Ian & Aaron are joined this week by Dax & Adam Elmore to discuss the Laravel vs. JavaScript discourse, selling coffee over the command line, and a lot more.

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• (00:00) - Grownup Serious Stuff
• (08:02) - The Meanest Person In The World
• (10:41) - My Soul Hates New York
• (14:36) - StatMuse
• (20:18) - I Like The Health Insurance!
• (25:03) - Why JavaScript?
• (40:14) - The Discourse
• (47:57) - Aaron's Video
• (50:37) - Coffee From The Terminal
• (01:05:26) - Terminal x Laracon
• (01:14:54) - A Full On Course
• (01:24:04) - Laravel Blend

• Adam on Twitter
• Dax on Twitter
• How About Tomorrow (Podcast)
• Serverless Framework
• StatMuse
• Linear
• Vercel
• Aaron's video about Laravel + Livewire
• terminal dot shop on Twitter
• Billion Dollar Creator (Podcast)
• terminal x Laracon (Tweet)
• Adam's course on AWS

Ian & Aaron discuss Aaron's new SQLite course, identifiers in Laravel, New York City, and last but not least - socks.

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• (00:00) - The F Word
• (09:17) - New York City (Taylor's Version)
• (14:30) - Dallas Dallas
• (22:18) - Aaron's SQLite Course
• (33:35) - Highlighting Technique
• (45:52) - SQLite Big Shots
• (48:06) - Identifiers in Laravel
• (01:00:46) - The Role of Taste
• (01:08:51) - Truly Unruly Number of Socks 🧦

• Taylor's tweet about New York City
• Announcement video for High Performance SQLite
• https://highperformancesqlite.com/
• SQLite Docs
• Hacker News Algolia search
• Sebastian's question about identifiers
• iPad "Crush!" ad
• Reversed iPad ad
• Rick Rubin (Wiki)
• Rick Rubin - The Creative Act (Book)
• Rick Rubin says "I know nothing about music"
• Wes Bos
• Wes Bos's socks

Ian & Aaron discuss cheese boards, Aaron's lunch adventure, high performance database consulting, and the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef with special guest Dave Hicking aka Producer Dave.

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• (00:00) - Kids Birthday Parties
• (03:43) - The Cheese Board
• (17:16) - Went To The Burbs
• (22:47) - Is Twitter Over?
• (33:26) - Aaron's New Video
• (41:34) - This Needs To Be Content!
• (50:12) - Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar

• Ian's 'Date lunch' tweet
• Link to NYT article about "girl dinner"
• Grazery
• Aaron's signed copy of his SQLite book
• Aaron's new video about macros
• In Deep Geek on YouTube
• Dave Hicking on Twitter
• Clock Radio Speakers
• Kendrick Lamar - "Meet The Grahams" (YouTube)
• Francis and the Lights (YouTube)

Ian & Aaron discuss men's fashion, DHH, location sharing follow-up, AI therapy hot takes, Laravel Octane, upcoming course update, is MySQL over?, non-competes and concierge medicine, hacking Laravel for prefix indexes, PHP x NYC

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• Menswear guy
• Art but make it sports
• DHH Monitor tweet
• Aaron's Laravel Octane video
• PHP x NYC

Ian & Aaron discuss HelpSpot's future, Aaron reveals his next course, the secret to building courses, the "edge", spouse GPS tracking, the Doordash tax.

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• HelpSpot
• Try Hard Studios
• Location sharing tweet

Ian & Aaron return after a few weeks off to check in on Aaron's new business, his studio, and yes, his healthcare woes.

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• (00:00) - Chilipad Fixes All
• (01:40) - Eclipse Update
• (04:29) - I'm The Top of the Funnel
• (16:55) - Healthcare Stuff
• (37:35) - Everybody Updates Their Apps Too Fast
• (46:26) - Aaron's Office Update
• (59:00) - Trading Places

• Hackers Incorporated episode with Aaron Francis
• Lemon Squeeze's interview with Aaron Francis
• Aaron's video on Cloudflare
• Aaron's tweet about healthcare
• Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)
• Justworks
• Gusto
• S corp vs. C corp vs. LLC
• Startup to Last podcast
• Less Annoying CRM
• LegUp Health

Ian and Aaron are joined by Adam Wathan (our first returning guest!) to talk about Aaron's future plans for courses & consulting, Adam's plans for hiring at Tailwind, & a lot more.

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• (00:00) - The Interloper
• (01:49) - Hiring at Tailwind
• (09:00) - Extra Effort Matters
• (19:47) - Magic Company Money
• (23:02) - Jerry Seinfeld's Voice
• (27:45) - Nothing Sexier Than a Database
• (43:49) - Taste as a Service
• (54:34) - Courses vs. Consulting
• (01:07:56) - The Aaron Francis Experience
• (01:13:33) - The Master Plan
• (01:28:53) - Price of Admission
• (01:33:17) - En Route To Mars

• Subscribe to Laracasts! Seriously.
• Adam's tweets announcing the Design Engineer & Staff Software Engineer jobs at Tailwind
• Adam's tweet about 90% of applicants not following instructions
• Test Driven Laravel
• Sandwich Video
• Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course on lighting
• Jonathan Reinink on Twitter

Ian & Aaron discuss Chilipad, the Aaron Francis Studio of Light and Sound, the week of calls, how to properly apply to a job, Shibboleth secret passwords, what's next for Aaron, the background on how Try Hard Studios came to be, and behind the scenes on the creation of their launch video.

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Links:

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• Chilipad
• Try Hard Studios
• Aaron's what's next tweet
• Try Hard Studios launch video & YouTube channel