The keynote speaker at this year’s PHP Barcelona conference was Rasmus Lerdorf the creator of PHP and he gave an excellent talk about the history of PHP, PHP 7.4 & 8, career advice, motivation, burn-out and focusing on things that really matter.
You can also find his accompanying slides at http://talks.php.net/phpbcn19 and if you want to watch the other talks from the conference they have a Youtube playlist
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