December 16, 2024
Do you write down methods in your migrations?
In this episode of The Midwest Artisan, we discuss the debate to write down methods in your migrations, Queue Serialization, Stubs, Laravel PR Ideas, Migrations vs. Seeders, and more.
Listen NowNovember 26, 2024
Nightwatch and Chill
In this episode of Midwest Artisan, we discuss Laravel Nightwatch, Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion, DTOs, and practical AI features in Laravel apps.
Listen NowOctober 28, 2024
Validate Everything
This week we discuss the common occurrence of over-engineered abstractions, digging into post-request logic without losing our minds, analytics, and securing digital assets.
Listen NowOctober 8, 2024
WDW Passport with Doug Sisk
This week, we’re excited to welcome Doug Sisk, the creator of WDW Passport, a Laravel-powered application designed to help users plan their Disney World trips.
Listen NowOctober 2, 2024
Building for Clients or Ourselves? Sticky & Static
We follow up on last week’s local fakes discussion and explore what it would take for us to fully embrace Statamic. We also tackle the big question: Do clients even use a CMS after it’s built?
Listen NowSeptember 24, 2024
Local API Mocking, Flux & Accessibility, PostgreSQL, Web Dev Battles
We cover the launch of Caleb’s Flux UI component library, and dive into the benefits of mocking APIs locally for faster development. We also highlight Aaron Francis’ new Postgres course, and wrap things up with the web dev battle YouTube channel and how a foodie app we built, QuizKnows, played a role in landing our first jobs.
Listen NowSeptember 11, 2024
57 Million Reasons to Love Laravel
We dive into a wide array[] of topics, from Laravel's exciting $57 million funding to the buzz around FluxUIs pricing drama and the much-anticipated features coming in Inertia 2.0.
Listen NowSeptember 2, 2024
The real jackpot is the Laravel community
We dive into all things post-Laracon! Andy shares his wild adventure just getting to Dallas with a few unexpected twists and turns along the way. We break down the highlights from Laracon, including the exciting announcements about Laravel Cloud and the amazing talks that left us inspired and ready to code.
Listen NowAugust 26, 2024
Those aren't NBA players, just a bunch of nerdy developers
We dive into NullStar 2024, the ultimate basketball showdown between Team Laravel and the Terminal Boys. We share our admiration for Caleb Porzio (who’s definitely on Team Laravel!). Plus, we explore staying productive in development, Andy's ambitious idea to track all Laravel events, and Dalton's latest package release—Remote Models.
Listen NowAugust 19, 2024
The gap between the last Standard Plan and Enterprise
We dive into A/B testing and the challenges that come with the jump from the highest non-enterprise plan to full enterprise. We also discuss some Laravel shop talk, sharing the tools we've been using recently. Plus, Andy introduces his new podcast idea, where he plans to interview Laravel community members and explore their unique development journeys.
Listen NowAugust 15, 2024
About Us + What is Laravel building?
A little about us, why we love Laravel, and what the heck is Laravel building?
Listen NowAugust 7, 2024
From Santa Claus, Indiana: Andy Hinkle
In this episode, Kevin Kirchner interviews Andy Hinkle, a developer and founding member of the MVP Dev Podcast. Andy shares his journey from working at a theme park to becoming a web developer and his passion for minimal viable products (MVPs).
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