This week on MT,
@calebporzio
waited until the end of the episode to drop a bombshell on
@aarondfrancis
:
He thinks he wants to event source.
😳
They got him!
This week on MT,
@calebporzio
pitched
@jackmcdade
on some ideas for
@statamic
, including embracing SQLite (and abandoning flat files altogether) and possibly doubling down on Laravel 👀
Agree? Disagree? Let us know ⬇️
On this week's episode of Mostly Technical,
@jeffrey_way
talks with
@aarondfrancis
&
@ianlandsman
about what exactly Twitter is, feeling shame when you promote your work, having a personal brand, & more.
This week on MT,
@calebporzio
joins
@aarondfrancis
to talk about an interesting idea for his new project:
What if it skipped the beta step entirely and was launched as a 1.0 on day one? 🔥🔥🔥
This week on MT,
@calebporzio
has a business idea for
@aarondfrancis
that starts with an important question:
Why is Torchlight free?
Why does he hate money when Torchlight is so great?
Why can't Aaron charge Caleb money?! 💰
Big shout out to
@laracasts
for sponsoring the show!
We literally wouldn't be where we are without Laracasts. Thanks so much to Jeffrey and the crew there for the support.
If you're not already a Laracasts subscriber be sure to check it out, it's the best way to improve your
This week on Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
explains to
@ianlandsman
why he uses gloves to change diapers, and Ian has some bad news for Aaron about what comes after diapers.
(Hint: it's more 💩)
We're going to be live streaming with
@jackmcdade
and friends at 10am eastern! We'll be talking the future of Statamic, CMSs, and more.
The show will also go out tomorrow as our normal podcast if you can't make the stream.
This week on MT
@ianlandsman
reminisces about the good old days of phpBB which prompts
@aarondfrancis
to break some important news:
He's bringing the forum back 🤘
Plus why Reddit sucks, why you can't trust some user named "Buttcrack72", and more 💥
This week on MT
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
talk about a very important issue:
Why are they both so tired?! 🥱
Plus:
- Why does morning guy always post on social media?
- Does anybody care about afternoon guy?
It's an action packed two minutes y'all.
This week on MT,
@aarondfrancis
reveals his scandalous history with phishing,
@ianlandsman
admits he was once an accomplice, and both wonder if a podcast conversation is covered by attorney-client privilege 🧑⚖️
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
pitches
@aarondfrancis
on making courses for enterprise customers, which causes Aaron to reveal a secret weapon with 40 years of experience: his dad! 👴🏻
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
can't believe that
@aarondfrancis
made light AND dark mode videos for his new course (?!) and the two talk about why a little remarkability is never a bad thing 💥
This week on MT,
@aarondfrancis
has a scorching hot take: everybody's updating their Laravel apps too quickly!
@ianlandsman
then agrees (!) and uncorks an even spicier take 🌶️
25,000+ downloads for our first 25 episodes - thanks to everybody who’s listened, shared, and yelled back at the podcast every time you wish you could chime in on the conversation 📣
.
@ianlandsman
is still not feeling great but we've got a special guest joining
@aarondfrancis
on this week's show 👀
Tune in at 8am Eastern tomorrow to find out who our mystery guest is....or you can drop your guesses below in the replies! 🔍🕵️
In a delightfully ridiculous clip from this week's episode,
@taylorotwell
reveals his dream retirement plan,
@ianlandsman
wants to be a movie producer (?), and
@aarondfrancis
's ready to be a Rick Rubin of something.
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
tells
@aarondfrancis
that he's in a bit of a panic.
He's got an idea (he's also got an idea about ideas) but not enough time to do anything about it!
But what if....what if he found somebody to partner with?
Every new venture needs a Master Plan™️
This week on MT
@ianlandsman
&
@adamwathan
help
@aarondfrancis
figure out the master plan and try to answer an important question - what do the first two months look like?
This week on MT,
@aarondfrancis
decides he wants to be more 'Indie Tycoon' than 'Indie Hacker' before
@ianlandsman
blows his mind & pitches him on a potentially lucrative line of business 💰
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
asked
@aarondfrancis
about the future and what comes next, so of course Aaron turned the tables on Ian and asked what he thought Aaron *should* do.
If you were advising Aaron right now, what would you suggest he do next?
This week on Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
talks to
@ianlandsman
about his discovery that the youths are seemingly okay with tracking each other on their phones?!? 📱🗺️
This week on MT
@aarondfrancis
&
@ianlandsman
tackle a fantastic question from a listener: what's the best identifier to use with Laravel & databases?
(Believe it or not, Aaron & Ian had some thoughts)
On this week's episode,
@calebporzio
talks with
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
about the guilt he sometimes feels when he reaches out to his email list and wonders if he's providing enough value to justify reaching out.
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
recaps
@aarondfrancis
's run as the main character on Twitter in the aftermath of being laid off & Aaron talks about how it felt to receive such an outpouring of support ❤️
In our latest episode
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
ponder exactly this question - why isn't somebody in the Rails community cloning what's happening in Laravel & make some serious cash?!
On
@MostlyTechPod
there is a discussion about "Why not just clone everything in Laravel to Rails and make $$$"
My thoughts:
- Structurally Rails is not operated by a company like Laravel Inc so there are fewer "blessed" first-party components, it's the wild west
- Rails is
This week on Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
reveals that he's Big Livewire now,
@ianlandsman
celebrates, & the two discuss when to use Inertia vs. why they default to using
@LaravelLivewire
more and more ⚡️
This week on MT,
@Ianlandsman
surprises
@aarondfrancis
with an idea:
What if they did a contest to let people apply to have them invest in their apps? 💰
Aaron, needless to say, loves this idea.
On this week's episode
@ianlandsman
,
@aarondfrancis
, &
@jeffrey_way
go deep and talk about how we're hardwired to defend our "tribe", how that's translated to how we behave online, the idea of shared enemies and shared goods, & more.
This week on Mostly Technical
@ianlandsman
pitches
@aarondfrancis
(jokingly?) on a "pure vengeance" plan and Aaron decides he's going to enter his hot & rich era.
This week
@aarondfrancis
is joined by special guest
@calebporzio
(filling in for
@ianlandsman
) to talk about everything from solo parenting to Caleb's new project to rejuvenating Torchlight and a lot more.
PHP/Laravel is probably the most enjoyable language/Framework to work with, but it’s also the least paying. Ever since I switched to Go/Node my salary almost doubled.
This week on MT,
@calebporzio
launched Flux live and started getting reports the site was too slow - so what should he do? Size up the droplet? How big of a droplet?!? 😰
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
are on hand to advise, cajole, and offer encouragement 🤝
This week on Mostly Technical
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
talk about (amongst other things) Lift for Laravel, a package from
@wendell_adriel
, and they have lots of thoughts and ✨ feelings ✨ about attributes.
To hear the full conversation, head over to
This week on Mostly Technical
@ianlandsman
talks to
@aarondfrancis
about his final take on component libraries after last week's chat with
@calebporzio
and how he's living on the absolute bleeding edge 🔥
Mostly Technical has reached 50,000 Downloads!
Thanks to everybody who’s been listening, sharing, and subscribing to episodes - we really appreciate it.
Next up - 100k 🚀
This week on Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
gives us an update about his soda consumption,
@ianlandsman
admits the truth about being a morning person, and neither is particularly happy about it ☹️
This week on MT
@ianlandsman
pitches
@aarondfrancis
on the idea of hiring somebody to help with marketing and the two of them dream about what's possible 💭
If this sounds like you or somebody you know, listen to the end of the clip for info on how to get in touch with Aaron 🤝
This week
@aarondfrancis
is joined once again by
@calebporzio
to discuss everything that happened at
@LaraconUS
(including a basketball game?!) before diving deep into Flux, the online reaction to the price, and what comes next.
This week
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
are back discussing 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
Thanks to
Say hello to Hat Guy 👋🧢
@aarondfrancis
asks
@ianlandsman
all about his new 🦖 hat, which unfortunately has a fatal flaw (despite how freaking cool it looks)
This week on MT,
@aarondfrancis
tells
@ianlandsman
all about making his first hire at Try Hard Studios - who he hired, how a cold DM (!) led to them getting hired, what they'll be doing, & more ✨
In Episode 04 of Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
talks about the rewards (potentially unlimited upside) and, frankly, the risks (potential embarrassment) of sharing what you're working on before it's finished.
This week on MT,
@aarondfrancis
announces that he's working on a physical product!
@ianlandsman
is of course intrigued and tries to get as much detail out f Aaron as possible...and you all get to try to guess what it is 🕵️
Is it the first one? The only one? What does first mean? Who even knows!
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
try to figure out exactly what First & Sole mean and everything goes completely off the rails 🛤️
This week on MT,
@ianlandsman
tells
@aarondfrancis
about how he fell victim to not just any old phishing attack , but the phishing attack of his dreams 🥰
This week on Mostly Technical,
@aarondfrancis
workshops a take on Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar with
@ianlandsman
& special guest
@dhicking
, and yes, it involves the Fast & Furious franchise.
This week on MT
@samwhoo
drops by to chat with
@ianlandsman
&
@aarondfrancis
, so of course the "business dad" had to give him some advice (which caused Sam to admit he's "crushingly British" 🇬🇧)