Dries Vints

Hi, I'm Dries

Software engineer at Laravel, event & conference organiser, open-source maintainer, speaker, and blogger.

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Latest Posts

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October 15, 2021

Releasing Laravel

August 27, 2021

Launching PHP GitHub Sponsors

June 13, 2021

Investigating dark mode for SVG's in GitHub readme's

March 21, 2021

Releasing Blade Icons v1.0

December 30, 2020

2020 Recap

Projects

A conference for every kind of developer

fullstackeurope.com

Renderless components for your Laravel Blade views

blade-ui-kit.com

The Laravel community platform

laravel.io

+ Dotfiles, my preferred way to set up my Mac.
+ Laravel EventSauce, event sourcing for Laravel apps.
+ Full Stack Belgium, events in Belgium for web developers.
+ Blade Icons, easily use SVG icons in your Laravel Blade views.
+ PHP GitHub Sponsors, a package for PHP to interact with GitHub Sponsors.
+ VatCalculator, handle all the hard stuff related to EU MOSS tax/vat regulations.

About Me

I'm a software engineer from Antwerp, Belgium. I work as one of the core team members of Laravel, the popular PHP framework. I'm also the creator of Blade UI Kit, a set of renderless components to utilise in your Laravel Blade views.

My passions are open-source, building communities, managing software teams, and creating quality and maintainable products.

Together with my buddies Rias and Freek I organize events for Full Stack Belgium in the cities of Antwerp and Ghent. And we also organise Full Stack Europe, the conference for the whole team.

Follow me on Twitter: @driesvints.

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