Mostly Technical

By Ian Landsman and Aaron FrancisBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

Mostly Technical episodes

November 25, 2025108: Database School Launch 🚀
Ian and Aaron talk about the launch of Database School - the branding, everything he did the morning of the launch, building the site with Gemini, and so much more. Plus the world championship of….bagels?
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(00:00) - Every Second Mattered
(08:40) - The Morning Of
(15:30) - The Last Launch?
(18:07) - Walking With Adam
(20:01) - Pricing
(28:28) - Doing It Live
(36:21) - We're Talking Logos
(44:14) - Closing Thoughts On The Launch
(49:21) - Built With Gemini
(01:06:23) - World Championship of Bagels
Links:
Nightwatch
OG Kit
Forge
Laravel Cashier
Jamey Gannon on Twitter
Aaron's Blooper Reel
Adam's Morning Walk
Laravel VPS
Nano Banana Pro
Gemini 3
Filament
Starship Bagel
1 hr 10 min
November 20, 2025Sweet Hang #3: Matching Tattoos w/ John O'Nolan
Ian and Aaron are joined by John O'Nolan, creator of Ghost, to talk about double Laravel New'ing, side projects for your side projects, building an RSS reader, mastering Claude Code, and so much more.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, No Compromises, and Ittybit.
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(00:00) - Double Laravel New'd
(08:52) - Claude Code Power User
(21:26) - Queues!
(32:58) - Your Side Project Has A Side Project
(48:37) - All About Ghost
(58:12) - Advice for Laravel New Believers
Links:
Ghost
Marco Arment
Overcast
ChartMogul
Joel Spolsky on why you shouldn't ever do a rewrite
1 hr 14 min
November 18, 2025107: A Ruthless Capitalist
Ian and Aaron discuss screen time for kids, the impending launch of Database School, why Ian acquired Bootstrapped.fm, and more.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, No Compromises, and Ittybit.
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(00:00) - The Screen Time Conundrum
(12:56) - Public Service Announcement
(23:18) - Database School Is Launching Next Week!
(32:26) - Thanksgiving Plans
(38:29) - Acquiring Bootstrapped.fm
Links:
Wall Street
The Secret Life of Pets
Claude Code
Browser testing in Pest 4
Database School
Jason Beggs
"Rich enough not to waste time"
Andrey Butov
Bootstrapped Episode 43: The UserScape Developers
Bootstrapped Episode 46: Jeffrey Way of Laracasts
Pluribus
Is It Cake?
53 min
November 11, 2025106: We've Got ARR!
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!
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Ittybit.
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(00:00) - A Weekend Story
(15:25) - Sick Kids
(20:12) - Laravel New Update
(22:40) - 20 Years of HelpSpot
(37:27) - Ian's Hiring
(43:03) - Aaron's Big Week on Twitter
(53:20) - Database School Update
Links:
Paperless Post
Fuji X100VI
Ricoh GR IV
Laravel New
Ian's hiring!
Aaron's tweet
"Put Food On My Family"
1 hr 15 min
November 04, 2025105: Laravel New, Again
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.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Ittybit.
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(00:00) - Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
(01:52) - Wire:live
(10:54) - Livewire 4
(27:49) - Poker Day
(34:45) - Aaron MC
(36:40) - We Musn't Ship
(48:54) - Best Book I've Ever Read
(57:07) - Update On New Videos
(01:10:44) - Advent of SQL
(01:14:18) - 🐴 Update
Links:
Wire:live
Vehikl
Blaze
Forte
Rainbow Bridge
Digital Minimalism
The Intellectual Life
Advent of Vibe Coding
1 hr 21 min
October 22, 2025104: Cash Cow Mode
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.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Laravel Forge.
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(00:00) - Low Energy Aaron
(02:01) - Downtime & Expensive Horses
(19:15) - Aaron's Giant Chalkboard
(31:56) - Chalk Guy
(49:36) - It's Time To Eat Glass
(01:06:39) - The Plan
Links:
"Low-energy Jeb"
Behind the scenes of Aaron's new setup
http://nyblackboard.com
Blackmagic DeckLink
tldraw
The DynamoDB Book
@fideloper
1 hr 20 min
October 16, 2025Sweet Hang #2: Humans Still Required w/ Jeffrey Way
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.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Laravel Forge.
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(00:00) - Optimizing Everything
(07:41) - Social Media, Kids, & Modeling Behavior
(21:42) - Vision Quest Deep Dive
(34:46) - Switch to Subscription?
(39:48) - The Evolution of Laracasts
(50:03) - Opinions About JavaScript
(57:00) - Deciding What To Teach
(01:02:59) - Chess
(01:07:47) - YouTube & AI's Impact
Links:
Amaran
TanStack
Remix
3 Ninjas (1992)
Suno
1 hr 26 min
October 14, 2025103: Developer Dad
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.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Laravel Forge.
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Links:
MLB Postseason
Brick
Stratechery
Sora
Livewire Blaze
Tuple
Focus Lab
1 hr 9 min
October 07, 2025102: Vision Quest
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.
Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Laravel Forge.
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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
1 hr 12 min
September 30, 2025101: Infinite Feed of Content
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.
Sponsored by: Bento, Bifrost for NativePHP, and Honeybadger
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(00:00) - 36 Hour Adventure
(10:46) - Commit Your Code Reacp
(23:01) - Higher Rungs of This Ladder
(26:12) - Ian's Getting Scooped
(29:50) - Aaron's Acting Debut
(37:52) - The Business of Aaron Francis
(47:26) - Sweet Hang Followup
(49:49) - Meta's AI Slop
Links:
'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
1 hr 6 min