Daniel Coulbourne & Caleb Porzio

No Plans to Merge

Real life code talk between two working developers.

Author

Daniel Coulbourne & Caleb Porzio

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Technology

Podcast website

noplanstomerge.com

Latest episode

Oct 24, 2025

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Episodes

Religious Programming 13.11.2019

This episode, Daniel and Caleb talk about Europe traveling, troubling tweets, and objective truths of the universe.

"Steeped" in Laravel Nova 31.10.2019

In this episode, we talk about drinking tea and using Laravel Nova.

Arguing About Writing Less JS 17.10.2019

This episode Daniel and Caleb cover the "Write Less JS" fiercely. There's some real head to head stuff in here, but it ends in a resolution as always. Good times.

Fun Testing Technique, Inversion Of Control, And Other...Things 10.10.2019

This week, we talk about a new technique Daniel used in his test and how it can be applied to other scenarios. We also talk about open source issues, IoC (and practical implementations), etc...

How Much Money Do We Make? 03.10.2019

This week we talk about how much money we've made in the past, and how much money we currently make. Real numbers, no vagueness.

The Problem With Updating Factories 25.09.2019

This week, we talk about some common scenarios where your tests pass, but production fails. The root cause? Updating model factories without migrating old data in production. We dig into the problem and see if there are any silver bullet solutions.

The War On Webpack (And how ridiculously smart Phoenix LiveView is) 19.09.2019

This week we talk about how to avoid bundling your JavaScript (at least in the traditional webpacky sense), and we dive into what's new with Phoenix LiveView (spoiler: a ton!)

getenv() & Livewire Caching 11.09.2019

Today, Caleb and D Coul talk about an odd situation involving Laravel's new strategy for handling Laravel's environment variables. They also go into a hawt new feature for Livewire: backend caching.

Laravel 6, Space, And A Cool Eloquent Trick 04.09.2019

This episode, we talk Laravel 6, deploying to the ISS, and a sweet Eloquent tactic max has been using recently to refactor legacy code.

Ask Us Anything #1 27.08.2019

This episode we answer ~30 questions from listeners. We cover lots of ground - gear up!

We Brainstorm Insanely Cool Livewire Things 19.08.2019

This episode, we talk about building Livewire Fiddle, some cool new features in Livewire and we brainstorm a ridiculously cool potential addition to Livewire that will most certainly blow your mind as it has ours.

The Power Of Pair Programming 12.08.2019

This week we talk about some not as obvious benefits of pair programming. And of course a bunch of other stuff.

Launching Livewire At Laracon 03.08.2019

This week, we talk about the fun we had at Laracon. We do lots of other fun meanderings, talk about working on things casually, and the good ole' days!

Listen To This On The Flight To Laracon 22.07.2019

This week Daniel and Caleb talk about gearing up for Laracon, twitter stuff, debugging code, and probably a bunch of other good stuff. It's the perfect Laracon flight companion.

Laravel Testing Problems (And Solutions!) 15.07.2019

This week we talk about some things we find annoying when writing tests in Laravel and brainstorm some cool solutions!

What's On Your Desk? 25.06.2019

Today, Daniel and Caleb ask each other the question on everybody's mind: What's on your desk?

Is Laravel Even Secure? 07.06.2019

D Coul & Caleb talk about submitting forms with JavaScript, and how the heck security works in Laravel. It's just a couple a goobers havin' a good ole' time.

Making Web Apps That Everyone Can Use 30.05.2019

We talk about web accessibility, why it's hard to care about it, what we can do to improve our practices a little bit, and a bunch of other random fun stuff as always. Enjoy.

Calling Ourselves "Engineers" 23.05.2019

This week we talk about the beauty of Twitter, whether or not it's ok to call ourselves "Engineers" and an interesting problem relating to Toilet design.

The One Where We Don't Talk About Code 17.05.2019

The first episode ever that we don't talk about code or programming at all. That doesn't mean the episode isn't chocked full of general geekery though. We talk electronics, soldering, spray-painting, blue's guitar playing. It's a good time.

Your Feature Branches Are Too Long And We Can Prove It! 10.05.2019

This week, we talk about the similarities between dirty socks and merge conflicts, and end up with a tangible tool to prove that long-standing feature branches are bad news. It's a reaaaalllly good time.

How To Write A Viral Tweet 02.05.2019

Caleb wrote a tweet that went kinda-sorta-viral. Daniel & Caleb talk about it. That's all you need to know. The Tweet: https://twitter.com/calebporzio/status/1121054728148926467

The Developer Condition 25.04.2019

This week we talk about the dynamics that seem common amongst all developer-project relationships, and how it can feel like an almost impossible task to manage them well.

On Leaving Jobs and Being Employed 18.04.2019

This week we talk about Caleb's experience leaving his day job and more generally, interesting ways to view employment in general. Of course, this conversation turns into hard code talk about JavaScript DOM nodes, Eager Loading data, and String.replace.

Explaining React Hooks to a Vue Developer 12.04.2019

Daniel teaches Caleb about React "hooks", and their use cases. Caleb only knows Vue.

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