Today marks the end of my 100 day public experiment documenting how to become a web3 developer with no prior coding experience
To celebrate, I put together a guide that contains a chronological list of every learning exercise + project I completed:
Experiment Log 0/100
191 days ago I listened to
@balajis
&
@tferris
discuss the future of crypto
83 days ago I minted a
@developer_dao
NFT
13 days ago I quit my job
Tomorrow I start a public experiment exploring how to become a web3 developer with no prior coding experience
🌜Unofficial Guide to the ZORA Protocol🌛
@ourZORA
@ZORAEngineering
What it is, why it’s important, and how it will empower/protect the ecosystem if it can reach mass adoption
To begin this exploration, let's talk about the current NFT marketplace incumbent --
@opensea
I quit my job three weeks ago after spending the last six months falling down the crypto rabbit hole
This week I started a public experiment exploring how to become a web3 developer with no previous coding experience
Enter the thread to follow along in real time ⬇️
Experiment Log 0/100
191 days ago I listened to
@balajis
&
@tferris
discuss the future of crypto
83 days ago I minted a
@developer_dao
NFT
13 days ago I quit my job
Tomorrow I start a public experiment exploring how to become a web3 developer with no prior coding experience
How I went from zero crypto knowledge to joining
@ourZORA
in ~1 year
1. Listened to this:
2. Read this:
3. Joined
@developer_dao
4. Completed this:
Engaged genuinely with real ppl/projects along the way ☀️
A thread about the recently released
@ourZORA
indexer and what NFTs mean for content distribution
Like other things Zora has created, the long-term importance of this tool may not be immediately obvious
Let's discuss 🌜🔬🌛
METABOLISM HACKATHON RESOURCES ☼☽
Setting up a living thread of tips + resources for everyone participating in the
@ourZORA
x
@ETHGlobal
hackathon starting tomorrow 🤖
If you've built with
@ZORAEngineering
before feel free to add below 😁😁
ZORA DEVELOPER STARTER KIT v0.1 ⬇️
Provides example implementations for interacting with our api, nft creator toolkit, and marketplace protocol
VERY rough draft but wanted to get this out asap
link to app:
link to repo:
HOW TO MAKE A CUSTOM
@ourZORA
MARKETPLACE ⬇️
Just recorded 4 hours (😂) of tutorials showing how to turn the ZORA starter kit into a marketplace + minting interface
Thx to
@Astrosuka
&
@_sofffja
for keeping me company 👽👽
Link to repo:
Vids below 👇
Built a custom NFT marketplace for the amazing
@dannydiamondss
powered by
@ourZORA
protocols 🌜💎🌛
Twelve 1/1 pieces currently available to mint at !!
But wait there’s more . . .
Check out my DETAILED guides for how to build your own version of this:
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 😈
The custom NFT marketplace I've been building for
@dannydiamondss
will be released in support of his project "Lost & Found, Vol 1." on Tues 4/19
Will be accompanied by in-depth tutorials showing how to make your own
@ourZORA
powered NFT project + marketplace
need some advice
have to make a decision soon between joining a team and working a “real” web3 dev job and going all-in as an independent web3 dev figuring out how to support myself from passion projects
wtf do I do
Experiment Log 50/100
Today marks the halfway point of my public experiment documenting how to become a blockchain engineer in 100 days with no prior coding experience
Infinitively appreciative of those who have helped me up to this point 🙏🙏
We're just getting started 😈
ur sporadic reminder that this notion page preserving the history of a 7 person team who had never worked together before conducting a 4 week fully remote async sprint on consumer facing crypto product exists
| \ ˈunũn-ˈlĩnk \
::: definition :::
⤚ a small mutable netlabel for hybrid music & multimedia releases
⤚ a platform that adapts itself to artistic needs, not the other way around
❍ created by
@Astrosuka
+
@_sofffja
❍ powered by
@ourZORA
🌜🌞🌛
first time meeting
@MarkDigitalHD
was over FT while I was still in buenos aires looking to make a name for myself
he put me on the Gardens of
@FeltZine
Delights project and the rest is history
finally met IRL this weekend 🥹
last night in Argentina before heading back to the US tm
5 months ago made the decision to completely reinvent myself and somehow it all worked out. still doesn’t feel real
forever grateful to everyone who helped me along the way 🖤🖤
Experiment Log 5/100
My first IRL
@developer_dao
meetup was a success!
s/o
@angelgomeztw
for showing me around Santiago
D_D global network is second to none 🚀🚀🚀
PSA: if ur a new member or just tryna find ur place in
@developer_dao
, onboarding calls happening multiple times this week in the discord
@wise_Tyy
and others making it happen 👏👏
Music aggregators proactively creating homes for community managed playlists flips the current streaming model on its head
Stream
@songcamp_
’s Present Material below ⬇️
Welcome to the
@future_tape
Experiment Log 1/100
Woke up in Santiago with nothing on my schedule except for getting my place set up and starting my first day of coding
It was amazing
Check out the view from my apartment. Gonna try to get out and hike those mountains soon
Experiment Log 18/100
Spent 3 hours submitting an app to
@lecryptofellow
for their fellowship program
Its exactly what I'm looking for and would significantly extend the runway I have to focus on learning
If u could RT this to help me get their attention it would mean a lot 🙏
Any
@graphprotocol
wizards out there?
I am so so close to finishing this marketplace, just need to make an adjustment to a subgraph I've deployed to add timestamp (or block #) indexing of events
Sadly just burned like 10 hours trying to figure this out. Send help plz 🙏
So so soosoooo fun going thru all of the hackathon submissions from the past week. Tons of novel uses cases for
@ZORAEngineering
to dig into
Particularly cool seeing all of the projects that used the zora-starter-kit 🥹❤️🔥💻👽🧠
Check em out below ⬇️
Experiment Log 9/10
BIG NEWS
Check the link below to see a meditation/mindfulness guide I created for
@developer_dao
!! My first site with real utility 😃
@headless_chaos
independently released a collection of 45 songs that anyone can listen to for FREE (universal accessibility enabled by using NFTs for distribution)
*AND*
Generated 500k+ within a day by offering ppl the ability to collect a digital object representing that music
looking for ppl to help with translation of the hyperstructures essay into:
Spanish (✅), Chinese, Swahili, Indonesian, Arabic, French, Portuguese, German, and more !!!
if u or someone u know may be interested plz hit me up 🙏🙏
link to essay:
Experiment log 88/100
Life is way too crazy these days. Learned a ton this past week making the new marketplace. Had to push the drop back to tm bc there’s still some lingering issues
Also have the wildest news to share but can’t yet 🙃 Took myself out to dinner to celebrate
plzzz go check out the talk
@_sofffja
+
@Astrosuka
gave at Metabolism last week -- they laid out the inspiration for
@ununlink
and accidentally provided a manifesto for the entire space
link:
included a write up of my favorite excerpt below:
I'll be documenting my progress in this thread + keeping more substantial notes here:
The initial roadmap I'll be following is here:
Roadmap likely to change. This is a draft of a version I've been helping build for D_D
Back in July I stumbled upon crypto and began immersing myself in the space
I accidentally became a member of
@developer_dao
which sped up my learning by ~1000x
This morning I moved to Chile for a fresh perspective and to focus 100% on this idea