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Heya, I'm Dries, open-source maintainer and one of the core team members of Laravel where I maintain the first-party libraries. In my free time I've built and maintain various open-source projects of my own like:

• Blade UI Kit - Renderless components to utilise in your Laravel Blade views
• Blade Icons - Easily use SVG icons in your Laravel Blade views
• Laravel.io - The Laravel community portal
• Dotfiles - Start using dotfiles on your Mac
• Laravel EventSauce - Start using Event Sourcing in your Laravel app
• VatCalculator - Handle all the hard stuff related to EU MOSS tax/vat regulations

I also co-organise monthly user group events here in Belgium in the cities of Antwerp and Ghent. And I also co-organise the Full Stack Europe conference here in Antwerp. And I also blog from time to time about various things on my website.

Working on open-source is my great joy in life and I want to be able to do that as much and as long as I possible can. If you like what I do or if you ever made use of something I built, consider supporting me through one of the sponsor tiers here. This will allow me to focus even more time on the projects I'm working on.

Thank you so much for helping me out! 👏