Re: [PHP-DEV] [META] Weekly Internals Summary Videos

[email protected] (fennic log) Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:53:47 +0100
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Hi Len,

First off, Great work, I appreciate your effort to glean more
visibility into the goings on in the internals of PHP and you have a nice
presentation style for your videos and a soothing voice.

Secondly, anything you read from me, simply refer to as [fennic](
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox).


On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 at 01:27, Rob Landers <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026, at 23:43, Len Woodward wrote:
>
> Hi contributors,
>
> For the last 6 weeks or so, in an effort to make the PHP internals more
> accessible and visible to a wider audience, I've been summarizing the
> week's discussions into a ~10-15 minute weekly video, then breaking that
> out into written content where it's supported, and threaded content for
> other micro-blogging platforms.
>
> *I have two things to discuss:*
>
> 1. I'm trying to ensure that contributors are properly
> tagged/attributed/[at]mentioned on all these platforms, but I just don't
> have a well built-out list of all of your social handles. I've collected
> some of these from the internals Discord and through web searches, but it=
's
> not enough. To collect these handles for platforms like LinkedIn, Reddit,
> Twitter, Bsky, Threads, Mastodon, etc, would it make more sense for you a=
ll
> to *reply in this thread with all of your handles*, or should I create a
> simple *Google Form* and link *that* instead?
>
> 2. To maintain accuracy, I want to include publishing the video link here
> to the internals list as part of my publishing workflow each week. I hope
> this provides an easy path for anyone who feels I've misunderstood or
> misrepresented their messages to correct me, allowing me to include a
> 'corrections and errata' segment in the videos. If we find that we're
> having to do multiple corections each week, then I'll probably post the
> first draft to the list and allow comments and corrections during an ~8hr
> window *before* filming.
>
> ---
>
> The data cutoff is weekly at 10pm Vancouver time (UTC-7) each Tuesday
> evening. First draft of the script is usually ready by 11:30 PM, and
> filming generally starts at 9:30am the subsequent Wednesday morning.
> Publishing is usually finished around ~5pm that same Wednesday. I'm worki=
ng
> hard to speed this up, but it's an iterative process.
>
> I'm going to include the link to last week's video here so that we can
> address any necessary corrections, and I'll also a list of the platforms
> where I posted it. If anyone has ideas for other platforms where this
> visibility work might be appreciated, I'd love to know them. I've also be=
en
> submitting to laravel-news, and the phpweekly newsletter.
>
> youtube     https://youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg
> r/php
> https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1uxnmsp/this_week_in_php_internals_=
july_15_2026/
> r/symfony
> https://www.reddit.com/r/symfony/comments/1uxnuq0/this_week_in_php_intern=
als_july_15_2026/
> r/laravel
> https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1uxntqb/this_week_in_php_intern=
als_july_15_2026/
> dev.to
> https://dev.to/projektgopher/this-week-in-php-internals-july-15-2026-4nhb
> mastodon    https://phpc.social/@ProjektGopher/116926982520569384
> threads     https://www.threads.com/@projektgopher/post/Da1bNf_lL-r
> bsky        https://bsky.app/profile/projektgopher.com/post/3mqq27xvmac2s
> twitter     https://x.com/ProjektGopher/status/2077559023998816461
> linkedin
> https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7483325450434400256/
>
> Thanks everyone for your help and support (especially on Discord), and I'=
m
> eager to keep this thing going.
>
> Cheers,
> Len
>
>
> You are going to include this email discussion in your video? right? :)
>
> =E2=80=94 Rob
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Len,=C2=A0<br><br>First off, Great work, I appreciate y=
our effort to glean more visibility=C2=A0into the goings on in the internal=
s of PHP and you have a nice presentation style for your videos and a sooth=
ing voice.=C2=A0<br><br>Secondly, anything you read from me, simply refer t=
o as [fennic](<a href=3D"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox">https://=
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox</a>).=C2=A0<br><br></div><br><div class=3D=
"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">O=
n Tue, 21 Jul 2026 at 01:27, Rob Landers &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rob@getswytc=
h.com">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail=
_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204=
,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On M=
on, Jul 20, 2026, at 23:43, Len Woodward wrote:</div><blockquote type=3D"ci=
te" id=3D"m_7700068626236454036qt"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hi contributors,</=
div><div><br></div><div>For the last 6 weeks or so, in an effort to make th=
e PHP internals more accessible and visible to a wider audience, I&#39;ve b=
een summarizing the week&#39;s discussions into a ~10-15 minute weekly vide=
o, then breaking that out into written content where it&#39;s supported, an=
d threaded content for other micro-blogging platforms.</div><div><br></div>=
<div><b>I have two things to discuss:</b></div><div><br></div><div>1. I&#39=
;m trying to ensure that contributors are properly tagged/attributed/[at]me=
ntioned on all these platforms, but I just don&#39;t have a well built-out =
list of all of your social handles. I&#39;ve collected some of these from t=
he internals Discord and through web searches, but it&#39;s not enough. To =
collect these handles for platforms like LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, Bsky, T=
hreads, Mastodon, etc, would it make more sense for you all to <b>reply in =
this thread with all of your handles</b>, or should I create a simple <b>Go=
ogle Form</b> and link <i>that</i> instead?</div><div><br></div><div><div>2=
. To maintain accuracy, I want to include publishing the video link here to=
 the internals list as part of my publishing workflow each week. I hope thi=
s provides an easy path for anyone who feels I&#39;ve misunderstood or misr=
epresented their messages to correct me, allowing me to include a &#39;corr=
ections and errata&#39; segment in the videos. If we find that we&#39;re ha=
ving to do multiple corections each week, then I&#39;ll probably post the f=
irst draft to the list and allow comments and corrections during an ~8hr wi=
ndow <b>before</b> filming.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div></div><div><d=
iv><br></div><div>The data cutoff is weekly at 10pm Vancouver time (UTC-7) =
each Tuesday evening. First draft of the script is usually ready by 11:30 P=
M, and filming generally starts at 9:30am the subsequent Wednesday morning.=
 Publishing is usually finished around ~5pm that same Wednesday. I&#39;m wo=
rking hard to speed this up, but it&#39;s an iterative process.</div><div><=
br></div><div>I&#39;m going to include the link to last week&#39;s video he=
re so that we can address any necessary corrections, and I&#39;ll also a li=
st of the platforms where I posted it. If anyone has ideas for other platfo=
rms where this visibility work might be appreciated, I&#39;d love to know t=
hem. I&#39;ve also been submitting to laravel-news, and the phpweekly newsl=
etter.</div><div><br></div><div>youtube =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"https://yo=
utu.be/cGNa33qGqEg" target=3D"_blank">https://youtu.be/cGNa33qGqEg</a></div=
><div>r/php =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 <a href=3D"https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/co=
mments/1uxnmsp/this_week_in_php_internals_july_15_2026/" target=3D"_blank">=
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1uxnmsp/this_week_in_php_internals_ju=
ly_15_2026/</a></div><div>r/symfony =C2=A0 <a href=3D"https://www.reddit.co=
m/r/symfony/comments/1uxnuq0/this_week_in_php_internals_july_15_2026/" targ=
et=3D"_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/symfony/comments/1uxnuq0/this_week_i=
n_php_internals_july_15_2026/</a></div><div>r/laravel =C2=A0 <a href=3D"htt=
ps://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1uxntqb/this_week_in_php_internals_j=
uly_15_2026/" target=3D"_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1=
uxntqb/this_week_in_php_internals_july_15_2026/</a></div><div><a href=3D"ht=
tp://dev.to" target=3D"_blank">dev.to</a> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0<a href=3D"ht=
tps://dev.to/projektgopher/this-week-in-php-internals-july-15-2026-4nhb" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">https://dev.to/projektgopher/this-week-in-php-internals-jul=
y-15-2026-4nhb</a></div><div>mastodon =C2=A0 =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://phpc.=
social/@ProjektGopher/116926982520569384" target=3D"_blank">https://phpc.so=
cial/@ProjektGopher/116926982520569384</a></div><div>threads =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
<a href=3D"https://www.threads.com/@projektgopher/post/Da1bNf_lL-r" target=
=3D"_blank">https://www.threads.com/@projektgopher/post/Da1bNf_lL-r</a></di=
v><div>bsky =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://bsky.app/profile/=
projektgopher.com/post/3mqq27xvmac2s" target=3D"_blank">https://bsky.app/pr=
ofile/projektgopher.com/post/3mqq27xvmac2s</a></div><div>twitter =C2=A0 =C2=
=A0 <a href=3D"https://x.com/ProjektGopher/status/2077559023998816461" targ=
et=3D"_blank">https://x.com/ProjektGopher/status/2077559023998816461</a></d=
iv><div>linkedin =C2=A0 =C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/upda=
te/urn:li:share:7483325450434400256/" target=3D"_blank">https://www.linkedi=
n.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7483325450434400256/</a></div><div><br></div=
><div>Thanks everyone for your help and support (especially on Discord), an=
d I&#39;m eager to keep this thing going.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<=
/div><div>Len</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are goi=
ng to include this email discussion in your video? right? :)</div><div><br>=
</div><div id=3D"m_7700068626236454036sig105177672">=E2=80=94 Rob</div></di=
v></blockquote></div>

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