Monthly commentary podcast devoted to PHP serverless.
Hosted by Bob Bloom.
Hosted by Bob Bloom.
March 10, 2026
(13:30)
Anthropic decided that they had had enough of me for the week, and cut me off.Instead of availing myself of their entreaties to buy pay-as-you-go credits, I decided to take a break from my new custom application, for my PHP Serverless News podcas...
January 01, 2026
(14:55)
Researching general podcasting, and the state of PHP podcasting, was a new, and eye-opening experience. My podcasts impart more inherent value to my potential Umbrella Sponsors than I assumed....
December 01, 2025
(15:21)
I am bullish on PHP. On its current state. On its long term success. There are substantive reasons underlying my bullishness. One reason is the four year old PHP Foundation, which is successfully fulfilling its mission to provide financial support an...
November 01, 2025
(15:20)
This is my third of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about Go's first-party net-http package, Go Modules, and Go's compilation....
October 15, 2025
(14:38)
This is my second of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. FrankenPHP relies on goroutines, an essential feature of Go. This episode is about goroutines....
October 01, 2025
(21:21)
This is first of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about my resistance, and resentment, having to delve into The Low-Level Stuff. And, about ChatGPT power...
September 01, 2025
(11:14)
Seeing a video of an integrated AI code generation and deployment platform, triggered a panic attack that AI did indeed make my PHP Serverless Project obsolete. I had examined this last month, in my Update podcast this very question, and my conclusio...
August 01, 2025
(21:00)
Getting down to bedrock with the question: "what is a process?". An important ancillary question arises: "what is a thread?"....
July 01, 2025
(26:50)
Nova's use of Fortify did not play nicely with my custom Laravel authentication guard. My regularly scheduled life was held in abeyance for a couple of weeks while I sorted this out, refreshed my apps, and moved all my apps back to Forge from Cloudwa...
June 01, 2025
(17:06)
I take a look at the min-trend of exploring PHP's low level roots, which are based on the language PHP is written in: C....
May 01, 2025
(10:03)
I have a rather unique viewpoint of serverless in general, and of PHP serverless in particular. A viewpoint that I express in my podcasts, and in my PHP Serverless Project. I have not yet explicitly expressed this viewpoint in one concise podcast, so...
November 01, 2024
(21:37)
I am thrilled, and frankly, somewhat relieved, that there is progress with my PHP Serverless Project sponsorship. This podcast show is part of this "umbrella" sponsorship. Also, my journey into PHP application servers has brought me to a classic Unix...
October 01, 2024
(27:39)
Lamenting the state of the content creation industry, when re-visiting PHP-FPM materials. Causing me to conclude that the materials I seek, I will have to create myself. And, finding myself worried that Laravel's new venture funding might affect its...
September 01, 2024
(16:13)
A key aspect of serverless platforms is it variable pricing. Also, coming to the realization that my technical understanding of PHP application servers has hit a brick wall. To overcome, I need to do something different....
June 01, 2024
(39:38)
Let's take a break from my journey into PHP application servers, to talk about the PHP serverless efforts that I am about to, finally, seek sponsorship for....
