Today's Cursor + Laravel Boost experiment: Building a human-friendly TUI for ffmpeg with Laravel Prompts screen.studio/share/ncGKcNVY

This week @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com are answering your questions about what's coming in 2026, covering everything from AI shrinking dev teams to Elon becoming a trillionaire and so much more.

'Marty Supreme' is the most @mostlytechnical.com movie in recent memory. An all-time NYC hustler/striver movie with off-the-charts 'you can just do things' energy.

I think about this CGP Grey video every day. Especially whenever someone explains "why" they did something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...

My podcast @cheeseandweather.bsky.social is now on YouTube thanks to @davehicking.com! youtu.be/eaPCNL4LzA0 or listen at cheeseandweather.com

Laravel and I want to hire an exceptional product engineer for the AI Team 🔥 ↪ howdy.so/feai

This week @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com discuss Claude vs. Gemini, *another* Laravel New idea, drama on Thanksgiving, and so much more.

14M requests. 50,000 sites. 1 engineer. @ghost.org chose Laravel Cloud to run their new site directory, Ghost Explore, with zero infra management. See how Ghost's founder @johnonolan.bsky.social runs a production app without a big ops team: laravel.com/blog/14m-req...

Our Spaced Out Deals are still out there until Dec 1, with courses, products and Ray licenses 30% off. Check out all the deals at spatie.be/products.

🚨 Our CHAOS Black Friday sale officially starts on Friday 🚨 🏋️‍♀️ HUGE savings on Bifrost subs + free NativePHP licenses on selected plans! Look out for the code across nativephp.com from Friday 👀 Ends midnight on Tuesday

It's a big week - @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com talk about the launch of Database School! They go over the branding, everything he did the morning of the launch, building the site with Gemini, and so much more. Plus the world championship of….bagels?

If you're a dev or otherwise *extremely* familiar with #Laravel and you're a great writer, we're looking for the next addition to our GTM team 🔥 apply.workable.com/laravel/j/9F...

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

I know there are more people using Laravel in the northeastern US than are on this map! Head over to laramap.dev and add yourself today 🤝

As Laramap becomes busier, I added a country filter so you don't get overwhelmed by so many Artisans. #Laravel #Laramap

Our most requested Laravel Cloud feature is here: WebSockets powered by Laravel Reverb. Add real-time features to your application with the click of a button, no need to spin up a separate server or manage a 3rd-party login. Learn more and get started: laravel.com/blog/introdu...

🤑 Greed Is Good 🤑 This week @aaronfrancis.com's got his head in the business game and @ianlandsman.com thinks it’s time for “New Aaron” to watch Wall Street, buy a three piece suit, and internalize Gordon Gekko’s advice.

we need a department of kerning

This week on Mostly Technical - @ianlandsman.com's hiring! He talks to @aaronfrancis.com about what he's looking for and how people can apply. And please, for the love of god - don't submit a generic, AI-generated resume or cover letter 🤦‍♂️

Caleb's talk is up, definitely check it out if you're into Livewire www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8AX...

UserScape is a wonderful place to work - if this fits you, go apply RIGHT NOW.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This week @ianlandsman.com talks to @aaronfrancis.com about how Livewire 4 is so good, there's only one thing he could do with Outro.fm. `laravel new` Never Ship! Laravel New Forever! 🤣

. @tighten.com alumni reunion at Wire:live ⚡️❤️

I'll be in Buffalo this week for Wire:live⚡️ with the @laravel.com crew - come by our booth and say hi 👋

Honored to have been an early HelpSpot customer (and a recent employee) ❤️ Without Ian & HelpSpot I would have never found Tighten, would have never found the Laravel community, and would have never made it to my current position. Happy birthday to @ianlandsman.com & HelpSpot 🥳

This week on MT @aaronfrancis.com tells @ianlandsman.com all about the new set at his studio with a...chalkboard?! Ian, for the record, was *thrilled*.

The Open Source Team at @laravel.com is hiring! apply.workable.com/laravel/j/15... Come work with @joe.codes & the rest of the team to help us double down on making Laravel the best framework it can be.

Two episodes in one week! @ianlandsman.com and @aaronfrancis.com 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.

A champion of diversity and inclusion in the Laravel community - @zuzana-k.com, founder of @larabelles.com is speaking at #LaraconAU about writing resilient code! 🎟 Act fast <100 early bird tickets & personalised badge deadline Oct 16

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

I love to see wonderful people get recognized 🙌

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Congratulations Laravel on launching Laravel VPS! 🍾 Developers globally use Laravel to power over 1M websites, & we're proud to partner with them to empower that community to continue to build & scale web apps in a simple way. ✨ https://do.co/4nBSs5k

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014. ◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers ◆ Zero downtime deployments ◆ Team terminal sessions ◆ Free on-forge domains ◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

This week @ianlandsman.com had a bombshell announcement for @aaronfrancis.com about Outro.fm - he Laravel New'd it! Is this two steps forward, three steps back? Is this a "business dad" move or is Ian actually "developer dad"? Is this the first time Aaron's ever been speechless?!

We crossed 1 million deployments on Laravel Cloud 🔥 blog.laravel.com/1m-deploys-o...

Look at this lineup of speakers 🔥

Want to help the NativePHP cause? Please give a little upvote and share this with others www.producthunt.com/products/nat...

Ticket sales and more details are live now: wire-live.com

OK, so the Tighten logo isn't the only thing exciting (to me) about the Wire:Live web site. I'm also super excited to share I'll be speaking! We love using Livewire as one of our primary frontend stacks at @tighten.com, so I'm honored to be on stage for the inaugural conference!

ICYMI: The first-ever Wire Live is coming to Buffalo on October 28th-29th! Grab your tickets now at wire-live.com ⚡️

Last week on Mostly Technical, @ianlandsman.com talked to @aaronfrancis.com about his plans for a Molly's Game situation. He wants to build a stable of horses! For poker! Trust us - it all makes sense.

Laravel Cloud is SOC 2 Type II certified. Forge & Nightwatch are next.

What happens when code is cheap to create? Last month I spoke at Laracon US about this very question and why while we might see a flood of vibe coded apps, that doesn't mean this is the end of the line for traditional software development.

My talk from Laracon US is live 🥳 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1tD... In 10 minutes & 66 (!) slides I cover everything from academic libraries📚 to Y2K-era dotcom puppets🐶 and why your taste & judgement will matter more than ever before.

Excited about the next generation of Laravel Forge? So are we! Sign up for the Early Access list at vps.laravel.com

On this week's show, @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com recap the most important event that happened during Laracon: The Hot Takes Game during the Mostly Technical Party. And frankly? Ian's got a lot of problems with a lot of people.

"AI can generate code, but it can't generate taste. Invent the unexpected, and embrace your humanity" - @davehicking.com #laraconus

I really really love how many conversations at Laracon started with “hi, I’m [name], we know each other from the Internet?”