In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss feature flags, particularly the freshly-released before hook, and the perils of incorrect eager loading as your application scales.

Show links

• Fool's mate
• Tim MacDonald
• Introduce 'before' hook

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss whether you should push polymorphism to the database or settle for a simple JSON field, and we discuss options for rendering multiple edit fields on an index page.

Show links

• My User Guide
• Liquid Death

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss music we're into at the moment, using Pennant for feature flags in Laravel, and the age old set of requirements: "it needs to do everything the old one did"

Show links

• Audio Reign
• Louis Cole
• Vulfpeck
• Burn the Jukebox
• Laracon AU

Jake and Michael discuss bowling, onboarding new junior developers right out of college, and the mindset required to be able to teach people the very basics of programming (and reading).

Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, nested validation, and the simplicity of using a batteries-included framework like Laravel.

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• Laravel Bootcamp
• Laracasts
• Laravel Up and Running
• Onramp to Laravel
• Laravel Shift

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Verbs, a take on event sourcing that strives to be simpler and more obvious to grok, children stealing device chargers, and some things to remember when upgrading to Laravel 11.

Show links

• Verbs
• Laravel Shift

Jake and Michael discuss using state machines to handle accurately and predictably handling error state, reviewing code and having your code reviewed, and converting request objects to data objects

Show links
- XState
- Jake's State Machine's talk from Laracon US
- Spatie's Laravel Data

Jake and Michael discuss another of Michael's podcasts, Ripples, setting up review sites on Laravel Forge with Ryan Chandler's Forge Previewer, and speaking and attending Laracon(s).

Show links

• Ripples
• Ryan Chandler
• Forge Previewer
• Laracon US
• PHPTek
• Here’s why you should attend Laracon

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the differences between transactional and campaign email and some approaches to sending them. We also touch on Jake speaking on PHP[TEK] 2024 on the topic of state machines.

Show links

• Statecharts
• XState Visualizer
• xstate-viz
• Mermaid
• [PHP]TEK 2024
• List-Unsubscribe header
• Google email sender guidelines
• SendStack
• MailCoach
• ConvertKit

Jake and Michael discuss their new keyboards, as well as Jake's somewhat secret usage of Filament for building out some of the user-facing aspects of his main work application.

Show links

• Keychron K11 Pro
• Filament
• Kind of annoyed at React