Ian and Aaron discuss haters on the internet, doing more with AI, why Aaron is automating as much as possible with Telegram, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Weekends Are Hard

• Superman (2025)
• BvS
• Aaron's tweet about getting on his bad side
• Outro.fm
• Claude Code Best Practices
• Aaron's Newsletter
• Aaron chatting with his website through Telegram
• Telegram APIs

Ian and Aaron talk about what's going on with Outro, building slip & slides, Aaron's Mac Studio wizardry, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Ian Builds A Slip & Slide

• Traegar Grills
• Ian's Slip & Slide
• Aaron's town parade
• Walkway Over The Hudson
• Ryan Trahan visits Poughkeepsie
• Aaron's tweet about using his Mac Studio for ffmpeg
• yt-dlp 
• Podscan
• Transistor

Ian and Aaron talk about what’s new with Outro.fm, why Aaron suddenly has an embarrassment of Mac hardware riches, and what’s new with Aaron after last week’s dramatic episode.

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• (00:00) - Garage Trouble

• macOS Screen Sharing
• CalDigit TS4
• Apple Certified Refurbished
• Ryan Trahan
• Daniel Negreanu
• Tony Robbins
• Pavel Durov

Ian and Aaron talk about Ian’s new side project….which already has a domain name (!?!) before digging deep into an even bigger bombshell: Steve is leaving Try Hard?

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• (00:00) - Ian's Side Project

• The Rewatchables
• Buffer
• Transistor.fm
• Outro.fm
• Producer Steve aka Steve Tenuto on Twitter
• Turso

Ian and Aaron talk about UI Kits in the era of AI, dreams of being at Laracon, Aaron’s next steps, Ian’s mysterious side project, and more.

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• (00:00) - Father's Day

• Barnes & Noble
• Glauber Costa on X
• The Panel (podcast)
• HelpSpot
• Instrumental Components

Ian and Aaron talk about Ian’s new love of Codex, what happened after “panic mode”, Aaron’s weekend with the guys, and more.

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• (00:00) - Table Captaining

• The Bedford by Martha Stewart
• Justin Jackson's Bluesky post about ads working
• OpenAI's Codex
• Texas Hill Country

Ian and Aaron talk about the disastrous Screencasting.com launch and what’s next for Aaron, Steve, and Try Hard.

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• (00:00) - AI Aaron Follow Up

• https://screencasting.com/
• SparkToro
• Jason Beggs

Ian and Aaron discuss the need for an AI Newsletter, being beamed up to the mothership, web components, and more.

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• (00:00) - Cushy W-2's

• Introducing Claude 4
• Junie, by JetBrains
• Windsurf
• Josh Pigford on X
• Aaron's tweet about AI
• Producer Dave's tweet about joining Laravel
• Ian Landsman & Andrey Butov's Bootstrapped.fm
• Adam's tweet about his love letter to Rails
• Instrumental Components 
• Paula's Runway Cafe

Ian and Aaron discuss a certain viral tweet about Livewire, the benefits of being a regular, Aaron's video about Cloudflare, & more.

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• (00:00) - Ian's New Toy

• Tickrmeter
• WSOP bracelet
• Branick Weix's tweet about devs positioning themselves as Livewire devs
• Notes on Work: The war of making something
• Aaron's video w/ Josh Howard of Cloudflare

Ian and Aaron talk about getting feisty on Twitter, a possible AI bubble, NativePHP, an awesome game idea for Laracon, and more.

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• (00:00) - 93 Degrees

• Low Energy Jeb
• Aaron's reply to the quote tweet criticizing DHH
• Open AI - Vector embeddings
• Drew Clements on Bluesky
• NativePHP post re: gross sales