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A podcast where we explore unimportant programming questions (mostly PHP/Laravel/JavaScript) in extreme detail.
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Who hosts Over Engineered?
Over Engineered is hosted by Chris Morrell. The show has published 34 episodes to date.
What has Over Engineered covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz" (15 October 2025, 70 minutes), "Kilopixel Retro w/ Ben Holmen + Joe Tannenbaum" (23 August 2025, 71 minutes), and "(Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro" (8 August 2025, 114 minutes).
How often does Over Engineered publish?
Over Engineered publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 86 minutes across 34 episodes.
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Booking probability for Over Engineered is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Over Engineered requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Over Engineered's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Over Engineered are IT Services & Software Development. Over Engineered has a technology audience.
About the host
Chris Morrell hosts Over Engineered, a technology podcast with 34 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Aug 23, 20251h 11mS0<p>At the beginning of August, after six years of working on it on-and-off, Ben Holmen took his Kilopixel project live. It's a 1000 pixel display, where each pixel has to be manually toggled by a custom CNC rig, and...
Aug 8, 20251h 54mS0<p>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 better. And with Pest 4, Nuno's cracked...
Episode #30
Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman
Jun 26, 20251h 42mS0<p>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 that can help meetup organizers tend their local...
Episode #29
Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp
Apr 22, 20252h 19mS0<p>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 announcement. In this episode, Simon and Chris get deep...
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Apr 11, 20251h 20mS0<p>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 Chris talk about the future of Larabelles now that...
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PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™
Apr 7, 20251h 11mS0<p>What happens when you get a bunch of Laravel podcasters + a bunch of mics in a room? Chaos, apparently.</p><p>Recorded live after PHP × NYC with Ben Holmen, John Drexler, Daniel Coulbourne, Chris Morrell, Ian...
Mar 28, 20251h 35mS0<p>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 different needs. On today's episode, we pick up...
Episode #26
Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool
Nov 26, 20241h 53mS0<p>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 event sourcing, Verbs, and community (among other...
Episode #25
Design Patterns w/ Mary Perry
Oct 18, 20241h 16mS0<p>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 the good side of knowing design patterns, so we...
Episode #24
Side Projects w/ Joe Tannenbaum
Sep 20, 202456 minS0<p>Joe Tannenbaum is thinking about starting a podcast about side projects. So we took an afternoon to talk through what that might look like.</p>
Aug 26, 20241 hourS0<p>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 sessions with 15 complete strangers. The outcome? A...
Episode #22
ReactPHP + Event Loops w/ Len Woodward
Aug 7, 20241h 15mS0<p>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's episode, Chris and Len talk about our...
Episode #21
Code standards w/ Matt Stauffer
Jul 17, 20241h 27mS0<p>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 projects—Tighten's `tlint` and InterNACHI's...
Episode #20
Burnout w/ Ian Landsman
Jul 3, 20241h 16mS0<p>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 about that and what to do about the kind of...
Episode #19
Let's talk APIs w/ Steve McDougall
Jun 20, 20241h 42mS0<p>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 app with a good, RESTful...
Episode #18
Full Stack Javascript w/ Kelvin Omereshone
May 22, 20241h 15mS0<p>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 whether there are really any truly full-stack...
Episode #17
Building prompts w/ Jess Archer
May 10, 20241h 50mS0<p>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, we dig into some of the gnarly details around...
Apr 24, 20241h 18mS0<p>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, we sit down and talk about the current state of...
Mar 20, 20241h 18mS0<p>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 parsing ANSI escape sequences and dealing with...
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