Episodios

  • 125: No Turning Back
    Mar 31 2026

    Ian and Aaron talk about setting a release date (!) for Outro, huge updates to Solo, a new Cloudflare course, exciting news on the real estate front, and so much more.

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    • (00:00) - It's Shill Season
    • (04:02) - Ian's Gotta Ship Outro
    • (15:00) - Superpowers Are So Good
    • (20:15) - Cloudflare Durable Objects Course
    • (31:32) - Cloud Pricing
    • (36:41) - MCP Servers
    • (47:23) - Solo Updates
    • (01:00:18) - Aaron Francis Empire Update

    Links:
    • Modal
    • Slingshot
    • Superpowers
    • UConn vs. Duke - Final two minutes
    • Producer Dave
    • Cloudflare Durable Objects
    • Void
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    1 h y 13 m
  • 124: Old Man Yells At Cloud
    Mar 24 2026

    Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more.

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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    • (00:00) - Kids Sports
    • (05:19) - Building Internal Tools
    • (17:23) - Empire of Scripts
    • (24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP
    • (29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done
    • (45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo
    • (59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k
    • (01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary

    Links:
    • Aaron on the baseball field
    • Project Hail Mary
    • Jason Fried on Twitter
    • Laravel AI SDK
    • Laravel MCP
    • Solo
    • Will King
    • Aaron's video on YouTube
    • Eric Barnes' new venture
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    1 h y 15 m
  • 123: Isolate The Claude
    Mar 18 2026

    Ian and Aaron talk about more poker adventures, transcoding videos at scale, escaping the permanent underclass, worktrees vs. copy on write, and so much more.

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, Laravel Live DK, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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    • (00:00) - Ian Keeps Winning
    • (10:00) - Transcoding Videos
    • (25:33) - Superpowers
    • (39:40) - A Parade In Boston
    • (47:36) - Run Dangerously
    • (55:20) - Ire of the Worktree Maxi's
    • (01:02:56) - Escape the Permanent Underclass

    Links:
    • Daniel Coulbourne
    • Chris Morrell
    • Modal
    • Mux
    • HTTP Live Streaming
    • Superpowers
    • Jason Beggs
    • Fast User Switching
    • Worktrees
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    1 h y 11 m
  • 122: I Just YOLO'd It
    Mar 10 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss their trip to Laracon EU, the all-new Solo, using the AI SDK for Outro, "poker propaganda", Gen-Z Abby's 2004 camera, and so much more.

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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    • (00:00) - Europe Can't Contain Us
    • (07:04) - Poker Propaganda
    • (12:34) - Laracon EU Recap
    • (17:42) - Good Feedback
    • (23:07) - Big Solo Update
    • (42:03) - What's Next for Solo
    • (01:01:20) - The Worktrees Question
    • (01:10:57) - The Finalized Skill
    • (01:17:28) - Outro & Gopher
    • (01:26:43) - New Deadlines Are Coming
    • (01:31:25) - 2004 Camera

    Links:
    • Sinners
    • JetBlue Mint
    • Encore Boston Harbor
    • Daniel Coulbourne
    • Pete Heslop
    • Solo
    • Xterm
    • Typora
    • Faster
    • Outro
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    1 h y 38 m
  • 121: Let Ian Cook
    Feb 24 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss Ian shipping (!) the HelpSpot website and cooking on Outro, Aaron's complete overhaul of Solo, why it's nice to have a wife, and so much more.

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    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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    • (00:00) - Hell Week 3
    • (12:01) - The Haters Were Right
    • (22:09) - Ian Shipped!
    • (27:09) - Does Aaron Know Who Snoop Is?
    • (32:29) - Cooking On Outro
    • (46:17) - Counselors Update
    • (01:05:28) - The Learning Skill
    • (01:16:47) - It's Nice To Have A Wife
    • (01:19:23) - Gamification of Software

    Links:
    • OpenCode
    • Xterm.js
    • Will King
    • Jason Beggs
    • HelpSpot
    • Outro
    • Solo
    • Counselors
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    1 h y 22 m
  • 120: The Counselors
    Feb 17 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new AI tool Counselors, something called "Hell Week", what's new with Solo and Outro, and so much more.

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    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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    • (00:00) - Achieving The Impossible
    • (11:26) - Making Things Easy For Humans
    • (19:53) - Ian's Hyperkey Setup
    • (28:59) - Aaron's Hell Week
    • (44:42) - The Future
    • (51:38) - Outro Is Cooking
    • (58:36) - Valentine's Day & Other Updates
    • (01:09:26) - OpenClaw

    Links:
    • Counselors
    • Hyperkey
    • Raycast
    • Space Cadet Keyboard
    • Solo
    • Faster.dev
    • Outro.fm
    • Aaron's cardboard box saw
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    1 h y 15 m
  • 119: Anti Slop Vibe
    Feb 10 2026

    Ian and Aaron talk about the launch of Solo, Aaron's new terminal app for the desktop (!) plus Ian's return to Twitter and so much more.

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    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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    • (00:00) - Back On Twitter
    • (08:20) - Mute The Super Spreaders
    • (23:51) - HVAC Guys
    • (28:40) - AI.com Ad
    • (32:23) - The Launch of Solo
    • (45:39) - Questions About Solo
    • (56:53) - An Ode To Laravel's Queues
    • (01:00:18) - Even More About Solo
    • (01:06:35) - Behind The Scenes

    Links:
    • Ian on Twitter
    • Ian on Bluesky
    • Peter Steinberger on Twitter
    • AI.com's Super Bowl Ad
    • Onions.com
    • Solo
    • Mary Perry on Twitter
    • Tauri
    • NativePHP
    • Behind the scenes of Aaron's video
    • Memento Mori
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    1 h y 26 m
  • 118: We’re Going To Europe
    Feb 3 2026

    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.

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    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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    • (00:00) - Burn The Candle at Three Ends
    • (06:12) - We Got Some Feedback
    • (12:31) - Laracon India & AI SDK
    • (17:49) - Tell The Machine To Do It
    • (25:10) - Boost & Skills
    • (29:55) - The Big Announcement
    • (38:25) - Business Class Stage of the Castle
    • (43:25) - Sleeping On Planes
    • (49:33) - Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
    • (01:00:09) - Aaron's Desktop App

    Links:
    • Afrin
    • NyQuil
    • Neti Pot
    • Casey Neistat's video on NYC trash
    • Laracon India
    • Laravel Live Japan
    • Zoolander - Magnum
    • Laracon EU
    • Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
    • Visakan Veerasamy
    • Sara Dietschy
    • Aaron's Desktop App
    • Tauri
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    1 h y 12 m