Right in the middle of a harrowing (and incredible) story, @aaronfrancis.com does what any seasoned podcaster would do. He transitions to an ad read.

@ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 130: Two Grandmas Roll Up. Have a listen:

If @aaronfrancis.com got bought out for $10 million and still had to work - does that mean he’s retired? He doesn’t need @ianlandsman.com's horse money or anything like that - just a little 10 milli!

This week @aaronfrancis.com tells @ianlandsman.com that he's on a mission to destroy two competitors: Warp and Conductor.

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 129: The Bounds of My Pettiness. Have a listen:

Solo is here! This week @aaronfrancis.com talks to @ianlandsman.com about how he had to rewrite the terminal (again) BUT now it's ready for beta testers. Oh, and don't sleep on Solo's MCP capabilities 👀

This year at Laracon US we're hosting...LaraProm?! In a gymnasium!?! @ianlandsman.com's so excited about this idea that he interrupted @aaronfrancis.com's vacation to talk about it.

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 128: LaraProm. Have a listen:

In the era of AI development, how do you create a moat around your product? @johnrudolphdrexler.com thinks there's no moat, @coulb.com thinks taste is the moat, but @ianlandsman.com says no, it's actually their schtick that's the moat for their new app Tidy.

This week @ianlandsman.com is joined by @johnrudolphdrexler.com & @coulb.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne. Have a listen:

On this week's show, Ian pitches Aaron on his next great idea for a laravel new - a social network that uses AI to pre-filter everything. What could go wrong?

This week @ianlandsman.com thinks Claude is doing the right thing with OpenClaw - and you know what? @aaronfrancis.com agrees! "...this is a business....this is not a public utility....they don't owe you access to their service!"

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 126: Scope Explosion. Have a listen:

This week, @ianlandsman.com wants to know when he can get these bug fixes for Solo! He needs the beta release! Well, guess what - @aaronfrancis.com has basically rebuilt Solo. Again.

This week on MT, @aaronfrancis.com's had enough! He needs @ianlandsman.com to commit to a date when he can start using Outro - and guess what? He did it. He picked a date!

This week @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 125: No Turning Back. Have a listen:

This week on MT, @aaronfrancis.com talks about the desktop app he built just for his workflow and @ianlandsman.com can’t believe it! Didn’t we all learn our lessons about relying on scripts and custom desktop apps?! Does AI make this a better decision than it was 20 years ago?

This week @IanLandsman asks @aarondfrancis what he think will make more money - Faster or Solo? Does Aaron think one has more potential than the other? Could Solo be the big bet he's been waiting for?

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 124: Old Man Yells At Cloud. Have a listen:

Is AI and using tech like worktrees helping devs move faster than ever....to nowhere? @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com make the case for it this week and why moving fast doesn't mean making better software.

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com talk about more poker adventures, transcoding videos at scale, escaping the permanent underclass, worktrees vs. copy on write, and so much more.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 123: Isolate The Claude . Have a listen:

. @aaronfrancis.com wonders how are people using 8 agents in a code base? How can you tell the app works? Where’s all this software that’s being built - why aren’t these people shipping! This week on MT, @ianlandsman.com knows why - it’s fake and made up for attention!

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 122: I Just YOLO'd It. Have a listen:

This week @aaronfrancis.com is...rewriting Solo from the ground up?!?! Already?! He tells @ianlandsman.com all about it - why hard things are still hard, why he's embarrassed by the version that's been out there, and more.

This week, @ianlandsman.com finally did it. He beat the "doesn't ship allegations". He shipped the new HelpSpot website. And @aaronfrancis.com is loving it!

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 121: Let Ian Cook. Have a listen:

. @aaronfrancis.com's not finished with Solo! He heard all the feedback and now he's transforming it into a full-on agentic development environment - and @ianlandsman.com is thrilled.

It's a big week - @aaronfrancis.com did the impossible and passed @ianlandsman.com's five second test with Counselors, his new CLI tool! He's (and I quote) "ascending into the heavens" and Ian's ready to tell everybody why it's a no-brainer to use.

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com discuss Aaron's new AI tool Counselors, something called "Hell Week", what's new with Solo and Outro, and so much more.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 120: The Counselors. Have a listen:

This week on MT @aaronfrancis.com is building NativePHP desktop with Laravel, Inertia, and React, and @ianlandsman.com is raving about how great using defer with queues is because you know what? Laravel's queues are so, so clean 🫧

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

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 119: Anti Slop Vibe. Have a listen:

This week on MT, @ianlandsman.com thinks he needs help from @calebporzio.bsky.social with a new Livewire feature but @aaronfrancis.com reminds him to just tell the machine to do it - that’s what the robots are for!

Hang on to your bottle caps - @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com are heading to Europe for a pre-party at Laracon EU! luma.com/bxk56v8p?tk=...

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com talk about the Mostly Technical Pre-Party at Laracon EU (!), Aaron's new desktop app (!!), sleeping on planes, and so much more.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 118: We’re Going To Europe. Have a listen:

@mostlytechnical.com has Aaron been right all along? youtu.be/9uv-4ddCApw?...

Mostly Technical @mostlytechnical.com. Great banter. @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com. Aaron is in the thick of it–2 sets of twins, open source projects, and DevEd startups. Ian runs a successful startup and funnels the profits into horses, poker, and LLM tokens.

This week @ianlandsman.com's got some problems with @ampcode.bsky.social and he's telling @aaronfrancis.com all about it.