Supper Club × Caleb Porzio

We had Target about 8 years ago, Target came to Canada, and they opened,

and they had major A couple times, we've we've been mentioning some the projects that you work on, over the years, and we thought, like, might as have them on. Let's let's talk about it. So, Caleb's the author of Alpine JS LiveWire, and we'll talk about whatever else he does.

something happened with the rollout, and they closed them, like, all down,

because they couldn't like, it it failed in Canada, and it probably because of supply chain issues because everybody loves Target. So, like, I have vivid memories of Lockport Gambino Ford, which is like a dealership that would have commercials.

we do not have Trader Joe's or Target in Canada.

maybe 6 months,

That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. We Target. To me, tar it's like, Well, there's Walmart and Target. Like, every woman

Pretty sad about that. I remember we went to the guest on the show,

57 minutes away from Buffalo, and we were just talking about how, despite all the,

and they were open for

Yeah.

would you not? Yeah. It was amazing. And we went to the like, when they closed the store down, they they were selling literally everything, like the shelves

Probably 70, 80 of them. Like, we had them everywhere, And at one point, like, a picture of you in Buffalo, like, dropping them off. I'm like, dude, I live, like, around the block from there. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that oh, man. Just, do some dry dry drop offs down. I will. That buff yeah. I always say Buffalo and Michigan should just become part of Canada because, honestly, See, they're they're more Canadian then. Like, you guys can have like, we'll trade America. Give us all of Michigan

Oh, I'm starving.

I sure hope you're hungry.

so buckle up and grab that old handle because this ride is going to get wild.

Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feed bag, because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinski and Wes Bos attempt to use human language to converse with and pick the brains of other developers. I thought there was gonna be food,

until, like, Adam Wavin and friends would, like, tell me that, like, dude, you just, like, live in Canada, has access to a Target.

No. And we like, Labatt Blue? We have, like, a Labatt Blue 6 pack in our city, like a grain silo painted like a Labatt Blue 6 pack. A whole huge grain. So so I don't know. We drink Molson Canadian. Like, that's another common thing. We're like, yeah. We drink Molson. Like, that's a Wait. Where where are you from? I missed that part. We love hockey, like Buffalo. Oh, yes. Right. Correct. Yeah. And Michigan is very similar to all of that. Hockey,

we had a lot of Canadian beer,

Like, that just happens constantly, and that's, like, not something other people do in the US, really.

but you're in the US. Because, like, I drink Tim Hortons all the time. I had Tim Hortons yesterday.

Caleb Porzio.

Welcome to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. We've got a A much requested,

This

is the Syntax supper club.

Yeah. Yes. You guys can it's funny because we grew up, And,

watching Fox 29 because we would get the buffalo

like, from the antenna. Yep. And it was hilarious because we would,

A 100%. Niagara Falls. Yep. Yeah. We go to winter. You know what I mean? Come over to Niagara Falls? Oh, yeah. Totally. Yeah. Oh, man. As soon as you turn 18, it's like a rite of passage. It's you know? That's that's great. Oh, man. Well, I'll I'll have to say hi next time I'm in Buffalo because, cross the border and mail them using the US postal stuff because it was significantly cheaper. You should have dropped 1 off at my house, and it would have got there way faster. I used to order your stickers, and I remember you tweeting,

So I'm from I'm from Hamilton, which is literally channels over the air, medicine and health care, gets in and everything done. Anytime there's, like, a a liquidation of of any business, I'll go in and just, like, like, maybe I do need a mannequin, you know? and and Buffalo, Tonawanda supply chain issues where they couldn't keep the product on the shelf. Like, we'd loved it. And we would go there all the time. And, Even, like, when I I sold stickers over the years, like, what I would do is I'd literally just

We'll get right into that. So welcome, Caleb. Thanks so much for coming on. Yeah. Thanks for having me. I'm pumped.

We, let's start with a little bit of light buffalo talk. Yeah. Because Little light, but You got it.

to use our,

yeah. Very, very Canadian. And we would go to Windsor to,

Tim Hortons. We didn't we didn't

IDs at the bars when we weren't of drinking age in college. Yeah. Right. Same.

That's crazy. I know. I ride ride in khaki all day. Yeah. I didn't know,

I didn't know how, like, Canadian buffalo was,

Yeah. Wes, I was a target team member for, like Oh, yeah. 4 years or so. So I was one of my first jobs. Yeah.

Yeah. Totally.

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