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Hey there. So let's talk about project X. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't. So I had mentioned that that last big problem and its solution came out of a conversation with my buddy Mitch Mitch Jameson. He's the best layer of El programmer. You've never heard of. Um, best friend slash brother. Of mine. Um, he not actual brother, but pretty freaking close. Um, yeah, he's a smart guy and I sat down with him and we have some stuff out and after we figured out this, this problem, this big, uh, w I actually want to record an entire episode on him. Um, there are, but I'll, I'll just say this like, it's super important to have people that understand the work you do. And for me, there's not too many of them in real life. My family is not technical. Um, I have technical friends, but not a lot of them live in the area. So I have just a couple. And they're my friends who I see in person often, and they understand what I do because they do it too, or they do something adjacent to it. And it's super duper valuable to have people in your life who you can talk to about your work, you know? Um, in, in my case, my work slash passion and Mitch is largely that person. And I say that under, I want to say understand the work that you do, like, understand your app. Like if you don't have somebody who you talk to a lot. About code. Like if you do have somebody who, you know, I'm talking about, like you get to know each other's projects because you hash things out together and you end up kind of knowing actually a surprising amount about their projects. So I know a decent amount about the project he's working on in his job, the architecture decisions he makes, where they're at in the process, the things he sort of struggling with. And he understands live wire on a pretty deep level because every time I come across something. We sit down and he and I walk them through it and he'll close his eyes and try to wrap his head around it. And neither of us settle for not understanding something. So we, we pretty much never say, okay, unless we actually understand it. And we forced the other person to explain it to us, um, more simply or concretely. So anyway, great guy. Great to have him in my life. Thank you, Mitch. We're sitting down, we've conquered this big problem sort of, and I feel like I have a moment of clarity and I've kept that clarity. Um. On on that problem. And then afterwards I said, all right, now let's, uh, let's tell of all of Livewire. And I'm like, we're on a roll. Here's the last piece. So I did these rounds of little interviews or. Video calls with people to kind of check in and see the heavy Livewire users in the community and check in and see, Hey, how do you like it? You know, what have you, what issues have you come across? What things do you like, dislike? And one of the things that came up multiple times is, well, I don't, I love it, but, uh, you know, when I need simple JavaScript functionality, like honestly, like a lot of it's like drop-downs and noodles and stuff. I don't really know what to use. I use view components because, you know, they work with live wire, but they seem a little heavy handed. And you know, my recommendation has been, yeah, I mean, just right. Vanilla JS, but that kind of sucks. Like. It. It just does. Um, yeah. I guess I don't have to explain myself there. There, there needs to be some middle space between writing vanilla Java script by hand, which makes you feel like you're using jQuery or something and you know, loading all of the world of view in the virtual Dom and all this stuff, like having a view component and a whole build process and Laravel mix and the whole world that kind of draws you into it. What's in the middle. So stimulus is in the middle. Stimulus is a humble JavaScript framework. I think that's how they market it. Like humble JavaScript framework that for the HTML you already have or something like that, which is great. There's no virtual Dom. They don't destroy your Dom. Th