Podcast appearances and mentions of sean coates

PHP Podcast – June 17, 2026 Hosts: Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling | Guests: Paul Reinheimer & Sean Coates Eric and John are still locked in the basement. Sara is literally on a boat in Spain. Normal show, totally normal. Sara Broadcasts from a Harbor in A Coruña Sara is joining this week’s show from a marina in A Coruña, northwest Spain — in the Galicia region, where they speak Galician (not quite Spanish, not quite Portuguese). It’s 1am local time and the boat is visibly rocking on camera. Holly is holding down the fort from Chicago. This is what Sara calls pirate radio, except one of the pirates is actually on a boat. Meet the Guests: Paul Reinheimer & Sean Coates Paul Reinheimer and Sean Coates are PHP veterans from an earlier era — both were closely involved with PHP Architect around 2005–2010, back when Sara was already a PHP core contributor and the community was small enough to fit in one bar. Paul now runs Wonder Proxy, a service that lets you test your website’s behavior from locations around the world (checking GDPR banners, geo-targeted content, checkout flows, etc.), and is also building a startup called StudioWorks — business management software for creative studios, with an invoicing product and a proposals product in development. Sean is based in Montreal and has been spending time at a local hackerspace called Food Lab, where he got pulled into MeshTastic and MeshCore mesh networking, and is now surrounded by vintage computers, including a PDP-11 and five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks. The Quarter-Million-Line Commit Paul committed 250,000 lines of code directly to Wonder Proxy’s repo without a PR last week — and he’s not particularly sorry about it. The context: it was a pre-generated SQLite amalgamation file (all of SQLite compiled into a single C file), which Wonder Proxy is now checking in as a pinned static dependency rather than regenerating each build. Paul’s argument is unanswerable: you cannot meaningfully review 250,000 lines of generated C code in a PR. If there’s something malicious in there and you’re good with C, you could hide it in parameterized defines and no one would see it. The right approach, which Paul landed on, was creating a separate package with its own CI — and including the command to regenerate the amalgamation so reviewers can verify the output themselves, not just stare at the diff. Measuring Wrong — Sean’s Rant Sean has been ranting about this for 10–15 years and it hasn’t gotten less true: companies systematically measure things that make them look good and avoid measuring things that make them look bad. A marketing team adds a spin-to-win wheel to the homepage and celebrates their 1% sales increase. Nobody measures how many people found the wheel so obnoxious they immediately left. Cookie and GDPR banners are the same story — they go up, they’re never removed, and the conversion impact is never tracked because nobody wants to report bad news up the chain. Sean’s broader point: an epidemic of motivated measurement is a big part of why the web is as bad as it is. PHP in 2026 vs. PHP Then — What’s Still Working Paul’s honest take: the LAMP stack still works great. In 2004 you could build a productive web application with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP — and you still can today. The fundamental approach is the same. Having since done Ruby at Stripe and other languages elsewhere, Paul keeps coming back to how much sense the PHP model makes to him. The longevity is the feature, not a bug. Wonder Proxy’s web app — built in server-side Swift using the Hummingbird framework — returns pages in under 50 milliseconds almost always and under 30 most of the time, with almost no client-side JavaScript. Server round trips are fast. The web doesn’t have to be seven seconds. Swift Concurrency and What PHP Could Learn Sara asked Sean — who has used Swift on the server for StudioWorks — what he’d want to see in PHP’s threading model. His answer: anything the compiler can enforce beats anything you have to remember yourself. Swift’s concurrency model has the compiler reject code that would allow a thread to trample on a sendable object after it’s been sent off. You find out about threading mistakes at compile time, not when corrupt data shows up in production. Sean’s verdict: an early warning system for threading problems is 10,000 times more valuable than discovering them too late. PHP’s async/await path is cooperative task switching (not true threading), which avoids some of these issues but can still deadlock if someone forgets to hand off control. Composer, require_once, and Supply Chain Security The chat raised whether anyone still uses require_once in the PSR-4 world. Sara’s answer: PHP.net does — it doesn’t use Composer at all, because the site needs to be framework and library agnostic. Grep for require_once across typical vendor dependencies and you’ll find around 100 instances still in the wild, mostly inside packages like Doctrine. The supply chain security conversation from there: Composer’s lock file pins to specific hashes, which is what you want — but a lot of projects don’t commit their lock file, and pinning to a version tag isn’t enough because tags can be updated if someone takes over a GitHub account. To really be safe, pin to a specific commit hash. It’s a pain to maintain, but it’s much harder to fake. The PHP Foundation — The Biggest Change in PHP Paul called out the PHP Foundation as the single biggest change in PHP since he and Sean were actively involved. Having an organization that can receive money from individual supporters and use it to fund core PHP work has been talked about since before PHP had package management. The foundation now has over 1,000 individual supporters — including Rasmus Lerdorf himself, which Sara found funny. Paul and Wonder Proxy support it financially; Wonder Proxy also holds a private Packagist account as an indirect way to fund Composer development. Sara works directly with the foundation on PHP core. Elizabeth Barron (from last week’s show) is doing exceptional work moving it forward. PHP.net Redesign and the Dark Mode Problem Sara copped to a php.net rabbit hole: she tried to implement dark mode for the site and succeeded everywhere except code samples. PHP’s built-in highlight_string() function has hard-coded colors that assume a light background, and there’s no way to override them. Sara wrote the patch to make the colors configurable at the internals level, then realized it should actually be a separate PHP project, then lost track of caring about it because it became yak shaving. On the redesign side: the foundation ran a competition to redesign the releases page (the per-version page with changelogs and download links), and the results look much better. The downloads page has been getting more beginner-friendly content — how to actually get PHP running, not just a reference manual. There are homepage mockups being iterated on as well. What Talk Would You Give? Sara asked both guests what conference talk they’d give if they were speaking today. Paul: marketing for developers. Too many developers believe “if you build it, they will come,” and AI is making this worse — the barrier to shipping something that looks professional has dropped so far that the noise floor is rising fast. Hollywood knows to spend as much on marketing as on production. Paul doesn’t claim to be good at marketing, but he thinks someone should be giving this talk at every developer conference. Sean: reliable deployment and supply chain integrity — specifically how to actually control the path from git to production without sneaking in vulnerabilities. Containers have helped, but there’s still a lot of infrastructure that fetches things at build or request time that is genuinely dangerous. PHP Tek 2027 The PHP Tek 2027 website is live at phptek.io. No date confirmed on air, but the site is up and people should keep an eye on it. Links from the show: Wonder Proxy — Test your website from around the world PHP Tek 2027 — phptek.io The PHP Foundation — Support PHP development PHP Architect Discord Guest Hosts: Sara Golemon Currently sailing in the Atlantic (broadcasting from A Coruña, Spain) PHP core contributor; code contributor via the Curl project (which means she technically has code on Mars) Holly Schilling Primary mobile developer; built the PHP Tek 2026 conference app Based near Chicago, IL Guests: Paul Reinheimer Founder, Wonder Proxy — test your website’s geo-targeted behavior from 300+ global locations Founder, StudioWorks — business management tools for creative studios (invoicing & proposals) Former PHP Architect team member; wrote a book on PHP and APIs Sean Coates Based in Montreal; regular at the Food Lab hackerspace MeshTastic/MeshCore mesh networking enthusiast; vintage computer collector (PDP-11 era) Former PHP Architect team member and longtime PHP community contributor Streams: Youtube Channel Twitch Connect & Hire PHP Architect Website Twitter/X Mastodon Hire PHP Developers Looking to hire PHP developers? 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On this episode, the crew decides to take a break for the holiday. In their absence, we decided to give you all a taste of what our bonus Patreon Episodes are all about. In addition, you'll also hear Sean Coates' impressions of two games he's reviewing for us. On This Episode (4:17) Patreon Sample #1 - “Piece of Mind Episode 1” (1:23:38) Stuffed (Xbox) (1:31:33) Hypercharge: Unboxed (Xbox) (1:41:21) Patreon Sample #2 - “Intro to Dungeons & Dragons” Grab the episode now on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Play Music and more. If you love this episode and want other gaming content you can't get anywhere else, please support us on Patreon! Also, don't forget to check out our Discord Server and our web site, where you can read all of our written content.  

Today's guest, Sean Coates, Director of Software Engineering at KUDO, takes pride in doing software engineering the right way. It's the reason he became a boss. Before that, he had managers that were perfectly fine with rush jobs and cutting corners to meet a deadline. Not Sean. In this episode, he explains why using engineering best practices—design patterns, test-driven deployment, and pair programming, for example—enables you to scale faster and build stronger applications. We discuss: How KUDO enables live simultaneous interpretation in video conferencing How AI and natural language processing might be applied to KUDO in the future Why it pays to build quality software from the start The difficulties of microservices How to build and maintain an effective distributed team   Want to hear more stories from high growth software companies? Subscribe to Application Modernization on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or check out our website. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Application Modernization in your favorite podcast player.

The 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival offered numerous different avenues for movie watching. Audiences and critics alike got to experience the newest in film at the theaters, online, and even at several downtown Toronto drive-in cinema locations.  Between Jane Campion's return to the director's chair in The Power of the Dog, Julia Ducournau's Titane, the IMAX premiere of Dune, and many films featuring Tim Roth on vacation, this year's TIFF lineup had a lot to offer. Listen to Brennan Dubé and Sean Coates breakdown the highs, lows, and all the in-betweens of TIFF '21.   Hosts: Brennan Dubé and Sean Coates Join the MovieBabble staff: https://moviebabble.com/join-moviebabble/ Like MovieBabble on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moviebabblereviews/ Follow MovieBabble on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moviebabble/ Follow MovieBabble on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MovieBabble_ For more content, be sure to check out the MovieBabble website: https://moviebabble.com/

2021 wraps up with Sean Coates joining to talk about the 'aggressively ok' film, THE SORCEROR'S APPRENTICE!We chat Cage, Alfred Molina and old man's shoes!LINKS:Twitter - @cage_podcastSean's Twitter - @seanhub_ / @ABmoviepodastSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/cage-rage-a-nicolas-cage-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sean Coates is a Brazilian Ju Jitsu professional fighter... He is a Black Belt under world champion Victor Estima and trains at Gracie Barra - Nottingham. He competes at the elite level on the world stage and has a host of victories and achievements which include - 3 x Worlds Medalist, 7 x British Champion, Adu Dhabi Grand Slam Champion, Multiple time IBJJF & UAEJJF double gold medalist. Sean really does epitomise calmness under pressure. He is able to perform in high pressure situations with a calm intensity that has been honed through years of intense training.  Loved this conversation! At only 28 Sean's insight into being at his best is testament to facing the adversity of the BJJ mats and a willingness to push his limits of potential. Covered in the context of BJJ but so much to learn and take away on the mental game... Instagram: @seancoates_bjj Twitter: @SeanTCoates

Thank you for listening to the Leaders, Innovators and Big Ideas podcast, supported by Rainforest Alberta.  The podcast that highlights those people who are contributing to and/or supporting the innovation ecosystem in Alberta. This episode is hosted by Manuel Olumorin.  Manuel Olumorin is an engineer who worked in the oil and gas business, now a marketer helping small businesses reach new customers on digital platforms and keep their existing customers happy. His superpower is that he has an insatiable hunger to learn and try new things. Sean Coates is a Community Builder & Startup Professional who is currently the Director - Western Canada for Workhaus Core, a stunning co-working space in downtown Calgary.  Originally from Ottawa, Sean left the Nation's Capital to study at Queen's University in Kingston. Completing his Bachelor's in Political Studies, Sean continued on the down the 401 to Toronto to pursue a post-graduate diploma in TV Writing & Production at Humber College. After five years working on various lifestyle, comedy & documentary productions, he went back to school do his Master's in Business Administration, with a focus on the management of Technology & Innovation. Landing at Kobo and managing their international markets & customers for 3 years, Sean got to get his first taste of the Start-up community, and learning from one of Canada's most successful entrepreneurs, Mike Serbenis. Working with a couple of other Start-ups over the past 5 years, both which were based-out of the original Workhaus location Sean befriending the founders. And after helping out his spare time, Sean joined Workhaus full-time in late 2018. His goal is to help bring community-first coworking to Western Canada, and making the Calgary market, the cornerstone of that expansion! Please be sure to share this episode with everyone you know. If you are interested in being either a host, a guest, or a sponsor of the show, please reach out.  We are published in Google Podcasts and the iTunes store for Apple Podcasts.  We would be grateful if you could give us a rating as it helps spread the word about the show. Credits... This Episode Sponsored By: Zinc Ventures Graphic Design: Mackenzie Bedford Episode Music: Tony Del Degan Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan 

Where we fight about the many, many top MIFF flicks and Saoirse Ronan's return to the world of Ian McEwan with Sean Coates from Another Bloody Movie Podcast

The big four-oh hits us, this time with our special Fictive Kin friend Sean Coates. We talk lots about deploying web applications in various languages, the imapct Composer has had on PHP development, formal and informal mentoring, and how to get accepted to speak at conferences. Check out our sponsors, Engine Yard and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Listen Download now (MP3, 32.1MB, 1:09:20) Links and Notes Fictive Kin Calvin & Hobbes transmogrifier RVM + Bundler Composer + Packagist PIP + Virtualenv Built-in server in PHP 5.4+ Flask Shared-nothing architectures PHPMentoring.org Tug Mcgraw Webshell Variadic functions in PHP 5.6 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics https://wiki.php.net/rfc/argument_unpacking

Montreal home brewer Sean Coates turns a stinky mash into a refreshing, tart summer brew.