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Hey everyone, welcome to Countdown to Laravel Live.

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I'm Mathias Hansen, your host, and today I'm chatting with TJ Miller, who is going to
speak at Laravel Live in Denmark here in August in Copenhagen.

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TJ, thanks for coming on.

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Yeah, thanks for having me, man.

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So TJ, I'd love to hear more about how you got into computers and technology.

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What's your earliest memories of programming and stuff?

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Yeah, so I got started real early on.

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I was super fortunate.

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My dad worked for a tech company.

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He worked for Xerox and like I got to go with him to the office and see all these like
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I mean, I remember being like, I don't know, like 10, 11, 12 years old and like getting to
see like this 3D printer for the first time ever.

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And it was like the size of a small car.

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So just like getting exposed to like really cool stuff like that early on.

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But

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Because he worked for the company, we always had pretty decent computers from the get-go.

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We had internet very, very early on.

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And so I think around like 9, 10, 11, I was definitely getting heavy into video games.

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was like Cosmic Osmo, Enter the Mist, Lemmings, just sitting there playing on the
computer.

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But then we got internet.

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And that's when GeoCities and AngelFire were hot.

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Nabster came on the scene, uh LimeWire.

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I was just bit by all of that stuff.

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it uh fascinated me how everything worked.

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And so I started reverse engineering geocoding websites from everywhere.

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and just started hacking on them.

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I'd copy and paste the HTML and just get them rendered in the browser and just started
messing with stuff, seeing what it would do.

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And I just...

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I was blown away by all the possibilities.

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And then MySpace came on, like the scene, and customizing MySpace pages was the thing to
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And I got really into it, and just being able to hack on them, see what you could create.

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And that was my very first paid gig, was customizing MySpace pages for local bands.

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So yeah, just like...

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The world of possibilities was just, uh it got me and hooked me and I've been just messing
with code ever since then.

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oh

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So TJ, we of course work together, it's no secret.

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So I know you're a huge Neo vim user, big fan, right?

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But what was your earliest memory of the editor you're using for HTML?

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Do you recall?

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uh Definitely like notepad, notepad plus plus was like very early days.

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Yeah, yeah, we went from notepad to notepad plus plus and they use that for quite a while.

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uh I can't remember what I used, of course, like Dreamweaver a little bit, uh you know.

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but I always just loved the freedom of a text editor rather than a full IDE.

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But even though now my Vim is basically full IDE, something about the simplicity of it I
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Well, it's like highly configurable, right?

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Like you've customized it to Smitherens, basically.

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Yep.

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got a, like, I got an old laptop for my grandmother at one point and there was something
wrong with it.

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And I like ended up firing up DOS and starting to mess with that.

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And that was my first like taste of the command line.

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And I just thought that was so cool that I could like, I would just pretend I was hacking,
like listing directories and navigating around, you know?

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Um, but that got me bit by the, command line and, um,

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That's somewhere I just, always, the space I always played in.

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uh So yeah, that kind of led me towards like Vim and Neo Vim and uh TMUX and all that,
that sort of like tool chain when I got into Linux.

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um So did you work in Linux first?

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Was that your first computer?

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Was that Linux or was it Windows or what was it?

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first computer was a Mac.

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then was Windows for a number of years.

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But I always like inherited other people's computers.

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So I was always getting like old, old computers and you could never, everything was like
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And so then I discovered Linux and I could run Linux on these like lower powered machines
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And so that I discovered like Ubuntu and Mint and all, all like the Linux flavors and uh

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I ran Linux for I think like three or four years in my early teens, you know, like hacking
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It's the same reason I love Vim and NeoVim.

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Like you got, you can do whatever you want to it.

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So.

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Do you have a favorite window manager?

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I'm really missing with Linux as a desktop computer around that time as well.

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And I couldn't quite figure out like the best setup for like the UI essentially.

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man, I don't even, I'm so far departed from running Linux at anything other than servers
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Like, yeah, I don't even know.

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Cause I can't remember the last time I used a Windows manager, like a window manager on
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Cool, so you were talking about playing video games on one of first computers you had
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Did you ever work on playing around with building video games?

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like, prototyping video games?

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I've played a little bit with it.

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uh It was never, I don't know, that never really bit uh my attention at all.

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So I've not explored too far into video games.

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My son, however, is like super, super like fixated on wanting to learn how to code so he
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So I have a feeling this summer I'm gonna be learning a little bit of game development.

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Speaking of your son, you were mentioning at Xerox this huge 3D printer, you know, what
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That's wild.

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I know you recently got into 3D printing as well, I guess maybe you were into it before,
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Yeah, yeah, we got one for Christmas for my son and myself.

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And it has pretty much been running, I think, nonstop since we got it.

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uh In high school, I took years of drafting in AutoCAD.

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I think I probably took four years of drafting in AutoCAD.

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So uh I've been having a blast designing and making our own things here, too.

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Not just the prints that we can find online, but actually designing things like our...

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our French press top broke and so I just printed a new one, know, designed and printed a
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So uh I love it.

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That's awesome.

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So since you did all the cat classes, were you ah planning to become a mechanical
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What was your plan back then?

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Back then, it was still to go into web development.

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And my drafting teacher absolutely could not.

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He was so confused.

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He could absolutely not figure it out because he's like, just took all these years of
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And you're pretty good at it.

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But you want to go do this web development thing?

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I'm like, yeah, absolutely.

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So at the same time, I was also taking the high school offered, like an intro into web
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And I ended up uh like.

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sort of co-teaching it with my instructor because at the time, like I knew more than him
because I had been playing with it for years at that point.

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So I ended up almost like kind of assistant teaching with him, uh, like the class and did
that for two years and was just like super obsessed with it.

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And that, that was about the time, like my senior year in high school is when I discovered
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so this is like, five, six.

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And that was mind blowing because before it was just JavaScript and HTML.

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and CSS, but now with PHP it was like the world opened up to like databases and dynamic
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of inspiration into the scene for me.

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So do you remember when the very first thing you should build with PHP?

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Like one of your first PHP projects?

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Yeah, it was actually for a local sports center.

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They had a whole bunch of activities and they had an in-house bar and everything too.

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The very first PHP project was that doing like dynamic templating so that we'd have like a
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And then like the content area would swap out as you like popped through links and that
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uh But that was the uh very first thing I did and it was mostly templating.

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uh But yeah, that was.

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That was my very first taste of PHP.

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then not too long after that was getting into WordPress and uh custom frameworks from
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I know you've also used the layerable for long time,

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Yeah, yeah, I got into Laravel, uh late Laravel 3.

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So I've been using Laravel for like about 10 years now.

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I wonder what happened around that time, I've spoken to a bunch of people already and it's
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just before or in the early beginning of Laravel 4.

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I guess that was a big turning point for Laravel at that time.

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Yeah, yeah, I think it started gaining popularity right around that time too.

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that's like, I had been doing a lot of WordPress development at the time and the place
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spot.

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So we were, was now getting into like application development and he, had made like heavy
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And it was a fine framework, but I didn't really align with the way that they were using
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So I was like dead set on let's find something else.

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Almost jumped ship from PHP to Ruby at that point in time.

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But I was looking at, it came down to like two framework choices.

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It was between like Falcon PHP and Laravel.

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And like Falcon seemed pretty cool because that actually is like an extent, like a PHP
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And I was like, wow.

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That's like, bet we could like do some really cool stuff with that.

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But as I started seeing what Laravel was doing with three and Taylor at the time was
starting to like talk about what was coming up in four.

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Um, I didn't even realize you could like write PHP that way.

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And that's, that's what really like sold Laravel to me was I'm like, wow, this is like
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It just aligned so

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much with the way that I thought about coding and the way that I thought about building
applications that I just I was I was sold and have been using Laravel ever since.

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I remember I met you first at Leracon in I would say 16 or 17 when you were speaking in
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On API development or API design?

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18, oh God, yeah.

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Yeah, 2016 was my first Liricon in Louisville.

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And then, yeah, 2018 I spoke in Chicago.

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I might have met you in Louisville, it's been a while, but maybe I popped into you there
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I know it was like Sandy Met spoke, Evan Yu spoke, uh Matt Machuga I think spoke.

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Yeah, that was my first ever like tech code conference and boy was that like one hell of a
entry point.

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I think Lericon was in Louisville twice actually and those two Lericons, maybe it's just
because it's nostalgic at this point, but that was like my favorite Lericons.

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felt like uh it was like a perfect size and the venue was awesome.

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Louisville was really fun too.

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Yep, yeah, I really enjoyed the Louisville spot.

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uh New York, the second New York has like a special place for me too.

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uh And then Chicago was just, was a really cool experience.

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Being at the museum was so neat.

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Yeah, so this was at the, science museum in Chicago and the actual museum was the venue.

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And that's the after party was, uh, you know, in the, the grand for right with like all
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was, remember the big train and it was insane.

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Yeah, it was so cool.

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Cool, and you have a busy year for speaking this year.

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Of course, you're going to level live Denmark, but you're also speaking American US.

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You just spoke at and gave a workshop at PHP Tech in Chicago.

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And I'm missing something.

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You're also doing, no?

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I you were doing one more thing.

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I don't know.

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That's it for now.

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it for this year.

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Did Tech, I've got LaraCon coming up and then Laravel Live.

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And then I was thinking about submitting to Longhorn, but it's gonna be a busy year, so
probably skipping that one this year.

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Yeah, it's also a bit uh further, a bit far um as well as a bit of a travel day to go to
Texas,

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Cool, I wanna jump to um talking a bit about your talk m at Laravel Live.

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So you are gonna talk about uh Prism, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we're going to talk Prism.

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uh Really kind of my goals for the talk are to showcase Prism and really kind of like
introduce it to a lot of people that maybe don't know about it.

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And I want to walk through kind of showing the power of Prism and the flexibility of
different things you can do by showing off a few different workflows.

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So we'll go through a couple of different AI workflows and how we implement those with
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And that'll kind of give everyone a taste of the different capabilities and like different
affordances that you get with using Prism.

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Thank

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So for those listening who have not used Prism yet, do want to give a quick elevator pitch
for what Prism is and does?

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Yeah, so Prism is like a unified interface for working with multiple large language model
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So we do allow like for affordances for like very provider specific pieces of
functionality.

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But overall, the main goal is to be able to interrupt between different providers in like
a really clean and easy API.

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So depending on how you can build with Prism, you could easily swap between Anthropic or
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to stay relatively the same.

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So I really love that driver-based approach, which is also such a layerable philosophy,
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you know, things are moving so fast in the LLM space.

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New models are coming up, pricing changes all the time.

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So being able to quite easily switch between providers or even using a local LLM, which is
super, super cool that you can actually do that for a prism, I think that's extremely

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powerful.

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Then of course, if you haven't seen it, the actual way you interface with...

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with Prism and the developer experience is absolutely sick.

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It's so easy to get the ball rolling with Prism and build some really powerful stuff.

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yeah, thank you.

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Yeah, that was the

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The whole experience has really been about trying to provide the cleanest developer
experience possible.

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The whole thing started from a documentation-driven approach of I sat down, designed how I
wanted to interact with Prism, and then took that as a template and started implementing

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all the functionality to that API.

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So it was very much dreamed up as a developer experience, and then we've just gone back
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Yeah, that's awesome.

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really clearly shows too um from developing experience point of view that that was sort of
like where it started.

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That's really cool.

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Oh, that's fantastic.

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Yeah, we do everything from text generation.

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We do streaming for providers that offer streaming.

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We do structured output.

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And then we're going to be getting into like audio here pretty soon, image generation.

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We do, we'll be doing all of that stuff.

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Really looking forward to hearing more at a level live.

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It's going to be really, really awesome to hear more and get more details and see some
stuff live.

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It's going be awesome.

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Yeah, I'm super excited about it too.

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So when I ask, I ask everybody this, is there anything you would like to see or do or eat
while in Copenhagen?

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Yeah, for sure.

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I'm definitely interested in getting on a canal tour and getting to go around.

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And I'm definitely a bit of a food junkie, so I'm going to be trying as much as I can
there, like unique stuff.

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But yeah, big on, I'm a former competitive cyclist, so I'm definitely gonna be trying to
find a bike to ride around a bit and just kind of like see some sights.

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But I'm planning on taking a, like adding it like a full day onto the end so I can just go
explore and, you know, have some fun.

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Yeah, mean, biking is obviously a perfect thing to do in Copenhagen.

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You have to be careful with the locals though, because they're, you know, they can go
pretty crazy on the bike lanes.

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Yeah, yeah, that's what I've heard.

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So it'll be fun.

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I'm also a bit of a museum junkie, so I'm sure I'll find a museum or two to pop my head
into and go explore around.

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Yeah, for sure.

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So one thing, one fun thing, view the canals.

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I love the canal tours as well.

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when people visit, always recommend doing that.

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It's really nice, especially on a nice sunny day.

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But one thing you can do now too, is you can actually rent your own boat and sail around
the canals.

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And when I first heard this, I was like, this should be illegal.

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I can't believe you're allowed to do this.

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Like no license or anything, right?

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uh But the canals are pretty chill.

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The boats are very slow.

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It's like small electric boats.

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ah So it's kind of like, you know, those dock boats at a theme park, but it's a bigger
area and you don't have to pedal.

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So it be fun too finding a few people and going on a small self-guided canal tour as well.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And that's I figured too.

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Like I'm pretty go with the flow person.

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So I figure, you know, meeting up with people there and kind of see like what groups are
up to and maybe tag along with some other events and yeah, pretty open.

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So you said you're a bit of a food junkie.

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I can definitely relate to that.

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Any particular cuisines you're really excited, in general, really enjoy.

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You know, I haven't had a chance to do too much hunting, but for us around here, like we
just try to go out and like find places for things that we can't make at home.

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like we were always in searching for like the unique stuff, you know, the different
things.

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So I don't, I don't have anything in particular, but I'm just, um I'm, interested in like
going around and sampling as much as I can.

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That sounds amazing.

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uh

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you'd recommend making sure I try out there food-wise?

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So Denmark isn't really known as a place with lot of uh world cuisine, that's just to be
honest.

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em

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actually where the venue for the conference is.

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It's on a small island connected to Copenhagen and um it's known for its big uh food
market out there with food trucks.

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So it's actually one of the best places to try a bunch of different cuisines because you
can just walk from truck to truck and every truck has a different Indian food, you can get

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Chinese food, can get...

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um I'm sure we can find a Korean barbecue truck for you as well.

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Yes, let's do that.

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kinds of stuff, but it's awesome to every single meal you can try a different cuisine.

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I really enjoy that, the paradox of choice of having all these options.

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that's perfect.

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I'll be able to sample a whole bunch of stuff.

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That sounds right up my alley.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So I really enjoyed that.

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Cool, well thank you so much for taking your time to chat for a bit.

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It a of fun.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Thanks for having me.

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That was TJ Miller sharing insights about text editors, 3D printing and course Prism.

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You can catch his full presentation at Laravel Live Denmark August 21st and 22nd in
Copenhagen.

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And if you haven't grabbed your tickets yet, head over to laravellive.dk before the prices
go up on July 1st.

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