By the campfire

In the last of the three sessions at PHPBenelux, I sat down with Cal and Oleksii to talk about the community, contributing, PHPStorm and the celebrations for 25 years of PHP.

The second of three episodes recorded at PHPBenelux 2020. This time with Joop Lammerts, Thomas Berends and Chris Riley speaking about contributing to PHP, what makes a good conference and building your own framework. And more!

I visited PHPBenelux and sat down for three seperate recording sessions. In this first session I talk to Kat, Boas and Martijn about conferences, manager-less companies, tribes, pull requests, mistakes, games and more.

At WeCamp2019 I sat down around an actual campfire with some of the people on the island to talk about WeCamp, learning, communication, playing instruments, baby shark, connecting things and more. At some point marriage is even being compared to WeCamp. Curious? Have a listen!

It was a Friday afternoon when Mike and I sat down to have a conversation. It was the first day of rain, heavy rain even, after a long period of warm or even hot weather. We talked about PHP, the Ingewikkeld company, about how listening to audiobooks help read, about D&D and more.

The first regular episode of this podcast with not one but two guests. Jeroen de Jong and Jelrik van Hal have both gone through the process of switching careers, and that's one of the things we talk about. We also discuss the Dutch Black Pete tradition, talk about improving ourselves and picking up whatever work that needs to be done. Some of the things discussed: The Braintoss app and The Obstacle Is The Way book.

Dutch PHP Conference is the PHP conference for The Netherlands. In the uncon track, a bunch of the DPC speakers and attendees sat down for a nice conversation. Uncon co-host Ross Tuck then decided to mix things up a bit by switching those were sitting at a microphone, for added fun (and valuable information).

How do you handle money? Taxes? Or legacy code? I sat down with Juliette Reinders Folmer to talk and have a good dinner. The result of that is a 2,5 hour conversation about in which we talk about those subjects, but also about regular expressions, WordPress, standards and much, much more.

I travelled to Diemen where I was welcomed by Rafael, his wife Tiscilla and their dog Bella. After the warm welcome Rafael and I sat down for a nice conversation about user groups, living in different countries, community, speaking, the accident of his wife and more.

The attic (or as he calls it, his mancave) of Michiel's house in a small village near The Hague was where we sat down to have a nice conversation on anarchy, creating a better world, developing PHP, being a musician in a band that became popular in an incredibly short period of time and being completely addicted to Warframe. Please note: This episode contains some explicit language. Listen to some of Michiel's recent music on Bandcamp. Photo by Karianne Hylkema.