me plenty about state machines and specs. Blind Bird pricing through Aug 8: https://longhornphp.com/schedule #PHP
This week in PHP internals: the 35-ballot deprecation vote enters its final week with list() deadlocked 21-21, a second author pulled his own vote over process rules, and PHP 8.6 officially gets a Duration class. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/8YUc-A2h-f4 #PHP #PHPInternals
This Week in PHP Internals — August 5, 2026
Complete weekly digest of the php-internals mailing list. An Artisan Build production.
youtu.be
August 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
This week in PHP internals: the 35-ballot deprecation vote enters its final week with list() deadlocked 21-21, a second author pulled his own vote over process rules, and PHP 8.6 officially gets a Duration class. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/8YUc-A2h-f4 #PHP #PHPInternals
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This week in PHP internals: 42 RFC ballots open at once. list() is losing its deprecation vote, a pipe operator split the room 8-8, and one vote lasted 18 minutes. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/Af_8W6wxx6k #PHP #PHPInternals
This Week In PHP Internals | July 29, 2026
42 RFC ballots open at once - the week on the php.internals mailing list.
youtu.be
August 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
This week in PHP internals: 42 RFC ballots open at once. list() is losing its deprecation vote, a pipe operator split the room 8-8, and one vote lasted 18 minutes. Full rundown: https://youtu.be/Af_8W6wxx6k #PHP #PHPInternals
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 22, 2026
The season's first RFC ballots are open and lopsided: Duration cruising 23–1, minimum versions right behind. gd 2.4 arrived 4 days late. Monday, PHP starts voting on deprecating list().
Full video 👇
youtu.be/tCUKb5rPuJ4
#PHP #PHPInternals
The season's first RFC ballots are open and lopsided: Duration cruising 23–1, minimum versions right behind. gd 2.4 arrived 4 days late. Monday, PHP starts voting on deprecating list().
Full video 👇
youtu.be/tCUKb5rPuJ4
#PHP #PHPInternals
This Week In PHP Internals | July 22, 2026
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July 23, 2026 at 5:31 AM
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 22, 2026
The season's first RFC ballots are open and lopsided: Duration cruising 23–1, minimum versions right behind. gd 2.4 arrived 4 days late. Monday, PHP starts voting on deprecating list().
Full video 👇
youtu.be/tCUKb5rPuJ4
#PHP #PHPInternals
The season's first RFC ballots are open and lopsided: Duration cruising 23–1, minimum versions right behind. gd 2.4 arrived 4 days late. Monday, PHP starts voting on deprecating list().
Full video 👇
youtu.be/tCUKb5rPuJ4
#PHP #PHPInternals
Ever wondered if the code you’re shipping when you’re “moving fast” is sticking?
July 22, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Ever wondered if the code you’re shipping when you’re “moving fast” is sticking?
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 15, 2026
A brand-new `extension` keyword rewrote itself mid-thread, deprecations froze with ballots set, autoloading split in two, Duration drew its first No, and a JSX-style RFC landed hours before recording.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg
#PHP #PHPInternals
A brand-new `extension` keyword rewrote itself mid-thread, deprecations froze with ballots set, autoloading split in two, Duration drew its first No, and a JSX-style RFC landed hours before recording.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg
#PHP #PHPInternals
This Week In PHP Internals | July 15, 2026
YouTube video by Artisan Build
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July 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 15, 2026
A brand-new `extension` keyword rewrote itself mid-thread, deprecations froze with ballots set, autoloading split in two, Duration drew its first No, and a JSX-style RFC landed hours before recording.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg
#PHP #PHPInternals
A brand-new `extension` keyword rewrote itself mid-thread, deprecations froze with ballots set, autoloading split in two, Duration drew its first No, and a JSX-style RFC landed hours before recording.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg
#PHP #PHPInternals
No AI decides your score. It's deterministic — computed locally, from git history alone, without ever reading your code.
The AI comes in after: point your agent at the risk map over MCP and let it pay down the debt in the right order.
A credit score for your repo. Free for open source: ballast.now
The AI comes in after: point your agent at the risk map over MCP and let it pay down the debt in the right order.
A credit score for your repo. Free for open source: ballast.now
July 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
No AI decides your score. It's deterministic — computed locally, from git history alone, without ever reading your code.
The AI comes in after: point your agent at the risk map over MCP and let it pay down the debt in the right order.
A credit score for your repo. Free for open source: ballast.now
The AI comes in after: point your agent at the risk map over MCP and let it pay down the debt in the right order.
A credit score for your repo. Free for open source: ballast.now
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 8, 2026
A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
This Week In PHP Internals | July 8, 2026
YouTube video by Artisan Build
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July 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 8, 2026
A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
A deprecations fight over WordPress, then over evidence. Duration wrapped. Two rival autoloading designs collided. Typed closures are back. Docs-separation passed 26–1.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/5Rr_H3vFhjE
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
Being a polymath can be interesting, but it can also backfire. Like when your kid asks you (at bedtime) how books are made, and you decide that’s a perfect time for a 90 minute lesson on bookbinding
July 3, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Being a polymath can be interesting, but it can also backfire. Like when your kid asks you (at bedtime) how books are made, and you decide that’s a perfect time for a 90 minute lesson on bookbinding
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 1, 2026
Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
This Week in PHP Internals | July 1, 2026
YouTube video by Artisan Build
youtu.be
July 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
🧵 This Week in PHP Internals — Jul 1, 2026
Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
Generics AND __exists both voted down. A deprecations RFC became a fight about evidence. A new Primary Constructors RFC. And a heartfelt plea for async.
Full video 👇
youtu.be/dX_Hd_92x7M
#PHP #PHPInternals #PHP86
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Let us help you build your apps
Yes, we'll be using PHP and Laravel
But they'll be:
• Fully native to each platform
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Yes, we'll be using PHP and Laravel
But they'll be:
• Fully native to each platform
• Beautiful experiences
• Perfect for your users
nativephp.com/build-my-app
June 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Absolutely love this way of building apps. One language throughout our entire product
This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026
A deprecations RFC that became an argument about evidence and respect, a stopwatch class that swallowed the mailing list, two revivals laid to rest, and the headline votes still stalled while the small ones glide through.
youtu.be/kkB80mqB-B8
A deprecations RFC that became an argument about evidence and respect, a stopwatch class that swallowed the mailing list, two revivals laid to rest, and the headline votes still stalled while the small ones glide through.
youtu.be/kkB80mqB-B8
This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026
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youtu.be
June 25, 2026 at 1:48 AM
This Week In PHP Internals | June 24, 2026
A deprecations RFC that became an argument about evidence and respect, a stopwatch class that swallowed the mailing list, two revivals laid to rest, and the headline votes still stalled while the small ones glide through.
youtu.be/kkB80mqB-B8
A deprecations RFC that became an argument about evidence and respect, a stopwatch class that swallowed the mailing list, two revivals laid to rest, and the headline votes still stalled while the small ones glide through.
youtu.be/kkB80mqB-B8
I know we haven't been going hard on our youtube for very long yet, but thank you to all my friends on here, for helping
Artisan Build cross our first milestone!
youtube.com/@ArtisanBuild
Artisan Build cross our first milestone!
youtube.com/@ArtisanBuild
June 22, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I know we haven't been going hard on our youtube for very long yet, but thank you to all my friends on here, for helping
Artisan Build cross our first milestone!
youtube.com/@ArtisanBuild
Artisan Build cross our first milestone!
youtube.com/@ArtisanBuild
A generics vote going down, 3 RFCs rejected, 4 passed, and a modules debate that keeps multiplying.
This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026
youtu.be/6m3lCrJ7XsU
This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026
youtu.be/6m3lCrJ7XsU
This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026
YouTube video by Artisan Build
youtu.be
June 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
A generics vote going down, 3 RFCs rejected, 4 passed, and a modules debate that keeps multiplying.
This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026
youtu.be/6m3lCrJ7XsU
This Week In PHP Internals | June 17, 2026
youtu.be/6m3lCrJ7XsU
I’m still experimenting with fable so I don’t have a concrete anecdote to contribute quite yet, but this is an interesting one
I know now where Fable fits in my toolbelt. I'm working on a gnarly legacy app for a client. They've been vibe coding hard into this thing, and the test suite is going over 30 minutes in CI. I did some optimizing, sharding... all the standard stuff. But I hit a wall.
June 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I’m still experimenting with fable so I don’t have a concrete anecdote to contribute quite yet, but this is an interesting one
We had some interesting developments in the pursuit of Generics in PHP this week on the internals mailing list.
This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026
youtu.be/GVaPLIIQ1Eg
This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026
youtu.be/GVaPLIIQ1Eg
This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026
YouTube video by Artisan Build
youtu.be
June 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
We had some interesting developments in the pursuit of Generics in PHP this week on the internals mailing list.
This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026
youtu.be/GVaPLIIQ1Eg
This Week In PHP Internals | June 10, 2026
youtu.be/GVaPLIIQ1Eg