Mostly Technical

Mostly Technical

Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis

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118: We’re Going To Europe

Ian and Aaron talk about the Mostly Technical Pre-Party at Laracon EU (!), Aaron's new desktop app (!!), sleeping on planes, and so much more.Register...

Feb 3, 2026 71m Summary available

117: The AI Is Out There

Ian and Aaron talk about being stuck at home due to the weather, major updates to Outro.fm and Faster.dev, an important update to the Laravel New expe...

Jan 29, 2026 59m Summary available

116: Inside The Token Factory

Ian and Aaron recap their trip to San Francisco to see the first demo of the Laravel AI SDK before going in-depth on the Faster.dev announcement!Spons...

Jan 20, 2026 66m Summary available

Sweet Hang #4: Laravel AI SDK w/ Taylor Otwell

Ian and Aaron are joined by Taylor Otwell for their first ever in-person episode of Mostly Technical to talk about everything from the Laravel AI SDK...

Jan 16, 2026 52m Summary available

115: Do You Wanna Win?

Ian and Aaron talk about opinionated frameworks in the era of AI, Aaron's new pivot (!), Ian being right, and so much more.Sponsored by SavvyCal Appoi...

Jan 13, 2026 57m Summary available

114: Fight Fire With Fire

Ian and Aaron are dealing with the liminal space of the holiday season, talking about their upcoming trip to San Francisco to see the Laravel AI SDK d...

Jan 6, 2026 65m Summary available

113: 2026 Predictions

Ian and Aaron are answering your questions about what's coming in 2026, covering everything from AI shrinking dev teams to Elon becoming a trillionair...

Dec 30, 2025 83m Summary available

112: Token Machine

Ian and Aaron talk about Santa (obviously), do you still need an MBA (maybe not so obvious), why Ian isn't burning as many tokens as possible to get O...

Dec 23, 2025 57m Summary available

111: Hearts & Minds

Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron's orchestrating fly.io boxes for Database School, why sometimes you need to use AI to help AI, and why Costco is truly...

Dec 16, 2025 65m Summary available

110: The Big Boy Plan

Ian and Aaron discuss all things AI this week - from Claude Max to pairing Gemini with Claude to why people want to code but they don't want to sell a...

Dec 9, 2025 79m Summary available

109: AI Bro

Ian and Aaron discuss Claude vs. Gemini, *another* Laravel New idea, drama on Thanksgiving, and so much more.Sponsored by Bento, Flare, Ittybit, tldra...

Dec 2, 2025 60m Summary available

108: 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...

Nov 25, 2025 69m Summary available

Sweet 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 RS...

Nov 20, 2025 73m Summary available

107: 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, Fl...

Nov 18, 2025 52m Summary available

106: 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 reven...

Nov 11, 2025 74m Summary available

105: 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 de...

Nov 4, 2025 80m Summary available

104: 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.Sponsor...

Oct 22, 2025 79m Summary available

Sweet 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 evolutio...

Oct 16, 2025 85m Summary available

103: 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...

Oct 14, 2025 68m Summary available

102: Vision Quest

Ian and Aaron talk about Aaron's recent "Vision Quest", accidentally inventing transcendental meditation, realizing he's addicted to Twitter, and the...

Oct 7, 2025 71m Summary available

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