Notes On Work - by Caleb Porzio

Let's talk Dusk (The Laravel browser testing framework)

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I know you probably read "Lunch", but unfortunately, this episode is about treating everything you do like a product launch. Even if it makes you no money, if for no other reason than it's way more fun that way.

I used to build things in the exact opposite order that I should have: Build thing, then market thing. It's a huge mistake lots of people make. Today I'll tell you a story about how I'm validating an idea I have before putting any effort into actually building it.

This is a question I encounter in every single codebase I've ever worked in. Do we group things by "Function" or by "Feature"? The Livewire codebase is no exception. Let's talk about it.

Let's talk about the current refactoring I'm in the middle of.

"Always Be Tweeting" - that title is gross. I'm sorry you had to read that, but maybe listen to the episode and see if it sounds less gross afterward.

I'm working on a much-requested feature for Livewire and I want to tell you all about it: File Uploads

This episode we talk about 2 new features I'm stoked about: The back button (moving from replaceState to pushState) and lazy script tag evaluation.

Today we talk self-forgiveness. I do stupid things and receive criticism all the time. Dealing with that is a necessary part of the creator's journey. Let's talk about it.

This episode is a lil' different. I'm joined by my good buddy and (other) podcast co-host Daniel Colbourne. He's using Livewire for the first time and has some things to say... particularly about the docs. It's a good time.

As I fight "the war of art", I'm learning more and more about myself and the way I work every day. This episode I talk about my weekly workflow and how I leverage meetings and commitments to do my best work.

A new superpower I've been discovering is writing drafts religiously. Any thought or idea I have, I throw up a draft. What can hurt? It has lots of benefits and I'll talk all about them.

Writing code and solving problems is fun. Writing emails, blog posts, podcasts, screencasts is NOT FUN (most of the time). I repeat: NOT. It takes serious effort and discipline. That is why it's worthwhile. In this episode I talk about my journey from programming to communicating and the struggles and wins along the way. Dig it.

Hello friends. I am back with another episode after a little break. Ah, episode 31 I finally feel great about Livewire. It is very true. Uh, so tomorrow I'm going on virtual stage at Laracon online to release live where 1.0 and demo sort of the state of Livewire, how I am building things with live wire these days to everybody. And also Alpine. And I've got to say, I feel fricking great. I really d...

Hey friends, lots of new things are going on in my life and I don't have time to tell you about all of them, so I'm just going to pick one. You know what, I'll preview all of them and then I'll tell you specifically about one Alpine is popping off. Um, I think it's hilarious how I put a year of my life, like full time weeks into Livewire. And worked so hard on this thing. And then Alpine, I just k...

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...

Hey friends, it has been a tiny bit. Uh, I'll have, you know that I actually did record a bunch of episodes, but. I wouldn't publish them right away and then I would delete them when I went back to record another one because I don't know, that's just kind of how I am. If I don't get something out right away, I end up second guessing it or looking at it and thinking, Oh, that wasn't well done or it...

All right. So I started recording another episode and basically ended up just talking about where Livewire is headed and thought, well, why don't I name this properly? So calling this current roadmap, I cut the episode off early and I'm just going to rerecord it. So the. A current roadmap of live wire, so live where I'm just wanting to give you an idea of where things are at in my brain and with t...

Hello again. Uh, this is a serial episode, so I'm recording this one second after I just recorded the last one. So the last episode, we talked about these hard validation problems, and hopefully I illustrated to you some of the issues that really STEM from a difference that I wasn't aware of that I wasn't really, that I hadn't formalized, but I cleared up the difference that there's two types of v...

Okay. I'm standing here at my desk feeling pretty good for two reasons. The first reason is I solved a pretty hard validation problem in live wire. The second reason is, uh, it's, there's a giant blanket of snow outside and it's been snowing all day yesterday and all night really soft, nice, perfect white snow. It's not even Thanksgiving. And we broke our rule and played Christmas music and actual...

So this is a little, um, analogy, metaphor. I dunno. A little thought experiment, analogy thing that I thought of recently, and it just reminded me when I was recording that, that last episode called a lovely refactor. Um, so wrapping your arms around a big tree. Okay. So like I expressed, I got a pull request that overwhelmed me and the pull requests overwhelmed me, but also my own code base over...

Okay. I am recording this podcast right after a while. I'm kinda in the midst of a really, really fun refactor. One of those refactors that's just been building for awhile. Something I've been thinking about in the back of my mind. No, I've known that the architecture is wrong, uh, for this specific thing. And I've just been sitting with the problem thinking about it, trying to come up with the. T...

Sorry for the clickbait title. This might not be what you think, but it's the truth. My biggest struggle as a web developer is the toll it takes on my body is my neck. So let's, let's open that up. Um, this is for real though. So, uh, it's something that I don't know. I probably haven't talked publicly about ever. But I, so I've always been pretty active kid, skateboarder. Um, I dunno, park Corps...

Alright. So like I said in the last episode, I am cured of the fear of public speaking or so I think I'll say that I have one experience that is the last talk I gave at full psyche. You were, it wasn't the normal rinse repeat that I talked about last episode where it's like you agree to something because you're hopeful about life and you know, you sign yourself up, you sign your future self up for...