This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Welcome to 2026, Denmark stops postal services, New Laravel employee, PHPTek Early Bird ending soon, the pains of making a living off open source, PHP is Back according to Nuno, and more…
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Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years | Denmark | The Guardian
MergePHP: Mastering Agentic PHP Development with MCP, Thu, Jan 8, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup
https://x.com/wendell_adriel/status/2008168133362618776
PHP TEK 2026
Adam’s Morning Walk | We had six months left
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feat: add llms.txt endpoint for LLM-optimized documentation by quantizor · Pull Request #2388 · tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com · GitHub
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