Thanks to @phparch for sponsoring Longhorn PHP 2025 at the Plant num level! We're grateful for multiple years of their support, on top of running their own conference ( @phptek ). If you're in the market for PHP staff augmentation...or a monthly magazine with high-quality information relevant to building better with PHP...they're the right place to turn.

As folks who've attended @merge probably already know, we're back for 2025! Mark your calendars (and buy your Blind Bird tickets at https://longhornphp.com) for Thursday-Saturday, October 23-25 at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, and submit your presentation topics to https://cfp.longhornphp.com.

We're excited to bring the conference back for our sixth (and PHP's 30th) year, and hope all y'all will join us, in-person or online.

@laurin1 Short answer: yes, it's happening. Same general time of year. Will be signing things with the venue soon.

So, Laracon is in Texas this year.

Instead of having two PHP/PHP-adjacent conferences in Texas in the same year, we're taking a year off, and throwing our weight behind @cascadia in Portland, Oregon.

That's right. The Pacific Northwest is getting a PHP conference for the first time since 2019!

Dates are October 24-26 (Thursday-Saturday), and their CFP is open now at https://cfp.cascadiaphp.com. Sign up for their mailing list at https://cascadiaphp.com/registration to know when ticket sales go live!

Just a reminder that Securing Laravel subs are currently on sale for #longhornphp and #LaraconAU!
(You don't need to attend to get the discount 🤫 )

Sign up for weekly security tips and monthly In Depth security articles about #Laravel and #PHP!
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I wasn’t able to be “at” LonghornPHP that much, but I was able to give my talk, and the feedback has been very flattering.

I am sorry I haven’t been able to be around much, but I’ve been dealing with a lot of pain and fatigue issues. Had to take care of myself — and that’s the whole point of my talk, so I guess it makes sense.

I am glad I was able to make it here and give the talk. Thanks so much for the opportunity #LonghornPHP

https://speakerdeck.com/funkatron/stronger-than-fear-mental-health-in-the-developer-community-2023

Great Wurstcon crowd at @longhorn!

After "In the Beginning Was the Feature Request" by @SandyS1 and "Building a Strong Remote Team" by @OGProgrammer, we have @SammyK closing out #longhornphp 2023 with...why he left tech.

Coming back from lunch, our next #longhornphp sessions are CVE 101: The Unfolding Of A Zero Day Attack by Theresa Mammarella, Machine Learning in PHP with RubixML by Mark Pruett, and What Does A Modern PHP Application Look Like? by @TimB0nd.

Also, make sure to vote for your preferred Open Spaces topic either near registration or in Discord by 2:30pm!

It's just about lunchtime at #longhornphp. Hop into either of the two serving lines in Hill Country B, or swing by registration if you preordered a special meal. Then grab a seat in Hill Country CD.

We'll have another set of Open Spaces proposals over lunch, after which voting will continue until 2:30pm.

Sorry other speakers, but @alena has raised the bar by letting us play with Legos while we learn. #longhornphp @longhorn

Next up today at #longhornphp, starting in a few minutes: Passwords are Dead, Long live Passkeys! by @valorin, Learn To Succeed by @alena and Getting Started with Test-Driven Development by @scottkeckwarren.

Next up we have "Unleashing Asynchronous PHP - Boost Performance with RabbitMQ and ReactPHP" by @flowcontrol, "What PHP developers need to know about JWTs" by @mooreds, and "A Full-Stack Developer's Guide to DevOps" by Kiah Tolliver at the final day of #longhornphp 2023

The final day of #longhornphp 2023 is underway with @funkatron opening with "Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Tech Community." Tune in live at https://longhornphp.com/live; our keynote streams are free and open to the public.

Not to brag, but I got to do karaoke with @ramsey @stevegrunwell @Crell @dabernathy89 and Ryan at #longhornphp singing American Pie. And now I’m watching @ian sing Mr. Brightside. This is what you’re missing not attending @longhorn.

Jealous? You should come next year to join in the fun 😉

Coming up for the last presentations of the first #longhornphp main conference day: What’s new in WCAG 2.2 by Kaitlyn Concilio, Oh Crap, We're Popular! by Matthew Machuga, and Internationalization & Localization With PHP by @ramsey.

Stick around after for the @zend afterparty!

After a bunch of engaging Open Spaces, we're back to #longhornphp presentations, with Tips to Prevent Burnout in a Toxic Agile Environment by Kiah Tolliver, "Seeing is Believing: Solve Communication Gaps with the Lost Art of Diagrams" with Tadeh Hakopian, and Working with DevContainers with @Chrisayers

We’re going above and beyond to try and provide high quality streams this year. To accomplish that, we iterated on WiFi to make it better.

Introducing TreeFi! The newest in high speed connectivity technology.

We're now into "Finding Harmony in Distributed Systems: Choreography vs Orchestration in Software Development" by Rain Leander, "Debugging PHP Applications: Techniques and Tools for Efficient Troubleshooting" by Aaron Holbrook,, and "Database Abstractions and Where They Leak" by Sergei Morozov at #longhornphp

Last sessions were on Copilot by Bryant Son, PHP and server optimizations by @OGProgrammer, and Serializing Modern PHP by @Crell.

Next up at #longhornphp we have Growing the PHP Core – One Test at a Time by @flowcontrol, Engineering by Design by Israel Carberry, and "I'd Like to Write the World Some Docs" by @stevegrunwell