Matt Stauffer

Matt Stauffer

CEO Tighten, where we write Laravel and more w/some of the best devs alive. "Worst twerker ever, best Dad ever" –My daughter

Appears in 105 Episodes

Packages, with Freek Van der Herten & Marcel Pociot

We all use third party packages in our Laravel applications, and even Laravel itself is composed of packages. But how do they work? How do you pick the best packages? ...

Upgrading, with Jason McCreary

As much as we all wish our apps would just run forever, in reality, they need some tender love and care in order to keep running smoothly and safely. That means we nee...

Deploying & Servers, with Chris Fidao

One of the most common questions that the Laravel docs just can't answer for you is "How and where do I deploy my Laravel app?" There are a ton of options, but a few r...

Queues, with Mohamed Said

Some times events, jobs, and queues can feel a bit overwhelming, and sometimes they can feel so simple it feels like you're doing it wrong.Mohamed Said is not just the...

Security, with Rizqi Djamaluddin

It's every application developer's nightmare: your app gets hacked and everyone's private data is out in the open, and it's your fault.Thankfully, Laravel and the tool...

Helpers & Collections, with Jacob Baker-Kretzmar

Laravel's Collections were popularized by Adam Wathan's book "Refactoring to Collections", but if you haven't read the book you may be left wondering exactly what they...

Mail and Notifications, with Wilbur Powery

Laravel has two primary notification systems: Mail and Notifications. What do each do? How do you use them? When should you use one or the other? Active community memb...

APIs, with Jess Archer

We all interact with APIs, even if we don't write them, right? The APIs that power our mobile apps, the APIs we use in our code. But Jess Archer wants you to know ther...

Storage, with Frank de Jonge

Laravel offers two systems for accessing the filesystem: the File facade and the Storage facade. The Storage facade wraps a package called "Flysystem", and in this epi...

Cache, Session, Middleware, & Request, with Samantha Geitz

Some of the most important pieces of Laravel are still those which don't fit neatly into broader categories. In this episode we cover those and somehow even manage to ...

The Service Container, with Christoph Rumpel

You may not know it, but the service container — also known as the container, the IOC container, the DI container, or just "the application" — is that the core of ever...

Tinker, Artisan, & CLI, with Nuno Maduro

While Laravel is a web framework, many of our interactions with our apps—whether when writing them or when using them—happens on the command line. In this episode, Lar...

Testing, with Adam Wathan

Learning how to test your applications can be overwhelming. In this episode, testing master Adam Wathan, author of TailwindCSS and host of Full Stack Radio, joins us i...

Mix, with Jordan Pittman

 Webpack seems to be the brunt of every joke around JavaScript tooling these days, but somehow it still sticks around--probably because it's the most powerful tool we'...

Presets & Jetstream, with Michael Dyrynda

One of the most powerful tools in creating Laravel apps quickly is how much you can get done in an app that just contains the skeleton scaffold Laravel comes with. The...

Authorization and Authentication, with Joseph Silber

If your app has users, it's likely you're going to want to know who they are and what they can--and can't--do. Take a listen to this introduction to the two "auth"'s, ...

Migrations, Factories, and Seeding, with John Bonaccorsi

Eloquent and the Query Builder allow us to interact with our database, but how do we get those databases in the right shape? How do we define their schema, their sampl...

Eloquent and the Query Builder, with Jonathan Reinink

Very few Laravel applications don’t have a data store backing them, and the vast majority are backed by a relational database like MySQL. Laravel’s built-in tooling fo...

Debugging and Monitoring, with Jonty Behr

Every app has bugs! Learning to debugging your apps is a powerful and vital skill, but we also need to know when the bugs are happening, so pair that with good monitor...

Routing and Blade, with Caleb Porzio

Any web-based application routes all its requests through URL. Laravel’s routing allows you to define URLs, URL patterns, and HTTP Verbs to match you users’ incoming r...

Local Environment with Valet, Homestead, and Docker, with Chris Brown, Jose Soto, Joe Ferguson

If you're going to work in modern web development, one of the key ingredients is a local development environment that doesn't rely on anything but your local machine t...

Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan

Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is object-oriented.But many of us learn a...

Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible

Most modern development workflows rely on version control, and most of those use Git. It's easy to follow a quick tutorial and learn a few basic commands--and you shou...

Intro to Composer, with Jordi Boggiano

As PHP and Laravel programmers, we use Composer every day. But we often don't know its history, nuances, or the plans for the future.In this episode Matt talks with Jo...

Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes

If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find the best way to stay up to date over ...

The Ethos of Laravel, with Taylor Otwell

Laravel Podcast Season Four is all about the topics you need to know to work in Laravel.This episode is about The Ethos of Laravel, and Matt is joined by Taylor Otwell...

Introducing Laravel Podcast Season Four

We're back! It's a new season, and a new format: Each episode will bring a guest or guests on to talk about a single topic in the Laravel world.-----Editing and transc...

Interview: Lalit Vijay, Curator of Laravel Live India and Co-Founder of StyleDotMe

An Interview with Lalit Vijay, Curator of Laravel Live India and Co-Founder ov StyleDotMeLalit on twitterStyleDotMeMasters of ScaleReply AllThe Knowledge ProjectInside...

Interview: Steve Schoger, Famous Designer and Co-Creator Of Lots Of Things

An interview with Steve Schoger, designer and creator or co-creator of many online tools like Tailwind and Refactoring UI and Heroicons and Zondicons.Refactoring UI bo...

Interview: Abed Halawi, Tech Lead at Vinelab

An interview with Abed Halawi, Laracon EU speaker and Tech Lead at VinelabAbed on twitterAbed's talk at Laracon EU 2016, "The lucid architecture for building scalable ...

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