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The Changelog The Changelog #381

The dawn of sponsorware

Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as “sponsorware”, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb’s GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced.

On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.

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How far can JavaScript take us?

Tanner Villarete asked himself, “How far can JavaScript take us?” Then answered:

Turns out, pretty dang far. This web app was my attempt at mimicking Apple’s iOS music app, and I think I’ve come pretty close!

I have to admit, he did a pretty good job. The frontend is built on React and Redux. The backend? A Laravel-based API running on a Raspberry Pi!

Here’s the live demo, but be nice because Raspberry Pi.

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OrgManager takes GitHub org invites to a new level

Miguel Piedrafita wasn’t happy with how limited GitHub’s organization invites system is

GitHub organizations are missing a better invite system: you can add people to an organization, but you can’t setup a “Join this organization” button to appear at the top of the organization page.

Thanks to Miguel, now you can. ✊

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