Fennic: Thanks for the encouragement. I'm glad you're seeing value in it! Rob: We'll see if this thread ends up in the final script, haha. "And this week's human interest story: some dink named Len is asking everyone for their social media handles"
On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 7:58 AM fennic log <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 all >> 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 working >> 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 been >> 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_internals_july_15_2026/ >> r/laravel >> https://www.reddit.com/r/laravel/comments/1uxntqb/this_week_in_php_internals_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? :) >> >> — Rob >> >
