Chris Morrell
Father of two. CEO/CTO at InterNACHI. Host of Over Engineered.
Appears in 32 Episodes
(Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro
Up until now, browser testing in Laravel has felt… bad. Dusk was a huge step over nothing, but it's been slow and flaky and just waiting to be replaced with something ...
Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman
Alex Hillman has been thinking about and actively supporting communities for decades. In this episode, Chris and Alex talk about lessons he's learned along the way tha...
Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp
Simon Hamp and Marcel Pociot have been working on NativePHP for a number of years, and Simon just surprised with world at Laracon EU with a NativePHP for Mobile announ...
The next era of Larabelles w/ Zuzana Kunckova
Zuzana Kunckova started Larabelles five years ago, and over that time it has grown into an important part of the Laravel community. In today's episode, Zuzana and Chri...
PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™
What happens when you get a bunch of Laravel podcasters + a bunch of mics in a room? Chaos, apparently.Recorded live after PHP × NYC with Ben Holmen, John Drexler, Dan...
Running Small Teams w/ Dan Matthews & John Rudolph Drexler
There's lots of advice out there for running software teams, but much of it comes from large organizations with dozens or hundreds of developers. Smaller teams have di...
Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool
Shawn McCool has been talking about event sourcing for years, and recently started a new series of streams on the topic. In this episode, Chris and Shawn talk about ev...
Design Patterns w/ Mary Perry
Design patterns can be very useful, but can also be weaponized as a way to "prove" that someone is doing something the "wrong" way. Mary has been thinking a lot about ...
Side Projects w/ Joe Tannenbaum
Joe Tannenbaum is thinking about starting a podcast about side projects. So we took an afternoon to talk through what that might look like.
The Art of Pairing with Strangers w/ Ben Holmen
Ben Holmen started his Pair-amid scheme as an experiment in meeting new people and experiencing new code. He shared his calendar with the world, and booked pairing ses...
ReactPHP + Event Loops w/ Len Woodward
ReactPHP is a low-level library for event-driven programming in PHP. It lets you write code that's much closer to the async/await style of JavaScript in PHP. In today'...
Code standards w/ Matt Stauffer
What set two developers on a quest to build custom tooling to enforce their code style preferences? Today's episode is a story that starts with two independent project...
Burnout w/ Ian Landsman
Today we take a break from over engineering to talk about burnout. Both Chris and Ian have been working on the same products for multiple decades. We sit down to talk ...
Let's talk APIs w/ Steve McDougall
Steve McDougall (aka JustSteveKing) is known as the "API guy" on Twitter. In today's episode we start with the question, "what if the best option is just a single page...
Full Stack Javascript w/ Kelvin Omereshone
The internet has been talking (yelling?) about full-stack javascript a lot lately. In today's episode, we sit down and talk about what it means to be "full stack" and ...
Building prompts w/ Jess Archer
Jess Archer took something that was quite good—the Symfony console output features—and built something that was absolutely great: Laravel Prompts. In today's episode, ...
The Future of the Laravel Frontend w/ Taylor Otwell
Taylor Otwell has been finding ways to improve Laravel for over a decade, but has only more recently set his sights on the front-end side of things. In today's episode...
Building for the command line w/ Joe Tannenbaum
Joe Tannenbaum took the internet by storm with his incredible SSH CLI "experiments." In today's episode, Chris and Joe sit down to get into the messy details of parsin...
Do we really need sprints? w/ John Drexler, Bogdan Kharchenko, and Skyler Katz
What are the best processes for small software development teams with high trust? In today's episode the InterNACHI software development team sits down with John Rudol...
Cache everything w/ Ian Landsman
As the saying goes: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." So in today's episode we dig into all the ways Ian is t...