Caleb Porzio

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I just crossed $1 million on GitHub Sponsors. πŸ’°πŸŽ‰
22 Aug 2024 | original β†—

Folks, today's the day. As of this morning, I've made over a million dollars on GitHub sponsors. W...

Reactive switchboard: making a big, slow Vue/Alpine page "blazingly" fast
31 Mar 2023 | original β†—

![](/post_images/3891881266.png) > Heads up: I'm going to use Vue/Alpine lingo in this article, bu...

I'm out of a job...
1 Nov 2022 | original β†—

My job is building Livewire and Alpine. What's it been? like almost four years now? Fun fact: th...

How Livewire works (a deep dive)
11 Oct 2021 | original β†—

The experience of using Livewire seems magical. It’s as if your front-end HTML can call your PHP co...

Livewire isn’t actually β€œlive”
18 Aug 2021 | original β†—

Livewire is a fake. It pretends to be something it’s not. When you use a Livewire component on a p...

Making $100k As An Employee Versus Being Self-Employed
5 Jan 2021 | original β†—

I’ve been self-employed for 2 years now. I love it and want to encourage others to go for it, but f...

Easy, Free, Serverless Laravel With Vercel
30 Oct 2020 | original β†—

I’m blown away by how easy and powerful it is to get Laravel running on the popular serverless plat...

5 Annoying Things In VS Code You Can Fix Right Now
27 Jul 2020 | original β†—

Let’s just skip the intro and get to the good stuff. Mmkay? Kay. ## #1) Move β€œFind All” To The Bot...

I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors! πŸŽ‰β€οΈ (How I Did It)
17 Jun 2020 | original β†—

I have a...

Easy, Free Laravel CI Using GitHub Actions
5 Apr 2020 | original β†—

I just set up a simple set of tests for the [Livewire Docs Repo](https://github.com/livewire/docs)....

Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
29 Feb 2020 | original β†—

After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…...

Live-Updating Status Page With Livewire
25 Sept 2019 | original β†—

[Sebastian De Deyne](https://twitter.com/sebdedeyne) recently published a blog post called: [Live up...

Using Babel Without The Build (Inline JS FTW!!!)
7 Sept 2019 | original β†—

Instead of reaching for Vue or React, I first see if I can solve my UI needs with plain old CSS (on...

Sketch Tip: Easier Pen Tool Drawing By Simply Zooming In
28 May 2019 | original β†—

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time in [Sketch](https://sketch.com). I'm not a designer by trad...

8 Accessibility Mistakes We Need To Stop Making
23 May 2019 | original β†—

> Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interac...

My #1 Productivity Tip
15 May 2019 | original β†—

I am not naturally a productive person. I love building and learning things, but my intense passion...

Playing Around With Jonathan Reinink's InertiaJS
2 May 2019 | original β†—

My buddy [Jonathan Reinink](https://twitter.com/reinink) has been working on a cool project called I...

Essential Laravel Knowledge: How A Facade Works
29 Apr 2019 | original β†—

Facades are the gateway to the magical system at the core of Laravel. Understanding them unlocks the...

Make Your "git" Command Awesome
22 Apr 2019 | original β†—

I just stumbled on a cool command-line utility put out by GitHub called "Hub". It attempts to mimic...

[Video] Real-time Livewire w/ Laravel Echo & Pusher
18 Apr 2019 | original β†—

In this series of screencasts, I'll walk you through a powerful new feature in Livewire: *Events*. E...

On Leaving My Day Job
10 Apr 2019 | original β†—

January 11 was my last day at [Tighten](https://tighten.co/). Tighten was supposed to be my dream j...

Building UIs With Livewire: Dynamic Input Group
3 Apr 2019 | original β†—

Watch me walk through building a common UI component in Livewire. We'll be adding dynamic functional...

Equivalent of PHP Class Traits in JavaScript
22 Mar 2019 | original β†—

I'm currently working on a fairly JS-heavy project called Livewire. I'm not sure I've ever written m...

Fun Building A UI Component From Scratch With Livewire
21 Mar 2019 | original β†—

Lately, working with Livewire has given me the same kind of joy I had when I first discovered VueJs....

Designing The "No Plans To Merge" Logo
15 Mar 2019 | original β†—

Shortly after I started at [Tighten](https://tighten.co/), [Daniel Coulbourne](https://twitter.com/D...

Parsing Markdown: The Easy Way (With Code Highlighting)
7 Mar 2019 | original β†—

Markdown is the bee's knees. A nice, clean, universal language that programmers AND non-programmers...

Sign Up for Livewire Updates
6 Mar 2019 | original β†—

In case anyone is coming here from Laracon Online, you can sign up for Livewire (and my blog) update...

A simple trick to auto-retry pesky Dusk tests
4 Mar 2019 | original β†—

If you have a Dusk test suite of reasonable size, I guarantee you there are a few pesky tests that f...

[Video] Livewire/personal life update
2 Mar 2019 | original β†—

I’ve been dark for the past couple of weeks working on Livewire and hanging out with Family. I deci...

Livewire: No Need For Controllers Anymore!
16 Feb 2019 | original β†—

In the midst of some heavy work I’m doing on Livewire, I decided to stop for a minute and show you a...

5 New Features In Livewire That I’m Ridiculously Excited About
8 Feb 2019 | original β†—

If you haven't been following along, I've been working on a little tool I'm calling Laravel Livewire...

11 Awesome Laravel Helper Functions (that aren't in Laravel)
1 Feb 2019 | original β†—

TLDR: I [packaged up](https://github.com/calebporzio/awesome-helpers) all the helper functions I use...

Laravel Lightwire (LiveView): Taking Shape
23 Jan 2019 | original β†—

The goal of this screencast series is to catch you up on the progress of the project and demo some d...

Proof of Concept: Phoenix LiveView for Laravel
16 Jan 2019 | original β†—

I recently read through [this blog post](https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-inter...

How To Publish a Vue Component as an NPM Package
19 Nov 2018 | original β†—

If you're like me, you have a handful of useful Vue components you use between different projects. M...

Feather Icons: Easy way to get SVG icons in Vue components
12 Nov 2018 | original β†—

So I just created a new Laravel project and quickly need a couple icons in the UI. I usually use Ste...

Helper Functions: A Love Note (and a package)
12 Nov 2018 | original β†—

Dear Helper Functions, _You are an escape._ In a world of rigid object-orientation, you offer freed...

Bash Alias: composer-link - Require Local Folders as Composer Dependencies
20 Apr 2018 | original β†—

Anytime I find myself contributing to or building a composer package, I inevitably feel the need to...

Using inline SVGs in Vue components
20 Feb 2018 | original β†—

Note: This blog post is less of a technical guide and more of a story around a campfire. ...so ther...

My VS Code Setup
11 Dec 2017 | original β†—

## Important Note: This post is an out-dated representation of my setup. I’ve since gone DEEP into t...

How I Keep Notes About My Laravel Projects: scratch.md
5 Sept 2017 | original β†—

In my day to day work, I find myself jotting things down about the project I'm working on constantly...

Acceptance Testing Laravel & VueJs Apps with Codeception
11 Nov 2016 | original β†—

*This tutorial is based on [a fantastic tutorial](https://dotdev.co/acceptance-testing-a-laravel-and...

Better Vuejs form handling with SparkForm
24 Jun 2016 | original β†—

So... every time you submit a form to a Laravel backend from a Vue component you do something like.....

Ajax loading wheels and forgotten Promises
24 Jun 2016 | original β†—

In the beginning... ``` data: { beans: null }, ready: function() { this.$http.get('beans')...

Build it for yourself
20 Jan 2016 | original β†—

One of the goals for our development team this year is to "level up" our skills. Particularly in lea...

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