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🇵🇸 // devrel + dx @eigenlayer @eigen_da @eigen_labs // react, ai, & onchain // prev @avara @celestiaorg @awscloud // 🫂 @developer_dao
Joined November 2008
We need more apps. It's insanity that after 10 years we've still barely seen any crypto / blockchain apps go mainstream, yet companies are still rebuilding the same programming environments over and over expecting a different result. Now we have close to 1,000 L1s and L2s,.
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My path as a developer:. - HS dropout @ 17.- College dropout @ 19.- Started coding @ 29.- Fired from first job @ 30.- Landed $60k job @ 33.- Told $80k was too high @ 34.- Landed $120k consulting contract @ 36.- $400k as independent consultant @ 37.- Doing cool shit at FAANG @ 39.
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Recruiter: do you have a link to some projects that you’ve built?. Me: sure - localhost:3000, localhost:3001, localhost:3030, localhost:8080.
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If you could end Covid-19 by sacrificing a JavaScript framework, which one would you choose and why Angular?.
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If you can expand your remote tech hiring to one new country this year, it should be Nigeria. The talent, enthusiasm, & growth I’ve continued seeing from the country this year is admirable and explosive. A lot of opportunities to bring on amazing talent.
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You earn between $1,000 to ~$500,000 by participating in web3 grants programs. This is a great way to learn & get your foot in the door with web3 without making it your full time job. Also, you don't have to be a developer! ✨. Here are 20 projects with great grant programs:.
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I went from zero to building full stack apps with Solidity, React, & Ethereum in a couple of months to prepare for my role at @edgeandnode . Here is a crash course of 16 high quality resources, tutorials, and videos I'd recommend for anyone looking to do the same (thread) 👇.
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Tech company: Forget everything you learned in college, you won’t need it here. Developer: I didn’t go to college. Tech company: Well then you’re unqualified for this job.
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Software development is easy. All you have to know is:. Version control.Databases.BE frameworks.FE frameworks.Unix / Linux.Networking.Data structures & algorithms.Testing.Encryption.Security.Compilers.Browser / Mobile APIs.A few new fucking languages.
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75% of programming is saying “what the fuck” to yourself and sometimes to your computer.
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Singapore feels pretty close to what I imagine when I think of a utopian and futuristic city. Clean, safe, organized, polite, beautiful modern architecture, tons of greenery, incredible and cheap food. Main downside is it's hot af.
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Today I'm excited to release The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development 💫. A free and in depth masterclass teaching you everything you need to know to build, test, & deploy full stack dapps – at your own pace with end to end code examples 🛠.
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The kids wanna play “programmer” like daddy so I’m gonna make them go sit and read documentation for 4 hours, curse at a text editor for 2 hours, then write a single console.log statement.
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these two memes explain 100% of life I don't have time to explain
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I'm excited to release The Complete Guide to Full Stack Ethereum Development 💫. This is a really deep dive introduction to building apps with Solidity & React – essentially what I would have liked to have had when getting started with this stack.
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5 things I've learned in 10 years as a developer:. 1. No one knows exactly what they are doing.2. Anything can be learned with enough dedication.3. Perception > reality.4. Taking on the toughest problems pays dividends.5. People like to make things sound complicated for their ego.
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To be a developer you have to be able to endure long and intense periods of feeling stupid on a consistent basis.
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Lord give me the confidence of a developer on Twitter making 11 threads per day about how to be a developer.
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Nobody:. Tech twitter: .- 22 best programming languages to learn in 2021.- 47 top JavaScript frameworks for fun and profit.- How I got hired at $100k 4 hours after learning HTML.- Best framework React or Vue comment below 👇.- 🧵🧵🧵.
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yo we're so fucking spoiled in tech, do you have any idea what people in other mf jobs are doing and getting paid?. how can we not be humble.
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having worked in the blockchain space for ~2.5 years I've formed some unpopular opinions that I'd like to share. 1. the problems with security are laughably underestimated by almost everyone here. most people act as if losing your identity and all of your money because you.
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I turned down principal and senior positions at Coinbase, Goldman Sachs, AWS, Bridgewater, and a handful of startups that offered up to $1/2 million per year salary to take a role in web3 with a startup that was only about a month old at the time. Best decision of my life.
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95% of web & mobile development is made up of:. - Forms.- Lists.- Detail views.- Sending / fetching data. If you can understand how to do these things on at least one platform (bonus points for making it look good) — you are employable as a developer.
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I'm excited to release The Complete Guide to Full Stack Solana Development with React, Anchor, Rust, and Phantom 🌊. This guide will walk you though everything you need to know to get started building full stack dapps on Solana, completely from scratch.
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As a developer, one of the best pieces of advice I can give is to not listen to other developers on Twitter.
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I've experimented 3 times with AI:. 1. Built an app, gained ~ 100,000 daily users, app was acquired in less than 30 days. 2. Recorded a video teaching fine-tuning GPT, over 22,000 views and around 10 job and consulting offers from it
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After over 3 years I'm leaving AWS at the end of this week. This time has been the most exciting of my career. I am in debt to the amazing people I have worked with, but also to all of the people who have helped me during my entire career up until this point.
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Things that no one ever wants in a website:. - Autoplaying audio.- Autoplaying video.- Push notifications.- Auto scrolling when new data loads.- Ads that move the UI around unexpectedly.- Pop up forms.- A popup when navigating away.- Charge to view full content after preview.
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If you're a developer looking to make extra money without quitting your main job, you can make anywhere between a few thousand to ~$500,000 by participating in DAOs while learning and getting your foot in the door with web3 tech. Here are 21 projects with solid grant programs:.
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I recently tried to explain React to someone new to JavaScript. This is how the conversation went.
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Random developer on GitHub: Why isn’t this bug fixed it’s costing me money you are trash and this library is trash fuck you. OSS maintainer who just wanted to share their code for free and make a few people’s lives easier:
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Being an excellent programmer will land you a good, comfortable job in the software industry. Being a "good" programmer with excellent people, communication, and soft skills can (will?) eventually land you a job at the very top tier of the software industry.
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When you use JavaScript to build your server, mobile app, web app, Tizen app, Apple TV app, bundler, CMS, package manager, machine learning API, and CLI.
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A website that aggregates all AI agent tools in one place. • Frameworks.• Launchpads.• Tools.• Tutorials.• Hackathons.• Research.• Infrastructure.• People.• Apps.• Agents.
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My new book Full Stack Serverless is officially now available for purchase in paperback & Kindle ⚡️🙏. This book covers the cutting edge in full stack cloud development — exploring the intersection of front end & cloud computing with React, GraphQL, & AWS.
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Today I met someone who pays $90 per month rent in one of the better parts of Buenos Aires. They’re a software engineer who makes enough to pay almost 10 years rent with one monthly paycheck. How does that make you feel?.
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The longer I’m a software developer, the less I trust any software I come across in my day to day life.
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If you're a developer on here with a few hundred followers or less & looking to expand your network, reply below with an intro and I'll retweet it over the next couple of days. I'm also looking to follow / get to know more about some of the people that are outside of my bubble.
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Good thing google is back up so I don’t have to quit my job as a developer.
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Full Stack AWS Crash Course ⚡️. 5 Videos to show you how to get up & running in a total of 32 minutes with:. Site hosting + CI / CD - 3:26.Authentication - 3:30.File storage - 14:02.REST API + Serverless functions - 2:00.Serverless GraphQL API - 8:51. Resources here 🧵👇.
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I started documenting my journey as a developer learning & building web3 in April 2021. My tutorials & videos have been viewed over 1.5 Million times & have helped a lot of developers land jobs & build production apps ✨. 🧵 Here is a thread of my 17 favorite videos & guides:.
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Some tech changes I've made over the years:. jQuery > React.Plain CSS > Emotion & Tailwind.Sublime Text > VS Code.Servers > Serverless.REST > GraphQL.SSR > CSR / SPA > Hybrid.Cordova > React Native & Flutter.Wordpress > Next.js / Gatsby.Windows > Mac.Medium > Dev / Hashnode.
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95% of the internet is made up of just forms & lists. If you can learn how interact with an API to build these and make them look good you are employable as a developer.
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It’s never too late to learn how to program. I didn’t start until I was 29. I’m mentoring someone who is 47 and just getting started (motivated as hell). How old were you when you got started?.
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my main takeaway from @ethcc is that everyone is building their own slightly different infrastructure protocol, while the vast minority are actually building any apps to run on all of this infrastructure. the sceptic in me realizes most of these people just want to get rich but.
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This week I’m hosting another Twitter Space & will be joined by 13 amazing web3 community members ⚡️. Building web3 - web3 communities 🏘. Wednesday February 2 from 11:00am to 12:30pm PT. You can join or set a reminder here 👇.
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Big personal update - Friday was my last day at @CelestiaOrg . I'm beyond excited to be joining @AaveAave + @LensProtocol as Director of DevRel! 🌿. For anyone interested I shared more details here. Now, let's get to work ✨.
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Lens Garden - Explore blooming projects of the @LensProtocol ecosystem. A nice overview of ~50 projects building with Lens 🌿.
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My take on the top programming skillsets to have in 2020 for future growth & opportunity:. 1. Cybersecurity.2. Data science.3. Machine learning.4. Cloud computing.5. Front-end dev - SPA / SSR / hybrid.6. Distributed systems.7. Multi-tenant architecture.8. Mobile dev (native, XP).
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imagine being a software engineer. being able to work from anywhere in the world. make more money than almost anyone in the world. live a life better than 99% of people in the history of the world. and still being mad all the time, living life as a pessimist. couldn't be me.
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I just released a new video ⭐️. Building a Full Stack Social Mobile App in 15 minutes with @expo, React Native, & @LensProtocol ✨🌿. Includes.- Profiles.- Profile details.- Comments.- Publications.- Navigation.- New LensProvider for themeing / env config.
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Everyday I wake up, I remind myself where I was. Today, that day was 10 years ago. No job, no skills, fresh out of rehab. Since then I treat every day like it's my first day. Remembering when I had nothing is great motivation to never want to go back to having nothing.
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web3 companies announcing an announcement of an announcement of an upcoming announcement
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A few years ago these things didn't exist:. Vue @vuejs 2014.Netlify @Netlify 2015 .GraphQL 2015.React Native / @expo 2015.VS Code 2015.Cypress @Cypress_io 2017.Amplify @AWSAmplify 2017.Gatsby @gatsbyjs 2017.Draftbit @draftbit 2018. Never been a better time to be a developer.
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I remember when I was first learning Git, the phrase “pull request” made no sense to me and confused me so much, now I am 100% comfortable using Git but still think that phrase makes no sense at all.
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Closing all the tabs after figuring out the solution to a tough programming problem >>>>.
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8 things that have made me a better programmer:. - Be ok with not being the best.- Small steps > no steps.- Look for negative feedback.- Don't be embarrassed to ask questions.- Learn new tech early.- Talk less, do more.- A student / growth mindset.- Master *something*.
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My 2021 tech focus. - Next.js / hybrid front end frameworks.- JavaScript / ESNext.- Easier / better infrastructure as code.- Serverless.- Full stack cloud.- GraphQL as an API gateway.- Cross platform frameworks (Flutter / RN).- Multi-tenant infrastructure.- Real-time backends.
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Today I sent a payment to someone in Nigeria. I asked for their wallet address and they had their money in a few seconds. I remember when sending this type of payment used to be a nightmare and was a lot more expensive.
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