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James Q Quick

2 years

CAREER UPDATE #2 - I'm beyond excited to announce that today is my first day as a FULLTIME Content Creator 🥳🥳🥳 I'm still exploring opportunities in the background, but at least for the next several months, I work for myself 💪

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

1 year

Is this how you do it? 🤷‍♂️

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3 years

I feel the majority of web development is fetching data from an API and displaying it 😂 Thoughts?

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2 months

Took me FOREVER to find out why this wasn't working in React. Can you see why? 👀

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3 years

What was your first programming language? 👇 I'll start...Java!

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2 months

I honestly feel like this is a little too aggressive @duolingo …

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@jamesqquick

1 year

Can we normalize "failing" programming interviews and that being ok. I've done HORRIBLY in several of mine. Anyone else? 🙋‍♂️

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@jamesqquick

10 months

This may sound crazy, but I swear I have some of my most productive days at coffee shops!

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@jamesqquick

5 months

This bug may have cost me MONTHS of newsletter subscribes 😢 Can you find it? 👀

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@jamesqquick

1 year

Asynchronous JavaScript question: What is the output of console.log(pokemon) and why? 👀

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@jamesqquick

1 year

Happy to share that @jessquick16 and I are expecting our first child in May 🥳🥳🥳

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@jamesqquick

4 months

Just found out some people prefer string concatenation over string interpolation...WAHHHH?! What do you prefer?

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@jamesqquick

2 years

CAREER UPDATE: I was let go from my job yesterday. I might take a few months to myself but if you’re hiring a Developer Advocate or Head of DevRel please send me a dm :)

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

5 months

Some people disagree but I really don't think you should validate inputs until the user tabs away. This is annoying and distratcting 👇

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Do y'all write SQL any more? 👀 When's the last time you worked in a code base where you wrote raw SQL without the help of an ORM?

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@jamesqquick

3 months

WAIT WHAT?! When did @code start streaming logs from the browser back into the editor? 👀

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@jamesqquick

10 months

I’ve been writing code for 10+ years and I still have no idea what declarative actually means…

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 months

Never have an outdated copyright year in your footer again! 🔥

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Anyone else debugging like this? 🤣

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

7 months

Anyone else really struggle with using TypeScript sometimes? Finding the TypeScript types for events in React is damn near impossible. I just try a bunch of random ones from stack overflow until something works...

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

4 years

Just in case it wasn’t clear where I stand...

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

What’s one thing in JavaScript you’ve stopped doing as you’ve become more experienced? 👇

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@jamesqquick

3 years

I feel oddly validated! #100k @YouTube

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

6 months

How many developers are currently looking for jobs? Any way I could help?

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

1 year

Last year, my goal was to make $100k USD through content. I made $114k with only 6 months of that being full-time 🤯 I'm so stoked to go through the full year of 2023 providing value to the community while also making really good money :)

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Developers Google everything. Am I wrong tho?!?

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Quick humble brag: In my first full month as a full-time content creator, I made the same amount of money as I did in a month of my previous salary 🔥🔥🔥

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@jamesqquick

3 months

Why does every non-developer think every website and app is simple? 🤷‍♂️

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@jamesqquick

1 year

I don't want to sound like I'm exagerrating, but if you understand how to set up a Node.js + TypeScript project on your own, you may be a genious 🧠🧠

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Excited to share that @dennisivy11 and I are going to be part of the @traversymedia YouTube channel team of creators! 👀👀👀

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

5 months

Should this PostList component: 1. define its owns margins 2. let its container define margin

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

How many of you have made it through your programming career without having a data structures and algorithms whiteboarding interview?

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Favorite Database options for JavaScript developers...GO! 👇

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Today I learned this is not true in JavaScript, and I'm shocked 🤯 "true" == true //returns false

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@jamesqquick

2 months

How many of you could implement a linked list right now?

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@jamesqquick

2 years

If you were to host a full Node.js app (not serverless), what's your favorite place to host? 👀

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

On today’s episode of Shit people say on YouTube…

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@jamesqquick

2 months

Friendly reminder that emails are case insensitive and should be stored as lowercase in your db!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

9 months

Where are the best places for developers to look for entry level jobs? 👀

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@jamesqquick

1 year

“Hello world” from the world’s next up and coming developer, Jamie Katherine!

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@jamesqquick

2 years

What was a JavaScript concept you struggled with early on?! 👇

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

6 months

Github no longer lets you copy/paste the name of the project when trying to delete it. Thoughts? Personally, after answering two confirm questions I should then be able to copy/paste 🤷‍♂️

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Struggling with JavaScript Array methods? For the next 7 days, I'm going to release a video per day on one Array method!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 months

I didn't know this was an acceptable format for numbers in JS!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

I failed my very first technical interview but then went on to work at Microsoft. Don’t get down if you fail an interview. Just use it as a learning experience.

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Don't feel bad if I "quickly" find an error in your code after you've been debugging it for over an hour. This just means I've seen that error before. It doesn't make me a "better" developer, and it doesn't make you any less of a developer.

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Big News 👀 Today is my last day at @auth0 . It's been amazing being a part of such growth and excitement over the past two years. Definitely mixed emotions as I'm leaving an incredible team, but I'm excited to start a new opportunity next week! #auziroalumn

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Authentication vs Authorization...know the difference? Explain in your own words. 👇

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

1 month

Unpopular opinion: I find @shadcn very confusing to work with. People love it and it just hasn't clicked with me yet.

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

1 year

The most basic React mistake you can make 🤣

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Have I mentioned that my wife just started working at @auth0 ?!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Well, it's official. I joined the 100k club on @YouTube 🥳 Creating videos has been one of the most rewarding activities of my career with this being one of my greatest accomplishments. More fun content to come!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

5 months

If I was job searching, I'd spend time learning a language other than JavaScript (Python, Java, C#, etc.) This economy is shit. Its likely you'll need more than JavaScript to get hired.

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

4 months

Just another day at the office ❤️

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

6 years in and many more to come!!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Excited to share that I’ll be starting as a Staff Developer Advocate with @planetscaledata on Monday!!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

21 days

Why do we continue to gatekeep in tech…?

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@jamesqquick

2 months

If package-lock.json is used to ensure we get the exact same intended npm package versions…why don’t we just define the exact version number in the package.json to start…?

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@jamesqquick

2 months

I still don't know what the package-lock.json file is used for 🤷‍♂️

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@jamesqquick

6 months

What's your favorite way to work with a database? - raw sql? - ORM (prisma, drizzle, etc.)? - custom product SDK?

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@jamesqquick

3 years

Why do they even ask developers for estimates?!? 😂

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

9 months

Astro 3.0 Crash Course going live on YouTube at 9am CDT!!!!! - Astro components - page based routing - Content Collections - MD and MDX - Image optimization - Dynamic Routes - View Transitions SOOOO MUCH GOODNESSSSS

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

8 months

The @getpostman extension for VS Code is HERE!!!!! What a beautiful sight 💖

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

If developers were honest in interviews. “I’m here for the money” 😂

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

1 year

Developers take London 👀

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

What are your favorite VS Code themes? 👇

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@jamesqquick

3 years

Let's say you're starting a brand new Web App... What's the first thing you do BEFORE writing code?

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

The new @auth0 SDK for Nextjs is live and ready to use! I’m super excited to share details here. Here are 5 reasons why it’s amazing! 🧵

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

9 months

Coffee and code 🔥

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

As developers, we’ve all had someone ask us to build an entire app/startup for free for someone else 😂

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

5 months

I love being a dad 😊

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@jamesqquick

11 months

Y’all! Turns out it’s not a yoga mat at all. It’s a computer mat…WHATTTT?!?!?

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@jamesqquick

11 months

I’m pretty sure these developer yoga mats from @DevsOnWix aren’t regulation size…

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

I spent 7 years writing code before I ever wrote an automated test 😆

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@jamesqquick

2 years

I’m such a dork 😂

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Took me a while to realize why the updates variable wasn't being updated accordingly. Can you see it 👀🤣

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

I hate when people steal my content...it happens way too often 🙁

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

Well this is what 30 looks like. Can’t tell you how fortunate I am to have an amazing family and friends which includes so many people on Twitter, discord, YouTube, etc. So lucky to have so many amazing people in my life!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

4 years

Anyone know of open source projects on Github that are looking for sponsors? Mostly in the JavaScript space? We are exploring sponsoring more repos!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

10 months

Controversial (maybe...?) but I think understanding the full stack (frontend and backend) makes you a better developer! Doesn't mean you have to actually do both, BUT having working knowledge of both is very helpful.

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10 months

Frontend, Backend, or both?

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

11 months

Happy Father’s Day!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

The developer struggle is too reallllll!!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

3 years

YouTube play button is on the way. 100k BABY!!

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@jamesqquick

6 months

I’ve officially passed $20k in revenue for my Astro Course! 💪 Here are five things I’ve learned in launching this course!

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Did you know you can conditionally load stylesheets based on media queries in your HTML? 👀 Thanks @remix_run for broadening my mind on what the browser + specs support!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

This is what my last four days have looked like 😃

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

27 days

Developers, what's the hardest problem you've had to solve recently? I'll start: building a multi-step form. Was WAYYYY more intricate than I thought it would be.

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

9 months

I can never remember the difference between splice() and slice()... I just try the first one that comes to mind. If it doesn't do what I want, I try the other one 🤣

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Next time you watch an hour long FREE tutorial on YouTube, say THANK YOU to the creator 🙏 I mean just look at how much goes into editing this stuff 🤣

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@jamesqquick

1 year

Ah the difference a few hours makes… From speaker to daddy real quick!

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@jamesqquick

2 years

I don't write regular for loops in JavaScript very often, but when I do, I obviously do it wrong!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

8 months

Personal Update: Last week I suffered from severe anxiety over the course of several days for the first time in my life. I thought it would be helpful to share my experience in case it's helpful for anyone else, so here it goes 🧵

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@jamesqquick

2 years

Took me a good 20 minutes to figure out why this wasn't working... 🙈

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Been speaking for ten years and I still get nervous!!

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

2 years

Don't let haters stop you from doing what you love and teaching others 😊

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

11 months

Welp, fatherhood and content creation finally caught up with me 🤣

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@jamesqquick

2 months

In VS @code , is there a shortcut to select multiple lines and update a number incrementally in one go? So... person1 person1 person1 should become... person1 person2 person3

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@jamesqquick

1 year

Today has been confusing, but here’s what I know. I’ve reached hundreds of thousand of people across the world through my content. I’m blessed, humbled, and extremely proud to be BOTH a full-time content creator AND a father. I stand by that…EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

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@jamesqquick

2 years

If you were to host a new Node (not serverless) project right now, where would you go?

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@jamesqquick

2 years

The difference between "production" code and tutorial code is huuuuuuge 👀 Don't stop after the tutorial is done. Continue to build and ship and learn along the way!

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@jamesqquick

4 years

FINALLY RELEASED! 11 part video series on creating JAMstack apps with Next.js - @airtable for data - @tailwindcss for styling - @auth0 for authentication

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James Q Quick

@jamesqquick

10 months

New parenting multitasking level achieved! ✅

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