A Laravel and Laracon Catch-Up With Michael Dyrynda and Jake Bennett

which means you have to start at the very bottom they say they'd let you try out they're like no everybody gets put at the bottom yeah they're both impressing people a lot right now so i'm like that's good that's great i love it that is good for them that's great okay so while i want to just hang out with my buddies the justification for this being on the laravel podcast and not just a zoom of the three of us is the two you guys run among other podcasts the laravel news podcast and One of the things that is distinct about the Laravel News podcast as compared to the Laravel podcast is that you keep the news going.

And yes, it is the podcast officially associated with Laravel-news.com, the website, but also it is very focused on what is new and what is up and coming, you know, in the framework.

Whereas Laravel podcast is a little bit more like kind of interviews and long running kind of things.

Laravel news is what is happening this week, packages, projects, you know, that kind of stuff.

And so that really makes me think that you guys have an approach to something like a Laracon that's a little bit different than the one I have.

And of course, part of my approach Laracon is being a speaker and a sponsor and all that kind of stuff.

But also I unfortunately don't write a ton of Laravel on the day to day right now.

Like I write some, right.

But you guys are like looking at both, releases, like my most prolific time of creating content around the Laravel ecosystem was when I read every single line of every single commit and every single Git repository and then wrote it on my blog, right? And you guys are still doing a lot of that to a degree, you know, through also together with Eric's work and the other writers at Laravel News, of course.

So as people who are coming from that background, but also have, you know, a decade each of working in Laravel applications, What was most exciting to you, whether announced from the stage or talks or sponsors or things like kind of what caught your attention at LairCon US this year?

Yeah, I can jump in on this one.

Michael, you're going to have to help me remember the girl's name, the silly software girl.

Christina.

Christina.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay, so I thought this is a different talk.

When we got to this talk, I was like, oh, this is a different talk.

I was like, I'm not really interested in this one.

I won't say what talk it was that I wasn't interested in.

I was going to skip out.

I was going to skip out.

And they had somehow switched the schedule.

And one of my buddies was like, oh, no, it's going to be this other one.

I'm like, all right, I'll stick around for it, I guess.

So glad I did because that was such a fun talk.