Hello, my name is Aaron Francis.
I’m VP of Marketing and Community at Laravel, and founder of Try Hard Studios. I write, make videos and courses, co-host a podcast and build software, mostly about databases, Laravel and the tools I use every day.
But none of that matters compared to this: I’m husband to a wonderful wife and father to a set of five-year-old twins, and a set of almost-three-year-old twins. Yes, two sets of twins. Impossibly hard, impossibly great.
Now
Building Solo, a Mac app for running coding agents. What I’m doing now
What you’ll find here
Essays on work and craft, plus technical writing on databases and Laravel.
Tutorials, conference talks and livestreams, on my channel and a few others.
Mostly Technical, a weekly show with Ian Landsman about Laravel, business and life.
Long video courses that each teach one thing thoroughly.
Apps I build and sell, and open source for Laravel.
- Solo, a Mac app for running coding agents
- Torchlight, syntax highlighting as a service
- Open source packages