Best Shawn McCool Podcasts (2025)

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Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp 2:18:45

10d ago2:18:45

2:18:45

Simon Hamp and Marcel Pociot have been working on NativePHP for a number of years, and Simon just surprised with world at Laracon EU with a NativePHP for Mobile announcement. In this episode, Simon and Chris get deep into the the NativePHP innards, explore sustainable open source, and generally just have a good time for <> over two ho…

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Hypnogeeks Podcast Episode: Unlock the Power of Your Shadow with Leah Heal 1:25:14

16d ago1:25:14

1:25:14

In this powerful and soul-expanding episode of Hypnogeeks, I am joined by Leah, a past-life regressionist and founder of HealHouz, a spiritual platform devoted to awakening multidimensional awareness and honoring the divine within. Leah brings a wealth of experience from her background in nursing, elder care, and afterlife transition support. Her w…

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The next era of Larabelles w/ Zuzana Kunckova 1:20:17

21d ago1:20:17

1:20:17

Zuzana Kunckova started Larabelles five years ago, and over that time it has grown into an important part of the Laravel community. In today's episode, Zuzana and Chris talk about the future of Larabelles now that she has more time to dedicate to it. Links: Larabelles Sponsor Larabelles on GitHub Sponsor Larabelles on Patreon Other ways to support …

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PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™ 1:11:21

25d ago1:11:21

1:11:21

What happens when you get a bunch of Laravel podcasters + a bunch of mics in a room? Chaos, apparently. Recorded live after PHP × NYC with Ben Holmen, John Drexler, Daniel Coulbourne, Chris Morrell, Ian Landsman, Dave Hicking, and Joe Tannenbaum.By Chris Morrell

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Running Small Teams w/ Dan Matthews & John Rudolph Drexler 1:34:57

1M ago1:34:57

1:34:57

There's lots of advice out there for running software teams, but much of it comes from large organizations with dozens or hundreds of developers. Smaller teams have different needs. On today's episode, we pick up from a question Dan asked on Bluesky and talk about how best to approach running a small development team. Links: Dan's Bluesky Post Thun…

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HypnoGeeks with Darren Johnson on Tick Tock 43:14

1M ago43:14

43:14

🎙 Discover the Power of TikTok & Hypnosis with Darren! 🎙 Are you ready to transform your career, confidence, and online presence? In this episode of HypnoGeeks, we dive deep into the journey of Darren, a hypnotherapist and TikTok expert who rebuilt his life after losing everything. From rock bottom to success, Darren shares how hypnosis helped him …

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HypnoGeeks Episode 17 with Zoe Thompson 1:04:29

3M ago1:04:29

1:04:29

🎙️ Hypno Geeks Podcast episode 17 Discover how to grow your hypnotherapy or helping professional business without sacrificing balance or burning out! In this episode, we’re joined by Zoe Thompson, founder of Build It Brilliant, who shares her inspiring journey from corporate life to empowering therapists with smart strategies and tools. What’s Insi…

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Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool 1:52:31

5M ago1:52:31

1:52:31

Shawn McCool has been talking about event sourcing for years, and recently started a new series of streams on the topic. In this episode, Chris and Shawn talk about event sourcing, Verbs, and community (among other things). Links: Shawn on Twitch Event Sourcery VerbsBy Chris Morrell

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Design Patterns w/ Mary Perry 1:15:39

7M ago1:15:39

1:15:39

Design patterns can be very useful, but can also be weaponized as a way to "prove" that someone is doing something the "wrong" way. Mary has been thinking a lot about the good side of knowing design patterns, so we sat down to chat about them.By Chris Morrell

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HypnoGeeks Episode 16 with Melanie McCool and Shawn Bray 53:31

7M ago53:31

53:31

🎙️ Hypnogeeks Podcast: Episode 16 🎙️ Get ready for a game-changing episode of Hypnogeeks, your go-to podcast for hypnotherapists looking to level up their business! In Episode 16, host Amanda Joy dives deep into the often overlooked but critical aspect of building a successful hypnotherapy practice—the business side. Joined by the powerhouse duo Me…

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Side Projects w/ Joe Tannenbaum 56:21

7M ago56:21

56:21

Joe Tannenbaum is thinking about starting a podcast about side projects. So we took an afternoon to talk through what that might look like.By Chris Morrell

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The Art of Pairing with Strangers w/ Ben Holmen 59:48

8M ago59:48

59:48

Ben Holmen started his Pair-amid scheme as an experiment in meeting new people and experiencing new code. He shared his calendar with the world, and booked pairing sessions with 15 complete strangers. The outcome? A bunch of new friends and new experiences. In this episode, Ben and Chris talk about pair programming, side projects, and how to find f…

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HypnoGeeks Episode 15 with Craig Fookes Clinical Hypnotherapist 1:13:55

9M ago1:13:55

1:13:55

Ever wondered why procrastination feels like an insurmountable hurdle and how it ties into our mental health? Join us as we unpack the complex web of procrastination, motivation, and mental health with Craig Fookes, a clinical hypnotherapist known for his straightforward approach. In this episode, we promise you'll uncover effective strategies to o…

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ReactPHP + Event Loops w/ Len Woodward 1:15:18

9M ago1:15:18

1:15:18

ReactPHP is a low-level library for event-driven programming in PHP. It lets you write code that's much closer to the async/await style of JavaScript in PHP. In today's episode, Chris and Len talk about our experiments with ReactPHP. Links: ReactPHP Whiskey Community Prompts Conductor DawnBy Chris Morrell

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Code standards w/ Matt Stauffer 1:26:35

10M ago1:26:35

1:26:35

What set two developers on a quest to build custom tooling to enforce their code style preferences? Today's episode is a story that starts with two independent projects—Tighten's `tlint` and InterNACHI's `laralint`—but meanders to all the right places, including the future of PHP itself, the intersection of bikeshedding and art, and so much more.…

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Burnout w/ Ian Landsman 1:16:19

10M ago1:16:19

1:16:19

Today we take a break from over engineering to talk about burnout. Both Chris and Ian have been working on the same products for multiple decades. We sit down to talk about that and what to do about the kind of burnout that comes from working on the same thing for so long. Links: Brent is Leaving Twitter Join the RTSN.DEV mastodon instance…

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Let's talk APIs w/ Steve McDougall 1:42:06

11M ago1:42:06

1:42:06

Steve McDougall (aka JustSteveKing) is known as the "API guy" on Twitter. In today's episode we start with the question, "what if the best option is just a single page app with a good, RESTful API?" Links: HAL - Hypertext Application Language JSON:API Spec Laravel Sanctum API Versioning Blog Post Steve on Twitter (follow for updates on upcoming cou…

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HypnoGeeks Episode 14 with Albert Vigil & The Silva Method 39:34

11M ago39:34

39:34

Welcome to the HypnoGeeks Podcast episode 14! In this episode, I am thrilled to introduce Albert Vigil, a passionate advocate for self-improvement and holistic healing. Albert is certified in the Silva Method and Reiki levels 1 and 2, and is currently pursuing advanced education in clinical medical hypnotherapy, mind-body psychology, neurobiology, …

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Full Stack Javascript w/ Kelvin Omereshone 1:14:48

12M ago1:14:48

1:14:48

The internet has been talking (yelling?) about full-stack javascript a lot lately. In today's episode, we sit down and talk about what it means to be "full stack" and whether there are really any truly full-stack javascript frameworks out there (spoiler: there are, but maybe not Next.js or Remix). Links: Sails.js The Boring Javascript Stack AdonisJ…

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Building prompts w/ Jess Archer 1:50:15

12M ago1:50:15

1:50:15

Jess Archer took something that was quite good—the Symfony console output features—and built something that was absolutely great: Laravel Prompts. In today's episode, we dig into some of the gnarly details around building prompts and working with ANSI escape sequences in the terminal.By Chris Morrell

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The Future of the Laravel Frontend w/ Taylor Otwell 1:18:23

1y ago1:18:23

1:18:23

Taylor Otwell has been finding ways to improve Laravel for over a decade, but has only more recently set his sights on the front-end side of things. In today's episode, we sit down and talk about the current state of building UIs in Laravel, and what the future might hold. Links: Laravel Volt Aire Form Builder Laravel “Context” Feature Hooks Packag…

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Building for the command line w/ Joe Tannenbaum 1:18:05

1y ago1:18:05

1:18:05

Joe Tannenbaum took the internet by storm with his incredible SSH CLI "experiments." In today's episode, Chris and Joe sit down to get into the messy details of parsing ANSI escape sequences and dealing with multibyte strings, but spend as much time talking about programming as art and life as an actor. Links: Joe Tannenbaum on Twitter Joe's "Lab" …

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Do we really need sprints? w/ John Drexler, Bogdan Kharchenko, and Skyler Katz 1:20:21

1y ago1:20:21

1:20:21

What are the best processes for small software development teams with high trust? In today's episode the InterNACHI software development team sits down with John Rudolph Drexler to talk about whether or not we need to estimate tickets or even bother with sprints…By Chris Morrell

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Cache everything w/ Ian Landsman 1:55:26

1y ago1:55:26

1:55:26

As the saying goes: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." So in today's episode we dig into all the ways Ian is taking on one of the hardest parts of programming in his rewrite of their decades-running helpdesk software, HelpSpot. We talk about caching, a little bit of Laravel history, and about…

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Handling complicated view logic w/ Skyler Katz & Bogdan Kharchenko 1:09:07

1y ago1:09:07

1:09:07

Complex view logic can be hard to get right—particularly in server-rendered templates like Blade. We recently had to decide just how much a Laravel Blade component should do, and decided to hash it out on the podcast.By Chris Morrell

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Modular Laravel Apps w/ Mateus Guimarães 1:31:59

1+ y ago1:31:59

1:31:59

When applications grow—in scope, sheer lines of code, or the number of team members—how you organize things starts to matter a whole lot more. In today's episode, we talk with Mateus Guimarães about modularization: breaking your application into smaller modules. We explore some of the topics in his new Laracasts course, and talk about the decisions…

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Building Forms (and Catalyst) w/ Adam Wathan 1:10:04

1+ y ago1:10:04

1:10:04

It's been said that web development is 99% forms and tables. Today we talk with Adam Wathan about all the decisions that go into creating a great form builder API. Adam and the rest of the team at Tailwind recently launched the developer preview of Catalyst—a React UI library with a robust form system. We take a deep-dive into the API decisions beh…

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Static site generators & personal websites w/ Aaron Francis 1:03:06

1+ y ago1:03:06

1:03:06

We all use our personal websites as an excuse for trying something new or over engineering what's usually a simple, low traffic site. In today's episode, Chris and Aaron talk about how to build a great personal website with "just Laravel" and imagine ways that static site generation, markdown editing, open graph, caching, SEO, and more could be imp…

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Perfecting lifecycle hooks w/ Caleb Porzio 1:16:08

1+ y ago1:16:08

1:16:08

In today's episode, Chris and Caleb sit down and try to imagine what the perfect "hook" implementation might look like. Laravel, Livewire, and the upcoming Verbs package, all have to allow for hooking into logic at specific points, and each package has to handle this in its own unique way. What if there was a canonical way to hook into the lifecycl…

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HypnoGeeks Episode 13 with Shig 45:57

1+ y ago45:57

45:57

🧠Unlocking the Power of Mind and Recovery 🧠 Are you ready to explore the fascinating world of the mind, delve into the secrets of personal transformation, and discover the keys to recovery and well-being? Look no further than Hypnogeeks episode 13 – the ultimate podcast for therapists, curious minds, and seekers of positive change! Join us as we em…

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Verbs vacation (part 1?) w/ Daniel Coulbourne 1:24:00

1+ y ago1:24:00

1:24:00

And now for something completely different… In this episode, Chris and Daniel sit down to talk about a new event sourcing package they're working on called Verbs.By Chris Morrell

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Customizing outgoing email 1:23:23

2y ago1:23:23

1:23:23

Most teams have encountered this basic scenario: Your application sends out a periodic report to a specific person in the company. Then, at some later point, either another team member wants to start receiving a copy of the report, or you need to remove the original recipient and add a new one. With a standard Laravel app, you're probably going to …

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HypnoGeeks Episode 12 with Neil Christey 39:59

2y ago39:59

39:59

In this episode, we chat about all things meditation and The New Guided Minds Meditation Teacher Training Course at the NCCH. Neil our meditation teacher began his journey to spiritual freedom in November 2017 beginning with Meditation classes. The joy and blissful state of being that Neil began to experience with meditation was more than enough to…

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Hypno Geeks Episode 11 with Rod Aungier 41:11

2y ago41:11

41:11

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition caused by a traumatic experience. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder include flashbacks, nightmares, feeling very anxious and difficulty sleeping. The main treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder are antidepressants and talking therapies. Any situation that a person finds tra…

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What about event sourcing? 1:31:06

2y ago1:31:06

1:31:06

In this episode we indulge in the purest form of Over Engineering—a 90 minute discussion of a completely different application paradigm/architecture. Our team has used event sourcing to some degree, and we're considering using it more heavily in the future. But before we do, we're going to step back and ask ourselves if it's worth it… Some useful l…

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Hypno Geeks Episode 10 with Melissa Amos 54:25

2y ago54:25

54:25

In today's fast-paced world, many people are looking for more than just financial success in their careers. They want to create a business that is not only profitable but also aligned with their personal values and beliefs. This is where the concept of a "soul aligned business" comes into play. Let's be honest that's why we trained in Clinical Hypn…

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The dreaded status column w/ Daniel Coulbourne + Cheyne Rood 1:26:46

2y ago1:26:46

1:26:46

Over Engineered is all about those things that bug you but you never get a chance to "solve." Today's episode is about the dreaded "status" column. This is another topic that most developers will hit over and over. You have a model. You need to track the status. You add a status column, and then later a status timestamp "accepted_at", and then late…

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Referencing specific database records in your code 1:00:45

2y ago1:00:45

1:00:45

Season 1 continues with a discussion of how to deal with special database records that need to be referenced directly in code. We've all been there before: you've got a specific vendor that you need to write a custom command for, or a certain category that needs special handling, so you either hard-code the ID or slug and shudder slightly before mo…

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HypnoGeeks Episode 9 Branding 49:34

2y ago49:34

49:34

In this episode of HypnoGeeks, we chat branding your hypnotherapy business with Rosie Houghton who has been a graphic designer for 17 years, in that time she has worked both in-house for national brands and agency side for some leading creative agencies too. Rosie made the move into freelancing in the summer of 2013 and has been running her own suc…

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Over-engineering migrations even more w/ Tim MacDonald! 1:16:07

2y ago1:16:07

1:16:07

In the second episode of the podcast we talk with Tim MacDonald about a few other approaches to how you might manage other operations that happen before/during/after a database migration (or really any deploy step). Tim pitches a lower-level approach that spawns a whole new line of thinking. We also touch on some of the responses to episode one, in…

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The line between migration and…? 1:06:15

2y ago1:06:15

1:06:15

In the first episode of the podcast we explore the boundary between database migrations and other operations that need to happen when the database is being migrated. How do you seed or manipulate data after new tables or columns have been added? In migrations? In one-off commands that you have to run manually? Running seeders in production? In tink…

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 22nd of November 2022 with Adam Proud 1:00:01

2+ y ago1:00:01

1:00:01

Tonight on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show we chat with Adam James Proud. Adam is a YouTuber and motivational speaker from Newcastle. Growing up very shy, socially awkward and without many career options, Adam felt life had left him behind… We chat about how many of us feel left behind, not really knowing what we want to do with our lives, just watchi…

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 9th of November 2022 with Helen Louise Adams 51:36

2+ y ago51:36

51:36

Tonight on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show I'm chatting about MONEY.. Helen Louise Adams is the leader of a growing global movement called the Female Business Revolution. She helps female entrepreneurs create unlimited income with the most powerful tool at their disposal - their intuition! She is passionate about empowering women everywhere to reclaim…

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 2nd of November 2022 with Miranda Arieh 56:11

2+ y ago56:11

56:11

This week on the #Wednesday Wellbeing show I'm chatting with 🧠 Award Winning Mental Health Coach & Public Speaker 🎵 Singer Songwriter 🦋 Inspiring Women Changemaker ‘Social Impact Star’ 📻 BBC New Voices Finalist / Regular BBC guest 💫 and Network Mental Health Lead - NHS Leeds Miranda Arieh. Tonight we duscuss how We ALL have the power to grow, devel…

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 5th of October 2022 with Liz Howard 1:08:38

2+ y ago1:08:38

1:08:38

Tonight on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show I'm chatting with voice specialist and Expert. Healer of the voice, former X-factor voice coach and the Founder of Soulfood Seminars, Liz Howard Yates. Liz helps men and women who have issues of anxiety towards public speaking, which might include panic, weakness, or frailty In their voice! With her Soulfood …

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 28th of September 2022 with Colin Ellis 1:03:10

2+ y ago1:03:10

1:03:10

This week on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show I' chatting meditation with Colin Ellis. Colin is known as a Meditation Maverick, and has been studying meditation for over 23 years. He recently published, "There Are Only 7 Ways to Meditate: Make Your Meditation Amazing". This book is aimed at people who have tried meditation but not gained all the benefi…

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The Wednesday Wellbeing show 7.9 2022 with Geua Hila on recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence. 58:13

2+ y ago58:13

58:13

This week on the #wednesdaywellbeing show comes with a content warning!! This episode contains content that may be alarming to some listeners. Please check the show notes for more detailed descriptions before listening and take care of yourself. Tonights topic is sexual violence and domestic abuse. Far more than that, we discuss how you can heal fu…

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The Wednesday Wellbeing show 10th of August 2022 with Catherine Kelleher & Mind Detox 57:14

2+ y ago57:14

57:14

This week in the #Wednesdaywellbeing show I'm chatting with Catherine Kelleher qualified transformation coach, Mind Detox and Neuro-lingustic programming practitioner, specialising in helping people move from fear to freedom. Catherine beleives that "It starts with you and the realisation that you might be on your way or indeed burned out". Years…

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The Wednesday wellbeing show 29th of July 2022 with Martin and Neomi. 1:00:35

3y ago1:00:35

1:00:35

This week on the #Wednesday Wellbeing show we are talking love, romance, and relationships with Just 1 to 11 it • Relationship Coaching • Speaker • Trainer • Coach, Martin and Naomi. Perhaps you are bickering more with your partner, drifting apart, prefer being apart and dread time together. How's the intimacy, are you feeling unloved, irritated, f…

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The Wednesday Wellbeing show 15th of June 2022 with Wendy Dixon 58:47

3y ago58:47

58:47

This week on the #Wednesdaywellbeing show I'm chatting with Wendy Dixon. Wendy is an Author, Spiritual Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist & Psychic medium on a mission to create an online community raising the collective consciousness. Wendy has also created a fantastic programme that supports women going through menopause. She believes that age is not…

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