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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 14/01/2026

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.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 27/05/2025

Steve and I will also be offering services! If you want a review of your screencasts, we can give you a 15 minute teardown. If you wanna hang for an hour and ask more specific questions, you can do that too!

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 27/05/2025

But it's not just courses! We've also created plugins to make your life easier. We have a 3D UI plugin for Premiere, which is how we made the trailer for this thread! And two new plugins for DaVinci. Perfect facecams and beautiful screen zooms, every time.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 27/05/2025

We also partnered with some amazing guest instructors to bring you courses on each of the major editors. Screenflow, Premiere, DaVinci, and Resolve. Learn how to use the editors *specifically* for editing screencasts, not making movies. And we have more coming 👀

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 27/05/2025

We have our flagship "How to Screencast" course, which teaches you the fundamentals of screencasting. How to research, plan, prepare, set up your equipment, record, and the theory of editing. It's the course I wish I had when I was starting out!

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 27/05/2025

We have been working hard to make screencasting.com the comprehensive destination for all things screencasting. 🎉 We're excited to announce FIVE new courses 🎉 • How to Screencast • Screenflow • Premiere Pro • DaVinci Resolve • Final Cut Pro But that's not all!

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 19/02/2025

🎉 High Leverage Rails is now available! Simplify your stack, scale from zero to IPO. High Leverage Rails is a video course for beginners by Rails educator @fractaledmind.bsky.social. You'll learn how to build faster and ship quality apps with less code and less hassle.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 14/02/2025

So what's a "developer preview"? Well that just means that it probably still has a lot of rough edges, but alas, we must ship! It's really tough competing with world-class solutions that have had years to bake, but you gotta start somewhere. And so we're starting here.

A picture of Taylor Otwell next to a slide that says "we must ship"

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 14/02/2025

Today, on my 36th birthday, I'm excited to release my new library Fusion as a developer preview! Fusion is the best way to combine your Laravel backend with your JavaScript frontend.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 22/01/2025

I'm incredibly excited to announce that we've partnered with @fractaledmind.bsky.social to produce our first course on Ruby on Rails. Sponsored by @hatchbox.io and @honeybadger.io, High Leverage Rails is an in-depth video course on Rails + SQLite for beginners. Coming in February!

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 31/12/2024

It's a team sport though, and I couldn't ask for a better teammate than my wife, Jennifer. This year marks ten years of marriage for us and I couldn't do any of this without her.

An older Aaron and Jennifer, with four kids

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 31/12/2024

I took several interviews with great companies, but none of them felt right. Steve and I had both gotten laid off, so we were talking the whole time about what was next. We decided to give it a shot and founded our company Try Hard Studios.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 31/12/2024

At the beginning of 2024 I had newborn twins and two-year-old twins, I developed arthritis, and I got laid off while on paternity leave. Since then, Steve and I started a business and doubled our old salaries. 2024 was the hardest year of my life. Here's my review 👇

Aaron asleep with newborn twins on his lap.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 18/12/2024

Two new modules for Mastering Postgres just dropped! Advanced JSON and Vectors. Early access pricing ends tomorrow, so go get it before then! MasteringPostgres.com

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 17/12/2024

I wrote a full terminal emulator in PHP! And I wrote a testing tool that takes screenshots of the terminal to verify that my emulator is working! Here's a quick video of the tests running. If you want a longer explanation you can check it out here: x.com/aarondfranci....

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 13/12/2024

I just posted a new demo of an enhanced logging experience I'm working on for Laravel. But it's four minutes, so I can't post the video here! Here's a link, if you're interested: twitter.com/aarondfranci...

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 04/12/2024

You can find me Twitter ar twitter.com/aarondfrancis or YouTube at youtube.com/@aarondfrancis.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 04/12/2024

• SQLite course: highperformancesqlite.com • Postgres course: masteringpostgres.com • Screencasting course: screencasting.com I do a podcast with @ianlandsman.com, called @mostlytechnical.com. It's very good.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 04/12/2024

👋 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 👇

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 01/12/2024

Here's one of the tests. Super easy to set up.

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 01/12/2024

I figured out how to test my TUI in a foolproof way and I'm super proud of it. In my test runner I spawn the Solo process, send it input, and capture all the output. I can test hotkeys and assert about the state of the UI. I can also watch it run and visually debug!

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Aaron Francis @aaronfrancis.com · 29/11/2024

I skipped the middleman this time and went straight to the fount of knowledge

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