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Mostly Technical
Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis
Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 82

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🇨🇦 Canada - technology
03/05/2025#74🇨🇦 Canada - technology
02/05/2025#70🇨🇦 Canada - technology
06/09/2024#89
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49: Stay Lean, Stay Clean with Caleb Porzio
Episode 49
mardi 3 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:52:35
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
Links:
- 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)
48: Mostly NPTM with Caleb Porzio & Daniel Coulbourne
Episode 48
mardi 20 août 2024 • Duration 01:36:23
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
Links:
- 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
39: Mostly HVAC with Dan Myers, CEO of Flair
Episode 39
jeudi 13 juin 2024 • Duration 35:51
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
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38: Morning Person
Episode 38
mardi 11 juin 2024 • Duration 01:10:59
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?
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37: S-Tier Software with Taylor Otwell
Episode 37
mardi 4 juin 2024 • Duration 01:16:23
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
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36: Business Dad
Episode 36
mardi 28 mai 2024 • Duration 01:19:36
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
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35: Laravel vs. JavaScript with Dax & Adam Elmore
Episode 35
mardi 21 mai 2024 • Duration 01:28:22
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
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34: It's All Vibes
Episode 34
mardi 14 mai 2024 • Duration 01:15:29
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 🧦
Links:
- 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
33: The Secret
Episode 33
mardi 7 mai 2024 • Duration 01:20:02
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
Links:
- 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)
32: AI Therapy Connoisseur
Episode 32
mardi 30 avril 2024 • Duration 01:14:03
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
Sponsored by Buttondown, LaraJobs, & Screencasting.com.