Mostly Technical

By Ian Landsman and Aaron FrancisBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

Mostly Technical episodes

February 14, 202423: Real Dad Stuff
Ian & Aaron discuss everything from cryotherapy to the ugliness of most B2B apps to Aaron's first time doing meditation and a lot more.
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(00:00) - Super Bowl Update
(03:05) - PlanetScale Pricing Update
(05:21) - A Valuable Idea
(09:28) - Ian's Invisalign
(17:44) - Adorable Dad Stories
(25:23) - What Do You Need A Writer For?
(32:17) - ONCE / Campfire Update
(41:56) - Beautiful Failures
(46:54) - Meditation, Cryotherapy, & Cupcakes
(01:00:30) - Screencasting.com Update
Links:
How many people watched the Super Bowl? (CBS)
Who shot J.R.?
PlanetScale Pricing Page
Invisalign
Ian on the 'Build Your SaaS' podcast - "Is ONCE enough?"
Cryotherapy (Wikipedia)
1 hr 3 min
February 06, 202422: My Mind Vise
Ian & Aaron give out their Super Bowl Predictions, recap the first wave of announcements from Laracon EU, & more.
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(00:00) - Hit You With Some Woo
(21:55) - Wipe Conservationist
(24:47) - Super Bowl Predictions
(28:46) - Laravel 11
(37:26) - You’re a Database Man
(42:23) - Herd Pro
(49:27) - Laravel Reverb
(01:00:04) - Odds & Ends
Links:
Aaron's tweet about his diagnosis
'Healing Back Pain' by John Sarno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
Explosions In The Sky
Methotrexate
What's coming to Laravel 11
Eloquent Power Joins on GitHub
Laravel Herd
Laravel Reverb
Laravel Octane
Laracon EU
1 hr 5 min
January 31, 202421: Your Glove Situation
Ian & Aaron discuss getting sick, something called 'The Suburban Dad Zone', using gloves to change diapers (!?!), and more.
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(00:00) - We're Playing Doctor
(11:32) - Back on Paternity Leave
(16:18) - Down There in the Danger Zone
(24:43) - Suburban Dad Scale
(29:06) - Should I Gamble?
(37:22) - ONCE & Campfire
(46:40) - Cloudflare! Cloudflare!!
Links:
Lyme disease
Aaron tweeting about his paternity leave
ONCE
Campfire
50 min
January 19, 202420: A Man of Culture
Ian & Aaron discuss the Laracon US announcement, going on ski vacations, route model bindings in Laravel, & more.
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(00:00) - Ski In, Ski Out
(09:00) - Aaron's Problem Is Beach
(14:59) - Mailbag & PlanetScale Studios Follow Up
(27:48) - Laracon US, Baby!
(34:03) - The Bear
(45:16) - Route Model Bindings
Links:
Jonathan Coulton - Ikea
Adopt Me! (Roblox Game)
Laracon US 2024
The Bear (FX)
Aaron's Fast & Furious List
Route Model Binding
1 hr 1 min
January 11, 202419: It's Content, Baby!
Ian & Aaron are back(!) to discuss whatever happened with Ian's DB woes, what it's like to parent two sets of twins, the brand new PlanetScale Studio, & more.
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(00:00) - From Zero To 6 Weeks
(10:10) - Model Should Be Strict
(18:53) - Don’t Muck Around With Select
(23:35) - Gotta Have a Morph Map
(27:45) - Huge Fan of the Enums
(32:46) - Shedquarters?
(38:46) - I’ve Got an Apartment Now!
(51:17) - Aaron’s Static Site Package
(54:39) - Update on Ian’s DB Woes
(58:03) - Taking a Page From DHH
(01:00:47) - Ian Gives Some Feedback
Links:
Expired Car Seats - WebMD
Ian's Tweet about AppServiceProvider
Laravel News article on Morph Maps in Laravel
Aaron's Tweet Thread on Shedquarters
Aaron's Tweet about PlaneScale Studio
table_open_cache Documentation
PlanetScale's Pricing Page
1 hr 12 min
December 14, 202318: You Need Tinker Time with Adam Wathan
Ian & Aaron are joined by Adam Wathan, founder of Tailwind, to discuss everything from the upcoming Tailwind Catalyst UI kit to hiring to a hypothetical Tailwind marketplace & more.
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(00:00) - Baby Check In
(09:49) - Catalyst UI Kit
(25:50) - Headless UI Update
(32:52) - Hiring is a Hard Thing
(45:38) - Rewriting Tailwind With...Rust?
(52:03) - A Hypothetical Tailwind Marketplace
(01:10:30) - "What do you want to do, Adam?"
(01:18:42) - Could Adam hire somebody to run the business?
Links:
Adam Wathan on Twitter
12/4/23 Episode of Hackers Incorporated, Adam's podcast with Ben Orenstein
Forced Colors Mode (Smashing Magazine)
Tailwind UI All-Access
Headless UI
ThemeForest
1 hr 31 min
December 06, 202317: Ecosystem of Cards
Ian & Aaron discuss Laravel Pulse, DHH's upcoming Slack competitor, Rails copying Laravel, & more.
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(00:00) - Helloooooooo
(06:10) - Follow Up
(10:00) - Laravel Pulse
(20:09) - Video is Hot
(35:55) - Ian's Sage Advice
(53:06) - They're Gonna Sell Plenty!
Links:
Justin Jackson's Mostly Technical x Seinfeld mashup video
Omar Kilani on Twitter
Laravel Pulse
The Laravel Podcast episode discussing Laravel Pulse
Doug DeMuro on YouTube
DHH on 'This Week in Startups'
1 hr 6 min
November 30, 202316: We Didn't Have JSON In My Day
Ian & Aaron return after a mini break to talk about Aaron's new twin babies, Ian's MySQL 8 upgrade woes, the origin story of Eloquent, and a lot more.
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(00:00) - One Week Ago Today
(14:32) - Ian’s MySQL 8 Upgrade Woes 🤒
(26:38) - Capital R Real Business
(45:50) - Some Brief Thoughts on Postgres
(50:59) - My Goal Is To Make Cool Things
(01:02:26) - Aaron’s Not Static Static Setup
(01:14:24) - Eloquent’s Origin Story
(01:19:41) - Laravel Pulse
(01:27:01) - Authentication Grab Bag
(01:34:51) - Shoes Inside The House
(01:40:13) - What’s Your Workout Routine?
Links:
Ian's Balvenie 14
Ian's tweet about CPU Utilization
PlanetScale
DynamoDB
Alex DeBrie - The DynamoDB Book
JSON vs. JSONB in Postgres
Postgres - GIN
Aaron's video about his website setup
Laravel Pulse
DHH's tweet about ONCE's Authentication Concern
1 hr 47 min
November 14, 202315: Farming, Threadbois, & Meme Lords with Jeffrey Way
Ian & Aaron are joined by Jeffrey Way to discuss everything from the ethics of retweeting compliments to the pros & cons of hiring people to help you and a *lot* more.
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(00:00) - Costco Country
(13:17) - Acceptable Behavior on X/Twitter
(29:25) - Playing The Game Poorly
(36:01) - Pretending To Be Humbled
(46:55) - The Newspaper Was Twitter
(52:55) - Hit Us With Your DHH Take
(59:43) - That’s Ethically Murky To Me
(01:08:56) - Finding the Right People
(01:25:48) - The Word of the Day Is Manipulation
(01:35:48) - Americans Don’t Agree on Anything
(01:39:02) - Everybody Has a Course
(01:46:09) - Laracasts’ Secret Sauce
Links:
Jeffrey's tweet about retweeting compliments
Laracasts
DHH's manifesto aka Once.com
SquaredAway
'PHP literally has the worst dev tooling' tweet
1 hr 54 min
November 07, 202314: Nobody Uses Trucks For That
Ian & Aaron follow up on last week's component conversation, talk about Ian's new truck, debate if Laravel devs get paid less, & more.
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(00:00) - The Final Take on Components
(08:46) - Component Libraries Are Tempting
(16:42) - Truck Talk 🛻
(30:40) - Kid Update
(41:52) - Do Laravel Devs Get Paid Less?
(50:22) - A Sock Story 🧦
Links:
Adam's Tweet about working on components
Headless UI
Article on the matte black Cybertruck
Rivian R1T
What is one-pedal driving?
Link to Tweet about Laravel jobs paying less
55 min