John Koster is the author of the Leanpub book Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with John about his background, some of the fundamentals of Computer Science, Laravel , his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a writer.

This interview was recorded on October 20, 2022.

The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_podcasts/FM242-John-Koster-2022-10-20.mp3. The Frontmatter podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/leanpub, in Apple Podcasts here https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/frontmatter/id517117137, on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/show/00DiOFL9aJPIx8c2ALxUdz, and almost everywhere people listen to podcasts.

This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.