Ian and Aaron talk about 20 years of HelpSpot, Aaron's big week on Twitter, and....talk about burying the lede....Aaron's got ARR!  Subscription revenue!  It's happening!

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• (00:00) - A Weekend Story

• Paperless Post
• Fuji X100VI
• Ricoh GR IV
• Laravel New
• Ian's hiring!
• Aaron's tweet
• "Put Food On My Family"

Ian and Aaron talk about the first ever Wire:live conference, what's new in Livewire 4, the best book Aaron's ever read, and....oh no.  Oh no.  Ian decided to `laravel new`.  Again.

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• (00:00) - Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

• Wire:live
• Vehikl
• Blaze
• Forte
• Rainbow Bridge
• Digital Minimalism
• The Intellectual Life
• Advent of Vibe Coding

Ian and Aaron talk about everything from leasing horses to Aaron's new studio addition to what comes next for Database School and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Low Energy Aaron

• "Low-energy Jeb"
• Behind the scenes of Aaron's new setup
• http://nyblackboard.com
• Blackmagic DeckLink
• tldraw
• The DynamoDB Book
• @fideloper

Ian and Aaron are joined this week by Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts, to talk about everything from their opinions about JavaScript to the evolution of Laracasts to modeling behavior for your kids and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Optimizing Everything

• Amaran
• TanStack
• Remix
• 3 Ninjas (1992)
• Suno

Ian and Aaron talk about how Outro is shaping up, why we all need a handyman, why Ian is bullish on Sora, what's happening with Aaron's next batch of courses, and more.

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Links:

• MLB Postseason
• Brick
• Stratechery
• Sora
• Livewire Blaze
• Tuple
• Focus Lab

Ian and Aaron talk about Aaron's recent "Vision Quest", accidentally inventing transcendental meditation, realizing he's addicted to Twitter, and the reaction he got online.  Plus Ian went to Philly to play poker & more.

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Links:

• Brick
• Transcendental Meditation
• Aaron's tweet about his vision quest
• Ian's Bsky post about ice cream
• Ian's travel pillow
• Thule compression packing cube

Ian and Aaron recap Commit Your Code 2025, dive into the business of Aaron Francis, and wonder what we're all going to do with this AI slop.

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• (00:00) - 36 Hour Adventure

• 'Survivor' bar in Boston
• Commit Your Code 2025
• Aaron's Talk at CYC'25
• Justin Jackson's 'The Panel' podcast
• Aaron's CodeRabbit short film
• Meta's AI slop announcement

Ian and Aaron are joined by Michele Hansen, CEO of Geocodio, for the first in a series of Sweet Hangs to talk about everything from Aaron's upcoming vision quest to beard oils to why you need to interview your customers (and potential customers) and so much more.

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• (00:00) - The Quintessential Laravel Company

• Geocodio
• Deploy Empathy
• Software Social Podcast
• TJ Miller on X
• Avenue Q
• JBTD Timeline
• Frontend Mentor

Ian and Aaron talk about PlanetScale, launching Aaron's new YouTube channels, traction tables that will change your life, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Aaron Wanted It All

• The future of this channel (Aaron's YouTube)
• Aaron's interview with PlanetScale CEO Sam Lambert
• MySQL for Developers
• Aaron's Traction Table

Ian and Aaron talk about adventures with TypeScript, huge updates re: Outro & Database School, and revisit exactly what happened with Once.com.

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• (00:00) - Follow Up

• Jason Beggs on Twitter
• Reka UI
• Focus Lab
• Rails World
• Bourne Franchise
• Campfire
• Fizzy Walkthrough
• This One's for the Girls