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I just published a new post: Building High Impact Developer Communities 🧱 Really excited about this one. It includes my own story and lessons from it, and what I call a Framework for Developer Impact for both individuals as well as teams. ⚡️

Building High Impact Developer Communities

A GUIDE TO GROWING DEVELOPER ECOSYSTEMS

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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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What’s a good name for this type of code?

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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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How it started. How it’s going.

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My life as a programmer

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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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As someone who loves to travel & travels often, Tripadvisor has become unusable, filled w/ ads + hard to navigate Using @OpenAI GPT3 I created a tool to build a travel itinerary (with links) for any city in the world that is 10x more helpful to me

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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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Is it just me or does this look incredible

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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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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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me: rm -rf node_modules && npm install my computer:

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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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The web3 stack

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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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web2 web3

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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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bro is not happy with the state of React

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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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I recently tried to explain React to someone new to JavaScript. This is how the conversation went.

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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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12 year anniversary today ❤️

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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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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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Me showing my non-developer friends my GitHub stars

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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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As a developer, being stubborn is a superpower.

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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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vs code on a vape is insane 😭

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The Node modules in my app when I install another one:

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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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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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Lens Garden - Explore blooming projects of the @LensProtocol ecosystem A nice overview of ~50 projects building with Lens 🌿

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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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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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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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Closing all the tabs after figuring out the solution to a tough programming problem >>>>

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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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LinkedIn these days I'm: ⚪️ a man ⚪️ a woman 🔘 a recruiter looking for: ⚪️ a dog person ⚪️ someone to settle down with 🔘 literally any developer with a pulse

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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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So, my new stickers just came in...

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I moved into Web3 / crypto after working as a dev / Developer Advocate for ~10 years in the traditional web space. In that time I've created 14 guides that have helped hundreds of thousands of devs learn how to build dapps. If you are looking to also learn, here they are: 🧵

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Life as a developer in 2021 Current tech company: you’ve done an excellent job this year, here’s a 4% raise. Developer’s email inbox: here are 700 offers for 200% of what you’re making in your current role. Amazon: you’re in the top 5% of the entire company, nice work comrade.

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Me thinking about how I spent my day centering divs and debugging webpack while some 14 year old made $100k trading $GME on margin

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The consulting pricing ladder. This is how I jumped from $75/hr to $250/hr (remote) and $1,500/hr (on-site) in less than 2 years as an independent consultant. 📈 Thread👇 (1/4)

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Today I'm excited to announce the release of React Native Lens UI Kit 🚀🌿 Get started building mobile apps with social features in as little as 2 lines of code 🤯 Check it out and give it a star here 🌟🌟🌟 Here's why we decided to build this 👇