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Caleb Porzio
Personal blog · calebporzio.comprogrammingwebcareer
Caleb Porzio's personal blog at calebporzio.com covers programming, web and career. Since 2019, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Caleb Porzio's post about reaching $100k a year on GitHub Sponsors and a follow-up on earning as an employee versus independently. Commenters also credit him with Livewire, inspired by Phoenix LiveView.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Caleb is a web developer.
Most-linked posts?
- I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-06-23
- I Just Cracked $1M on GitHub Sponsors4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-22
- Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-01
- I'm Out of a Job2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-01
What Hacker News says?
the author has written on exactly that topic in a follow up post: https://calebporzio.com/making-100k-as-an-employee-versus-be...
Comment linking /making-100k-as-an-employee-versus-being-self-employed
on “I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (2020)”Submitted I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors as a story · 1469 points
HN discussionPHP/Laravel have something similar to this now called Livewire https://laravel-livewire.com/ The author, Caleb Porzio ( https://calebporzio.com/ ), was inspired by Phoenix LiveView to build something something like this for his preferred language/framework.
Comment linking /
on “On the Utility of Phoenix LiveView”Submitted I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (2020) as a story · 293 points
HN discussionYeah, haven't followed him in a while, but listened to his podcasts quite a lot few years ago. Really cool guy. https://calebporzio.com/i-just-hit-dollar-100000yr-on-github...
Comment linking /i-just-hit-dollar-100000yr-on-github-sponsors-heres-how-i-did-it
on “Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon?”Submitted Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed as a story · 201 points
HN discussionOpen source gives engineers better frameworks and components to use so you can develop better apps than if you started from scratch on your own. It still takes engineers to use the frameworks even if they are open source. I think open source and the web have created more jobs rather than reducing them. With open source you can learn from existing projects, pull in projects to your work to save time. This time saving…
Comment linking /i-just-hit-dollar-100000yr-on-github-sponsors-heres-how-i-did-it
on “Ask HN: Is open source reducing engineer's jobs?”Submitted How Laravel Livewire works as a story · 116 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Just Cracked $1M on GitHub Sponsors as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 annoying things in VS Code you can fix right now as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted I just crossed $1M on GitHub Sponsors as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Just Hit $100k/yr On GitHub Sponsors (2020) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sponsorware as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I just crossed $1M on GitHub Sponsors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reactive switchboard: making a big, slow Vue/Alpine page “blazingly” fast as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Out of a Job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Just Hit $100k/Yr on GitHub Sponsors (How I Did It) (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1M Dollars on GitHub Sponsors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accountabilibuddying (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Out of a Job as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy, Free, Serverless Laravel with Vercel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Leaving My Day Job (2019) as a story · 1 points
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