About us
The Seattle PHP User Group (SeaPHP UG) is a volunteer-run PHP user group, and invites anyone with a desire to talk and learn about PHP and related technologies to gather together, share their knowledge, and promote the PHP community in the Seattle, WA, and Puget Sound area.
This group currently meets monthly to sharpen skills, network with other PHP developers in the area, learn new ideas and technologies, find jobs, and laugh. Check our meetup page regularly for details about each upcoming meetup.
In 2016, Seattle PHP became a 501c3 organization. This means donations you make, can be tax deductible.
How We Communicate
Please review our Code of Conduct.
The Seattle PHP community uses 2 types of communication on Meetup - the Mailing List and Message Board. We use the mailing list for developer discussions — asking/answering PHP questions, frameworks/CMS, Databases, architectural trade-offs, and receiving announcements. The Message Board is great for things like job postings, requests for work, event announcements, and sharing interesting news articles.
If you are a recruiter or you are offering a job, please use the Message Board to post the job opportunities
We encourage you to attend in-person meetups to announce jobs. Connect with people you want to hire! We provide a few minutes of dedicated open mic time at the beginning of the monthly meetups. Thanks for participating!
Have Ideas or Recommendations to Share
• Do you have some event ideas?
• Would you like to sponsor the meetup, or have items to raffle? We are grateful for your support.
• Interested in helping out?
• Would you like to speak at a meetup?
Please email the Seattle PHP organizers!: admins [at] seaphp [dot] com
Upcoming events
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Before the First Prompt
·OnlineOnlineLast month Matt showed us what eight months of heavy Claude adoption looks like at Gymdesk: the MCP server, the specs, the triage packets, the bots, and the 2,385 pull requests. He also showed us the part nobody warns you about: the silos, the lost stopping points, and a team that can be overwhelmed by its own output.
There is no shortage of content on what AI coding agents can do. Almost all of it is filmed on a toy project or a clean greenfield codebase with no technical debt. There is very little on how to think about agents before you type your first prompt into a legacy, brownfield application, and even less on how to keep a team sane once they work. We will cover the mental models that hold up (an agent is not autocomplete, not a junior engineer, and not a search engine), what an agent needs from a codebase and why it is the same list your team always needed, the small set of habits that separate a good first week from a frustrating one, and the progression from one engineer experimenting to a team shipping with guardrails. Then we will answer Matt's closing questions from the engineering leadership side: which gates we put in place, what we measure, and how to say "not faster" when the numbers make everyone want to go faster.
You will leave with a starting point, not a feature list.### Presented by David Stanley
David is the VP of Engineering at Gymdesk, where he leads the fully remote team of engineers and QA folks that Matt's September talk came out of. A PHP developer for most of his career, he now spends his days on the parts of AI adoption that happen after the demo: compliance, infrastructure, modernizing a Zend Framework 1 monolith, and keeping a small team steady while the tooling changes under it. He lives in Kansas City. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Past events
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