- 1 hour 1 minute130: Two Grandmas Roll Up
Ian and Aaron 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.
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- (00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident
- (10:45) - He Starts Doing The Slip & Slide
- (21:01) - The Stuff of Legends
- (26:57) - More Kids = More Productive?
- (32:58) - Solo Is A Meta Harness
- (48:13) - It's Video Week!
- (55:06) - Laravel Roadshow
Links:5 May 2026, 12:00 pm - 56 minutes 56 seconds129: The Bounds of My Pettiness
Ian and Aaron 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.
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- (00:00) - The AI Apocalypse
- (11:18) - Delayed (Again)
- (15:04) - Let's Talk About Solo
- (29:24) - Number Go Up
- (42:13) - Sell More Solo
- (48:17) - Wrap It Up
Links:28 April 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 24 minutes128: LaraProm
Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.
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- (00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome
- (11:40) - Thunk Boys Follow Up
- (14:12) - Ian's Conundrum Corner
- (22:43) - Prom?!
- (36:14) - Solo Is Ready
- (52:58) - Solo's MCP Server
- (01:16:02) - Token Town Debuts This Week
Links:21 April 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 24 minutes127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne
Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne 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.
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- (00:00) - Bottomless Pits
- (03:05) - Tidyup.agency
- (15:30) - Zero Risk Agency
- (23:23) - The Schtick Is The Moat
- (37:52) - You Might Need To Pay Some Professionals
- (44:53) - Everyone's Playing Their Hands
- (52:39) - Business Dad Thoughts
- (01:22:03) - The Hard Pitch
Links:14 April 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 35 minutes126: Scope Explosion
Ian and Aaron 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.
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- (00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship
- (06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship
- (11:48) - Solo & MCP
- (21:16) - Surfacing Features
- (32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down?
- (37:42) - Viral Tweets
- (50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In
- (01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw
- (01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases
- (01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town
Links:7 April 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 12 minutes125: No Turning Back
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.
Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:31 March 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 15 minutes124: Old Man Yells At Cloud
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.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:24 March 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 11 minutes123: Isolate The Claude
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.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:18 March 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 37 minutes122: I Just YOLO'd It
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.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:10 March 2026, 12:00 pm - 1 hour 22 minutes121: Let Ian Cook
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.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:24 February 2026, 1:00 pm - 1 hour 15 minutes120: The Counselors
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.
Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.- (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:17 February 2026, 1:00 pm - More Episodes? Get the App