David Hemphill is Chasing Dopamine
Matt Stauffer catches up with David Hemphill, co-creator of Laravel Nova and creator of the Beard CSS framework. They cover David’s years as an amateur MMA fighter, his punk rock roots, and why he keeps chasing flow states.
The conversation moves into how David uses Suno to prototype songs before producing them himself. It also covers why he hasn’t hand-written code in almost two years, plus deep dives into mechanical keyboard group buys, Tesla’s self-driving, and neighborhood bass fishing.
- Matt Stauffer on X - https://x.com/mattstauffer
- David Hemphill on X - https://x.com/davidhemphill
- David Hemphill Website - davidhemphill.com
- Laravel Nova - https://nova.laravel.com
- Beard CSS framework (on David’s GitHub, monarkee): https://github.com/monarkee/beard
- Pat Miletich -https://www.espn.com/mma/fighter/_/id/2501404/pat-miletich
- Miletich Fighting Systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletich_Fighting_Systems
- Suno - https://suno.com
- Tycho, Dive (Matt’s background-music pick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ih1aKeETk
- PostHog’s “product engineer” role -https://posthog.com/careers/product-engineer
- Sass - https://sass-lang.com/
- Livemark - https://livemark.ai/
- Omnitype Bauer Lite 65% - https://omnitype.com/products/bauer-lite
- Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB) - https://happyhackingkb.com
- Tactile Keychron 75% - https://www.keychron.com/collections/75-layout-keyboards
- Keychron keyboards - https://www.keychron.com/
- K2 Keyboard - https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mechanical-keyboard?_pos=1&_sid=a85eeb9c6&_ss=r
- K3 Max Keyboard - https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k3-max-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard?_pos=1&_psq=k3+max+keyboard&_psid=2b875253f&_ss=e
- Fishbrain - https://fishbrain.com/ - User name: heyhemp
- Laravel Twitter - https://twitter.com/laravel
- Laravel Website - https://laravel.com/
- Tighten Website - https://tighten.com/
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Creators and Guests
Host
Matt Stauffer
CEO of Tighten, where we write Laravel and more w/some of the best devs alive. "Worst twerker ever, best Dad ever" –My daughter
Guest
David Hemphill
Senior Dev @Zillow . Livemark (https://livemark.ai) Creator of Pushsilver. Co-creator of Laravel Nova (sold 2024), Tailwind CSS , and ChipperCI (sold).
