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Mostly Technical

Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis

Hosted by Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical is a lively discussion on Laravel, business, and an eclectic mix of related topics.

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  • #137
    May 15 · 39 min

    Token Town 001: What is Anthropic Doing?!

    In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more. Sponsored by Bento. Links: Claude pricing changes 'Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption' Claude Code weekly limits are 50% higher Solo Amp Superpowers Mythos & cybersecurity

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  • #136
    May 12 · 1 hr 6 min

    131: Crush My Competitors

    Ian and Aaron talk about what's cooking with Solo, why Aaron's hiring his first full-time employee, Ian's frustrations with moving the team to Codex, and a feel good AI story. Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. Going to Laracon? Sign up for the Mostly Technical Pre-Party! (00:00) - Follow Up (04:20) - Solo Update (11:52) - Business Dad Pushback (19:15) - Raising Money (24:39) - Aaron's First Full-Time Employee (31:30) - Ian's Hiring Troubles (39:26) - A Laravel New 👀 (43:27) - Moving to Codex (48:57) - Where's Outro? (59:34) - A Feel Good AI Story Links: Solo TinySeed HelpSpot Codex Outro Token Town Mia's Horse Name Generator

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  • #135
    May 5 · 1 hr 1 min

    130: Two Grandmas Roll Up

    Ian and Aaron discuss the most harrowing experience of Aaron's life (complete with the funniest ad transition in Mostly Technical history), talk about Ian's trip to the Laravel Roadshow in NYC, and dive into what's cooking with Solo. Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. Going to Laracon? Sign up for the Mostly Technical Pre-Party! (00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident (10:45) - He Starts Doing The Slip & Slide (21:01) - The Stuff of Legends (26:57) - More Kids = More Productive? (32:58) - Solo Is A Meta Harness (48:13) - It's Video Week! (55:06) - Laravel Roadshow Links: Native PHP: The Vibes Solo Soak Testing Faster Vehikl Laravel Roadshow: Dallas

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  • #134
    April 28 · 56 min

    129: The Bounds of My Pettiness

    Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron wants to destroy (?) Solo's competitors (!), using AI to find security holes in your app, delaying Token Town until May, and more. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud. Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - The AI Apocalypse (11:18) - Delayed (Again) (15:04) - Let's Talk About Solo (29:24) - Number Go Up (42:13) - Sell More Solo (48:17) - Wrap It Up Links: Nicholas Carlini - Black Hat LLMs Codex Security Token Town Laravel Roadshow: New York City Warp Conductor Solo's Discord Death of a Salesman on Broadway

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  • #133
    April 21 · 1 hr 24 min

    128: LaraProm

    Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud. Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome (11:40) - Thunk Boys Follow Up (14:12) - Ian's Conundrum Corner (22:43) - Prom?! (36:14) - Solo Is Ready (52:58) - Solo's MCP Server (01:16:02) - Token Town Debuts This Week Links: Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating Episode 127 LaraProm at Laracon US Solo Outro Cloudflare Mesh Token Town Ian's hiring!

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  • #132
    April 14 · 1 hr 24 min

    127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne

    Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne of Thunk to talk about their new app Tidy, what constitutes a moat in the age of AI, why phone spam is the absolute worst, and so much more. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud. Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Bottomless Pits (03:05) - Tidyup.agency (15:30) - Zero Risk Agency (23:23) - The Schtick Is The Moat (37:52) - You Might Need To Pay Some Professionals (44:53) - Everyone's Playing Their Hands (52:39) - Business Dad Thoughts (01:22:03) - The Hard Pitch Links: Thunk Daniel Coulbourne John Drexler Tidy Talking Businessly Ep 89 w/ Justin Jackson Laravel Road Show: New York City Silicon Valley clip 'Why would you go after revenue?' Laravel Partners Arango

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  • #131
    April 7 · 1 hr 35 min

    126: Scope Explosion

    Ian and Aaron talk about why neither of them shipped this past week, how to surface features in an application, tweets going viral....oh, and they're starting a new podcast. Welcome to Token Town. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud. Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship (06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship (11:48) - Solo & MCP (21:16) - Surfacing Features (32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down? (37:42) - Viral Tweets (50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In (01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw (01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases (01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town Links: Aaron's tweet about getting to 120fps Aaron's viral tweet about the astronaut Nate Silver vs. Nikita Bier on Twitter Ian's viral tweet about Claude & OpenClaw OpenAI acquires TBPN Aaron's course on durable objects Laravel Cloud MySQL Token Town

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