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104: Cash Cow Mode Oct 22, 2025

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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.

Sponsored by Bento, Flare, and Laravel Forge.

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(00:00) - Low Energy Aaron
(02:01) - Downtime & Expensive Horses
(19:15) - Aaron's Giant Chalkboard
(31:56) - Chalk Guy
(49:36) - It's Time To Eat Glass
(01:06:39) - The Plan

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Sweet Hang #2: Humans Still Required w/ Jeffrey Way Oct 16, 2025

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Ian and Aaron are joined this week by Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts, to talk about everything from their opinions about JavaScript to the evolution of Laracasts to modeling behavior for your kids and so much more.

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(00:00) - Optimizing Everything
(07:41) - Social Media, Kids, & Modeling Behavior
(21:42) - Vision Quest Deep Dive
(34:46) - Switch to Subscription?
(39:48) - The Evolution of Laracasts
(50:03) - Opinions About JavaScript
(57:00) - Deciding What To Teach
(01:02:59) - Chess
(01:07:47) - YouTube & AI's Impact

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103: Developer Dad Oct 14, 2025

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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 courses, and more.

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102: Vision Quest Oct 07, 2025

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Ian and Aaron talk about Aaron's recent "Vision Quest", accidentally inventing transcendental meditation, realizing he's addicted to Twitter, and the reaction he got online. Plus Ian went to Philly to play poker & more.

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101: Infinite Feed of Content Sep 30, 2025

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Ian and Aaron recap Commit Your Code 2025, dive into the business of Aaron Francis, and wonder what we're all going to do with this AI slop.

Sponsored by: Bento, Bifrost for NativePHP, and Honeybadger

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(00:00) - 36 Hour Adventure
(10:46) - Commit Your Code Reacp
(23:01) - Higher Rungs of This Ladder
(26:12) - Ian's Getting Scooped
(29:50) - Aaron's Acting Debut
(37:52) - The Business of Aaron Francis
(47:26) - Sweet Hang Followup
(49:49) - Meta's AI Slop

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Sweet Hang #1: Fever Dream w/ Michele Hansen Sep 25, 2025

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Ian and Aaron are joined by Michele Hansen, CEO of Geocodio, for the first in a series of Sweet Hangs to talk about everything from Aaron's upcoming vision quest to beard oils to why you need to interview your customers (and potential customers) and so much more.

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(00:00) - The Quintessential Laravel Company
(09:19) - Aaron's Vision Quest
(15:41) - Dewy Fresh
(19:52) - Customer Interviews for Outro
(35:34) - What Makes Somebody Switch?
(41:40) - The Missing Link
(48:21) - What's Geocodio Up To?

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100: Bury The Hatchet Sep 23, 2025

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Ian and Aaron talk about PlanetScale, launching Aaron's new YouTube channels, traction tables that will change your life, and so much more.

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(00:00) - Aaron Wanted It All
(05:39) - YouTube Channel Launch
(17:17) - Production Snafus
(27:16) - Recreate The Magic
(30:40) - Revamping MySQL for Developers
(38:50) - Subscription Pricing
(41:02) - Gotta Dream Big
(50:55) - Traction Table Time

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99: Laravel New Sep 16, 2025

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Ian and Aaron talk about adventures with TypeScript, huge updates re: Outro & Database School, and revisit exactly what happened with Once.com.

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(00:00) - Follow Up
(04:44) - Adventures With TypeScript
(12:56) - Introduction to Postgres
(15:11) - Getaway
(18:31) - Update on Outro
(31:08) - Precipice of a Mistake
(38:51) - Railsworld Recap
(50:17) - RIP Once.com
(01:05:02) - This One's For The Girls

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98: Inventing The Wheel Sep 09, 2025

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Ian and Aaron dive deep into what's cooking with Database School and discuss everything from upcoming videos to the correct business model to Aaron's wild fly.io setup and a lot more.

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(00:00) - Outside of Technical
(01:22) - Database School Update
(37:12) - Code Editors In The Browser
(45:45) - When Will This Launch?
(51:38) - Pushing Uphill
(53:47) - The Successful Mindset
(01:07:38) - It Shouldn't Be This Difficult

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97: Young Forever Sep 02, 2025

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Ian and Aaron talk about being in the pocket of big moisturizer, taking Mostly Technical to the next level of domination, Ian's "stable of horses", and so much more.

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(00:00) - Aging In Reverse
(05:16) - Nighttime Shower Man
(11:30) - Ian's School of Poker for Women
(16:13) - Outro Update
(26:25) - Level 2 Domination
(54:02) - Becoming A Nerd

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