Jake and Michael are joined by No Plans To Merge's Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne, as well as TJ Miller (not the actor), and Chris Gmyr to look back at 2021, forward to 2022, and a very one-sided end of year game of Family Feud.

A Christmas Extravaganza

Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers

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Tech News

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Software How-To

Jake and Michael discuss bowling, onboarding new junior developers right out of college, and the mindset required to be able to teach people the very basics of programming (and reading).

The one about onboarding junior developers

Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, nested validation, and the simplicity of using a batteries-included framework like Laravel. Show linksLaravel BootcampLaracastsLaravel Up and RunningOnramp to LaravelLaravel Shift

Laravel 11 learnings, nested validation, and the simplicity of Laravel

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Verbs, a take on event sourcing that strives to be simpler and more obvious to grok, children stealing device chargers, and some things to remember when upgrading to Laravel 11. Show linksVerbsLaravel Shift

Verbs, stolen chargers, and Laravel 11

Jake and Michael discuss using state machines to handle accurately and predictably handling error state, reviewing code and having your code reviewed, and converting request objects to data objects Show links
- XState
- Jake's State Machine's talk from Laracon US
- Spatie's Laravel Data

Handling error state, reviewing code, and request data objects

Jake and Michael discuss another of Michael's podcasts, Ripples, setting up review sites on Laravel Forge with Ryan Chandler's Forge Previewer, and speaking and attending Laracon(s). Show linksRipplesRyan ChandlerForge PreviewerLaracon USPHPTekHere’s why you should attend Laracon

A Christmas Extravaganza

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