Mostly Technical

Ian and Aaron discuss feedback on ads for the podcast, what the heck Ian does every day, updates on the Try Hard empire, & so much more.

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• (00:00) - Vibes From The People
• (09:03) - What Does Ian Even Do
• (23:59) - Fitting In Side Projects
• (34:11) - Sales Update
• (38:04) - Bootstrapper Syndrome
• (41:14) - Extra Heaviness
• (46:51) - Guest Instructor
• (58:57) - Laravel Cloud
• (01:05:54) - UserScape & Sons

• Brian Casel on Bluesky
• LaraJobs Affiliate Program
• TinyMCE
• Day One
• Dependabot
• Toggl
• Owl.so
• Chris Fidao on Bluesky
• Laravel Cloud
• Nightwatch

Ian and Aaron are back this week to discuss Aaron's adventures with the terminal, Ian's ideas for the future of Mostly Technical, a trip to Boise, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Airing of the Grievances
• (09:24) - Terminal TUI Thing
• (22:08) - Trip to Boise
• (34:41) - Try Hard Update
• (44:08) - SQL Course
• (49:11) - Let's Get Meta
• (01:13:53) - Surgery Update
• (01:17:32) - Markdown Meh
• (01:21:14) - Where’s All The Good Software?!
• (01:25:43) - Busy Monday

• Copilot Money
• Laravel Prompts
• Chewie, a package that helps you build TUIs.
• Solo, a package to run multiple commands at once
• Multi-Armed Bandit Testing
• Clickhouse database
• Bear.app

Ian is joined by Caleb Porzio and we talk about recent consumer product acquisitions, a dive deep into Flux's multi-select and more advanced components like charts, and we do a Business Dad corner about hiring.

* Joel Spolsky on how to find great developers (A little dated, but still good)

A special bonus episode from a post-show Tiermaker. We were doing this for video so sorry in advance if it's not totally clear on audio. You can watch on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IIvZtrrzs

Ian's joined by Matt Swanson while Aaron is out ✂️. We cover the forgotten victims of the Wordpress drama like Gravatar and Day One, if a bootstrapper should be happy about $10k/mrr and make the case for jobs as being good, should the government sell ads on the Penny, and "things Aaron should do".

Don't miss our bonus Youtube video this week as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IIvZtrrzs

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Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's trip to San Francisco, Bluesky vs. Twitter, and why Ian's not doing his secret side project plus our tier rankings for...pizza toppings?!

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Links:

• Amoxicillin
• Sanity
• Web Dev Challenge
• Kent C Dodds
• NextJS Conf
• Thomas Frank on YouTube
• Elo Rating Algorithm
• Tartine
• Bluesky
• Five Families in The Godfather
• Justin Jackson's Laravel starter pack for Bluesky
• Louie's in Dallas

Ian and Aaron discuss updates on Aaron's house, the Try Hard Factory, his course launch, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Mostly Arguing About Mars
• (08:54) - House Update
• (20:27) - Francis Real Estate Empire
• (31:15) - We Found A Videographer
• (37:32) - Postgres Launch
• (38:51) - A Little Side Adventure
• (42:09) - Back to Postgres
• (49:31) - Try Hard Offsite
• (58:14) - Ian’s Mystery Idea

• Bootstrapped Web Podcast
• Europa Clipper
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Voyager Program
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Limestone
• Dan Shipper
• All-In Podcast
• Chris Morrell on Twitter

Ian and Aaron discuss everything from Aaron's dream for a Try Hard Factory to Ian being unimpressed with SpaceX rockets to the biggest question of all - what do you want to do with your life?

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• (00:00) - Terrible Business Idea
• (06:15) - Weekends Are Tough
• (08:45) - Thing After Thing
• (10:49) - Product Guesses
• (14:23) - A Giant Bread
• (17:40) - Try Hard Factory
• (33:59) - What Do I Want To Do With My Life
• (01:05:24) - Postgres Update
• (01:11:27) - Some Big Rocket Thing

Ian and Aaron reunite to talk about bad design, WordPress drama, Aaron's secret physical product, why you want to be liquid, and more.

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• (00:00) - Freaking Wrecked
• (03:48) - A Great Roundtable
• (12:58) - The Duality of Ian
• (22:54) - Aaron's Decision
• (26:25) - Rich People Have No Imagination
• (39:06) - WordPress Drama
• (48:44) - White On White On White
• (58:47) - Course Update
• (01:10:58) - A Physical Product (?!)
• (01:17:40) - One Last Thing

• Mailcoach
• Statamic Roundtable
• Laravel Cloud
• Wall Street (IMDB)
• What the heck is going on with WordPress?
• Ian's tweet about designers
• Linear
• Mastering Postgres
• Aaron's tweet about post-it notes

Ian is joined this week by Jack McDade, creator of Statamic, and a motley crew (John O'Nolan, Caleb Porzio, and Adam Wathan) to discuss what the future of Statamic might look like.  Should the price change?  Should it be open source?  Who should it be marketed at?  Does Statamic need an enterprise offering?  All that & a ton more.

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Note: Recorded and streamed live on September 30th, 2024

Links:

• Jack McDade on Twitter
• John O'Nolan on Twitter
• Caleb Porzio on Twitter
• Adam Wathan on Twitter
• Jack's tweet that started this whole conversation
• Statamic
• Ghost
• Ghost's Kickstarter
• Statamic Starter Kits
• Flat Camp

Ian and Aaron are joined this week by Caleb Porzio (friend of the show) on our very first live stream in honor of Flux, which Caleb literally launches live on the podcast.  Plus everything from password hygiene to cloud exits to hiring people to, of course, all the ups & downs of launching a product like Flux.

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Note: Recorded live on September 23rd, 2024.

Links:

• Flux
• Digital Ocean
• Notes on Work: How to drink tea
• Hugo Sainte-Marie on Twitter
• Caleb's launch tweet for Flux
• Caleb's blog post on crossing $1 million on GItHub Sponsors
• Shadcn
• Zenvoice
• Billion Dollar Creator on YouTube

Ian is back (!) with Aaron to check in about what happened to Ian's gallbladder, Aaron's announcement video, dreaming big, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - They Failed Again
• (11:28) - The Show Must Go On
• (15:36) - A Different Kind of Plumbing
• (24:36) - Laracon Vibes
• (35:13) - The Big $57 Million Announcement
• (46:51) - MrBeast is Gordon Gekko
• (56:10) - Dream A Little Bit Bigger
• (01:12:52) - Low Hanging Fruit
• (01:19:25) - Sinatra Baby!

• Mailcoach
• Ian's tweet about his gallbladder surgery report
• Laparoscopic surgery & gas
• Seinfeld Junior Mint clip
• InterNACHI
• David Hill on Twitter
• Laravel Investment Announcement
• Aaron interviews Taylor about the investment
• Gordon Gekko
• 'How to succeed in MrBeast Production' 
• Ian's thread about the document
• Mastering Postgres announcement video

Aaron is joined this week once again by Caleb Porzio to discuss everything that happened at Laracon (including a basketball game?!) before diving deep into Flux, the online reaction to the price, and what comes next.

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• (00:00) - Man of the People
• (03:25) - A Quick Ad Read
• (04:29) - Laravel vs. Terminal Coffee 🏀
• (17:28) - Laracon Recap
• (33:32) - Notes on Laracon
• (58:32) - An Interview With Yours Truly
• (01:00:23) - The Flux Situation
• (01:21:29) - Here's The Thing
• (01:27:07) - More On Pricing

• Caleb on Twitter
• Transistor.fm
• Justin Jackson on Twitter
• Will King on Twitter
• David Hill on Twitter
• Nuno Maduro on Twitter
• John Drexler's tweet about Daniel vaping
• Jess Archer on Twitter
• Primeagen on Twitter
• Sandi Metz
• Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
• Tom Crary (Laravel President/COO) on LinkedIn
• FluxUI
• Hugo Sainte-Marie on Twitter
• Alpine Components
• Matt Swanson on Twitter
• Web Awesome by Font Awesome
• Gallbladder Removal (NHS)

Aaron is joined this week by Caleb Porzio (back-to-back weeks!) and Daniel Coulbourne (first-time guest!) to dive deep into prep for Laracon, text editors, something called the "side eye verify", Aaron's recent blog post, and a whole lot more.

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• (00:00) - I Was A Reply Guy
• (04:59) - Power Broker / King Maker
• (11:10) - Torchlight Update
• (16:38) - Editor Talk
• (28:02) - Eeking Out
• (35:58) - Cancelled Plans
• (37:56) - Give Credit Where It's Due
• (40:10) - The Circles Were Good
• (51:12) - He Did It Again
• (54:40) - This One's On You
• (01:04:36) - Mafioso Wisdom
• (01:08:06) - A Little Bit Of Laracon
• (01:21:36) - Well Gang...
• (01:22:32) - Gross-Squeamish
• (01:29:27) - Event Sourcing Will Save Me

• No Plans To Merge
• Caleb Porzio on Twitter
• Daniel Coulbourne on Twitter
• Producer Dave (Dave Hicking) on Twitter
• Torchlight
• Textmate for macOS
• Zed
• Emmet
• Cursor
• Supermaven
• Make VS Code Awesome
• Josh Cirre on Twitter
• Matt Stauffer on Twitter
• Five-Minute Geek Show Episode 95: Credit where credit's due
• Excalidraw
• Aaron Francis - An argument for logging off
• CNBC - The Profit
• Texas Card House
• Terminal Coffee
• Osmosis Jones on IMDB
• 'Combating Jargon' in the Verbs documentation

Aaron is joined this week by special guest Caleb Porzio (filling in for Ian) to talk about everything from solo parenting to Caleb's new project to rejuvenating Torchlight and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - Low Energy Jeb
• (06:06) - Time on Twitter (Isn’t Profitable)
• (11:34) - The Thunk Boys
• (18:18) - An Essential Piece
• (26:01) - Caleb’s Solo Empire
• (29:36) - 9 Months of Darkness
• (31:41) - Two Weeks to Laracon
• (42:00) - Why Do You Hate Money
• (50:57) - Torchlight Also
• (01:05:39) - Riddle Me This
• (01:23:04) - I Think I Want To Event Source

• An argument for logging off - Aaron Francis
• Thunk
• John Rudolph Drexler on Twitter
• Jason Beggs
• Caleb's tweet about flux
• Livewire Partner Program
• Anystack
• Torchlight
• Astro
• GetDown
• No Plans To Merge
• Caleb Porzio

Ian and Aaron check in about everything from tacos in NY to Twitter vs. Threads plus how Aaron found his next Linda, Aaron's new video series, & more.

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• (00:00) - Ian's Trying Obsidian
• (14:23) - Life OS Update
• (18:55) - MT ❤️ NY
• (28:17) - Your Next Linda
• (39:55) - Poppin Off
• (47:04) - Twitter vs. Threads
• (58:37) - Two Elons
• (01:07:56) - Los Tacos No. 1

• The PARA Method
• Obsidian.md
• follow your stupid dreams. (YouTube)
• Kelsey Petrich on Twitter
• Aaron's first 'Poppin Off' video
• Ian's tweet about Los Tacos No. 1
• Bomb Pop popsicle

Ian and Aaron talk about the investment that got away, why Try Hard is a media company, bringing back the forum, and an incredible idea for a new contest.

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• (00:00) - Kubera
• (03:01) - Do It For The Content
• (08:24) - Idea For The Show
• (14:59) - Yo Dude! Pick Me!
• (24:38) - A Media Company
• (34:53) - Yo Dawg Me
• (42:20) - 25 Seat License
• (48:31) - Mentally You're In A Wednesday
• (54:22) - Bringing Back The Forum

• Kubera
• ConvertKit
• Laravel Shift
• Doug DeMuro (YouTube)
• Startups for the Rest of Us Episode 160
• Business of Software
• MicroConf
• Patio11 (Twitter)
• The most infamous forum thread (Bodybuilding.com Forum)
• Discourse

Ian and Aaron talk about Ian's new idea that's got him frazzled and on tilt, Aaron's sales milestone, the game Factorio, and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - I'm Very Tilted
• (13:19) - Know A Guy
• (19:31) - Course Update
• (34:09) - Do As I Say, Not As I Do
• (49:58) - Factorio
• (53:02) - A Mostly Technical Interview

• Aaron's tweet about 100k
• Jason Beggs on Twitter
• Mary Perry on Twitter
• Factorio

Ian & Aaron talk about Ian's adventures with hiring (and Ian unveils a blisteringly hot take), how Aaron's course performance, why Aaron needs a stage name (maybe), and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - The Long Weekend
• (04:51) - Tired Because You're Hiring
• (15:26) - A Controversial Topic
• (30:24) - We're Still Doing Numbers
• (42:46) - Email Update
• (55:26) - Stage Name
• (56:53) - Life Automation
• (01:19:29) - One Last Thing

• Vegas Vacation (IMDB)
• Beach Boys - "Kokomo" (YouTube)
• What's new in MySQL 9
• YNAB

Ian and Aaron check in the results of Aaron's course launch, talk about the new developer position that Ian just posted, dive into the benefits of "scheming time", and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Hat Guy
• (02:34) - Launch Update
• (15:10) - Mailing List Drama
• (28:54) - Launch Results
• (48:27) - Scheming Time
• (52:45) - A Domain Story
• (57:49) - Ian's Hiring A Dev!

• High Performance SQLite
• Ian's hat ('Google Dino Cap')
• Aaron's live stream where he launched the course (Twitter)
• 'Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable' on Amazon
• Bento
• UserScape's job posting: Full-Stack Laravel Developer (applications due by 7/15/24)

Ian & Aaron discuss the launch of Aaron's new course, a trip to Texas Hill Country, the idea of 'Profit First', and a whole lot more.

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• (00:00) - The Thumb System
• (02:18) - Sausage Fest
• (14:09) - Profit First
• (22:34) - Launch Week
• (39:17) - Only So Much Time!
• (54:28) - Texas Elites
• (56:30) - Gotta Go Cloudflare

• Siskel & Ebert
• Texas Hill Country 
• Profit First (Book)
• John Scalzi blog post about being in it for the money
• Bento
• Database School (on YouTube)
• Kent C. Dodds
• Fly.io
• Laravel Octane
• Cloudflare AI Gateway
• Cloudflare Workers

Ian & Aaron discuss Aaron's various small bets, why they're both so tired, the upcoming variety show 👀, & more.

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• (00:00) - Happy Fathers Day
• (05:45) - I'm So Tired
• (19:56) - Toughest Decade
• (24:33) - Long Form VIdeos
• (32:13) - Aaron's Big Bet
• (51:58) - Distribution Empire
• (59:08) - HVAC Update 🇺🇸

• Aaron's board book
• Aaron' tweet about drama online
• Aaron's talk at Laracon Online
• Elon Musk (book) [Amazon]
• Arc
• Brandon Sanderson on YouTube
• Justin Kan's tweet about second time founders
• Syntax.fm
• Sentry's partnering with Laravel

Ian and Aaron are joined by Dan Myers, CEO of Flair, for a very special episode about Aaron's HVAC system, Ian's feelings about batteries, why people like "treats in the feed", and more.

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• (00:00) - Welcome To The Show
• (03:08) - Highly Biased But Knowledgable
• (12:43) - Let's Keep It On Aaron
• (21:23) - Ian's Ruling
• (26:48) - Home Assistant Integration
• (28:47) - Man Of The People
• (33:46) - Treats In The Feed

• Dan Myers on LinkedIn
• Flair.co

Ian & Aaron discuss what's going on with Aaron's course and Ian's feistiness on Twitter before diving into what's going on with Aaron's HVAC system (seriously) and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - Getting Healthy
• (08:38) - Babies Are Humans
• (17:51) - Picking Fights On Twitter
• (31:07) - The Big Move
• (38:16) - My Primary Concern Is Batteries
• (55:54) - Course Update: It's Gonna Be Good
• (01:06:18) - Are You An Apple Guy?

• Ian's tweet about walking
• Ian's tweet about his first customer
• Flair.co
• Aaron's DHH interview

Ian and Aaron are joined this week by Taylor Otwell, founder & CEO of Laravel, to discuss the Laravel vs. JS Twitter wars, new stuff coming down the road from Laravel, writing off Lambos (just kidding), and more.

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• (00:00) - Living In Peace Time
• (11:13) - The Last Big PHP Framework
• (22:20) - Best Way To Get Started
• (31:35) - New Stuff from Laravel
• (40:53) - I Love A New Laravel Product!
• (43:04) - New Hires
• (47:41) - Growing Laravel
• (54:56) - Just Make It Up!
• (01:02:35) - Laracon US Update
• (01:06:14) - Real Time Tracking
• (01:08:10) - Lambo Write Off
• (01:11:36) - I'm The Tastemaker

• Taylor Otwell on Twitter
• Laracon US 2024

Ian & Aaron discuss Aaron's DHH interview, Ian's phishing fiasco, and are joined by special guest Sam Rose to talk about high effort content & a lot more.

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• (00:00) - A Rough Morning
• (08:26) - It's Crunch Time
• (13:49) - Aaron Interviewed DHH
• (29:16) - Try Hard Studios Update
• (36:09) - Laravel vs. React Video
• (38:45) - The DHH No Man
• (48:34) - High Effort Content w/ Sam Rose
• (01:12:54) - Are You A Neat Man?
• (01:15:08) - iPhone Tracking
• (01:17:49) - Beermosa

• Ian's Phishing Email (on Twitter)
• Aaron's DHH Interview
• Laravel vs. React (on YouTube)
• Sam Rose's website
• An example of Sam's "high effort content" (on Twitter)

Ian & Aaron are joined this week by Dax & Adam Elmore to discuss the Laravel vs. JavaScript discourse, selling coffee over the command line, and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - Grownup Serious Stuff
• (08:02) - The Meanest Person In The World
• (10:41) - My Soul Hates New York
• (14:36) - StatMuse
• (20:18) - I Like The Health Insurance!
• (25:03) - Why JavaScript?
• (40:14) - The Discourse
• (47:57) - Aaron's Video
• (50:37) - Coffee From The Terminal
• (01:05:26) - Terminal x Laracon
• (01:14:54) - A Full On Course
• (01:24:04) - Laravel Blend

• Adam on Twitter
• Dax on Twitter
• How About Tomorrow (Podcast)
• Serverless Framework
• StatMuse
• Linear
• Vercel
• Aaron's video about Laravel + Livewire 
• terminal dot shop on Twitter
• Billion Dollar Creator (Podcast)
• terminal x Laracon (Tweet)
• Adam's course on AWS

Ian & Aaron discuss Aaron's new SQLite course, identifiers in Laravel, New York City, and last but not least - socks.

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• (00:00) - The F Word
• (09:17) - New York City (Taylor's Version)
• (14:30) - Dallas Dallas
• (22:18) - Aaron's SQLite Course
• (33:35) - Highlighting Technique
• (45:52) - SQLite Big Shots
• (48:06) - Identifiers in Laravel
• (01:00:46) - The Role of Taste
• (01:08:51) - Truly Unruly Number of Socks 🧦

• Taylor's tweet about New York City
• Announcement video for High Performance SQLite
• https://highperformancesqlite.com/
• SQLite Docs
• Hacker News Algolia search
• Sebastian's question about identifiers
• iPad "Crush!" ad
• Reversed iPad ad
• Rick Rubin (Wiki)
• Rick Rubin - The Creative Act (Book)
• Rick Rubin says "I know nothing about music"
• Wes Bos
• Wes Bos's socks 

Ian & Aaron discuss cheese boards, Aaron's lunch adventure, high performance database consulting, and the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef with special guest Dave Hicking aka Producer Dave.

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• (00:00) - Kids Birthday Parties
• (03:43) - The Cheese Board
• (17:16) - Went To The Burbs
• (22:47) - Is Twitter Over?
• (33:26) - Aaron's New Video
• (41:34) - This Needs To Be Content!
• (50:12) - Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar

• Ian's 'Date lunch' tweet
• Link to NYT article about "girl dinner"
• Grazery
• Aaron's signed copy of his SQLite book
• Aaron's new video about macros
• In Deep Geek on YouTube
• Dave Hicking on Twitter
• Clock Radio Speakers
• Kendrick Lamar - "Meet The Grahams" (YouTube)
• Francis and the Lights (YouTube)

Ian & Aaron discuss men's fashion, DHH, location sharing follow-up, AI therapy hot takes, Laravel Octane, upcoming course update, is MySQL over?, non-competes and concierge medicine, hacking Laravel for prefix indexes, PHP x NYC

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• Menswear guy
• Art but make it sports
• DHH Monitor tweet
• Aaron's Laravel Octane video
• PHP x NYC

Ian & Aaron discuss HelpSpot's future, Aaron reveals his next course, the secret to building courses, the "edge", spouse GPS tracking, the Doordash tax.

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• HelpSpot
• Try Hard Studios
• Location sharing tweet

Ian & Aaron return after a few weeks off to check in on Aaron's new business, his studio, and yes, his healthcare woes. 

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• (00:00) - Chilipad Fixes All
• (01:40) - Eclipse Update
• (04:29) - I'm The Top of the Funnel
• (16:55) - Healthcare Stuff
• (37:35) - Everybody Updates Their Apps Too Fast
• (46:26) - Aaron's Office Update
• (59:00) - Trading Places

• Hackers Incorporated episode with Aaron Francis
• Lemon Squeeze's interview with Aaron Francis
• Aaron's video on Cloudflare 
• Aaron's tweet about healthcare
• Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)
• Justworks
• Gusto
• S corp vs. C corp vs. LLC
• Startup to Last podcast
• Less Annoying CRM
• LegUp Health

Ian and Aaron are joined by Adam Wathan (our first returning guest!) to talk about Aaron's future plans for courses & consulting, Adam's plans for hiring at Tailwind, & a lot more.

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• (00:00) - The Interloper
• (01:49) - Hiring at Tailwind
• (09:00) - Extra Effort Matters
• (19:47) - Magic Company Money
• (23:02) - Jerry Seinfeld's Voice
• (27:45) - Nothing Sexier Than a Database
• (43:49) - Taste as a Service
• (54:34) - Courses vs. Consulting
• (01:07:56) - The Aaron Francis Experience
• (01:13:33) - The Master Plan
• (01:28:53) - Price of Admission
• (01:33:17) - En Route To Mars

• Subscribe to Laracasts! Seriously.
• Adam's tweets announcing the Design Engineer & Staff Software Engineer jobs at Tailwind
• Adam's tweet about 90% of applicants not following instructions
• Test Driven Laravel
• Sandwich Video
• Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course on lighting
• Jonathan Reinink on Twitter

Ian & Aaron discuss Chilipad, the Aaron Francis Studio of Light and Sound, the week of calls, how to properly apply to a job, Shibboleth secret passwords, what's next for Aaron, the background on how Try Hard Studios came to be, and behind the scenes on the creation of their launch video.

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• Chilipad
• Try Hard Studios
• Aaron's what's next tweet
• Try Hard Studios launch video & YouTube channel

Ian & Aaron discuss being laid off, what comes next for Aaron, why layoffs always go bad, good free tiers vs. bad free tiers, & more.

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• (00:00) - We Don't Have Bosses
• (06:51) - Dune Part 2 Side Tangent
• (14:19) - The Main Character
• (26:13) - These Things Always Go Bad
• (32:44) - Free Tiers
• (42:50) - Have You Heard About Cloudflare?
• (48:32) - Thoughts on Content Marketing
• (56:34) - Face of the Organization
• (01:01:48) - The Future
• (01:15:18) - The Future, Continued
• (01:27:31) - I'm Hot & Rich Now!
• (01:34:14) - Aaron Francis Studio of Light & Sound
• (01:37:33) - Follow Up & An Interesting Idea

• "...@ianlandsman, who is a gifted takesman" (on Twitter)
• Aaron got laid off
• Aaron Francis Studio of Light and Sound
• Alamo Drafthouse
• Studio Movie Grill
• Aaron's tweet about seeing Dune 2
• PlanetScale forever (blog post)
• PlanetScale's schema recommendations
• Laracon US - tickets still available!
• Primeagen's breakdown of the PlanetScale layoffs (on YouTube)
• The Ramsey Show
• Car Talk
• Mike and the Mad Dog
• Aaron's tweet about a call in radio show 

Ian & Aaron discuss config files in Laravel 11, having ambitious goals, the merits of checking vs. not checking your bag, & more.

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• (00:00) - Open Some Emails, Kiss Some Babies
• (08:49) - Follow Up
• (20:31) - Even More Follow Up
• (26:08) - Checked vs. No Checked Bag
• (35:28) - Aaron's Ambitious Goal
• (45:16) - Not Thinking Big Enough
• (52:39) - Config Files in Laravel 11
• (56:02) - Ian DoorDashed Chipotle
• (01:00:49) - Diet Coke Upate

• Mailo on the App Store
• Chilipad
• Mary (@sifrious) on Twitter
• Ian's Chipotle order (on Twitter)

Ian & Aaron discuss morning people, PHP/Laravel origin stories, using ChatGPT to write blog posts, Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero, & more.

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• (00:00) - Morning Guy
• (07:39) - Reachability Crisis
• (11:15) - You Need One More Set
• (17:21) - Follow Up
• (26:32) - PHP/Laravel Origin Story
• (33:09) - Aaron Bought a Chilipad
• (40:15) - Do Literally Anything
• (01:03:36) - Vices

• Ian's drinking cheap wine (on Twitter)
• Aaron's tweet about getting paid for his kids
• Cometeer coffee
• Zevia soda
• Yii framework
• Chilipad
• Aaron's blog post: Do literally anything 
• Aura Frames
• Zyn

Ian & Aaron discuss the joy of Diet Coke, Ian's deep dive into DTOs, Inertia vs. Livewire, & more.

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• (00:00) - Totally Zonked
• (04:46) - Little A
• (09:31) - Feedback
• (18:38) - Even More Feedback
• (29:29) - Laracon US Tickets
• (30:52) - Blade + Livewire
• (35:41) - Inertia vs. Livewire
• (45:54) - Deep into DTOs
• (55:40) - The Sleep Is Not Great

• Aaron's dad nap (on Twitter)
• Taking Cara Babies
• New York Times Dialect Quiz (Gift Link)
• Linear
• Architect/plotter/outliner vs. Gardener
• HelpSpot On-Premise
• Podline.fm
• Podscan.fm
• Geocodio
• Laracon US 2024
• Livewire: Blade Components Screencast
• Taylor's friendly reminder re: Inertia vs. Livewire (on Twitter)
• maryUI

Ian & Aaron discuss everything from cryotherapy to the ugliness of most B2B apps to Aaron's first time doing meditation and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - Super Bowl Update
• (03:05) - PlanetScale Pricing Update
• (05:21) - A Valuable Idea
• (09:28) - Ian's Invisalign
• (17:44) - Adorable Dad Stories
• (25:23) - What Do You Need A Writer For?
• (32:17) - ONCE / Campfire Update
• (41:56) - Beautiful Failures
• (46:54) - Meditation, Cryotherapy, & Cupcakes
• (01:00:30) - Screencasting.com Update

• How many people watched the Super Bowl? (CBS)
• Who shot J.R.?
• PlanetScale Pricing Page
• Invisalign
• Ian on the 'Build Your SaaS' podcast - "Is ONCE enough?"
• Cryotherapy (Wikipedia)

Ian & Aaron give out their Super Bowl Predictions, recap the first wave of announcements from Laracon EU, & more.

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• (00:00) - Hit You With Some Woo
• (21:55) - Wipe Conservationist
• (24:47) - Super Bowl Predictions
• (28:46) - Laravel 11
• (37:26) - You’re a Database Man
• (42:23) - Herd Pro
• (49:27) - Laravel Reverb
• (01:00:04) - Odds & Ends

• Aaron's tweet about his diagnosis
• 'Healing Back Pain' by John Sarno
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
• Explosions In The Sky
• Methotrexate
• What's coming to Laravel 11
• Eloquent Power Joins on GitHub
• Laravel Herd
• Laravel Reverb
• Laravel Octane
• Laracon EU

Ian & Aaron discuss getting sick, something called 'The Suburban Dad Zone', using gloves to change diapers (!?!), and more.

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• (00:00) - We're Playing Doctor
• (11:32) - Back on Paternity Leave
• (16:18) - Down There in the Danger Zone
• (24:43) - Suburban Dad Scale
• (29:06) - Should I Gamble?
• (37:22) - ONCE & Campfire
• (46:40) - Cloudflare! Cloudflare!!

• Lyme disease
• Aaron tweeting about his paternity leave
• ONCE
• Campfire

Ian & Aaron discuss the Laracon US announcement, going on ski vacations, route model bindings in Laravel, & more.

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• (00:00) - Ski In, Ski Out
• (09:00) - Aaron's Problem Is Beach
• (14:59) - Mailbag & PlanetScale Studios Follow Up
• (27:48) - Laracon US, Baby!
• (34:03) - The Bear
• (45:16) - Route Model Bindings

• Jonathan Coulton - Ikea
• Adopt Me! (Roblox Game)
• Laracon US 2024
• The Bear (FX)
• Aaron's Fast & Furious List
• Route Model Binding

Ian & Aaron are back(!) to discuss whatever happened with Ian's DB woes, what it's like to parent two sets of twins, the brand new PlanetScale Studio, & more.

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• (00:00) - From Zero To 6 Weeks
• (10:10) - Model Should Be Strict
• (18:53) - Don’t Muck Around With Select
• (23:35) - Gotta Have a Morph Map
• (27:45) - Huge Fan of the Enums
• (32:46) - Shedquarters?
• (38:46) - I’ve Got an Apartment Now!
• (51:17) - Aaron’s Static Site Package
• (54:39) - Update on Ian’s DB Woes
• (58:03) - Taking a Page From DHH
• (01:00:47) - Ian Gives Some Feedback

• Expired Car Seats - WebMD
• Ian's Tweet about AppServiceProvider
• Laravel News article on Morph Maps in Laravel
• Aaron's Tweet Thread on Shedquarters
• Aaron's Tweet about PlaneScale Studio
• table_open_cache Documentation
• PlanetScale's Pricing Page

Ian & Aaron are joined by Adam Wathan, founder of Tailwind, to discuss everything from the upcoming Tailwind Catalyst UI kit to hiring to a hypothetical Tailwind marketplace & more.

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• (00:00) - Baby Check In
• (09:49) - Catalyst UI Kit
• (25:50) - Headless UI Update
• (32:52) - Hiring is a Hard Thing
• (45:38) - Rewriting Tailwind With...Rust?
• (52:03) - A Hypothetical Tailwind Marketplace
• (01:10:30) - "What do you want to do, Adam?"
• (01:18:42) - Could Adam hire somebody to run the business?

• Adam Wathan on Twitter
• 12/4/23 Episode of Hackers Incorporated, Adam's podcast with Ben Orenstein
• Forced Colors Mode (Smashing Magazine)
• Tailwind UI All-Access
• Headless UI
• ThemeForest

Ian & Aaron discuss Laravel Pulse, DHH's upcoming Slack competitor, Rails copying Laravel, & more.

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• (00:00) - Helloooooooo
• (06:10) - Follow Up
• (10:00) - Laravel Pulse
• (20:09) - Video is Hot
• (35:55) - Ian's Sage Advice
• (53:06) - They're Gonna Sell Plenty!

• Justin Jackson's Mostly Technical x Seinfeld mashup video
• Omar Kilani on Twitter
• Laravel Pulse
• The Laravel Podcast episode discussing Laravel Pulse
• Doug DeMuro on YouTube
• DHH on 'This Week in Startups'

Ian & Aaron return after a mini break to talk about Aaron's new twin babies, Ian's MySQL 8 upgrade woes, the origin story of Eloquent, and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - One Week Ago Today
• (14:32) - Ian’s MySQL 8 Upgrade Woes 🤒
• (26:38) - Capital R Real Business
• (45:50) - Some Brief Thoughts on Postgres
• (50:59) - My Goal Is To Make Cool Things
• (01:02:26) - Aaron’s Not Static Static Setup
• (01:14:24) - Eloquent’s Origin Story
• (01:19:41) - Laravel Pulse
• (01:27:01) - Authentication Grab Bag
• (01:34:51) - Shoes Inside The House
• (01:40:13) - What’s Your Workout Routine?

• Ian's Balvenie 14
• Ian's tweet about CPU Utilization
• PlanetScale
• DynamoDB
• Alex DeBrie - The DynamoDB Book
• JSON vs. JSONB in Postgres
• Postgres - GIN
• Aaron's video about his website setup
• Laravel Pulse
• DHH's tweet about ONCE's Authentication Concern

Ian & Aaron are joined by Jeffrey Way to discuss everything from the ethics of retweeting compliments to the pros & cons of hiring people to help you and a *lot* more.

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• (00:00) - Costco Country
• (13:17) - Acceptable Behavior on X/Twitter
• (29:25) - Playing The Game Poorly
• (36:01) - Pretending To Be Humbled
• (46:55) - The Newspaper Was Twitter
• (52:55) - Hit Us With Your DHH Take
• (59:43) - That’s Ethically Murky To Me
• (01:08:56) - Finding the Right People
• (01:25:48) - The Word of the Day Is Manipulation
• (01:35:48) - Americans Don’t Agree on Anything
• (01:39:02) - Everybody Has a Course
• (01:46:09) - Laracasts’ Secret Sauce

• Jeffrey's tweet about retweeting compliments
• Laracasts
• DHH's manifesto aka Once.com
• SquaredAway
• 'PHP literally has the worst dev tooling' tweet

Ian & Aaron follow up on last week's component conversation, talk about Ian's new truck, debate if Laravel devs get paid less, & more.

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• (00:00) - The Final Take on Components
• (08:46) - Component Libraries Are Tempting
• (16:42) - Truck Talk 🛻
• (30:40) - Kid Update
• (41:52) - Do Laravel Devs Get Paid Less?
• (50:22) - A Sock Story 🧦

• Adam's Tweet about working on components
• Headless UI
• Article on the matte black Cybertruck
• Rivian R1T
• What is one-pedal driving?
• Link to Tweet about Laravel jobs paying less

Ian & Aaron are joined by Sam Selikoff to discuss React Server Actions & Server Components, why it's important to have one set of opinions, and yes, the infamous SQL Injection Slide at NextConf.

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• (00:00) - The Most Memed Man on the Internet
• (09:06) - High Floor vs. High Ceiling
• (19:20) - What the Hell Is Next?
• (23:22) - The Third Phase of React
• (29:09) - Your App Is Not Unique
• (35:23) - Server Actions & Server Components
• (51:33) - CallYourMom.Com
• (01:00:56) - Fat Models, Skinny Controllers
• (01:14:16) - One Set of Opinions

• Sam's talk at NextConf - 'How Next.js is delivering React's vision for the future'
• Ember.js
• BuildUI
• Turbo (formerly Turbolinks)
• Next
• Next.js Conf 2023
• Radix UI
• Remotion
• 'React is a programming language for UIs' (YouTube)
• AdonisJS

Ian & Aaron are joined by Caleb Porzio to talk about all things Livewire - how it makes money, the future of Livewire screencasts & components, and a ton more.

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Links:

• Tailwind Connect 2023
• Texts.com has been purchased by Automattic
• Caleb's Notes on Work podcast
• Ghost
• Livewire Partner Program
• Livewire Docs
• Livewire Screencasts
• Caleb introducing Wiretap onstage at Laracon 2023
• Alpine.js Components
• Make VS Code Awesome
• "Watering Holes"
• Jack McCade's PPP calculator
• shadcn Components
• Article on Shadow DOM

Ian & Aaron discuss Aaron's 'This Week, Last Week', Texts.com, the importance of socks, combining React with Livewire, & more.

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Note: This episode was recorded on Monday, October 23rd before the news of Texts.com being acquired by Automattic was announced.

Links:

• This Week, Next Week on YouTube
• Caleb Porzio's 'Notes on Work'
• PlanetScale on YouTube
• Texts.com
• Remotion
• wire:navigate aka Livewire 3 SPA mode
• Maximizers vs. Satisficers (Psychologist World article)
• Aaron's Socks (on Amazon)

Ian & Aaron discuss time zones, tunnels, Aaron's hatred of NYC, static site generators, and more.

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Links:

• Laravel News link to the sole() Query Builder Method
• Matt Swanson's tweet about First vs. Only
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (movie)
• The Sphere
• The Halal Guys
• Aaron's tweet about his spreadsheet app
• Handsontable
• AG Grid
• Static
• Culdesac Tempe
• Aaron's tweet about tunnel videos

Ian & Aaron discuss a recent minivan purchase, upcoming Laracons around the world, Taylor Swift vs. Lionel Messi, & more.

Oh - and they actually disagreed (!) about something.

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Links:

• 2022 Honda Odyssey
• CarGurus
• Aaron's appearance on the Indie Bites podcast
• Arvid Calles on Twitter
• Small Bets
• Laracon India
• Laracon EU
• Laracon AU
• Laravel News article on sole()
• Pico.css

Ian & Aaron discuss the dangers of reading documentation, the "long slow SaaS ramp of death", something that Aaron called "so freaking stupid", and more.

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Links for this week's episode:

• The Music Makers (podcast)
• The last episode of the Hammerstone podcast
• The long, slow, SaaS ramp of death
• Taylor's return to the Laravel podcast
• Unfinalize
• Aaron's tweet about reading the docs
• SingleStore Documentation
• Tailwind Docs

Ian & Aaron discuss the launch of Screencasting.com, whether or not babies are "super tough", down migrations in Laravel, and a lot more.

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Links for this week's show:

• ConvertKit Affiliate Program
• Laracon EU
• Josh Pigford on Twitter
• LaserTweets
• Ian's tweet about down migrations

Ian & Aaron discuss Screencasting.com, why Ian can't leave email alone, how and why the internet is a vast place, and much more.

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Links for this week's episode:

• Jason Beggs on Twitter
• Lemon Squeezy
• Caleb Porzio's Sushi
• Orbit, a flat-file db driver for Eloquent
• ConvertKit
• SendStack
• FlowTone
• Boris on Twitter
• Josh Pigford on Twitter
• Foundation on Apple TV+

Ian & Aaron discuss DHH & TypeScript, Once & the success of outrage marketing, Aaron's rules for Twitter, & more.

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Links for this week's episode:

• https://aaronfrancis.com/shedquarters
• https://once.com
• https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-70165c01
• https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-rails
• https://37signals.com/podcast/pick-a-fight/
• https://basecamp.com
• Ian discovered the joy of recycle()
• https://www.youtube.com/c/planetscale
• https://www.youtube.com/@aarondfrancis
• Aaron's rules for Twitter
• Transistor.fm

Ian & Aaron discuss what's new with Screencasting.com & HelloQuery, why LinkedIn might not be terrible, and why 2024 is going to be the year of Livewire.

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Links for this week's episode:

• Ian's tweet about Taylor Swift
• National Postal Museum
• TopGolf
• HelpSpot
• IanLandsman.com
• Aaron's tweet about working on his website
• Advanced Inertia by Boris Lepikhin
• Ian's tweet about the year of Livewire
• Philo Hermans' website

Ian & Aaron discuss Ian's vacation on the Outer Banks, Aaron's drive back from Vermont, Lift for Laravel, making videos for YouTube, & more.

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Links for this week's show:

• Lift for Laravel
• Hassan Zahirnia - designer
• PHP doesn't suck (anymore) - YouTube
• PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore | Prime Reacts - YouTube
• Ian's Tweet re: Photo Books
• SplitWise

Ian & Aaron discuss Messi, Aaron becoming an Oracle ACE, their shared accounting background, Livewire Volt, source diving, and more.

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Links for this week's show:

• MLS Season Pass
• Oracle ACE
• Aaron's accounting course
• ShowCode.app
• Livewire Volt

In this very special pilot episode of 'Mostly Technical', Ian & Aaron discuss everything from LK-99 to Screencasting.com & Aaron's 'Maximum Effort' era.

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Links for this week's show:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99
• Aaron's talk at Laracon 2023
• Screencasting.com
• ScreenFlow
• Lemon Squeezy
• Aaron on his 'Maximum Effort' era