About me

Hello, my name is Aaron Francis.

I'm a software developer, content creator, and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. I'm on Twitter all the time, and I make videos on YouTube.

I'm a CPA and used to be a tax accountant at a Big 4, but I've gladly left that life far behind me.

I love making things and having lots of projects going. I live in Dallas with my beautiful and perfect wife Jennifer, our two-year-old twins, and our four-month-old twins.

I'm very online, you can find me:

Me and the Boss

Me and the Boss

First set of twins

First set of twins

Second set (!!) of twins

Second set (!!) of twins

Course research

Course research

Laracon EU

Laracon EU

GitHub Universe

GitHub Universe

Projects

Digital bits

Mastering Postgres
An upcoming course on the database PostgreSQL.
High Performance SQLite
87 videos teaching you everything you need to know about running SQLite in production.
screencasting.com
A 4.5-hour, on-demand video course that teaches you how to produce high-quality screencasts faster than ever.
Personal YouTube channel
My personal channel where I talk about Laravel, PHP, and general web development.
Try Hard Studios YouTube channel
Our studio channel where we share behind the scenes looks at building a business
Mostly Technical podcast
Discussions on Laravel, life, business, and an eclectic mix of related topics. Recorded and released every week.
Torchlight.dev
A service for perfect syntax highlighting.
Open source
My open source code, mostly Laravel packages.
acct229.com
Accounting tutoring for students at Texas A&M.
The Music Makers podcast
Inactive
A solo podcast I used to do, where I read articles that changed my life.
The Framework Friends podcast
Inactive
A podcast with my friend Andrew Culver, where we talked about web frameworks and development.
PlanetScale YouTube channel
Inactive
My old work channel where I talk about MySQL, PlanetScale, and databases. I no longer work at PlanetScale

Projects

Physical things

The Aaron Francis Studio of Light and Sound™
Turning an apartment into a YouTube Studio (ongoing!)
Shedquarters
I turned a 10x20 shed into an office.
Handwriting robots
Creating four, giant handwriting robots to write marketing mail.
Walking treadmill conversion
Taking an old treadmill and turning it into a walking treadmill for under my desk.

Content

Things I've published

Favorites

What if you tried hard?

22.3k views
aaronfrancis.com

An Introduction to Laravel Nova

74.9k views
Laravel YouTube

PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

223.0k views
Personal

Stop using COUNT(id) to count rows

381.6k views
PlanetScale

Publishing your work

Laracon US

Publishing your work increases your luck

The GitHub ReadME Project
2026

Token Town Live - OpenAI & Hugging Face

515 views
Personal

Token Town Live

488 views
Personal

Token Town Live - Sol Release Day!

461 views
Personal

Token Town Live - Fable 5 Is Back!

542 views
Personal

Token Town Live: Fable 5 Is Here

660 views
Personal

Using a browser agent on the worst government website

14.7k views
Personal

How to protect your agent's context

2.5k views
Personal

Agent orchestration, simplified

6.4k views
Personal

Codex reverse engineered my studio lights

3.3k views
Personal

Token Town 002 (Live)

319 views
Personal

The coding harness for your coding harness

7.6k views
Personal

Anthropic kneecaps 3rd party tools?

2.1k views
Personal

Escaping the Underclass

2.9k views
Personal

Escaping the Underclass

1.6k views
Personal

Testing a New Solo Version

1.8k views
Personal

Build a deep research tool

8.0k views
Personal

I made $10,000 from a vibecoded app

21.8k views
Personal

Are designers cooked?

28.0k views
Personal

Your new agentic development environment

8.0k views
Personal

Building w/ AI

3.7k views
Personal
2025

The future of this channel

10.7k views
Personal

The database for all your AI needs

4.4k views
Personal

Sharding Postgres without extensions with PgDog founder, Lev Kokotov

4.0k views
Personal

Programming by wishful thinking

6.2k views
Personal

Rewriting SQLite from scratch (yes, really)

7.9k views
Personal

Make your site faster with this one technique

7.8k views
Personal

How I hacked Laravel to ignore missing route bindings

1.9k views
Personal

Vibe coding a visual email editor with AI, Laravel & Vue

14.1k views
Personal

Downloading YouTube videos

12.9k views
Personal

I built a simple first-party tracking system for my ads

8.9k views
Personal

I transformed my personal site into a magazine-style layout

3.8k views
Personal

Level up your design with this CSS property

3.3k views
Personal

Laravel Serializable Closure: serialize the unserializable

8.4k views
Personal

Hacking the Laravel router

12.9k views
Personal

Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale

7.4k views
Personal

Making MySQL faster

3.9k views
Personal

Speed up your Inertia.js website with these 7 tactics

14.3k views
Personal

From Prisma Founder to LiveStore: Building local-first apps with Johannes Schickling

10.7k views
Personal

From Layoff to Leap of Faith: The Try Hard Studios Story

DevSprout

How Durable Objects and D1 Work: A Deep Dive with Cloudflare’s Josh Howard

23.7k views
Personal

New Laravel starter kit (with built-in billing)

22.6k views
Personal

20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon)

3.4k views
Personal

Building a model reservation system with atomic locks

12.4k views
Personal

The Big Announcement w/ Taylor Otwell

Mostly Technical

Become known for a thing

aaronfrancis.com

Strategies for increasing your odds of success

aaronfrancis.com

Building AI into your software (without the hype)

12.3k views
Personal

Developing your personal API | Aaron Francis

Sanity

Super Ultra Tilted

Mostly Technical

You can't trust a nice guy

2.9k views
aaronfrancis.com

Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre

5.8k views
Personal

The Haters Were Right

Mostly Technical

Designing the data model for our course platform (with Stripe)

15.0k views
Personal

I built Cloudflare Images in PHP (to scale & compress images)

17.0k views
Personal

Eye on the Future

Mostly Technical

A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel (inspired by Cloudflare)

4.8k views
aaronfrancis.com

Distribution & Taste w/ Adam Wathan

Mostly Technical

The Power of Putting Yourself Out There w/ Aaron Francis

Guidance Counselor 2.0

I was a kid once too

1.2k views
aaronfrancis.com

Getting Laid Off On Paternity Leave With Twins

Startup Dad Podcast

Mob Mentality

Mostly Technical

Why Most Developers Overcomplicate Everything w/ Aaron Francis

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

The Hourglass w/ Jordan Gal

Mostly Technical

Aaron Francis: Building and Teaching Cool Things

Josh and Austin Figure It Out

Explore vs. Exploit

Mostly Technical

Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files

Syntax.fm

The Big Tweet

Mostly Technical

Laravel's Big Day

Mostly Technical

Balancing Your Use of AI with Aaron Francis

Rogue Startups

Open source work

4.1k views
Personal

Robber Baron Mentality

Mostly Technical

Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma

5.0k views
Personal

Fusion: Write PHP inside your Vue and React components

Laravel News

Navigating Fatherhood, Business, & Hardships

codeFellowship

#33 - Aaron Francis on Fusion, TUIs and Content Creation

The Navbar Podcast

Don't Be A Dummy

Mostly Technical

Epic Bets: Practical Tips for Betting on Yourself with Aaron Francis

Kent C. Dodds

Testing my TUI

5.0k views
Personal

I built a way to write PHP alongside your frontend

40.1k views
Personal

Introducing Fusion for Laravel

Laracon EU

Strategies for increasing your odds of success

Epic Web Conf

I built a GUI in the terminal (with PHP)

11.5k views
Personal

The Big Reveal

Mostly Technical

Zombification

Mostly Technical

99 Dev Problems with Aaron Francis

Built for Devs

The Existential Threat

Mostly Technical
2024

Year in review: 2024

4.2k views
aaronfrancis.com

Side Project Podcast: Aaron Francis

Side Project Podcast

Yes Man

Mostly Technical

Aaron Francis: Laravel Solo, Courses, Screen casting

The Laravel News Podcast

Unreliable Narrator

Mostly Technical

4 Hours to Save Santa's Workshop

Web Dev Challenge

Doing Too Much

Mostly Technical

Publish your work, change your life

Commit Your Code Conference

Chasing Vanity

Mostly Technical

Reputation is portable

2.3k views
aaronfrancis.com

Reservable models in Laravel

2.4k views
aaronfrancis.com

Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

20.5k views
Personal

The To-Done List

Mostly Technical

This doesn't warrant a blog post

aaronfrancis.com

Special Guest Aaron Francis

Full Stack Chat

Make 5x faster outbound requests in Laravel

2.3k views
aaronfrancis.com

Setting up Tailscale and Synology for sharing video files

1.5k views
aaronfrancis.com

Configuring (and viewing!) logs in Laravel

1.6k views
aaronfrancis.com

Definitely For Profit

Mostly Technical

Because I wanted to

3.8k views
aaronfrancis.com

Building a TUI

4.1k views
Personal

Joint stream with Joe Tannenbaum

1.6k views
Personal

Building a new Laravel dev runner (as a TUI)

3.6k views
Personal

Tier Maker

Mostly Technical

Vectors in SQLite! (with libSQL)

16.3k views
Personal

Try Hard Empire

Mostly Technical

Launching Mastering Postgres!

4.4k views
Personal

Create A Spectacle

Mostly Technical

Mastering Postgres

masteringpostgres.com

Bootstrapping an email service provider (with Jesse Hanley)

7.4k views
Personal

Talking About Liquid

Mostly Technical

Creating a Postgres platform with Monica & Tudor from Xata.io

2.5k views
Personal

Tips for handling timezones in Postgres

11.2k views
Personal

Heroku's glory days & Postgres vs the world, w/ Craig Kerstiens

4.6k views
Personal

Launching Flux (Live) with Caleb Porzio

Mostly Technical

SQLite is not weakly typed!

aaronfrancis.com

Finding missing orders with a recursive CTE

aaronfrancis.com

Building a Flyio driver for Laravel Sidecar

3.3k views
Personal

Paid In Respect

Mostly Technical

Building a Fly.io driver for Laravel Sidecar

4.3k views
Personal

Free, fast, full text search: Laravel + Typesense

23.6k views
Personal

Configuring (and viewing!) logs in Laravel

24.2k views
Personal

Special Announcement - Accel invests $57M into Laravel Products & Open-Source Framework

38.0k views
Laravel YouTube

Live Q&A re: $57M fundraise, Laravel Cloud, & the future of Laravel

7.0k views
Laravel YouTube

How to Make $2,000,000 From Courses and Quit Your 9-To-5

The Nathan Barry Show

Clean up after yourself

aaronfrancis.com

Stay Lean, Stay Clean with Caleb Porzio

Mostly Technical

Laravel's higher order collection proxies

1.1k views
aaronfrancis.com

Paige Against the Machine – Starting a Robopocalypse with Aaron Francis

I Don't Know Anything with Paige Harriman

Zero to $125,000 in 30 Days: My Exact Course Launch Strategy

Billion Dollar Creator

Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis

Software Huddle

Don't undo what you haven't done

1.1k views
aaronfrancis.com

Mostly NPTM with Caleb Porzio & Daniel Coulbourne

Mostly Technical

The Milk of Texas

Cheese and Weather

How to Be Better than 96.487% of Developers

Backend Banter

Jank Free With Caleb Porzio

Mostly Technical

An argument for logging off

13.9k views
aaronfrancis.com

Interview with Aaron Francis

The Tech Commute

Laravel tip: Higher order collection proxies (and Zevia)

6.4k views
Personal

Ruby on Rails + SQLite with Stephen Margheim

7.2k views
Personal

Developer to Business Owner

Coding Coders

Code tip: Don't undo what you haven't done

10.7k views
Personal

File based routing in Inertia.js

1.9k views
aaronfrancis.com

Aaron and Caleb Porzio talk wrappers

Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio

Code tip: clean up after yourself (and a seltzer review)

9.0k views
Personal

SQL for fun and profit

16.2k views
Personal

The Contest

Mostly Technical

Laravel Dusk: painless browser automation

36.2k views
Personal

You're always doing something wrong

3.1k views
aaronfrancis.com

Struggling with Laravel + Vite

13.8k views
Personal

Luck Surface Area | Multithreaded Income Episode 43 with Aaron Francis

Multithreaded Income

Idea About Ideas

Mostly Technical

SQLite's WAL mode is fast fast

57.3k views
Personal

Just Do Stuff

Mostly Technical

Automating my life (or at least the boring parts)

4.3k views
Personal

Building a Life OS

3.9k views
Personal

Building a Life OS

5.8k views
Personal

Push The Button

Mostly Technical

High Performance SQLite

highperformancesqlite.com

Launching High Performance SQLite

6.5k views
Personal

Aaron Francis on being a Christian in tech

The Save File

Beginning of the Empire

Mostly Technical

How Aaron Francis Turned a Layoff Into a Thriving Educational Empire

The Business of Laravel Podcast

Migrating from Postgres to SQLite with Kent C. Dodds

23.1k views
Personal

One Big Bet

Mostly Technical

Controlling randomness in Laravel (watch me code)

5.8k views
Personal

Production SQLite with Turso and libSQL

18.3k views
Personal

Livecoding: create a podcast from YouTube videos

6.1k views
Personal

Mostly HVAC with Dan Myers, CEO of Flair

Mostly Technical

SQLite is not weakly typed!

17.9k views
Personal

Morning Person

Mostly Technical

Offline-first, multiplayer SQLite

18.9k views
Personal

Real-time monitoring for Laravel applications

20.5k views
Personal

Elevate Your Video Developer Brand: Featuring Aaron Francis

Kevin Blanco's Podcast

Laravel Pennant: first-party feature flags

27.4k views
Personal

S-Tier Software with Taylor Otwell

Mostly Technical

Making videos developers actually want to watch

Scaling DevTools

Distributed SQLite with Litestream and LiteFS

19.9k views
Personal

Laravel adds a new email provider

15.7k views
Personal

Business Dad

Mostly Technical

DHH discusses SQLite (and Stoicism)

155.1k views
Personal

Laravel vs React

91.8k views
Personal

Laravel vs. JavaScript with Dax & Adam Elmore

Mostly Technical

Laravel + Livewire todo app (and so much more)

65.0k views
Personal

It's All Vibes

Mostly Technical

Laravel Horizon: queue monitoring + configuration

40.9k views
Personal

The Secret

Mostly Technical

Laravel's secret weapon: macros (watch me code)

28.4k views
Personal

DevRel, Content, Going out on Your Own w/Aaron Francis

Guidance Counselor 2.0

Make faster outbound requests with Laravel (10x faster, actually)

26.4k views
Personal

AI Therapy Connoisseur

Mostly Technical

Laravel Octane: supercharge your Laravel applications

79.7k views
Personal

Fight or Win

Mostly Technical

We're Gonna Make It

Mostly Technical

Laravel + Cloudflare D1 speedrun

19.4k views
Personal

Building side projects as layoff insurance

Lemon Squeezy

YouTube Growth Secrets

Rogue Startups

Ben steps away from Tuple

Hackers Incorporated

Ben steps away from Tuple

Hackers Incorporated

It Gets Harder

Chantastic

Super Epic Crazy with Adam Wathan

Mostly Technical

I got laid off (and what I'm doing next)

3.3k views
Try Hard Studios

Try Hard Studios

Mostly Technical

What if you tried hard?

22.3k views
aaronfrancis.com

The Layoff

Mostly Technical

Indie Tycoon

Mostly Technical

Careful, Careful!

Mostly Technical

Do literally anything

14.4k views
aaronfrancis.com

What's The Good Word?

Mostly Technical

YouTube as a Business with Aaron Francis

Full Stack Founder

Real Dad Stuff

Mostly Technical

My Mind Vise

Mostly Technical

Your Glove Situation

Mostly Technical

A Man of Culture

Mostly Technical

It's Content, Baby!

Mostly Technical

Products vs. Creator Businesses

Full Stack Founder
2023

Year in review: 2023

1.7k views
aaronfrancis.com

Shipping SQLite to Lambda (with Laravel Vapor)

aaronfrancis.com

Two new MySQL expressions

11.1k views
PlanetScale

Supercharge Markdown with Laravel

11.6k views
Personal

Cody: the AI assistant that actually knows your codebase

27.0k views
Personal

You Need Tinker Time with Adam Wathan

Mostly Technical

Static site generators & personal websites

Over Engineered

Customizing Laravel Pulse

11.9k views
Personal

Faster than a regular database index

21.9k views
PlanetScale

Ecosystem of Cards

Mostly Technical

Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

YAGNI

Creating a custom Laravel Pulse card

6.1k views
aaronfrancis.com

How I add millions of rows to MySQL (for performance testing)

49.1k views
PlanetScale

Rendering Blade components in Markdown

2.9k views
aaronfrancis.com

We Didn't Have JSON In My Day

Mostly Technical

Targeting only inline code elements with Tailwind Typography

1.6k views
aaronfrancis.com

Write Laravel, not PHP (feat. Aaron Francis)

Backend Banter

You don't always need JOINs

124.0k views
PlanetScale

Launching Screencasting.com while having a job and a young family

Lemon Squeezy

Make self-healing URLs with Laravel

42.0k views
Personal

Self-healing URLs in Laravel

2.1k views
aaronfrancis.com

Read the docs (don't skim them)

15.9k views
Personal

Ep 004: Goblin Mode Revisited

This Week, Next Week

Saving a SaaS on the weekend

107.3k views
PlanetScale

Storing feature flags as JSON (with indexing)

24.0k views
PlanetScale

Farming, Threadbois, & Meme Lords with Jeffrey Way

Mostly Technical

Read the docs like a book

6.0k views
aaronfrancis.com

Laravel's atomic locks

18.4k views
Personal

Ep 003: Goblin Mode

This Week, Next Week

Store 8 feature flags in 1 integer (Bitwise operations in MySQL)

41.7k views
PlanetScale

An Introduction to Laravel Nova

74.9k views
Laravel YouTube

SSG is dead. Long live cache.

16.7k views
Personal

Nobody Uses Trucks For That

Mostly Technical

The SQL Injection Slide with Sam Selikoff

Mostly Technical

You don't need NoSQL (use MySQL)

80.2k views
PlanetScale

How To Level Up Your Video Content with Aaron Francis

Level Up Creators

All Things Livewire with Caleb Porzio

Mostly Technical

Ep 002: This week, next week (with Aaron Francis)

This Week, Next Week

Easy database indexing strategies

29.3k views
PlanetScale

Your Computer Is Your Sanctuary

Mostly Technical

Ep 001: This week, next week (with Aaron Francis)

This Week, Next Week

Using MySQL to stop freeloaders (in only 8 minutes)

37.2k views
PlanetScale

I love my database GUI

85.6k views
PlanetScale

Late Night Bite

Mostly Technical

No more Docker for PHP

29.8k views
Personal

Your database will break in 2038 (or sooner)

17.3k views
PlanetScale

The Power of Sharing Expertise

The Bootstrapped Founder

Database enums are weird

12.3k views
PlanetScale

Just Enough Laracons

Mostly Technical

Growing an audience, making difficult decisions, launching screencasting.com

Indie Bites

INT(11) is a lie

19.5k views
PlanetScale

Galaxy Quadrant Theory

Mostly Technical

Faster database indexes (straight from the docs)

131.0k views
PlanetScale

The End

Hammerstone

Forward Only!

Mostly Technical

screencasting.com

screencasting.com

The Week of Aaron

Mostly Technical

Faster geospatial queries in MySQL

24.1k views
PlanetScale

Empanelling Aaron Francis

thunk.dev

PHP doesnt suck (anymore)

Log Rocket

He Likes a Manifesto

Mostly Technical

Pagination in MySQL - offset vs. cursor

83.3k views
PlanetScale

The Year of Livewire

Mostly Technical

The Secret Is to Get a Truck

Mostly Technical

PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

223.0k views
Personal

It's React in PHP

Mostly Technical

Colleen is having all the fun

Hammerstone

The Pilot

Mostly Technical

Stop using COUNT(id) to count rows

381.6k views
PlanetScale

Make your database queries 1000 times faster!

49.9k views
PlanetScale

Publishing your work

Laracon US

PHP on the frontend! No more Javascript!

136.3k views
Personal

Don't hide your database indexes!

13.6k views
PlanetScale

Burned out on Javascript

15.1k views
Personal

On the precipice of something great

Hammerstone

Good tweets are good

Hammerstone

Datetimes versus timestamps in MySQL

PlanetScale

Storing money in MySQL (the right way)

45.5k views
PlanetScale

Generated hash columns in MySQL

PlanetScale

Finish your projects

The GitHub ReadME Project

React Server Components are a bad choice (for shipping)

12.5k views
Personal

MySQL case insensitive searching (don't use LOWER)

19.5k views
PlanetScale

Colleen is pumped

Hammerstone

Character sets and collations in MySQL

PlanetScale

PHP is the future

195.0k views
Personal

We're HelloQuery now 👀

Hammerstone

Benchmarking, Type Systems, and Good Hustle

How about tomorrow

Should a parent with young kids try to bootstrap a new startup?

Build Your SaaS

Why isn’t MySQL using my index?

PlanetScale

We didn't break up!

Hammerstone

MicroConf Recap

Hammerstone

MySQL for application developers

PlanetScale webinar

Customer interviews lead to a new hypothesis

Hammerstone

MySQL for Developers with Aaron Francis

Rooftop Ruby Podcast

Two Separate Businesses

Hammerstone

Plans for March (Subject to change)

Hammerstone

MySQL for Developers

PlanetScale

Video

Framework Friends

Hi Sinclair! (and recapping Laracon EU)

Hammerstone

Publishing your work (not recorded)

Laracon EU

The Nova launch and a (small) pivot

Hammerstone

Testing

Framework Friends

New year, new energy

Hammerstone
2022

Year in review: 2022

aaronfrancis.com

Looking back, looking forward

Hammerstone

APIs

Framework Friends

Dynamically Generating Thousands of OG Images for a Viral Twitter Campaign

Netlify

Conferences

Framework Friends

We're back baby!

Hammerstone

Publishing your work increases your luck

GitHub Universe

Laravel's safety mechanisms

PlanetScale

Microservices in your monolith

MergePHP

Live Streaming Tools and Toys

Rubber Duck Dev Show

Microservices in Your Monolith

Full Stack Europe

Deploying Torchlight

Pushing to Production Podcast

Indexing JSON in MySQL

PlanetScale

Build your own luck

The GitHub ReadME Podcast

Being a developer, content creator, and entrepreneur with Aaron Francis

Product Journey

Aaron Francis on Torchlight

Twenty Percent Time

Database performance for application developers

Laracon Online

Pagination in MySQL

PlanetScale

Sometimes they say yes

The GitHub ReadME Project

Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?

21.8k views
aaronfrancis.com

Use Cases

Hammerstone

Marketing for maintainers

The GitHub Blog

Half a Job You Love

Art of Product

Publishing your work increases your luck

The GitHub ReadME Project

Back from Vacation

Hammerstone

Developing serverless functions in Laravel

Laracasts

Aaron & Colleen from Hammerstone

Remote Ruby

The RailsConf At Home 2022 Ruby Podcast Panel

Ruby on Rails Podcast

Remix with Kent C. Dodds

Framework Friends

(Extra) RailsConf Podcast Panel

Framework Friends

Email Outreach, GitHub Actions, and a Demo Site

Hammerstone

The Rails SaaS Conference

Framework Friends

The Calls are Happening

Hammerstone

Glimmers of Hope

Hammerstone

We Sent the Email! And Made No Sales!

Hammerstone

Phoenix and LiveView with Chris McCord

Framework Friends

Chris Quit (ft. Aaron Francis)

Pushing Boulders

Building a query builder

RailsConf

Laravel Nova 4.0

Framework Friends

It's Time to Business

Hammerstone

Hammerstone changes, Refine, and finalized Chipper pricing

Pushing Boulders

The Landing Page Lives!

Hammerstone

Some Big Changes

Hammerstone

Bullet Train Goes Open-Source

Framework Friends

Aaron's New Job, Balancing Client vs Product Work

Hammerstone

Origin Stories

Framework Friends

Refine, Sidecar, Laravel, and Serverless

Pushing Boulders

Is Rails Over? Aaron Goes Full Hipster

Hammerstone

Adding a microservice to your monolith

1.2k views
aaronfrancis.com

Conferences and First Revenue 💸

Hammerstone

Bonus: Talking Twitter with Matt Swanson

Hammerstone

A little bit more Lambda

Laracon Online

Laracon is Tomorrow 😬

Hammerstone

How to use Twitter like an actual human being

Startup to Something

First Nova Install 🎉 and Prepping for Laracon

Hammerstone

All the Frontends, Onboarding Nova, and MySQL Stuff

Hammerstone

Balancing indie life with twins, marketing to developers, and growing your Twitter audience

The Indie Dads Podcast

Sean Has Known All Along

Hammerstone

Efficient MySQL pagination using deferred joins

41.4k views
aaronfrancis.com

Inertia server side rendering on Laravel Vapor

3.5k views
aaronfrancis.com

Using Ziggy with Inertia server side rendering

7.9k views
aaronfrancis.com

Back in the Saddle

Hammerstone
2021

Work and Family, with Matt Wensing

Hammerstone

Optimizing Time-to-UI and Next Steps for Livewire

Hammerstone

(Finally) Exiting the Trough of Despair

Hammerstone

React, Vue, Laravel, Rails, and Hotwire. Oh my!

Hammerstone

Bitmasking in Laravel and MySQL

9.0k views
aaronfrancis.com

Using Laravel's schema builder outside of migrations

1.0k views
aaronfrancis.com

Launch Day is in Sight

Hammerstone

Coffee, Renderless Components, and Confidence

Hammerstone

Efficient distance querying in MySQL

30.6k views
aaronfrancis.com

Colleen Reaches Enlightenment

Hammerstone

Back in the Saddle

Hammerstone

Pheasants, Live Coding, Filters-in-a-filter

Hammerstone

Hiring a Personal CFO

aaronfrancis.com

A little bit of Lambda

Laravel Worldwide Meetup

Who _Are_ You?

Hammerstone

Hammerstone, a History

Hammerstone

2 Jobs, Stabilizers, and Torchlight Clients

Hammerstone

Foreign Keys and Calvin & Hobbes

Hammerstone

Bonus Episode: A Deep Dive into Sidecar with Greg Skerman

Hammerstone

Colleen's First Week, Refine Pricing, and Acquiring a Product

Hammerstone

Riding Sidecar with Aaron Francis

North Meets South Web Podcast

Billions with a "B"

Hammerstone

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Updates, Updates, Updates

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The perfect Vercel + GitHub Actions deployment pipeline

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Separate marketing + app sites with Laravel Jetstream and Inertia.js

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YNAB For Business? Progress in Rails, Demand for Laravel.

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Blogging with markdown in Laravel

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Sales Safari for Torchlight.dev & Wanting to Give Up

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Rough Week, Good Friday

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Healing Back Pain, Twitter Coincidences, and Torchlight.dev

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Rails Integration and Laravel Admin Panels

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Shedquarters, Refine Refinements, and Laravel Airdrop

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Reliably building frontend assets with NVM and Yarn (or NPM)

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Texas Weather, Hotwire Success, and Refinements

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Sean's Birthday, Mental Health, and Hotwire

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Andrew from Bullet Train Stops By

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Modularizing to improve the developer experience

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What's Your Name?

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Fixing "Laravel PackageManifest.php: Undefined index: name" in GitHub Actions

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2020

Handling large CSVs with Laravel

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Ensuring consistent polymorphic relationships with Laravel

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Realtime spreadsheets with Laravel

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Laravel pseudo daemons

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2016

Breaking the Chain

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What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

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Prove It

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Just

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Winging It

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2015

The Top 5 Regrets of Dying People

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Living the Quiet Life

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Be Kind

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Subconscious Information Processing

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How Did It Become OK For People To Be Late For Everything?

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No Time For Something Important? Try Waking Up Earlier.

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I Never Finish Anyth

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The One With No Article

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We Are Just Not Here Anymore

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Stuff

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Twenty Six, Unmarried, and Childless.

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The Finite, Irreplaceable Hours of Your Life

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A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept

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You Can Be Busy Or Remarkable, But Not Both

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Move Your Feet

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Find The Time

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Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously

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Cool Is Overrated

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Work vs Life

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There Is No Speed Limit

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How To Blog and Give Zero F***s.

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But You Did Not Persuade Me

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The Power Of Sponge Learning

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Confessions of a Recovering Lifehacker

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Introduction to Financial Accounting

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Tomorrow Is Not A Suitable Day For Doing Things

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Career Advice: Don't Try To Be The Best

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Dads: Be Doers

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Most People Won't

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Don't Follow Your Passion

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Entreporn: The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life

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Hang Around With People Who Get Sh*t Done

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Create Time For What Is Necessary

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Why I'd Rather Be Crazy Than Boring

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Do The Work.

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Luck Surface Area, or How To Create Luck.

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What have you tried?

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Do Things, Tell People

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