Mostly Technical

By Ian Landsman and Aaron FrancisBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

Mostly Technical episodes

October 06152: Feel The AGI
Ian and Aaron discuss OpenAI's Dots, Aaron's trip to Denver, working with tests in the AI era, big things coming to Laravel, and a whole lot more.
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(00:00) - America, Coke Zero
(07:14) - Aaron Went To Denver
(09:58) - Big Things Coming To Laravel
(18:46) - The Milwaukee Brewers
(26:41) - A Reverse Epiphany
(37:15) - Mini Motorways
(46:45) - Dot & AI Agents
(01:03:14) - Can AI Companies Make Money?
(01:09:49) - Tests
Links:
America Coke Zero video
Laravel New video
All-In Podcast
Rogue Amoeba
Laravel News
Name.com
Milwaukee Brewers
Mini Motorways
Dot by OpenAI
Pest Browser Testing
1 hr 18 min
September 29151: Tokenmogged
Ian and Aaron discuss Opus 5.5, Aaron's HomeOS, Ian's token usage, what's new with Aaron's office, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Ian Loves Developers!
(05:16) - I Have Become Aaron, Destroyer of Worlds
(12:11) - Update on Aaron's Office
(22:18) - Orbin & Mogging
(26:36) - Update on Jev
(31:19) - HomeOS
(48:23) - Opus 5.5
(55:48) - The Best Time Ever To Raise Prices
Links:
Jesse Hanley
Claude Design
Opus 5.5
RMFG
Shapeoko
Ian's tweet on his token usage
Jev
Aaron's tweet about Home OS
Tiller
Plaid
Yodlee
Cloudflare Durable Objects
Jason Lemkin
1 hr 1 min
September 22150: Everybody Loves Jev
Ian and Aaron discuss the arrival of Jev, whether or not people should take microeconomics classes, Aaron's new office, raising prices, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Solo Parenting
(09:00) - Ian's Very Mad About People on Twitter
(17:12) - People Should Take Microeconomics (?)
(31:04) - Aaron Is Leasing An Office!
(45:22) - Jev!
(01:04:56) - Should you charge more or less?
Links:
Torchy's Tacos
Papa John's
Jon Yongfook's tweet on SaaS moats (retweeted by Aaron)
Mintlify
Cursor's migration off Sanity (Lee Robinson)
Bannerbear
X-Carve
Shapeoko
Jev
Codex
Jesse Hanley's tweet on raising prices
1 hr 17 min
September 16149: I Am The Harness
Ian and Aaron talk about their trip to Vegas, what's cooking with Outro & Solo, Ian's travel woes, something called a Zoox, and so much more.
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(00:00) - A Weak Vocal Constitution
(13:55) - CabanaConf Takeaways
(21:36) - Build Bento on Bento?
(28:18) - Burning Tokens for Solo
(35:46) - Fixes for Outro
(39:59) - Training a Model
(48:30) - What if Solo had a universal agent?
(01:00:46) - Ian's Travel Woes
(01:07:38) - Aaron Took a Zoox
Links:
Tailscale
Outro
Solo
19th
Laravel AI SDK
Rivian self-driving
Aaron's data structures and algorithms prompt
Ian's tweet on moving from medium to high on Astra
Zoox
1 hr 17 min
September 08148: AI Psychosis Day
Ian and Aaron discuss the release of GPT-6 "Astra", building Solo for Linux, Ian's camera setup, why Outro isn't out yet, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Happy Labor Day
(03:02) - Rippin Astra Tokens
(17:04) - Solo On Linux?
(26:09) - 4000 Photos of Horses
(41:04) - What's New With Outro?
(49:27) - Aaron's Training a Model
(01:00:32) - No More Astra Left
(01:09:06) - Vegas, Baby. Vegas.
Links:
GPT-6 Astra
Blender
ElevenLabs
Aaron's tweet on the fantasy world he's building
Aaron's tweet on writing in-depth plans/specs
Omarchy
Aaron's tweet on Tailscale
Ian's tweet with horse photos
Amp Orbs
Lightroom
Eric Barnes' football photos
Ian's tweet on the Sony 50-150mm f/2
Viltrox AF 85mm f/2 EVO (Sony E)
Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G
Jason Cohen (A Smart Bear)
Solo
1 hr 14 min
September 01147: It's Orbin' Time
Ian and Aaron discuss the release of Solo v0.10, Aaron's trip to Boise, Ian's trip to the fair, why Ian's all in on Orbs, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Producer Steve Got Married!
(07:53) - Aaron's Unifying Theory on Wedding Toasts
(17:02) - Ian Went To The Fair
(27:30) - Notion? (and Linear)
(35:28) - Moats
(40:40) - Solo's Huge New Release
(55:41) - It's Orbin' Time
(01:10:30) - Aaron's Credit Card Strategy
(01:24:28) - Book Update
Links:
Aaron's wedding photo (Steve Tenuto's wedding)
Steve Tenuto on X
Ian's tweet on moats
Solo
Aaron's Solo release thread
Amp Orbs
Matt Stenson on X
Amex Gold Card
Amex Platinum Card
AwardWallet
Great Illustrated Classics
1 hr 28 min
August 25146: Do Things & Tell People
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's trip to Copenhagen for Laravel Live DK, meeting DHH, having "the hell trip home", using AI to beat Air Canada's bureaucracy, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Back In the Land of the Free
(01:52) - Happy Anniversary!
(04:22) - Aaron's First Intl Biz Class Flight
(12:04) - Laravel Live DK
(22:05) - Aaron's Talk & Meeting DHH
(32:58) - DHH & Taylor's Fireside Chat
(42:27) - The Spoon Is An Airplane
(56:22) - The Hell Trip Home
(01:17:41) - Scheming With Codex
(01:27:34) - A Quick Controversy
Links:
Abigail Otwell's airport photo (Aaron in line behind Taylor & Abigail)
Laravel Live DK
DHH on Twitter/X
Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million (Omarchy blog)
Geocodio
Tom Crary on Twitter/X
Taylor's video of Aaron trying caviar
Flighty (iOS app)
Ian's tweet of the chairs Aaron slept on
1 hr 33 min
August 19Sweet Hang #5: My Psychosis Moment w/ Jesse Hanley
Ian is joined by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to discuss everything from Grok Bot to finding your ideal customer to the future of knowledge work and so much more.
Sponsored by Bento, DropInBlog, Valorin Security, and Svix.
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(00:00) - Settle All Family Business
(02:04) - Grok's Bot
(12:43) - AI & Knowledge Work
(35:17) - How much can one person automate?
(46:42) - Will normies use bots?
(59:29) - Jesse's videos
(01:12:17) - Growing Revenue
(01:20:11) - Finding your ideal customer
(01:33:56) - Cameras
(01:41:51) - Life in Japan
Links:
Jesse Hanley / @jessethanley — founder-in-the-park videos live here
Grok "bot" agent app (xAI)
OpenClaw
Hermes Agent (Nous Research)
Less Annoying CRM
Ben Orenstein
Laravel Live Japan
Tatami
Max MRR article
Hidden Multipliers (book/audiobook)
Find Your Carol workshop
A Smart Bear blog
Jason Cohen
Sony FX30
Sony a6000 (body)
Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 (Sony E)
Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II
Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM OSS (Ian's)
Kase Filters
Patrick McKenzie
1 hr 50 min
August 18145: Marketing As Engineering
Ian & Aaron discuss what's coming to Solo, how Aaron's running marketing at Laravel, why Ian swears by a cabana, and so much more.
Sponsored by Bento, DropInBlog, Valorin Security, and Svix.
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(00:00) - Cabana Life
(12:44) - Using Linear for Marketing
(22:57) - Who's agent should you use?
(33:02) - Marketing = Engineering?
(45:37) - Aaron's hit tweet
(56:42) - Solo Updates
(01:04:27) - Laravel Live Denmark
Links:
Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach
Martha's Vineyard
Surf Style
Jason Cohen has the DropInBlog founder on the show
Jason Cohen's new book, Hidden Multipliers
Laracon US photos
Sam Sappenfield's tweet
"We built laracon.us/photos. We're not developers."
Aaron's codebase-audit tweet
Soloterm
Laravel Live Denmark
Aaron's DSA audit prompt gist
1 hr 11 min
August 11144: First Week as VP
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's first week as VP of Marketing & Community at Laravel, why he's writing manifestos in Notion, Ian's huge week with AI coding, and an update on Nachogate.
Plus Ian's live from a cabana, ending Token Town (RIP to a real one), and so much more.
Sponsored by Bento, DropInBlog, Valorin Security, and Svix.
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(00:00) - Live from a cabana
(03:26) - The End of Token Town
(10:39) - Aaron's First Week
(28:03) - A few manifestos
(44:24) - 1:1's
(53:40) - Ian's Mega AI Coding Week
(01:10:21) - Nachogate Update
(01:12:43) - Aaron's Studio Update
(01:18:25) - The next Illustrated Classics
Links:
Aaron's Notion setup
Taylor's tweet about Trello
Rands In Repose: The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster
John O'Nolan's tweet indicating some discrepancies with the nacho story
Great Illustrated Classics
1 hr 23 min