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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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#142
June 16 · 1 hr 15 min
136: Big, Audacious Goals
Ian and Aaron discuss why HelpSpot raised prices, what Aaron's building for teams with Solo, the short-lived reign of Fable 5, pros & cons of DJ's, and so much more. Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog. 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 Great DJ Debate (07:58) - Aaron's Going To Laravel Live UK (14:22) - Ian Raised Prices (27:26) - Teams & New Solo Pricing (42:45) - New Frontiers (56:51) - RIP Fable 5 (01:09:43) - Outro's Sponsorship System Links: "Forever Young" Laravel Live UK HelpSpot Pricing RIP Fable 5
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#141
June 9 · 1 hr 16 min
135: Ian's Over AI Coding?!
Ian and Aaron discuss hiring new employees, Ian claiming he's over AI coding, huge updates to Outro, going big or going home on Token Town, and more. Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog. 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) - Down to the River (05:33) - Ian's Over AI Coding?! (13:45) - Aaron's Employee's First Week (21:42) - Marketing & Content (27:27) - Ian's Been Busy With Outro (37:41) - Slash Brag Update (41:06) - Ian Finally Hired Somebody! (47:00) - Token Town Update (55:28) - Horse Business (01:04:14) - Aaron Went Fishing (01:13:16) - Kids Sports Links: Texas Hill Country Token Town w/ Josh Pigford Kristen Foxen SEP IRA Corey Haines Marketing Skills on GitHub BlockNote Ian's tweet about AI & coding faster Joe Masilotti's post about deleting WebSockets
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#140
June 2 · 1 hr 10 min
134: The Edge of Safety
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new employee, the latest on Outro, a surprise trip to Portland, and more. Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog. 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) - Where Was Ian? (02:26) - Outro Update (12:32) - Kelsey Is Gone (22:11) - Is Cloudflare Up? (24:53) - Aaron's New Employee (40:10) - LaraProm Update (42:14) - A Little Technical (54:35) - Aaron Went To Portland (01:06:35) - Slash Brag Links: Brett Adcock Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud Outro.fm TinySeed Jason Lengstorf Web Dev Challenge Kelsey Hightower
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#139
May 26 · 1 hr 21 min
133: Do The Hardest Thing with Jesse Hanley
Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more. 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) - 5 TB of Data (11:12) - Laravel Live Japan (15:46) - Seven Figure Business (24:32) - Advice for Indie Hackers (28:57) - Pick Better Problems (32:50) - Friends of Bento (42:33) - Heroku to Planetscale (01:15:02) - What's Next Links: Jesse Hanley Speedshop Jesse's Database School episode Tatami Dragonfly RedisShake Laravel Live Japan Daniel Coulbourne
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#138
May 19 · 1 hr 18 min
132: Ian Shipped Outro!
Ian and Aaron discuss finally recording Token Town, Ian finally shipping Outro, the benefits of working in public, what's coming next to Solo, and more. 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) - We Finally Recorded Token Town (07:43) - Outro Is Live! (21:43) - Working In Public Is Required (27:54) - What's Next For Outro (30:22) - What's New With Solo (43:59) - Free vs. Paid (55:20) - First Actual Resume (01:04:41) - Starting A Movement (01:12:36) - Everybody Loves Discord Links: Token Town Outro Syntax Solo Faster Aaron's page for Tuple Derek Sivers's "Now" page
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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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