North Meets South Web Podcast
By Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda
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Jake Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers
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OIDC, bastion hosts, and production safety
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Worktree structures, workflow events, and enum metadata
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Charging chaos, corona discharge, and vector embeddings
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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OpenClaw, Arbor, and horseless carriages
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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When AI clicks, automation at home, and developer workflows
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Choose your hard
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Controllers and Middleware, Grok vs. Claude, and Developer Value
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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LawnHub, Saloon, and Salesforce
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Soccer terror, conference swag, and Omarchy (btw)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Laracon recap, eleven stations, and Laravel meetups
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Laracon, controller middleware, and permissions
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Flavours of busy, restrained features, and variable static views
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Liquid glass, video thumbnails, and children growing up
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Stealth grills, metric takeover, and selecting conference talks
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May 22, 2025 |
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Constant interfaces, nested input, and array access
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May 08, 2025 |
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Laracon AU, queued batches, and leveraging AI
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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New setups, Saloon SDKs, and configuring Horizon
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Concentric circles, eloquent values, and application monitoring
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Succession plans, unused features, and testing living systems
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Luka and AD, Laracon US, and pitching our Laracon talks
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Old packages, Laravel upgrades, and breaking changes
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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North Meets South meets Slightly Caffeinated meets David Hemphill Christmas Extravaganza
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Loud coffee machines, Prezet, recursion, and staging environments
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Laracon AU retro, coffee machines, and dynamic directories
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Large file uploads, scrambled spotlights, and preparing for Laracon AU
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Dynamic images, Livewire slots, and API-based file uploads
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Fake drivers with Jason Beggs
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Tenanted files, testing batch jobs, and enhanced enumerations
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Remote pairing around rounding errors with a pint
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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The one with environment config
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The one with bubbly water
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The one with feature flags
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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JSON vs Polymorphism and editable index pages
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Music, feature flags, and making the new one do what the old one did
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May 29, 2024 |
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The one about onboarding junior developers
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May 02, 2024 |
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Laravel 11 learnings, nested validation, and the simplicity of Laravel
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Verbs, stolen chargers, and Laravel 11
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Handling error state, reviewing code, and request data objects
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The one with Ripples, Forge previews, and Laracon
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The one about sending email
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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The one with the keyboards and Filament
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The North Meets South meets Cash Money Cowork New Year extravaganza
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The one with the Lumberjack
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Looking back on Laracon AU
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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The one with all the JSON API stuff with TJ Miller
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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DIY woodwork, React micro-frontends, and confusing OpenJSONAPISchema
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Dads in Dev, cloud services, and static-site generation
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Airdrop, user-specific S3, and frontend complexity
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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State machines, pending objects, and named constructors
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The one with the successful first-time conference speaker
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Sipping Whisk(e)y with Len Woodward
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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World champions, deploying from GitHub Actions, and feature flags
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Bitmasks, reflected DTOs, and Aaron Francis
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May 30, 2023 |
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We're back, Laracon AU is back, and state machines are back
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Upgrading Laravel, static analysis, and speeding up tests
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Be kind. Speak truth. Don’t wait. with Matt Stauffer
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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The one about line feeds and carriage returns
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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The one about permissions
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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A Belated Christmas Extravaganza
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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The one about documentation
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Developer's Minifesto, agile theatre, and misccellaneous rambling
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Evaluating value objects, unspeakable forks, and moving validation down
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Encrypted environments, encrypted data, and magic constructors
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Scheduling conflicts, validation beyond the request, and the return of in-person events
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Using SOAP with Luke Downing
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Iterating on large features, bubbling exceptions, and composable actions
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Migrating from Vapor, green energy, and housing your validation
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Managing integrations, gently improving coding practices, and housing your validation
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Speeding towards Vite, Shifty workbenches, and documenting your applications with JMac
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Keeping review time down, deleting your .env.example file, and securing your secrets
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Electric trucks, multiversal madness, and choosing TALL
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May 23, 2022 |
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Refining workflows, social media rabbit holes, and migrating from Bootstrap
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May 10, 2022 |
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A boy's first footy game, scheduling Vestaboard messages, and a thenping.me update
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Vim throwdown, Part 4
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Vim throwdown, Part 3
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Vim throwdown, Part 2
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Vim throwdown, Part 1
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Using Saloon to integrate external APIs with Sam Carré
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Cured mystery meats, faking Wordle, and SMS as an app interface
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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New year, new job, new start
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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A Christmas Extravaganza
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Industrial shifts, polymorphism, and single table inheritance
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Authoring Statamic content with Jesse Leite
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Programming in pairs, statically generated PHP, and how even does Statamic work?
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Bringing tests into vanilla PHP apps, trust over process, and seeding tests
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Augmenting, refactoring, and modernising deeply legacy code
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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PHP 8.1, DTOs, and optimising your database
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Finals footy, deeply legacy code, and testing Laravel Spark
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Riding Sidecar with Aaron Francis
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Reminiscing, testing validation, and (not) paddlin' your database
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Hiring developers, managing projects, and bases of knowledge
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Going freelance with Yaz Jallad
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Conquering completion, Vim, and Intelephense
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May 30, 2021 |
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World of Warcraft, Kool Aid, and Wizards
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May 18, 2021 |
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THAT company policy, blindfolded development, and sharpening saws
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May 03, 2021 |
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Migrating infants, user-controlled task settings, and evolutionary development
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Integrating phone systems, rapidly building apps with Tailwind UI, and dynamically updating Blade components
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Swinging the Lasso with Sam Carré
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Utility-first commonality, retrofitting Tailwind CSS, and updated wants
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Rolling up, building static sites, and user wants
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Junior tech support agents, modern PHP complexities, and Pi-holes
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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New year, new job, and developer salaries
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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North Meets South Meets Cash Money Cowork Christmas Extravaganza Web Podcast
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Shaping Up, launching thenping.me, and configurable notification channels
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Growing pains, open source documentation, and cascading deletes
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Tangential promotions, Stripe customer portal in practice, and handling plan changes
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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A newborn, a cavapoo, and a lite valet with David Hemphill
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Teams, Billing, and Parades of Ninjas
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Command hooks, HTTP fakes, and high-density images
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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CloudFlare, launch plans, and handling complex data flows
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Handling alerts, command pipelines, and (un)masked passwords
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Scheduled tasks alerts, edge casees, and honing your message
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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The Nine Nine, HTTP Gateways, and calculated mutexes
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Mikado, Refactoring Gurus, and Argo
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May 31, 2020 |
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DTOs, Enums, and Divinations
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May 04, 2020 |
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Payment processing, when to extract classes, and failure alerts
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Streaming, working from home, and trapping mail
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Hoarding toilet paper, project health, and staying home
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Insurance, validation outside of HTTP requests, and event sourcing
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Hiding magic strings, leveraging language files, and reaching for vendor libraries
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Tracking task executions, identifying missing tasks, and long episode names
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Privacy focus, email woes, and too much logging
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Barbara Walters, queue woes, and email processing
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Reviewing code with new developers
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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Laracon AU retro, working with third-party auth providers, and thenping.me
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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MC'ing events, testing .test domains, and shaping thenping.me
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Tracking bugs in releases, upgrading to Laravel 6, and highly available databases
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Refactor a legacy UI, then ping me
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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Decision folders, escalating AWS bills, and building a SaaS
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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Monitoring scheduled tasks, Inertia and Livewire, and "microservices"
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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North Meets South Meets No PlansTo Merge
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Basecamp, old people names, and managing issues
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Scaling databases, dispatching jobs, and taking charge of teams
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May 19, 2019 |
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Theodor Geisel, complex validation, and compiled assets in git
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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Getting Shifty with JMac
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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Laracon Online, payment processing, and handling webhooks
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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Logging stacks, proxying SQL, and database clusters
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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Queued jobs, web sockets, and exceptional bailouts
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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New year goals, returning to the gym, and snow shovelling alternatives
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Third annual North Meets South meets Dads in Dev meets TJ Miller meets Chris Gmyr Belated Christmas Extravaganza Podcast
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Vue transitions, file uploads, and conventional wisdom
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Reconstructive surgery, time management, and scaling infrastructure
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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Laracon AU, form building, and advanced learning
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Type-safety, BladeX, and HTML emails
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Reinventing form controls, typing ahead, and converting MySQLi to Query Builder
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Nova, bootleg live streams, and static site hosting
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Event sourcing, auditing, and finite state machines
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May 30, 2018 |
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ANZACs, queues, and file uploads
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Mechanical keyboards, shared databases, and code thoughts
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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Stimulus, Glitch, and smart speakers
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Work, Books and Movies, and Controversy
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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Drop sets, engaging stakeholders, and real time stats with Matty Lantz
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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Model accessors, style guides, and Nomads
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Jan 28, 2018 |
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The second annual Dads in Dev meets North Meets South meets TJ Miller Christmas Extravaganza web podcast (Part One)
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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Professor Plum in the library with a wrench
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Nov 26, 2017 |
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Secret trips, status pages, and communication
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Code reviews, view composers, and Stranger Things
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Oct 29, 2017 |
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Promises, Empathy, and the Ivy Lee Method
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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Aussie slang, deep delegation, and gathering requirements
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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Managing timelines, wireframing, and nested Laravel applications
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Conventions, configuration, and becoming a lead developer
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Aug 20, 2017 |
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Podcasting, side hustles, and the importance of being earnest
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Jun 25, 2017 |
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Making users, shared sessions, and production deployments
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Jun 11, 2017 |
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Vue components, chainable jobs, and life after thirty
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May 28, 2017 |
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Eloquent observers, managing client expectations, and Laravel packages
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May 14, 2017 |
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HTTP clients, container tagging, and foreign keys with Paul Redmond and TJ Miller
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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Docker, Rancher, and Geocities with TJ Miller
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Apr 16, 2017 |
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WordPress, UUIDs, and testing revelations
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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Mentoring, upgrading config, and cloud infrastructure
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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Clouds, queues, and learning to code
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Feb 19, 2017 |
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Non-recording, updating Laravel, and huge manatees
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Feb 05, 2017 |
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Screencasting, Markdown to Medium, and Google Cloud Storage
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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Holiday catchups, CSS frameworks, and a big announcement
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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Happy New Year
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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Inaugural North Meets South Meets Dads In Dev Christmas Extravaganza Web Podcast
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Mince pies, Laravel 5.4 updates, and Vue server-side rendering
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Dec 11, 2016 |
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PHP 7.1, contributing to Open Source for Christmas, and posting on Medium as a developer
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Dec 04, 2016 |
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Giving thanks, verifying max post size, and Vue & ES6
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Nov 27, 2016 |
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Up and Running with Matt Stauffer
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Oct 30, 2016 |
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Denials of Service, MacBooks, and reviewing other people's code
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Oct 23, 2016 |
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Laravel and Forge improvements, Yarn, and Hacktoberfest
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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Meetups, the Universe, and master plans
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Jake and Michael's Introduce Adam Wathan in under an hour
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Sep 18, 2016 |
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Post-Hiatus Catchups, Migrating To Forge And Envoyer, And Certification
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Sep 11, 2016 |
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No Man's Sky, HTTP2, and Majestic Monoliths
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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Post-Laracon Crash
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Gotta catch 'em all, developer tools, and mismatched exceptions
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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Music, Beards, and MMA with David Hemphill
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Jul 11, 2016 |
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Wrong Abstractions, Valet, and MailThief
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Refactoring to Laracon
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Jun 22, 2016 |
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Introductions
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Jun 13, 2016 |