Aaron Francis

👋 I'm Aaron. Laravel developer, database educator, conference speaker, YouTuber, and dad to two sets (!!) of twins! I'm the cofounder of Try Hard Studios. We make videos that developers want to watch. Here are some things we've made recently 👇

I've seen some of what Aaron's working on here, and it's so far ahead of anything I've managed to figure out for myself. (I told him to price this 10x higher but he refused listen to me, so it's your lucky day.)

Here we go! bsky.app/profile/aaro...

They say AI is the end for developers. They say the job market is gone. They say learning to code is pointless. I don’t buy it. I think we're just getting started.

One of my favorite courses of all-time, and I'm sure it's beyond better now. If you want to get better at screencasting, this is THE way to do it.

Today we talked about Brian's launch – how did it go? Near the end, @justinjackson.ca and @briancasel.com debate the merits of different pricing approaches. What do you think? Reply here with your thoughts!

I sat down with Josh Howard from Cloudflare and asked him my most pressing question... What *is* a Durable Object? We spent the next hour talking Durable Objects, D1, Workers, and how the whole Cloudflare platform works. You're gonna love this one. youtu.be/C5-741uQPVU

Absolutely loved this talk between @aaronfrancis.com and Heikki Linnakangas. I get drawn in by these kinds of deep dives. Watching someone with 20+ years in Postgres talk about their craft and the work that goes into a piece of software like Postgres and Neon. It's truly inspiring. #postgres

Taking inspiration from @aaronfrancis.com's weekly newsletter and going to share some links/videos/posts I found particularly interesting this week... Want to join along? 🧵

I recorded a new video about building a model reservation system *on top* of Laravel's atomic locks. It's kinda wild, and I got to use generated database columns so you know I was pumped about it. youtu.be/czHUFCWVY0c

"I'm discovering Miami from first principles" was a phrase uttered as I held my head in my hands

Wrote up some of my thoughts on what it means to be nice versus what it means to be kind. aaronfrancis.com/2025/you-can...

I was a kid once too aaronfrancis.com/2025/i-was-a...

do we hate or love @aaronfrancis.com for this?

Love this: "For me, I just kind of YOLO everything. If the audience wants to follow along, that's great! Because I have to do this for many years, I have to want to keep going." – @aaronfrancis.com

New episode of The Panel: Online courses and YouTube – good business? ( @aaronfrancis.com and @mariepoulin.com share their experience ) What do you think? Reply here with your thoughts!

🚀 High Leverage Rails is available now! Simplify your stack and scale from zero to IPO with Rails + SQLite. I made this video course in partnership with Try Hard Studios to teach you everything you need (and nothing you don't) to build then ship quality apps with less hassle.

Love to see @fractaledmind.bsky.social and @aaronfrancis.com producing such high quality Rails content. Go check out the course!

This week on MT, @aaronfrancis.com & @ianlandsman.com enter a new frontier of technical, developer-focused podcasting: How should you cook nachos in a microwave?

X user Aaron Francis is planning to officially launch Fusion today and we have an exclusive interview with him that’ll drop when it launches. 🎉

i’ve been watching video courses while i meal prep recently. about to finish @aaronfrancis.com’s excellent screencasting.com course. tons of actionable tips, insights, and confirmations. very worth the investment. and a great looking example of a video course. two thumbs up.

Who better to share Epic Bets: Practical Tips for Betting on Yourself than the one and only @aaronfrancis.com at #EpicWebConf!? Aaron will break down how to make yourself more resilient, adaptable, and ready for whatever comes next. Check out his interview! www.epicweb.dev/conf

I built a tool to automate integration tests on my command line tool! I'm pretty pleased with it. youtu.be/C-S8zwiB2CA

This week on MT, @aaronfrancis.com is fresh off the Laracon EU stage and he wants to know how @ianlandsman.com feels about Fusion - is he a yes man? A medium man? A no man?!

“Fusion does not abolish inertia, it fulfills inertia.” Sometimes I feel like @aaronfrancis.com is writing jokes just for @coulb.com and me.

Some true innovation from @aaronfrancis.com at Laracon EU, really pushing the boundaries and showing us how it's done Total high wire act and he absolutely nailed it 👏 (Also how am I suddenly tearing up during a hard technical talk)

I love that @aaronfrancis.com just does the things people say you can't do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3X...

This design work @wking.dev did for @aaronfrancis.com and Try Hard’s open source projects is epic! 🙌

I built a GUI in the terminal! With PHP! It has tabs, modals, scrolling... everything. Go watch the tour! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucgr...

Just got a peek at @aaronfrancis.com’s [REDACTED] that will be introduced at Laracon. Be prepared to have your mind blown.

Htmx, Alpine.js, and Tryhard Studios mentioned in one video? Courses and course platforms are so hot this year. youtu.be/v9NC2P328sI

67: The Big Reveal mostlytechnical.com/episodes/67-... @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com discuss all things related to AI, Ian's new thing he built, a new Rails course, and a lot more.

If you didn't see yesterday, I'm partnering with @aaronfrancis.com and Steve Tenuto to produce an in-depth video course on building with Rails + SQLite. "High Leverage Rails" is coming in February and I couldn't be more excited!

If you want to learn Rails or get better at Rails this is definitely a course you want to check out!

Just got off of a great chat with @aaronfrancis.com talking about trying hard, betting on yourself, and what he's excited to talk about at #EpicWebConf. See you in March!

I'm going to be bummed when these fellas release a trailer that doesn't absolutely SLAP but good news for us that day does not look like it's anytime soon

This is so cool, and no one better to do it than @fractaledmind.bsky.social and @aaronfrancis.com. Happy that @honeybadger.io can play a small part. Can't wait!