April 23, 2025
Semi-organized
Andy and Dalton recap a minor league hockey game, share clever developer workflow tips like the gateway pattern and personal site automations, and reflect on how recent AI changes changing their coding habits.
Listen NowMarch 26, 2025
Laravel: Season 12 - The best one yet
In this episode, we discuss activities during morning standups like playing bomberman, we both tried Laravel Cloud for our personal sites, and some API Patterns for when to return 404s.
Listen NowFebruary 17, 2025
We Got New Jobs (While Everything's on Fire)
In this episode, Andy and Dalton discuss their recent job transitions, the challenges of navigating the job market, and the why the interview process is broken
Listen NowJanuary 24, 2025
Using Filament on the frontend, mockery, and documentation patterns
Happy New Year! In this episode, we talk about our goals for the year, dive into the latest Laravel updates, and explore model-based migrations
Listen NowDecember 16, 2024
Do you write down methods in your migrations? Queue Serialization, Stubs, Laravel PR Ideas, Migrations vs. Seeders
Happy Holidays! This week, we discuss tackling some queue serialization issues, debating migrations versus seeders, and discussing some new ideas for Laravel Core PRs
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.Nightwatch QA with Matt Staufer: https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/laracon-au-update-nightwatch-q-aInstantiating a class via constructor property promotion: https://travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-constructor-property-promotion/
Listen NowOctober 29, 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.Show Links:Mergeloop - https://mergeloop.dev/Zendesk Breach - https://therecord.media/internet-archive-alleged-zendesk-account-breachHeap Analytics - https://www.heap.io/
Listen NowOctober 8, 2024
WDW Passport w/ 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
This week, we follow up on last week’s local fakes discussion and explore what it would take for us to fully embrace Statamic
Listen NowSeptember 24, 2024
Local API Mocking, Flux & Accessibility, PostgreSQL, Web Dev Battles
In this episode, we cover the launch of Caleb’s Flux UI component library, and dive into the benefits of mocking APIs locally for faster development
Listen NowSeptember 11, 2024
57 Million Reasons to Love Laravel
In this episode, Andy and Dalton dive into a wide array[] of topics, from Laravel's exciting $57 million funding to the buzz around FluxUI’s pricing drama and the much-anticipated features coming in Inertia 2.0
Listen NowSeptember 2, 2024
The real jackpot is the Laravel community
This week, we're diving into all things post-Laracon! Andy shares his wild adventure just getting to Dallas with a few unexpected twists and turns along the way
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
Listen NowAugust 19, 2024
The gap between the last Standard Plan and Enterprise
This week, we dive into A/B testing and the challenges that come with the jump from the highest non-enterprise plan to full enterprise
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?
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